Word: remorselessness
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...police fumble, she marshals vast jowls behind a mouth jutted into a small downturned crescent of incontestable certainty, or inhales all the air in her immediate vicinity, then slowly lets it go again, sifting for clues the way a whale sifts plankton. At last, face to face with a remorseless killer, she plucks a dainty pistol from her gown and remarks: "I should warn you, I won the ladies' small-arms championship." Rutherford fans are aware by now that every Murder will out more or less the same way, but it does seem a pity to assign so much...
...recognize its Red regime. While there is no reason to change that stand at present, nonrecognition is no substitute for a policy. Since Korea, the U.S. in fact has developed not a China policy but a China mythology. One side of the myth holds that China is remorseless, implacable, omnipresent and possessed of warriors who love nothing better than to die in "human sea" at tacks. The other side holds that, like Russia and the satellites with whom the West has learned to live, Chinese Communists will in time grow softer, more reasonable. They may, although European Communism, superimposed...
...MARTYRED, by Richard Kim. This remorseless and controlled first novel takes the Korean war as its setting and the presumed martyrdom of twelve Christian ministers as its theme...
Finney's performance as a charming, arrogant, boyish, vain and remorseless killer almost justifies redoing the film. But Producer-Director Karel Reisz errs in trying to update the melodrama with an overdose of back-to-the-womb psychology. The motherless Finney washes away dark deeds by splashing in a pond or immersing himself right up to the nostrils in a nice warm tub. In one embarrassingly childish sequence, he regresses almost to the toddler stage. The camera pays more attention to Finney's tortured mental processes than to the all-important hatbox. The new Night trades a real...
...MARTYRED, by Richard Kim. In this somber, remorseless and beautifully controlled first novel, the author takes the Korean war as his setting and the presumed martyrdom of twelve Christian ministers as his theme. Modern sainthood, he finds, most often is achieved by men racked by doubt...