Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hours of relentless questioning by Prosecuting Counsel Mervyn Griffith-Jones, Ward's composure was seldom shattered. Asked about Vickie Barrett, he burst out: "If this girl is telling the truth, then I am guilty. My case must depend on saying this girl is lying." Drumming nicotine-stained hands on the dock rail, Ward declared that Christine, Mandy and half a dozen other witnesses who testified against him were motivated by malice or greed. He cried, "Anyone who comes in from the street can come forward and say I am lying...
Like John Perdew, we saw but we did not feel. Now he feels. He feels the degradation of the Negroes, and he feels their relentless strength as they wage an ever fiercer battle for their rights as men and citizens. And he feels the shame of watching an American court make a travesty of justice, as it has and will do this fall in his own case...
...world began," the Marquis de Sade said of his novel Les 120 Journees de Sodome; and the world has tended to agree. Les 120 Journees has been banned almost everywhere-even in France, and so have most of the rest of De Sade's works, which describe in relentless detail murder, torture, coprophagy, and sex orgies that are a triumph of human engineering. "Here I am," boasts a De Sade heroine during an epic orgy, "at one stroke incestuous, adultress, sodomite; and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today!" If De Sade's books...
Winter Light. The protagonist of this somberly beautiful picture is a Swedish pastor who not only fails himself but fails everyone who needs his help because he doubts the very existence of God. Ingmar Bergman's latest film is colder, darker and even more relentless than the others...
Winter Light. The protagonist of this somberly beautiful picture is a Swedish pastor who not only fails himself but fails everyone who needs his help because he doubts the very existence of God. Ingmar Bergman's latest film is colder, darker and even more relentless than the others...