Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...adjective great, debased in American museum parlance by the relentless way in which curators are apt to apply it to their latest snuffbox, does apply here. The reason is quite simple...
Harvey said, "The uniform zippers are shot, the two team basketballs have barely survived the relentless dunking during pre-game warm-up, and some possible opponents are becoming wary of scheduling the talent-ladened Classics...
...film represents what he termed last week the "onslaught approach" to animation. "The film uses hundreds of thousands of pictures cut from magazines all presented in a relentless, extremely fast-paced, almost choreographed setting," Mouris said...
...years in oilfields round the world, explains: "It's part adventure, part backbreaking toil, a big part loneliness. We are the adventurers of the energy business, and the oceans are our last frontier to exploit." That is a notion not often expressed here on the barge; the relentless search for oil affords time for little but the mind-numbing and muscle-aching work that grinds along in hopes of the big payoff...
...years -when one could with perfect ease walk into the Met, the Wallace Collection or the Museum of Modern Art and spend a day communing with paintings without once reflecting on how much they might have cost or what they were now likely to fetch. But given the relentless publicity about art prices and auction triumphs-even when one knows how rigged, distorted and manipulated the actual events and statistics have been-it requires the discipline of an anchorite to do that today. Thus it is hard to leaf through the pages of magazines like Réalties or Connaissance...