For now, a ceaseless war of positions goes on in Somalia, punctuated by the odd Shabbab suicide bombing or renewed bout of fighting.
And now the ceaseless march of new drug offenders and the mounting costs of prisons are moving some of the people charged with enforcing the punitive laws to question the assumptions behind them.
Though each single instance may be dismissed -- or excused -- as ephemeral, the collective impression of a hundred fleeting glimpses is that life in New York is now one ceaseless, unrelenting branding campaign.
It's no wonder Harris didn't return to those characters for more than a decade, and no wonder that when he finally did, in "Hannibal," he couldn't help musing irritably: "Now that ceaseless exposure has calloused us to the lewd and the vulgar, it is instructive to see what still seems wicked to us.
Many of us now work ceaseless hours and while we may have many people we love spending time with, we all too often just don't have the time to spend.
Brexit is ceaseless now; better to start reforming the Brussels commission.
There is now an almost ceaseless murmuring about the future of narrative prose.
What bothers him now is the ceaseless call of book promotion and the self-promotion and self-analysis that demands.
But now, in the ceaseless quest for traction in an overcrowded media marketplace, publishers' publicity departments have got into the world of title anxiety with something we can only describe as pre-hype – the pre-emptive announcement of a bestselling author's latest.
"Economists have for some time now worried about the ceaseless consolidation on the supply side of the health care market, facing a much more splintered payment side with less market power," Uwe E. Reinhardt, a health economist at Princeton University, said Wednesday.
