Word: mercilessly
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...organized a Communist underground army of liberation (i.e., liberation from both Japanese and French). In Hanoi, the French threw his wife into jail, with a sentence of 15 years, and there she died. When Giap led his "liberation" troops into the valley of Dinh Ca in 1944, his merciless liquidation of government officials and wealthy farmers gave cruel force to his oft-repeated slogan: "Every minute 100,000 men die all over the world-the life and death of human beings means nothing...
...touseled young (25) man named Paddy Swift* and tossed their caps in the air. Paddy's 30 canvases are as grey and gloomy as Dublin itself-harshly realistic paintings of dead birds and rabbits, frightened-looking girls and twisted potted plants. Their fascination is in the merciless, sharply etched details, as oppressive and inquiring as a back-room third degree...
...year-old Arab girl) for whom he sells out the secret of the post's channel shipping route. Also on hand: Captain Tom Lingard (Ralph Richardson), man of the sea and lover of justice, who punishes Willems for his treachery by exiling him upriver with the merciless native girl he no longer loves...
...need illusions to survive. The Ekdal family are happy so long as Hialmar Ekdal is ignorant of his wife's past and the true paternity of his child. Ibsen's exposure of Gregers Werle, the meddling idealist who enlightens Hialmar in the name of truth, is merciless. But his portrayal of flabby, feckless, self-excusing Hialmar is hardly less...
Today, Ibsen-dotting every i, megaphoning every idea-seems most merciless toward his audience. And the current production is not only didactic, but thoroughly inept. Maurice Evans, for example, portrays Hialmar so broadly that he might be playing Micawber, so stagily that he might be spouting blank verse...