Word: relentlessness
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...story never resolves this point, only concluding with the pessimistic realization that the good can never completely vanquish the bad. Although the governess manages to banish the ghosts from the house, their taint has already in part destroyed the children. In The Turn of the Screw nothing mitigates the relentless course of evil...
...peabrain who thinks she knows the answer but then cannot get it out. The hands of the clock drag, boredom sets in. The dancers wriggle and twist, twirling their legs around their chairs in every possible expression of restlessness. The final deep sleep is roused only by a relentless, and all too familiar, bell...
...absence of any official restraints, professors use reading period to burden students with a relentless barrage of new material. Before students can get down to the actual business of reviewing for final exams, they often must wade through a mire of additional lectures, homework assignments, and even hourly exams. Five years ago, when reading period was last reviewed, a student-faculty committee found that more than half of the 100 most popular courses met during reading period to cover new ground...
Second, and more important, Harvard has an opportunity as one of the most respected institutions in the world to make a bold public statement against apartheid. By putting its money where its mouth is, the University can demonstrate that as an institution devoted solely to the relentless search for and dissemination of truth, it stands for an end to the immoral, racist policies of South Africa...
...hosts won the contest with a relentless full-court press that forced a season-high 43 turnovers by the Crimson...