He worked implacably, chopping roots, levering out larger stones, until he recalled, with some panic, that his sense of time was messed up.
Liberals have grown disenchanted with what they see as his unwillingness to fight harder for their causes; independents have been turned off by his failure, in their view, to change the way Washington works; and Republicans have become implacably hostile.
As for Mr. Mosset, his gridded arrangement of six square canvases with dark green, pebbly surfaces appears implacably Minimalist, a work of purely nonrepresentational abstraction.
The US is implacably opposed to the work of the international criminal court (ICC), a body described by the UN secretary general, Kofi Annan, as "the greatest recent single act of progress for justice, human rights and the rule of law".
In public rhetoric, big unions such as IG Metall, which represents 2.4m metal and engineering workers, have been implacably opposed to changing working practices, for instance, but have been more far reasonable in private.But even though co-determination has sometimes helped to persuade unions and workers to accept change, it has sometimes served to thwart it too.
Mr. Barry's work, bristling with deliberately rough sounds and implacably pulsed, was honored with fine care, which it thoroughly justified.
Mr. McCarron helped persuade Karl Rove, Mr. Bush's political adviser, that while some unions would implacably oppose Mr. Bush, other unions could work with him to their mutual benefit.
Patty had been implacably generous in offering to look after Connie while Carol was out working or shopping or doing her Thursday-night business, and Carol had become dependent on her for a ton of free babysitting.
When covering songs by Townes Van Zandt and Tom Waits, two implacably dark songwriters, Jones manages to leach the threat and decay from their work.
She was implacably pleasant.
