Today we inhabit the age of incessant, up-to-the-nanosecond polling, deep-pocketed PAC ads, round-the-clock "messaging" from candidates and their handlers, and — do we need to add? — blanket newspaper coverage, in print and online.
Another is a hint of tedium that comes from lyrics (some difficult to follow in spite of generally excellent diction by the performers) that explore, almost exclusively, the courting rituals of hot-to-trot men and eager women, served with an incessant up-tempo, "The Joint Is Jumpin' " stride beat.
-- this incessant making up of shapes and casting them down, this buffeting of clouds together" -- is more than sentimental, it's embarrassing.
The emphasis on incessant close-ups also provoked players and coaches into adopting the horrible modern habit of talking to each other behind their hands.
Rob Kaiser, EarthLink's vice president for narrowband marketing, said the service would "minimize the aggravation of unwanted, seemingly incessant pop-up ads".
From sanitation trucks and street sweepers to the M.T.A.'s shrill kneeler bus alarms to the insanity of incessant back-up alarms at construction sites -- the city is responsible for most of the unnecessary, excessive noise in this town.
This appreciation later translates into incessant follow-up emails and an exchange of photos that not-so-subtly display the gift in use.
I really wish to be more mindful to be open to new information even if it terrifies me and puts me in the I-just-walked-into-Costco-and-I-can't find-my-way panic and yet, be mindful not to overdo it with the incessant keep-up-with-what-the-Jones's-know scenario at the same time.
Government officials talk of attracting international companies, but politicians incessant squabbling holds up reforms.
Tapped penalties and 22 drop-outs abounded, and Danny Care's incessant darting summed up the attitude, as did the proclivity of Chris Robshaw, Nick Easter et al to step in at fly-half and release team-mates with deft offloads.
The collapse of near vertical wall of supraglacial lake triggered by 2 days of incessant rainfall, opened up the englacial conduit resulting in emptying of interconnected supraglacial lakes into Lemthang Tsho.
