Word: mercilessly
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...workaholic "drops out of the human community," Oates says, and "eats, drinks and sleeps his job." Every morning, he wakes at a set hour. At his office, he is "merciless in his demands upon himself for peak performance" and "without qualms about telling off both high and low" when their work is sloppy. Arriving home late, he heads for his study "to make the best of the remaining hours of the day," unable to tell the difference between simple loyalty and "compulsive overcommitment" to his employers. How does a workaholic know that he is one? Sometimes he finds out only...
...Jake is an inescapably likable John Wayne western. This time round, Big John plays a robustly aging paterfamilias who has been separated from his wife (who else but Maureen O'Hara?) lo these 18 years. When a band of merciless marauders led by Richard Boone kidnaps Wayne's grandson and demands a million dollars ransom (in $20 bills, please), Maureen swallows her pride and sends for the Duke. As soon as he shows up, both the child's safety and a predictable quality of brawny, easygoing entertainment are guaranteed...
...slack jaw with the triangular splayed teeth, then the dark eye, impenetrable and empty as the eye of God . . . a silent thing of merciless serenity...
THERE is no doubt," said a foreign diplomat in East Pakistan last week, "that the word massacre applies to the situation." Said another Western official: "It's a veritable bloodbath. The troops have been utterly merciless...
This is only a flaw in an icy gem. Petri's calculating direction is too swift and merciless to allow the clutter to become insuperable. Volonte, meanwhile, invests the role of the cold, internally rent inspector with brutal authority, giving credence to the proposition that if justice is blind, so is its terrible opposite...