never-failing

As a manager, Craig was known for his unconventional moves, his ability to steal the opponents’ signs and his never-failing optimism.

Despite the never-failing emotional presence Fishback provides, however, Dre remains a bit of a hollow shell — a vehicle for a grab bag of ideas about potent topics like female empowerment and identity, and the ways in which Black women are alternately condescended to and ignored, that are smartly annotated but don’t come together in a way that makes dramatic sense.

But then she thinks about A’s never-failing determination to court love interest Rhiannon — no matter the protagonist’s inability to remain in one body.

“They afford inimitable, streaming, never-failing, living poems,” he wrote.

“I hate, I despise your religious festivals; your assemblies are a stench to me . . . But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!”