Word: mercilessness
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...polls by as many as five percentage points. The Martin campaign says that speculation that Martin is trailing because blacks aren't drawn to support him without Obama in sight is "one of the vicious campaign tactics Chambliss is famous for." Chambliss, for his part, has a reputation for merciless politicking. He rose to power in 2002 by playing on voters' post-9/11 fears, declaring that Democratic incumbent Max Cleland, a triple amputee and Vietnam veteran, would be soft on Osama bin Laden...
...Bond (and take over the world) gave him enough time to kill them. Although the novels and the early Bond movies took place during the Cold War, their villains were rarely Soviet operatives; they were closer to those freelance fruitcakes of pulp fantasy fiction, Fu Manchu and Ming the Merciless. Issuing dreadful warnings, plotting mass destruction from remote redoubts and sending their thugs to do the dirty work, the Scaramangas and Ernst Stavro Blofelds of Bond fiction could have been the secular antecedents of Osama bin Laden...
...this city. Perhaps a small migration (or stampede) of Harvard students to the city during the summer makes it easier to come across a familiar face. But more than once I have heard a distinctly comforting call of my name amid the screams of the subway and the merciless honks of taxis. Deep down in the hub of the Broadway-Lafayette station, I was able to commiserate with a friend over her day-long mission to procure just the right Blackberry for her boss. As we paused to exchange complaints on interning duties and made plans that did not revolve...
...What is most interesting about the book, though, is what it says about the fleeting spell of Bush loyalty; the rhetorical Red-Rover that formed up around the president can be broken up, after all. It draws into relief the startling extent to which modern politics have become a merciless team sport—the great sins of the last seven years would never have been possible without diffusion, delegation, and the occasional concession at the margins—a Cabinet member here or there, one counsel for another...
...enter into an emotional partnership as well. She remembers Sweeney from the old days, and she is hopelessly in love with him. The things she will do for love, like the things Sweeney will do for vengeance, pile up invisibly around them and drive the show to its merciless conclusion.The audience sees it coming, and yet Flynn’s performance is so textured and so alive that you could almost trick yourself into thinking that everything will be OK. She’s funny, libidinous, and caring; when the accumulated weight of her own delusions finally becomes too much...