Word: relentlessness
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...thousand persons were present at the performances, and, in spite of the fact that only a comparatively small number of people in the audiences could understand Greek, their interest was caught and held by the relentless sweep of the tragedy of the unhappy king. There were so many students who desired to see the play, but who were unable to get tickets, that the committee in charge allowed them to attend the dress rehearsal...
White Gold (Jetta Goudal). Old Carson (George Nichols) owns a sheep ranch, these six months blistered by a relentless sun. With his son, Alec (Kenneth Thomson), he herds his woolly treasure on scorched hills. Into their baked monotony the son brings his bride, a young dancing girl of quick spirit (Jetta Goudal). The maddening sun drives them all to exasperation, so that when a tramp herder (George Bancroft), driven by hunger for the bride, forces his way into the room Alec left in a huff, tragedy stalks along with him. The film comes as near to genuine tragedy as anything...
This action on the part of Mr. Lowell is concrete evidence that the University refuses to adopt a purely defensive attitude and thereby shoulder the entire burden of guilt. The request demonstrates a relentless vigilance and a plea for impartiality; its sincerity is unquestionable and its motivation praiseworthy...
This hot-blood from Picardy was wrestling then in his soul, between the relentless, earthy doctrines of Hippolyte Adolphe Taine, and a certain stirring of religious mysticism within him which he had tried in vain to sully, down, and conquer by debauch. Perhaps in the young man's troubled mind Death and God seemed strangely opposed, for he had just come from the sick bed of a favorite grandfather, then dying of cancer of the stomach...
...Significance of Author Ford's work, aside from its having established him as never before in the forefront of contemporary writers, is its relentless penetration and comprehension of personal and social values too subtle to be more than hinted at by lesser men. The chronicle unfolds itself, chiefly through the disordered thought currents and abrupt conversations of the characters, with all the perplexing yet inevitable indirection of actual life. The versatility and incessant activity of Tietjen's mind-he is a mathematician, linguist and poet as well as a husband, lover, officer, sociologist and human being...