Word: mercilessness
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...Black Students Association (BSA) co-sponsored the event’s inaugural screening which, appropriately, was of Spike Lee’s 2001 film Bamboozled—the director’s merciless burlesque of identity politics in the entertainment industry...
Punishment is merciless for writers of novels that ring in the mind. Unsophisticated readers demand the same bells next time, only louder. Sophisticated readers pretend they do not want an encore, although they really do, and they are vigilant in condemning repetition...
...someone who wanted to preserve the drink. Now that Coke has answered that, it will manufacture both formulas on its own, and the new and the old can lie down together at last like the lion and the lamb in a peaceable kingdom (disturbed only by the rumblings of merciless competition by other soft-drink companies...
...ThemassacreatRedLake, with 10 dead, was the worst school shooting since 15 died at Columbine on April 20, 1999. There are clear parallels with the Colorado incident: merciless gunfire, the black trench coat, the life-or-death question. But Red Lake has its disturbing distinctions. Instead of an affluent community, the setting this time was an impoverished reservation of the proud Ojibwa Nation in Minnesota. The terrifying revelation of Columbine was that caring parents could overlook signs of trouble in their offspring; the trouble in Red Lake centered on a clearly confused young...
From the very beginning of “Get Your War On,” when Rees didn’t even think he had an audience, he was merciless in his mockery. Thanks to the visceral outrage emanating from every panel, the strip managed to tap into a well of liberal anger that propelled it to international acclaim. Visually primitive but absolutely fearless in its incisive political bite, “Get Your War On” quickly became an internet phenomenon and Rees joined the ranks of the brave few media personas who were willing to poke...