In "Gebt mir meinen Jesum wieder!" ("Give me back my Jesus"), which follows the suicide of Judas, the bass-baritone Eric Owens knelt at the feet of the violinist Daishin Kashimoto, whose rapid, relentless figures descended like the strokes of a whip.
A fast, relentless eighth-note figure — what Sellars would later call "the Stravinsky emergency music" — darted through the composer's head.
The music is potent in itself: for the announcement of the anathema, Halévy pairs a deep bass voice with a relentless triplet figure in the trombones, and then gathers the full orchestra and chorus into a hurtling mass.
He went at it with a relentless verve, figuring — jail or no jail — Saddleback would be his final fling with organized football.
Townley's imprudence, his conviction for wartime sedition, accusations of management irregularities, splits within the group and relentless opposition all figured in its demise.
From the 1940's through the 60's, when Martha Graham was creating dances inspired by mythology, history and literature, her company's programs had to be especially well planned so that audiences would not be exhausted by a relentless parade of figures like Ariadne, Medea, Jocasta and St. Joan.
But neither has it offered another reprieve from the relentless traffic that normally figures in commuting and weekend planning.
Asked about sensitive issues, from Scotland's future currency to the fate of Britain's nuclear deterrent (currently based in Scotland), he combined soothing, friendly noises with a continuous, relentless flow of facts, figures and debating points.
"Over the last 48 hours, the support for Animal Kingdom has been relentless, including several four-figure bets, and it now looks certain that the Graham Motion-trained runner will emulate last year's star, Frankel, by starting odds-on for the Queen Anne Stakes," Simon Clare, a spokesman for the bookmaker Coral, told The Racing Post.
And the figure of Mary, relentless from suffering, the figure from my childhood prayers, began to speak, or had spoken, knowing that time is short but that her version of what happened needed to be recounted, if only once.
