Word: remorselessness
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...punishment presupposes guilt, even if the crime is unspecified. The act of atonement is always arbitrary. In expiation, a Pinter hero-victim may lose his life, or his wife, or his mind. Kafka's religious overtones find no echo in Pinter. To him, the universe runs with the remorseless senselessness of a concentration camp...
STORIES AND TEXTS FOR NOTHING, by Samuel Beckett. Beckett's characters measure out their lives in toothpicks instead of spoons, but there is considerable gallows humor in their remorseless decline...
BEAZLE: It was nothing, really. We medical men have been confounding patients for years. As far back as 1699, the physician and poet Samuel Garth wrote: "The patient's ears remorseless he assails/Murders with jargon where his medicine fails." Still, physical medicine is nothing compared with psychiatry. There's where we Jargonists truly have our day. Suppose a man loses his wife and is unable to love anyone because he is sad. What do I tell...
...lectures. "See you this week! Avaunt, sorceress: not this month -not until next July. Remember my pleasures are music, conversation, the grapple of my intelligence with fresher ones. All this I can sweeten with a kiss [but] beware. When all love has gone out of me, I am remorseless: I hurl the truth about like destroying lightning...
...five years Jack Paar stood TV's most remorseless watch for NBC, the nightly Tonight show. Then by choice he tapered off the last three seasons with a mere weekly caper. Last week, at 48, Paar went off the air altogether to boss a TV and FM station he bought control of (putting up $1,350,000 in cash) in Poland Spring...