Word: relentlessly
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Brown’s early goals were the result of relentless defense that forced turnovers on nearly every Harvard possession. With barely any offensive opportunities in the first eight minutes of action the Crimson struggled to keep pace with the speedy Bears...
...students tell me that they are driven to succeed, but there is a distinction between having drive and being driven. Driven, perfectionistic students can be especially vulnerable to academic and personal difficulties such as writer’s block, performance and social anxiety, stress, compulsive behaviors, and depression. A relentless focus on the perfect end product (a grade, a class ranking, the perfect paper), fueled by a fear of failure, can block the productivity and achievement that comes from engaging and persisting in the process of learning. Learning at one’s cutting edge inherently involves experimentation, fumbling...
Until recently, I had scoffed at these murder figures and presumed the danger in Boston to be grotesquely overblown—a fictionalized byproduct of the mass media’s relentless drive to bolster ratings through breaking news. How can Puritan Boston possibly be dangerous if its only notoriously disreputable district, the combat zone, no longer even exists...
...first collegiate win.“It’s definitely the coldest weather I’ve ever thrown in,” said Eadington, a California native. “It was great to get the win.”HARVARD 11, CORNELL 4The Crimson launched a relentless offensive assault in game two of the doubleheader, posting runs in all but two innings.“We got our bats going,” Walsh said. “I thought we had a real balanced attack today.”After the Big Red jumped...
...would call it, for about ten weeks, a relentless campaign,” Finkelstein said, adding that comments made by Dershowitz amounted to “character assassination.” “Had there been no outside pressure, I’m fully confident that I would make it through” the tenure process, Finkelstein said...