Word: relentlessness
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...idea of expanding his articles into what would become Hard News became more interesting to him, however, when he began looking at the bigger picture. “I started thinking about some of the larger issues that this brought out, including the relentless pressure on news organizations to increase their profits,” he says. He was also inspired by the appeal of famous newspaper stories that had become incredible yarns to non-media junkies, most notably All the President?...
...claim that final victory, the Crimson will turn to the same formula of balanced and explosive offense, relentless defense and surprising special teams that has propelled the squad to the cusp of perfection...
...second half would carry the same theme, as a relentless Harvard offense fired two shots on goal within three minutes. Its efforts opened up the net for McDavitt, whose cross-field shot found the right corner after five minutes of second-half action...
Also plaguing the movie is its relentless muzak-wishing-it-was-jazz soundtrack. At the movie’s opening, I thought it was for comedic purposes—Payne used awesome over-the-top music to great comedic effect in Election—and that it would go away in a few minutes and a real score would kick in. But the music in Sideways isn’t part of a joke. It’s just bad music and there’s a lot of it in the movie. And that’s really...
...doubt on the great man's honesty. Washington could lie when he needed to--for instance, by misrepresenting for posterity his role in the disastrous engagement at Fort Necessity during the French and Indian War. And throughout his career, he feigned a lack of ambition as cover for a relentless impulse to move upward in the world...