Ronaldo, as always, was on a relentless one-man mission to score as many goals as possible, and he would have loved the chance to break his current tie with Zarra and Alfredo Di Stefano for the most hat-tricks in La Liga (22).
After a truncated campaign marred by official harassment of opponents, accusations of ballot stuffing and relentless, one-sided promotion on state media, the result was considered a foregone conclusion, though to Mr. Lukashenko's many critics not a legitimate one.
Alvo's geezerish banter descends into relentless one-upmanship and his behaviour quickly becomes unsettling, to say the least.
Intent, obstinate, relentless: one senses the driving will more than any other feeling.
The timings of these actions, Jacob observed, have been tidy and relentless, one following the other like deft clockwork.
So there are sequences of physical comedy, relentless one-liners and an extended gag involving a puppet.
"These guys are relentless," one former official, who is close to the high command at the State Department, told me.
His foil is the prosecutor, Assistant District Attorney Lael Rubin, played by Mercedes Ruehl as driven and relentless -- one of the easy-to-dislike villains in this film.
"Can you hold that thought until we come back from a break?" Television is not biased, it's relentless: one word ("front-runner") can launch a thousand pictures.
The action, meanwhile, refuses to pause for breath, save for the odd profanity-laced cinematic moment, and the relentless, one-note pacing starts to pall.
If you are training for a big race such as the London marathon, and the negative thoughts have been relentless, one of the best things to do is to enter a local, shorter race or parkrun.
