Word: relentlessness
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Cohen was relentless in his research. He traveled to Darwin's library in Kent, England to examine the copy of Das Kapital that Karl Marx presented to the naturalist. Revolutions in Science is the culmination of a lifetime of serious, inspired scholarship--and the results show...
...Wilson's typically elliptical spoken texts and allusive stage pictures of railroad trains and spaceships. There were no formal arias or indeed any set pieces at all; a small chorus sang "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight" and solfege syllables (do, re, mi) over hypnotic, relentless music. Sellout audiences loved it. The work toured Europe and then came to the Met in November...
...refined and left a lasting imprint on the detective formula. An "Agatha Christie" became a shorthand description for an unadorned display of crime unmasked by perceptive and relentless logic. She dared readers to outwit her, and few resisted the challenge. Shortly after her death in 1976, one estimate put the worldwide sale of her works at 400 million copies. Given such glittering evidence and the clues provided by her fiction, a mystique was bound to develop around the one whodunit: Agatha the enchantress, the proper Englishwoman with a power to murder and create. When she insisted that the truth...
Smith presented a challenge to the lights only at the start of the 2000- meter course and was embarrassingly shortlived. They rowed stroke for stroke with the Black and White for the first 100 meters until Radcliffe settled into its smooth and relentless eythmn. The lights began increasing their margin by entire boatlengths, ultimately reaching four by the finish...
Washington's springtime lapse from civility is as worrisome as the issues that provoked the bitterness. Not in many a year have there been such relentless partisanship and personal rancor along the capital's leafing avenues. There is no immunity. Not only has the running Democratic-Republican battle been raised to new intensity, but in the general melee, conservatives have attacked conservatives, legislative allies have thumped one another, special interests have zinged their benefactors, and friends have criticized friends...