Word: ceaselessly
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...work a 9-to-5, Monday-to-Friday week. In fact, about 20% of the American work force works on schedules that cross the normal 9-to-5 lines. And that percentage can only increase with the advent of nonstop stock markets and ceaseless financial trading, round-the-clock shopping and the growing importance of the unsleeping Internet. The old notion of blue-collar night-shifters no longer applies: managers and professionals, who just 10 years ago made up only a tiny percentage of the shift work force, now account for more than...
...Hannibal displays a disquieting streak of sadism that Harris' two previous novels involving Lecter largely avoided. In one of his many, rather portentous authorial asides, Harris states, "Now that ceaseless exposure has calloused us to the lewd and the vulgar, it is instructive to see what still seems wicked to us. What still slaps the clammy flab of our submissive consciousness hard enough to get our attention?" If Hannibal is the answer, we're in real trouble...
...students were enthusiastic about their young teacher. They seemed undaunted by her age and relative inexperience and greatly appreciative of her ceaseless energy. LeBow develops the curriculum for her weekly class, including discussions, grammar exercises, games and group work...
...Dean of the Chinese playwrights," The Wild Land (adapted into English by Doris Chu) tells the tale of a young woman who strains to escape the pressures of her family in turn of the century China. An escaped convict offers her a chance to reach a place of ceaseless joy. March 18-28. Tremont Theater. 219 Tremont...
Various and complex tunings were used to achieve different tonal effects, and the move from the Renaissance style to the Baroque was distinctly audible over the course of the concert. It is this that is most interesting in the lute music: its ceaseless movement from one chord to the next, from one style to another. It is music never satisfied with itself, never stationary: It is dynamic and as intellectually satisfying as it is aesthetically pleasing...