Being either consciously or unwittingly influenced by feeling that attractiveness and perfection is something we buy by way of fitness training, grooming products, clothing, or other external symbols of getting "there" leads us to never feel joy, only a relentless urge to acquire, achieve, and accumulate well beyond what we find fulfilling.
This is the sensation that I recognized in reading Ferrante: a hungry, relentless urge to keep going, the same feeling that drives you to borrow all someone's clothes, or pinch them as hard as you can when they don't understand you.
However for some, shopping is anything but normal; it's a relentless, obsessive urge similar to gambling, drugs or any other addiction.
In his campaign against society's relentless urge to modernize, he argued for self-sustaining, environmentally conscious communities and against the presumption that economic and technological developments were beneficent engines of progress.
And yet this relentless urge to pander -- to accommodate every passenger and market demographic -- has rendered Romney's product phony and awkward.
On a visit to Madrid, Mr. Clinton toured the Prado, Spain's national art museum, at 11 p.m. Aides of Mr. Obama's say he has been relentless in urging them to schedule stops in places that give him a chance to do some sightseeing.
Not long after he was sworn in as the Philippines' 16th president at the presidential palace in Manila on Thursday, Rodrigo Duterte reverted to his tough-talking rhetoric, promising a "relentless" fight against crime — and urging the population to kill not only drug traffickers, but also addicts.
Well, it took a little longer, but the public health community organized a relentless education campaign and doctors urged their patients to quit -- and now all except the hard-core nicotine pushers like Altria (nee Philip Morris and Brownn and Williamson accept that nicotine addiction can be cured with pharmaceuticals and attentive physician care.
While Yasir Arafat sent a congratulatory note to Mr. Sharon today, the Palestinian leader's Fatah organization dubbed the prime minister-elect a "relentless butcher" and published a petition that urged Palestinians to return to the streets and confront Israeli troops.
If they are, then the majority of them are clearly ignoring the insistent, relentless, repetitive messages urging them not to vote for Jeremy Corbyn as their next leader.
She's a relentless flirt, and part of the humor comes from watching her navigate a deadbeat husband, Neil, and her urge to bat eyelashes at any pair of pectorals in range.
