Word: mercilessness
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...story has exploded in virtually every newspaper and television station in the United States. Some argue that she is a merciless woman who attempted to castrate her husband as revenge for lack of sexual fulfillment. Other view her as the symbol of the battered woman who stood up against her bestial husband. In any event, "the cut felt around the world" has certainly reverberated throughout the American population...
Eventually, the Jews are moved from the Krakow Ghetto to a Nazi labor camp run by Amon Goeth (Ralph Fiennes). Goeth is a singularly unsettling figure, educated and refined but at the same time brutal, merciless and animalistic. Looking down into the camp from his villa, Goeth casually shoots anyone who crosses his line of sight. He is in love with his Jewish maid (Embeth Davidtz), but he is ashamed of it, and so he beats...
...depth of feeling it required. The migration of blacks from the rural South to the industrial North, as it unfolded in the first decades of the 20th century, had an epic character: a collective Odyssey to match the Iliad of the Civil War. It was forced by the merciless Southern white reaction that came in the wake of Reconstruction, plunging the black population of the Southern states -- all poor, nearly all rural -- into a purgatory of abrogated rights...
...intelligence emphasis on worldwide threats of proliferation, terrorism and narcotics does not come cheap. "Compared with my days as a young officer, the demands today are far more dangerous," says Ambassador to South Korea Donald Gregg, a former CIA station chief in Seoul. "Terrorists and drug types are merciless and very hard to deal with." The narcotics trade and state-supported terrorism, adds Inman, "are not played by the gentlemanly rules of the espionage world. When you try to penetrate them and they suspect you, they don't put you in jail. They shoot...
Thus begins Qiu Ju's sad pilgrimage through the endless labyrinth of the Chinese bureaucracy. She petitions the People's District This and the Revolutionary Intermediate That. She seeks the help of a professional letter writer, who promises to destroy the village chief by writing a "merciless" letter. (He tells Qiu Ju he's written six of these; two of the recipients were subsequently shot, he says, and four got life sentences.) To impress the officials, Qiu Ju gives them fruit and buys an ill-fitting striped jacket that unfortunately makes her look even more like a hick chick from...