protestations, assertion, refusal, intransigence, obstinacy, suggestion, stance, demands, stubbornness, unwillingness, belief, notion, entreaties, denials, recalcitrance, objection, reticence, avowal, assurances, vow, accusation, reluctance, pledge, principle, desire, disinclination, obduracy, argument, intractability, commitment, preoccupation, evasiveness, request, criticisms, behest, admonitions, aversion, prodding, overtures, misgivings, inadvisability, fact, pleas, vacillation, budge, obsession, inflexibility, assumption, chumminess, diktat, supposition, insinuation, pretense, espousal, reasoning, cravenness, logic, mantra, intransigency, countenance, pushiness, amour propre, acquiescence, disagreement, stipulation, disinterest, willingness, adamance, distaste, eagerness, contentions, premise, edict, proviso, pusillanimity, penchant, pronouncement, onus, demurral, prickliness, proclivity, promise, presumption, dissembling, blamelessness, demurring, reluctancy, suspicions, bluster, dubiousness, predilection, strictures, ambivalence, bashfulness, ambition, determination, disdain, duplicity, presupposition, fealty, illogic, reiteration, hesitancy, contention, fondness, glorification, hostility, leniency, tenacity, animosity, belligerence, opposition

firth, j. r. firth, john rupert firth, self-destruction

demand, urgency

imperativeness, insistency, insisting, instancy, press, pressure