Word: relentlessness
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Their youthfulness as a society, sense of separateness from the rest of China, colonial history and disappointment at administrations that have failed to protect many structures of historical significance from the relentless march of development means that the people of Hong Kong are some of the most probing in the world when it comes to questions of cultural and personal identity. Issues of belonging are a theme of local art and letters to the point of tiresomeness, and barely a month goes by without an exhibition (or poetry reading or play) referencing some vanished heritage or collective memory...
...there needs to be a camera in his cell, so that victims can watch him pace and prowl and go slowly mad with boredom. And he should be able to see them too: At a Portfolio magazine breakfast, Wiesel suggested there be a screen on which would appear in relentless accusation the faces of his victims, "one after the other after the other, always saying, 'Look, look what you have done' ... He should not be able to avoid those faces, for years to come...
...Based on a true story, The Vagrants is a bleak masterpiece, written without sentimentality, its anger a cold, controlled fury rather than a shrill rage. The surface of its unshowy prose disguises an enormous achievement for the realist political novel. Li's relentless calibration of the cost paid by the innocent to sustain a dehumanizing and brutal sociopolitical order marks it as a milestone in the literature of oppressed, extinguished lives...
...Seth Grahame-Smith is the author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, the premise of which explains itself: the Bennet family lives in a rural English village, where their primary concerns are a) marrying off their five daughters, and b) defending themselves against wave after wave of the remorseless, relentless walking dead. Time magazine book critic Lev Grossman chatted with Grahame-Smith about the challenge of updating a classic...
...Lovers on the Bridge”) and Bong Joon-Ho (“The Host”) have written and directed “Tokyo!”: a collection of three short films all set in the namesake Japanese city, whose common thread is the relentless push of human extremes against the edges of reality.For Gondry, that extreme is melancholy. Hiroko (Ayako Fujitani), the principle character of “Interior Design,” is the beleaguered girlfriend of an aspiring filmmaker, Akira (Ryo Kase), set with the task of finding a place for the couple to live...