Conley has two gifts any reporter would envy: ceaseless curiosity and a great sense of humor.
Yet his chaotic, ceaseless delivery also has a sense of urgency, especially when set against a thrilling and moody string section.
This series is intended to help you make sense of the ceaseless onslaught of numbers by taking a closer look at just one poll.
She wasn't an actress; she was a tired, silly, irritating, touching, fraught, aging woman with no self-awareness, no censor for her ceaseless flow of words, no sense of the effect she was having on her children — or the audience.
Although he wrote his elegies for both the famous (James Dean, Billie Holiday, Jackson Pollock) and the obscure (many of whom, like O'Hara's Boston friend Bunny Lang, have become almost famous for their part in his poems), O'Hara was essentially a self-elegist: poem after poem explores that darker sense of his "own ceaseless going"—his presence, a moment ago so real and vital, now going, now gone.
In their ceaseless pouring forth, they also provide a sense of luxury: on her arrival in 1655, Queen Christina of Sweden, having watched the fountains in St. Peter's Square, reportedly gave her permission for them to be turned off, only to learn that they flowed all the time.
Films ought to be timeless in this sense, and immune to the ceaseless circlejerk.
The propaganda blitzkrieg, which also includes the breathless promotion of modern-day heroes and model citizens, seeks to counteract a growing sense that China, preoccupied by seemingly ceaseless economic growth, is ethically unmoored.
We have a ceaseless drive to consume (not least in the original sense, of burn up); and we will go on doing it, but not forever.
This is created, I assume, to emulate the ceaseless grinding mechanics of Zuckerberg's mind and the frenetic sense of urgency that drove this kid to become both richer and potentially more influential than even the mighty Steve Jobs, in just six years' time.
