All 5 Uses of
relentless
in
Unbroken, by Hillenbrand
- Over decades, it had crafted a muscular, technologically sophisticated army and navy, and through a military-run school system that relentlessly and violently drilled children on the nation's imperial destiny, it had shaped its people for war.†
p. 43.5relentlessly = in an extreme manner that does not stop
- Louie, still in the greenhouse, saw rounds ripping through the Zeros' fuselages and wings, but the planes were relentless.†
p. 96.9 *relentless = to continue without stopping in an extreme manner
- One American airman, shot down and relentlessly debased by his Japanese captors, described the state of mind that his captivity created: "I was literally becoming a lesser human being."†
p. 183.1relentlessly = in an extreme manner that does not stop
- In Japan's militaristic society, all citizens, from earliest childhood, were relentlessly indoctrinated with the lesson that to be captured in war was intolerably shameful.†
p. 195.2
- Relentless physical abuse had precipitated most of the deaths.†
p. 278.3relentless = to continue without stopping in an extreme manner
Definition:
to continue without stopping in an extreme manner -- often of something that is harsh or oppressive