Word: inhumanism
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...acme of Jones' career, is a fable about a bulldog who falls into mad maternal love over a winsome kitten. But even in Warner's usually violent cat-eat-bird, rabbit- humiliate-duck world, character is at the base of the comedy. Each nuance of eyebrow makes Bugs' almost inhuman sangfroid seem more endearing; each microsecond of exasperated deadpan underlines Daffy's status as Hollywood's least placable loser; every syllable of Sylvester's lisp or Pepe Le Pew's fetid French intensifies the viewer's ability to believe that these creatures are not only personalities but gifted movie stars...
president Bok and the Governing Boards as well as I are aware of your concern about apartheid. The University shares your views about the oppressive, inhuman regime in South Africa and has so indicated on many occasions...
Support for the ANC reveals an inhuman disregard for the bloodbath that would attend any revolution in South Africa. Moreover, as history demonstrates, Marxist revolutions certainly produce totalitarian one-party dictatorships. Liberals who are sanguine about the consequences of Marxits revolutions should look at the human right relation of the Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe (where Mugabe's Morth Korean-trained Fifth Brigade has killed several thousand Ndebele supporters of Nkomo before they blithely condemn South Africans Black to a similar fate...
...back down. "Authority is 20% given," he would say, "and 80% taken. Take it." If someone faltered, Ueberroth did not hesitate to make a change. He once had to okay the firing of a friend of 25 years. Later the friend wrote and told Ueberroth he was cold and inhuman, especially since their families had been so close. The letter stung Ueberroth, but associates say his decision was right...
Beckett once called Endgame, "Rather difficult and elliptic, mostly depending on the power of the text to claw, more inhuman than Godot." Akalaitis humanizes Beckett's inhuman text. While Beckett clearly implies that his play occurs after a nuclear holocaust. Akalaitis attempts to describe physically the status of man after the bomb. She skirts the intellectuality that Beckett's bare setting forces on the play by giving the characters an identifiable environment and downplaying the metaphysical cleverness of the dialogue...