In 1928, Wilhelm Furtwängler, the most relentlessly deep-thinking of conductors, bemoaned what he considered the American habit of "seeing things from the point of view of sport," but even by then the "Who's on top?" tendency had become universal.
My relentlessly forward-thinking mother never dwelled on sorrow or regret, but she told me one night as we sat among the empty cups and crumbs at the dinner table: My Aunt Belle committed suicide by jumping in front of a subway train.
Both are relentlessly forward-thinking, less inclined to nostalgia than the search for what's next.
Yet, for someone who spends every day thinking about death, John is relentlessly positive.
Former Mexican President Felipe Calderón wants U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to spend a little more time thinking about the logical consequences of relentlessly bashing the country he used to lead.
While the rest of the world is looking forward to Christmas and perhaps thinking back over the highlights of 2014, in the relentlessly forward-looking world of pop music everyone's already wondering which talented young artists will flourish next year.
He relentlessly foisted his half-baked poems on any publishing-world gatekeeper, and spent the rest of his time thinking many deep thoughts.
The SEC was established two years after the book by Berle and Means was published, and reflected just this sort of thinking.Several minor retreats notwithstanding, the government's role in the publicly listed company has expanded relentlessly ever since.
McEvilley then relentlessly argues that "recognition of the Law of Identity does not mean that we have come to the end of a line of reasoned thought, but that we are now ready to begin thinking".
If elected, I'd relentlessly challenge that thinking in public and private and be a tireless advocate of the truth about nuclear power.
