(This procedure conflicts oddly with his repeated insistence that literature should not be mined for important cultural truths.)

Both the screenplay and Mr. Hatosy's performance play down Brendan's commitment to the Irish Republican Army, to the degree that his repeated insistence that he is a political prisoner sounds more like a rote response than an impassioned declaration.

Despite his repeated insistence that the statue was not valuable, Dr. Avery admitted six months later that he had left a written bid of about $4,800 on the piece.

Keane has travelled widely and thought deeply about his subject, but his repeated insistence on the originality of what he's doing starts to grate after a while.

There is a relentless drip, drip, drip of questions that follows Mr. McClintock wherever he goes these days despite his repeated insistence that he is in the race to the end.

Selig's acceptance of the job prompted a question from some people in baseball of whether or not Selig was really sincere in his repeated insistence that he didn't want the job.

Such a crushing victory inevitably puts a question mark over President Francois Mitterrand's future, despite his repeated insistence that there was no question of his resigning.

Hitler's refusal to admit defeat and his repeated insistence that the war be fought to the last man led to unnecessary death and destruction in the closing months of the war.

Mr. Fast compounds his error by his repeated insistence that the American Communist Party, for all its devoted attachment to the Soviet cause, "had no connection with the Russians; we asked nothing from them and received nothing from them."

Murat, despite his repeated insistence that he was not much hurt, needed help in dismounting.