Word: relentlessness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...floor in the first half and owning a 14-point lead at halftime, Harvard looked as if it were ready to blow the game wide open. Instead, the Crimson shot a dismal 29 percent in the second period and committed 15 turnovers in the face of Brown's relentless full court press, allowing the Bears to chip away at the lead and eventually tie the game...
...Kenneth Starr may only be helping. Sixty percent of those polled say the relentless investigator is going too far into Clinton's sexual behavior and are evenly split (at 43 percent) over whether Starr has acted responsibly. And 57 percent say he should stop altogether...
...decorated bedroom, which is adorned with a large bronze crucifix and a small icon of the "Black Madonna" of Czestochowa, symbol of Polish nationalism. Each morning and evening he privately speaks to God there, communing with his one true superior to shape the mission he too has pursued with relentless single-mindedness for 20 years: Go forth and spread the word...
...said, "Whaddya say we try the old bread-and-circuses scam?" On the contrary, I believe Americans went into sports mania willingly and with their eyes wide open. There is a human need, perhaps especially in a culture that routinely pits each against all in a relentless competition for parking spaces and aisle seats, to achieve the ecstatic merger with the mass represented by the wave or the chop. Besides, if this is the old Roman bread-and-circuses ploy, someone seems to have left out the bread...
Some of the most interesting comments I've received in recent weeks relate to the relentless commercialization of The Crimson, Harvard, and the world in general. Of course, I'm referring to The Crimson's alliance with Mountain Dew. Many Crimson readers were annoyed and disturbed by the advertisement that read, "The Harvard Crimson presents The Primal Scream," featuring Mountain Dew's slogan, "Do the scream, do the dew." One reader correctly pointed out that The Primal Scream will happen (and has always happened) without the input or sponsorship of The Crimson or of soft drink manufacturers...