Word: ceaselessly
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...night long the birds struck their calls against the dark. Toward dawn the cuckoos got into it with their ceaseless two notes, then a rooster, and finally the chirping small ones-buntings and white-eyes-until the morning was a racketing...
...save Walt Disney, matches the creativeness of George Lucas [May 23], the originator of the ceaseless wonders of the Star Wars universe. If anything is retained from Lucas' magical movies, it should be the concept that peace and good will always triumph...
Eleni was beautiful and eventually outspoken, but she was not a feminist, not even a matriarch. She was a country woman, brought up to a life of ceaseless, selfless duty to men and her elders. Wedding ceremonies in Lia traditionally included a moment when the groom stamped on the bride's toes to establish his dominance; on wedding nights, brides in Lia customarily slept with their mothers-in-law rather than their husbands, as a symbolic lesson in obedience to the new clan. Eleni scarcely thought of leaving her rigid culture until it began to shatter violently around...
...reconceived by Director Robert Allan Ackerman, however, the play is a dark comedy that chronicles the ceaseless small betrayals committed against one another by the discontented. The working-class victims suffer most from their own lack of drive, discipline and vision. The functionaries are somewhat pitiable; the scion of privilege is doltishly well meaning rather than imperiously smug. As a result, the play is more poignant and its eruptions of violence truly unsettling...
...acutely aware of childhood traumas as of childhood dreams of conquest. His memories are shot through with a ceaseless struggle to prove himself worthy, with a sense of rejection as a Yankee in the South and a Southerner in the North, and with the agonizing depressions and deaths of his father and his only sibling Mary Jane. Coupled with an inborn restlessness, those memories have left him all but incapable of repose...