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 

a 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.





　

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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