Both Uses of
relentless
in
Oryx and Crake
- Under the old dispensation, sexual competition had been relentless and cruel: for every pair of happy lovers there was a dejected onlooker, the one excluded.†
p. 165.9 *relentless = to continue without stopping in an extreme manner
- It was like a giant slug eating its way relentlessly through all the other bioforms on the planet, grinding up life on earth and shitting it out the backside in the form of pieces of manufactured and soon-to-be-obsolete plastic junk.†
p. 243.4relentlessly = in an extreme manner that does not stop
Definition:
to continue without stopping in an extreme manner -- often of something that is harsh or oppressive