Word: relentlessness
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...lately Billy has been sleeping in a bed. He is warm and comparatively safe at night because a young lawyer named Robert Hayes saw the plight of the city's homeless and decided to do something. Because of his relentless efforts, the city now provides more than 3,500 homeless people with shelter each night...
Four days later, a message offered to free Manotoc in return for the release of four jailed leaders of the Philippine Communist Party and the payment of $2.5 million. The government insisted that Manotoc had been kidnaped, and officials promised a relentless search. But the efforts turned out to be so casual that a full week after Manotoc's disappearance, not a single agent had gone to the restaurant where the couple had dined. Rumors began to spread through Manila that the government knew more about the kidnaping than it was saying. The President's wife Imelda...
They were two of the biggest, most complex and costliest corporate legal actions ever brought by the U.S. Government. Rightly or wrongly, they came to symbolize the relentless meddling that businessmen everywhere had learned to fear most from Washington. Then last week, after years of litigation and without any fanfare or warning, the twin legal dramas came suddenly...
Throughout his career, Italian culture buzzed with manifestoes, claims and counterclaims. Before World War I, the Futurists tried to marshal art into a relentless machine-age spectacle. In the '20s and '30s, Mussolini and his cultural gang strove to co-opt Italian modernism into Fascist propaganda-dynamism, simplification. By the late '40s and '50s, socialist realism (especially in Bologna, which prided itself on its worker traditions) was trying, amid clouds of polemic, to become the house style of Italian art. All through this, Morandi stayed where he was, looking at his plain table of dusty bottles...
...Here are most of my paintings, Morandi said to a reporter in the mid '50s, pointing to a thick dried crust of waste pigment that had accumulated through years of wiping on the crossbar of his easel. Morandi erased more paintings than he finished; his self-editing was relentless, a fact which should give pause to anyone who supposes there might not have been much difference between one still life and the next. But the differences, like the nature of his work itself, are hard to catch in words. One can easily say what the paintings are not. They...