There was something ignominious about facing death while a computer calmly insisted there was nothing to worry about.

Maybe it's that bulge in his jacket pocket, she calmly insists.

Ms. Hershman Leeson calmly insisted it was important.

"Captain, this is crazy," Trip calmly insisted.

"It is not an insect," Wo insisted calmly.

Doon did not argue the point, calmly insisting that there might well be something else they had to obtain first.

And if you had asked him about the grumbling sound he made, he would have insisted calmly that it was merely his stabilizers shifting.

"A funeral is no place for a lady," he calmly insisted.

"Put me down," Hathor insisted calmly through clenched teeth.

"I only wanted a drink," Sugiyama insisted calmly.