Word: mercilessness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Auto industry insiders were unimpressed and merciless. They dubbed it a "jelly bean," a "flying spud" and a "gel tab," among other unflattering appellations. The object of their scorn was the newly introduced 1986 Ford Taurus and its softly rounded contours, which defied the sharp-edged, boxy look long favored by the industry...
...BOMBINGS WERE NOT JUST THE END of a merciless clash of cultures [V-J Day, Aug., 7]. They were also the beginning of a human crisis called the nuclear age, beyond the differences in cultures and nationalities. HISASHI YUKIMOTO Yokosuka, Japan...
After Zepa fell, Mladic increased his merciless pressure on Bihac, an isolated U.N. safe area in the northwest. Coordinating efforts with Serb rebels from neighboring Croatia and antigovernment Muslim irregulars, he attacked the so-called Bihac pocket, a cluster of towns and villages that shelters more than 160,000 people, mostly Muslims. He and his allies, totaling about 25,000 men, rolled up a third of the pocket and drew to within two or three miles of the main U.N. camp at Coralici, where 1,300 poorly armed Bangladeshi peacekeepers are holed...
...Minutemen were merciless tacking on two more runs in the fifth, one in the eighth and four in the ninth inning. While leaving the entire starting line-up on the field...
...highest trumpet blast/ Of Fahrenheit") in much of his poetry, particularly in his early books: with polychromatic warmth and humor he captures lovers, society ladies, fortune-tellers, merchants, children. In recent years he registered more moon than sun perhaps, in poems bathed in a blue, chilly and at times merciless light. Merrill wrote beautifully-painfully-about the daily diminutions of the body and the passing of friends, about aids, alcoholism and senility...