The cast, headed by Peter Gallagher, Joan Cusack, Ron Vawter and Mikhail Baryshnikov, is relentlessly grim.

Ms. Joubert drew her material from tape-recorded interviews with a black domestic worker, on whose relentlessly grim life "Poppie" was based.

It's true that Mazer does not always avoid gratuitous ugliness, and there are passages - mostly involving Pamela, Em's brutal, almost demonic sister - that are relentlessly grim.

The script was relentlessly grim.

Lyrically, Stained Class is the darkest album in the band's catalog, its songs being relentlessly grim and violent.

Everyone in this relentlessly grim chronicle of feverish sexual mores uses and abuses his partner of the moment, before moving on to the next unfulfilling conquest.

Dr. Hébert, a Frenchman, carries the burden of optimism in what can sometimes seem a relentlessly grim story.

Because of its relentlessly grim portrayal of contemporary Polish life, it has not been shown in the land of its origin.

The film is a relentlessly grim, almost clinical study of the devastating effects of a loveless childhood and social repression on two young women.

One's interest is threatened by the crowded double rows of relentlessly grim images, and the fact that all the slogans and texts are in German.