Word: mercilessly
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Spain, with a total population of only 29,000.000, was estimated to have lost in seven weeks of civil war 85,000 dead and 300,000 wounded, with many small towns totally wiped out by succeeding massacres as they changed hands between merciless Whites and Reds...
Jean Arthur does a good job as the unsuspected adder in Gary's bosom, who exposes him to the merciless Manhattan derision. It is only when Jean breaks out in court with her self-effacing apologies that Gary lets himself fly into his grand flaying splurge...
...David Lawrence this was an unwarranted Presidential whack on a spot already raw from a merciless blow of the Democratic National Committee's canny old Pressagent Charles Michelson, Picking up a Republican handout which recommended, among others, the columns of Lawrence & Co., Pressagent Michelson, in the Democratic Committee's frankly partisan weekly letter, baldly remarked early in April that "the Republican National Committee has formally taken over the Three Musketeers of anti-Administration, Frank Kent, Mark Sullivan and David Lawrence...
They realize that stripped by merciless satire and ridicule of their tinsel, their flag-waving, and their lip-service to the tenets of human liberty and progress, men and women everywhere will see them and their cohorts for what they are-dealers in death and destruction...
...life. He is a real Puritan, as Santayana explains in his "Prologue." "He kept himself for what was best.... His puritanism had never been mere timidity or fanaticism or calculated hardness; it was a deep and speculative thing: hatred of all shams, scorn of all mummeries, a bitter merciless pleasure in the hard facts...