Word: relentlessly
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...would seem, at first glance, to be an utterly meaningless offense against United States law, not to mention the English language. But then, the petition was also signed by Toni Morrison, who has been perpetrating Oprah-peddled offenses against the English language for quite some time--so perhaps the relentless nonsense of the text is to be expected...
...while, it looked like it wouldn't even get that interesting. The Crimson opened the game with a relentless full-court press that forced Xavier to cough up the ball on each of its first five possessions. Harvard jumped out to an 11-0 lead in the first two minutes...
Hmmm. An anthropologist, I guess, must be bemused to find that such a large, multi-ethnic, complex and contradictory country, after months of relentless and scandalously expensive politicking, found itself reduced to a choice between two white male baby boomers, sons of powerful politicians, dauphins from Harvard and Yale. A rather narrow band of culture represented there, one would think. At least Bill Bradley knew how to play basketball; at least John McCain's character was formed by the experience of war, and by years on the inside of a North Vietnamese prison. The great American diversity had labored...
...relentless setbacks have left normally ebullient Silicon Valley dazed and chastened. Among the phrases that venture capitalist Danny Rimer no longer wants to see in business plans are "losses for the next five years" and "recent business school graduates"--which now look suspiciously like the preamble to failure...
...proceeds smoothly enough but also quietly, since Bellow, like great authors in general, has spent his most adventurous and significant periods alone in rooms, filling up blank pages. The youngest of four children, growing up in Chicago, he decided that he would become a writer and proceeded, with relentless determination, to do so. His early novels attracted critical respect but little money; he was nearly 50 before Herzog (1964) produced his first big payday. As his fame grew, he attracted what seems like zillions of awards, including the 1976 Nobel Prize for Literature...