Nothing Special   »   [go: up one dir, main page]

Fine Dictionary

unrelenting

ˌənriˈlɛntɪŋ
WordNet
An unrelenting monk shows a crying man his fists. The print is part of a series of caricatures of the French clergy under Louis XIV.
An unrelenting monk shows a crying man his fists. The print is part of a series of caricatures of the French clergy under Louis XIV.
  1. (adj) unrelenting
    never-ceasing "the relentless beat of the drums"
  2. (adj) unrelenting
    harsh "the brutal summer sun","a brutal winter"
  3. (adj) unrelenting
    not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty "grim determination","grim necessity","Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty","relentless persecution","the stern demands of parenthood"
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Unrelenting
    Not relenting; unyielding; rigid; hard; stern; cruel.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. unrelenting
    That does not or will not relent; not being or becoming lenient, mild, gentle, or merciful; continuing to be hard, severe, pitiless, hostile, or cold; inexorable; unyielding.
  2. unrelenting
    Synonyms Relentless, Implacable, etc. (see inexorable), merciless, hard-hearted, unsparing, unpitying, rigorous, cruel.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (adj) Unrelenting
    un-rē-len′ting not relenting: inflexible: cruel
Quotations
When you walk on a court, clear your mind of everything unrelated to the goal of playing the match as well as you can.
Stan Smith
Usage in the news

I did this by comparing the personality similarities and self-esteem of 23 unrelated look-alike pairs. psychologytoday.com

Why associate a homicide with an apparently unrelated business. citybeat.com

For decades, right-wingers have unrelentingly blamed a liberal-media conspiracy for their woes--particularly their inability to gain greater public acceptance. ocweekly.com

Chronicle of an unrelenting storm. csmonitor.com

Nouicer said after an international meeting on Syrian humanitarian aid that the country is seeing unrelenting increases in violence. kitsapsun.com

Unrelenting Obama jabs at Romney's job record. goerie.com

Obama unrelenting on bashing Romney's job record. deseretnews.com

Unrelenting Obama Jabs At Romney's Job Record. kktv.com

Unrelenting heat wave bakes half the US. foxnews.com

Gaza is a band that leaves it all on the floor, creating an unrelenting sonic torrent. telegram.com

With water bill usage spikes apparently unrelated to use, I experienced the same problem recently at my home in Houston, Texas. montereyherald.com

Last year's Dodd-Frank Act is essentially a trash-compactor collection of unrelated provisions thrown together in the mad rush to pass a bill, any bill. usnews.com

CHICAGO — Despite the unrelenting flow of advice from people who ought to know, huge numbers of Americans just aren't facing the truth about retirement. americandrycleaner.com

A child suffered life-threatening injuries and three other people were severely hurt in two unrelated accidents in. courant.com

Reagan Library Lures Visitors With Unrelated Disney Exhibit. nymag.com

Usage in scientific papers

The raises the possibility that bona-fide candidates which are, in reality, non-detections in SDSS will be rejected from our selection if an unrelated optical source is close enough to be misidentified as an optical counterpart.
Forty seven new T dwarfs from the UKIDSS Large Area Survey

These three apparently unrelated ob jects have (sometimes) a similar mathematical structure, an interlacing structure, and the correlation functions are given in terms of a kernel.
Dimers and orthogonal polynomials: connections with random matrices

Apart of its usefulness, duality is a very appealing symmetry: it relates seemingly unrelated models, or switches between different aspects of the same model in a sometimes unexpected fashion.
Geometric Representation of the generator of duality in massless and massive $p-$form field theories

In a seemingly unrelated research direction, Dziuk [Lecture Notes in Math., vol. 1357 (1988), 142–155] analyzed a class of nodal finite elements for the Laplace–Beltrami equation on smooth 2-surfaces approximated by a piecewise-linear triangulation; Demlow later extended this analysis [SIAM J.
Geometric variational crimes: Hilbert complexes, finite element exterior calculus, and problems on hypersurfaces

In this way, the masses of the heavy gauge bosons are unrelated to the global symmetry breaking scale f , and experimental limits on them do not constrain it.
Higgs as a pseudo-Goldstone boson, the mu problem and gauge-mediated supersymmetry breaking

Usage in literature

In rote memory, that is, memory for lists of unrelated words, there is not much difference; but the girls are somewhat better. "The Science of Human Nature" by William Henry Pyle

The search for Prince Charles continued with unrelenting severity. "Historical Tales, Vol. 4 (of 15)" by Charles Morris

Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of a brave resistance, or the most abject submission. "The Life of George Washington, Vol. 2 (of 5)" by John Marshall

The difference between a related series of questions and an unrelated is shown in two lists which follow. "The Recitation" by George Herbert Betts

And with that a queer thought, seemingly unrelated, flashed through her head. "Winner Take All" by Larry Evans

Yet pride prevailed, and no overtures were made to those whom they still thought severe and unrelenting. "Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight" by Emily Mayer Higgins

He saw only stern, unrelenting glares, and realized that his game had been discovered. "Andy at Yale" by Roy Eliot Stokes

Family quarrels are proverbially the most bitter of all on earth, and family hatreds the most unrelenting. "The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863" by Various

It was no sudden unrelated horror to which Germans had to force themselves. "Golden Lads" by Arthur Gleason and Helen Hayes Gleason

One of those queer feelings that seem altogether unrelated to fact crept over me. "The Lost Valley" by J. M. Walsh

Usage in poetry
The unrelenting gods
Refuse me. "No," say they,
"Thy chance is thrown away."
Fierce unrelenting gods!
Amid those unrelenting flames
She bore this constant heart to see;
But when 'twas mouldered into dust,
"Now, now," she cried, "I'll follow thee.
Austere in taste, and tough at core,
Its unrelenting bulk was shed,
To ripen in the Pilgrim’s store
When all the summer sweets were fled.
"'Twas guilt the barb'rous mandate to obey,
Which bade no parting sigh my bosom move!
Victim of duty's unrelenting sway,
I seem'd a traitor, while a slave to love!
As fierce war-horses tread beneath their feet
(Whate'er their rank) the dying and the dead:
So unrelenting Death does, on the great,
As well as on the poorest peasant, tread.
Throughout the echoing chambers of my brain
I hear your words in mournful cadence toll
Like some slow passing-bell which warns the soul
Of sundering darkness. Unrelenting, fain