Word: relentlessness
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...bother those who were not there ? the mounting shame, and the relentless exposure at least testified to the still-active conscience of America. The guilt of My Lai has to be shared by the nation that raised the soldiers, by the Army that trained...
Palimpsest. After Pat's stroke, Roald settled the family in their country house outside London. He set up a relentless therapy schedule and organized relay teams of visitors to keep the patient's morale up. Pat's principal enemy was despair. Her career seemed shattered. Her right leg was bracketed in an unsightly brace, and her brain was as faint and blurry as a palimpsest. She fished in vain for the names of common objects. Even Peter Rabbit eluded...
TRANSLATED into political terms, the Great Refusal means the refusal to be co-opted. The social revolutionaries already have been. Frustrated by the technocracy's relentless inhumanity, they have come to hold some ideas more important than some human beings, and to place more value on some human beings than on other human beings. Just like the technocracy...
...dining with their patrons by night, he is equally at home in the scruffy lofts of Canal Street and the elegant appointments of the Dakota. But as a judge, he is obliged to keep a certain detachment-and it is on this score that he is most often criticized. Relentless in promoting artists he likes, Geldzahler is equally inflexible in ignoring those he does...
...that was it. Always before, I had been proud to interview professors for news stories. I had thought that the two of us, the professor and I, were comrades in our relentless search for Truth. I would ask off-center questions, and he would respond with interesting and new answers. Maybe that was why I liked talking to professors on the phone for a story when no one else did. We both considered journalism as a way of mutual indulgence in a creative function...