Word: roughshod
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...that approach, however prudent, is splitting the party in two. On one side are the veteran Republicans who, for all their euphoria at sweeping into power in 1994, understood that there was only so much mileage to be gained from roughshod reform; eventually life would return to its rhythms and routines, things would slow down, chairmen would take more power. But they hadn't counted on the reactions of the newest recruits, whose political lives began with Gingrich's call to arms. Mark Neumann stopped building houses in Wisconsin, Steve Largent quit his business in Oklahoma, Scarborough stopped trying cases...
Environmentalists complain that too many snowmobilers ride roughshod over park rules. Rangers concede they are hard-pressed, even with radar guns, to enforce the 45-m.p.h. speed limit or keep hot-doggers from tearing off roads and into the underbrush. "Snowmobiles bring out the youth in people," says district ranger Bob Seibert. "Many of these riders can't seem to resist running up and down the hillsides...
...sure, a figure bearing Depp's name runs, occasionally roughshod, through the tabloid life of our times. This guy is best known to the general public for trashing a hotel room a couple of years ago and getting busted for it, for his long-running liaison with supersvelte supermodel Kate Moss and for his proprietorship of the menacingly named Viper Room, the determinedly grungy rock club on Sunset Blvd. outside of which River Phoenix succumbed to a final overdose. What the public does not know is that this character is largely the figment of our gossip-debased collective unconscious...
...that the Clinton White House may have misused the FBI just months after the Administration, in the wake of the travel-office scandal, swore such a thing would never happen again. When a President harnesses the power of America's premier law-enforcement agency to political ends, he rides roughshod over the Constitution and revisits the bad old days of J. Edgar Hoover. Is this what Clinton or his people were up to? There are three ways to see the story, depending on who is telling...
...Language itself plays a significant role in the evaluation of each editorial. I once dissented from a staff opinion on the grounds that its wording was too roughshod to be taken seriously. We all want to express our opinions as strongly as possible, but good language is the most effective entree into the minds of readers...