Even the most electric vice-presidential candidate of recent years, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, did not deliver any line more memorable than when she greeted Mr. Biden at the 2008 debate with "Hey, can I call you Joe?" Vice-presidential candidates, Mr. Quayle argued, need to ignore their debating partners and relentlessly go after the top of the opposing party's ticket.
Instead of conducting rational discussions, they push, fight, argue, cajole and relentlessly debate over every single little point.
In rallies and debates, Trump relentlessly called Bush "weak" and slammed his immigration plan as amnesty.
This past winter, as jackhammers banged relentlessly on the Second Avenue subway in front of their one-bedroom Upper East Side apartment, they debated: North Shore or South Shore?
As Hacking (1990, p. 4) has observed, the media constantly bombards us with probabilities and statistics; the statistics of our pleasures and vices are relentlessly tabulated and our public fears about cancers, muggings, earthquakes, AIDS and so on are endlessly debated in terms of probabilities.
There is still debate over whether the film is anti-Semitic, but pretty much everyone agrees that it's horrifically, relentlessly violent.
In a relentlessly antagonistic debate, Donald J. Trump and Hillary Clinton clashed over trade, the Iraq war, his refusal to release his tax returns and her use of a private email server, with Mr. Trump frequently showing impatience and political inexperience as Mrs. Clinton pushed him to defend his past denigration of women and President Obama.
Police interest groups have managed to frame a relentlessly one-sided debate.
But Mrs. Clinton has shown in past debates that she can march relentlessly forward even as the audience hurls verbal tomatoes.
Language to phase out the state's Certificate of Need (CON) program has unfortunately been pulled from final appropriations, but legislators championing the issue are relentlessly keeping the debate alive before session ends.
