January 24, 2009

Importunate & Importunities

importunate



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[im-pawr-chuh-nit]

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–adjective 
1. urgent or persistent in solicitation, sometimes annoyingly so.
2. pertinacious, as solicitations or demands.
3. troublesome; annoying: importunate [demands] from the children for attention.  

pertinacious

–adjective 
1. holding tenaciously 
to 
purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute

Related forms:
importunateness, noun 

importunity
–noun, plural -ties for 2. 
1. the state or quality of being importunate; persistence in solicitation.
2. importunities, importunate solicitations or demands.


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It is a piercing and painful presentation of the torment through which this man goes as he faces his meager [con]gregation (five attendants at Holy Communion is all he has at his Sunday-morning service) and as he thereafter gravely turns aside the importunities of his mistress, a drab teacher, to take her as his wife.


flinty 
flint, esp. in hardness. a flinty [heart].
granite
with granite-[hard] bullet play.
He was a despot with a [heart] of granite.
adamant
It's at that level that Polanski is at his most [adamant]
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