Word: relentlessly
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...relentless poppiness of much of the album begins to seem ironic when juxtaposed with such truly innovative, unnerving songs as the fifth track, "E-bow the Letter." This song is brimming over with lyrics; words literally spill from line to line. Stipe mesmerizingly free associates about how he can't understand "the star-thing," which seems to refer to the way young kids get fixated on their media heroes. "E-bow" has weight enough to cast the more poppy songs on the album into perspective; in the context of this song, all the various pop genres toyed with...
...scourge of the elderly: a progressive, relentless disorder. Doctors have greatly improved the accuracy of iagnosis, but they can neither cure Alzheimer's disease nor arrest its victims' horrifying decline, as their minds--and the memories that fill them--grow inexorably dim, then fade away. Indeed, despite all the new knowledge about how the brain works--or perhaps even because of it--medical researchers seem as far from understanding what causes Alzheimer's as they have ever been...
Renee and David Abshire, a couple from DeRidder, Louisiana, made that decision in 1989 after the death of their three-year-old daughter Maigon from Tay-Sachs disease, a hereditary disorder that causes blindness, retardation, seizures and a relentless deterioration of the nervous system. Once Maigon's illness was diagnosed, the Abshires, though both healthy themselves, learned that they each carried one copy of the deadly Tay-Sachs gene...
...foreseeable future, that means the best that health professionals can hope to do is react quickly to an endlessly resourceful, sneaky and relentless enemy--and to recognize that a successful holding action is the next best thing to victory. --Reported by Robert Kroon/Geneva, Alice Park/New York and Lisa H. Towle/Atlanta
...fair for Vice President Gore to link his concern about tobacco with his sister's death of lung cancer. But the problem with so relentless a tug at the heartstrings is that it precludes real argument. "I have suffered so much," the speaker is really saying, "that if you contest me, you deny the power of my feelings...