Sentence examples for rather relentless from inspiring English sources

In other words, civil war is an ongoing, widespread, often organized and rather relentless sectarian conflict.

Like all Kiberd's writing, Irish Classics has an infectious verve about it that can lapse at times into a rather relentless up-beatness.

A combination of traumas I had endured in my young life, not the least of which was a period of rather relentless teasing and bullying from all directions — classmates as well as extended family members — was eating me hollow.

Sometimes it can get a bit tedious – see Laura Kuenssberg's rather relentless insistence that Tory time in Manchester was all about some race to succeed David Cameron in 2020, a distant horizon without hinterland.

This Madison is no ivory tower pedant but, rather, a relentless and immensely successful politician who put all of his heavy-duty thinking to good use.

The United States is pushing Germany to accept some form of debt sharing, which many Germans regard as anathema, and to embrace a growth-oriented economic policy rather than relentless austerity.

If "uncrowded," "quiet" and "sedate" were not particularly inviting attributes a century ago, they are so now, desirous as we are for uncrowded promenades and undeveloped hills, for old towns with their odd smells and sights, for a calm sea, all of it bathed day after day in sunshine that is generous rather than relentless, soft and warm rather than searing and burning.

That rollercoaster first Test apart, this has been an Ashes series lit up by irregular explosions of great drama rather than relentless theatre: Friday afternoon at Lord's, the final lunchtime in Manchester, Sunday evenings in Durham and south London.

You really do believe that the year of delays has been down to the band's endless fine-tuning rather than their relentless interview commitments, so hair-splitting are its tiny decisions.

Millet's attack centred on style, but many felt that France's international literary decline was due rather to its relentless bleakness, known as déprimisme, and to the trend toward navel-gazing novelizations of authors' lives, known as autobiofictions, whose hold on French literature seemed only to tighten with time, despite the growing sense of tedium with which they were met.

And here perhaps is the most remarkable thing of all: since these activities are built around the value of human services rather than the relentless outpouring of material stuff, they offer a half-decent chance of making the economy more environmentally sustainable.