Both Uses of
relentless
in
Atlas Shrugged
- These were not words in her mind, these were the words which would have named, had she had the power to find them, what she knew only as a sudden fury that made her beat her fists in futile horror against the iron post of the traffic light beside her, against the hollow tube where the hoarse, rusty chuckle of a relentless mechanism went grating on and on.†
Chpt 3.4
- Moral perfection is an unbreached rationality-not the degree of your intelligence, but the full and relentless use of your mind, not the extent of your knowledge, but the acceptance of reason as an absolute.†
Chpt 3.7 *
Definition:
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(relentless) to continue without stopping in an extreme manner -- often of something that is harsh or oppressive