Word: mercilessness
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...transformation that merciless and profound is occurring in the American workplace. These are the great corporate clearances of the '90s, the ruthless, restructuring efficiencies. The American work force is being downsized and atomized. As the Scottish farmers were torn away from the soil, millions of Americans are being evicted from the working worlds that have sustained them, the jobs that gave them not only wages and health care and pensions but also a context, a sense of self-worth, a kind of identity. Work was the tribe. There were Sears men and GM workers and Anheuser-Busch people. There still...
...compassion, that is capable of transforming itself into a death-force, with the peculiar annihilating energies of belief. Faith, the sweetest refuge and consolation, may harden, by perverse miracle, into a sword -- or anyway into a club or a torch or an assault rifle. Religious hatreds tend to be merciless and absolute. The mystery is now on view among the Hindus and Muslims of India, among the Islamic fundamentalists of Egypt or Algeria, and among Orthodox Serbs and Bosnian Muslims and Catholic Croats...
...occasionally like fine drama. It's a hodge-podge that winds up surprisingly witty and even moving. "Law of Desire" may also be Almodovar's smartest, most challenging film. He displays here an acute consciousness of the way deviance and normalcy tend to get mixed up; in his merciless satire, the Church and the family unit appear twisted and sick, while heroine addicts and hookers seem like ordinary folk...
Hemingway was wrong. The very rich are not different from you and me. They can be just as foolish and venal as the rest of us. Over the years it has been difficult to pity Ann Woodward. Certainly Truman Capote and Dominick Dunne were merciless in their barely disguised fictional portraits of social climbing metastasized into murder. But in Susan Braudy's lackluster account, readers are permitted at least an occasional twinge of compassion as they watch a gawky girl from the Kansas plains emerge from the chrysalis of gritty rural poverty into Manhattan on the eve of World...
Yeakel, who has said she wants to make the fall campaign in part a referendum on Specter's memorably merciless questioning of Hill, joins Illinois Senate hopeful Carol Moseley Braun at the top of a growing list of women who are riding the perception that women will prove to be natural reformers of a broken-down system that has kept them at arms' length. Daughter of an 11-term Congressman, Yeakel did not run a shoestring campaign; she spent about $200,000 of her own money...