Word: relentlessness
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...massacre of thousands of Calvinist sympathizers in 1572. Calvinism-under the name of Presbyterianism-became the national Church of Scotland in 1560. Like the Church of England, wherever the major Reformation churches flourished, they followed the Catholic pattern of state-church partnership and were just as savagely relentless as the Roman Church in persecuting religious minorities...
...muscular dystrophy. Doctors know only that it often appears among several male members of the same family and is probably the result of a recessive gene which suddenly flares into prominence. It produces almost no symptoms beyond deterioration of the muscles. But once its course is started, it is relentless...
...Division was singled out for handsome praise last week by General Ridgway, the Eighth Army commander. No doubt this, and the toll of enemy casualties, comforted the G.I.s-if anything could comfort them in the dreadful mountain winter. In a grim dispatch describing their ordeals in the "awful, bitter, uncompromising, relentless cold," Scripps-Howard Reporter Jim Lucas quoted a mortar platoon lieutenant addressing a handful of green replacements...
...stage tale, finally enacted, is no worse, but no better, than blancmange. Composer Britten has turned out a pleasant score, full of tricky tunes and comic-opera ensembles. But the relentless whimsicality makes A. A. Milne seem downright dour; and the hippety-hoppeting would cause growls and mutters in any mildly progressive fourth grade...
Matter of Direction. Taken together, the two volumes show a purpose as relentless as a ledger's-the ledger of a society in the red. Taken singly, the books show little of their social arithmetic. It is as though they had been kept by a brilliant clerk who, in the first volume, scribbled a love story over his accounts, and in the second, glimpsing the significance of the figures he was adding, covered the pages with invective. The Telegraph is one of the most savagely witty books ever written...