Word: mercilessly
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...take your mother seriously, but not in the usual sense," says the publisher wisely to suffering Clara. The remark fits the book itself, a strange and exasperating display of becalmed talent by the author of Desperate Characters and Poor George, novels much praised, among other things, for their "merciless observation...
...facts of Celine's life can be read more or less surrealistically in Journey and in his second masterpiece Mort a Credit (translated as Death on the Installment Plan), which is, among other things, a merciless recollection of boyhood and family life. "I was born in a shop," he liked to say, referring to his mother's modest lacemaking establishment; for all his rebellion, an incorrigible petit bourgeois, pinching every franc, lived within Celine. At 14 he dropped out of school and worked at a silk shop and as an errand boy. In the evenings, eyes "burning with...
...poetically served, however, when the British actor-soldiers were unceremoniously routed from the stage in mid-performance last January by news of an American attack on their Charlestown strong-hold.) Burgoyne is now gone from Boston, but another parting shot was recently fired at his Blockade. The Blockheads, a merciless farce that celebrates the ignominious British evacuation of Boston, was published in pamphlet form last month and is now being widely read...
...film makers (Adam's Rib, Holiday), but here both his good taste and characteristic sophistication have lapsed. Elizabeth Taylor (who plays four roles, including Maternal Love), Ava Gardner (Luxury) and Jane Fonda (who, as Night, is decked out in a costume that makes her look like Ming the Merciless) camp it up like movie queens on an overseas promo junket...
...goes, he asked his colleagues to vote with their left hands, then demanded all the expensive foreign watches revealed on their raised arms. But Shevardnadze has not been able to curb all the wheeling and dealing in Georgia. Recently, Georgian Minister of Home Affairs Konstantin Ketiladze called for a "merciless fight" against profiteers and warned that "readers should not be under the false impression that the problem has been solved." The Kremlin's economic planners need no convincing: Georgia, where much of the people's effort is devoted to nonofficial pursuits, is a chronic laggard among Soviet republics...