Word: mercilessness
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...applying the dialectic to the Communist Party, Stalin justifies the party's steel discipline and its merciless purges. Because the party embodies "scientific" truth, the party must be "monolithic," totalitarian, a centrally controlled army under military discipline. A party comrade who judges a situation "incorrectly" becomes a gun turned against the revolution...
Despite an almost universal and merciless drubbing by critics, the first eight Lanny Budd novels of Upton Sinclair sold 1,340,139 copies in the U.S. The ninth should do as well, for it is exactly like the others...
...camera had the run of the city; it peered and pried everywhere, and its somewhat watery gaze was often unflattering. Good-looking women turned into witches and dapper men became unshaven bums. Under TV's merciless, close-up stare, the demagogues and players-to-the-gallery did not always succeed in looking like statesmen. Besides exposing the politicians' worst facial expressions, the camera caught occasional telltale traces of boredom, insincerity and petulance...
...Russian-occupied northern zone. Exasperated, the U.S. finally decided to schedule for May an election of its own in Korea's U.S.-occupied southern half. The Communist radio in northern Korea promptly denounced this as an imperialist plot to split Korea, called for financial contributions to support a "merciless and fierce" guerrilla campaign against the Americans. "This way," said one Communist broadcast, "the blood-boiling, brotherly sympathy and devotion of the people of North Korea ... is blooming...
Next day, the critics were merciless. Composer Cesar Cui called the symphony's discords "devilish"; Rimsky-Korsakov told Rachmaninoff, "Forgive me, I do not find this music at all agreeable...