Word: relentlessly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Relentless, self-promoting and self-righteous, Whitehurst has been a thorn in the FBI's side almost from the day he arrived at the lab in 1987. He has alienated colleagues by complaining about working alongside--or under--agents with academic credentials less impressive than his. He has also singled out for criticism two respected agents--Tom Thurman, head of the explosives unit and the man responsible for cracking the mystery of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103; and Roger Martz, head of the chemistry and toxicology unit--both of whom worked on the Oklahoma case...
...item index, just published at the rebarbative price of $8,800 and worth every penny. This is, of course, the sister publication to the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, which, almost since its publication in 1878, has reigned unchallengeably as the authoritative work in its field. After the relentless barrage of propaganda about information that has been growing in recent years, such a project may seem a noble but obsolete gesture, like the last cavalry charge of World War I--print doing what it does best against overwhelming odds. But it's nothing of the kind. For several reasons...
Have you ever tried to bike through Harvard Square on the street? I tried it once and nearly became cornmeal between a semi truck and the Coop curb. Cars are relentless enough in targeting pedestrians; they become even more maniacal when competing for road space with other wheeled methods of transportation...
...everywhere. Sometimes it blares at us with banner headlines and sensational TV come-ons. Other times, it just drones, a kind of Muzak for current-events obsessives. News is chewed over by TV pundits, railed about by talk-radio hosts, nibbled at in gossip columns, debated over the Internet--relentless, insistent, inescapable...
Think what a monster he might have been--what a corrupt, misshapen brat might have emerged from these 35 years of glamour, political power, tragedy, money, fame and relentless, drooling hype. A grotesque egotist might have been the best-case scenario...