Word: pitilessness
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...increasingly soiled. As the grime got thicker, the patient's anxiety level would rise and rise-the doctors had turned off the water taps-until the agony was no longer bearable. At which point, no, the doctors did not take the patient out of the room-they were pitiless and quite successful-the aversion would break, and the phobia was banished...
There is a long-term price of illegitimacy as well, one that resonates at a time when the fear of crime, particularly the crimes committed by a generation of young, pitiless men and boys, has become a national obsession. When people ask where all these 16-year-old predators are coming from, one answer is chilling: from 14-year-old mothers. More than half the juvenile offenders serving prison time were raised by only one parent. If present birthrates continue over the next 10 to 15 years, the number of young people trapped in poverty and tempted by the streets...
...friend since Vassar days says Jackie had no idea how to answer questions and was scared of the press: "People thought she was stuck-up, but she just didn't have much confidence." Said author Manchester (The Death of a President): "After Kennedy died, she was exposed to a pitiless spotlight, and she did not know how to handle it." But another observer from White House days claims that Kennedy himself engineered the Garboesque stance: he knew that if she ever began talking, she would reveal how little she knew or cared about politics or public issues...
...welcoming lecture, delivered in the same auditorium only two days before. Professor Coles spoke of the emptiness of knowledge and intelligence devoid of moral character and respect for life, and declared it a source of the supreme dehumanization of fascism. His warnings evidently wore off rather quickly. The pitiless cynicism of the "Love Story" chorus was a macabre and frightening celebration of inhumanity, and it was a disgrace. Jedediah Purdey...
Last week Biehl, 26, a Fulbright scholar dedicated to hastening South African democracy, became the first American victim of the pitiless violence that has accompanied the country's slow transformation. Her nationality was not significant to the teenagers who knifed her repeatedly in the head: her skin color was reason enough. But her murder was another indication that the violent, sometimes anti-white rhetoric adopted by some political groups is finding expression in action. The death of an idealist is not the death of idealism, but it sent a chilly message to those who hope that good intentions...