The music began again, an alien melody with an insistent rhythm, and the blue-skinned girl started dancing atop the platform.

But the insistent rhythm of a tambourine pulled against it, sat him up in his bed.

Only the rain broke the quiet, sloshing against the windows in an insistent car-wash rhythm.

Kirk's fist hammered an insistent rhythm on the arm of his chair.

In her first big ensemble work for a professional company, she has been defeated in part by the insistent rhythm of the score.

Closer and closer, to an insistent rhythm, until they were outside the french windows.

Selim pounded his drum harder in a relentless, insistent rhythm.

Her fingers continued to tap out a rhythm on her drum, low and insistent.

It had an insistent rhythm, clicking away, first two fast beats, then a slow one.

The implied relationships have been left hanging, but the jagged, insistent rhythms of the last section make for an energetic close.