Word: ruthless
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...Perhaps it is inevitable that a candidate who defies expectations as boldly as Obama will meet ruthless criticism. Voters have been told that Obama is an unabashed radical who “pals around” with terrorists, a troublemaker who passes off his rabble-rousing as “community organizing,” a socialist who seeks to redistribute wealth and take away personal choice, and even a self-proclaimed Messiah who puts his own ambition before the good of his country. Such allegations are desperate efforts to engender hatred against a candidate who represents sweeping change...
...Instead, the rebels released everyone except for Howes and Houn. Both men were killed a few days later on the orders of the ruthless Khmer Rouge commander Ta Mok. It took two years for British detectives to positively confirm that Howes had been executed and his body cremated on a makeshift pyre of wood and gasoline...
...Mike Nichols' The Graduate: "A mess, a film that cries out for thorough reconstruction and critical debate. I think it's a cold, heartless entertainment, never more ruthless than when dumping charm on us...Still, for the moment it is said to be one of everybody's favorites...
...writing A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, a humorous novel about her struggles with the English language and a British paramour. An expired visa forced her to return to Beijing, where she put the novel on hold and made Concrete Revolution, a documentary about how the capital's ruthless physical transformation has affected residents and the rural laborers building...
...cause this ain't the Mafia.") But the milieu is redolent of many a mob story, with the rocknrollas as goodfellas, and their hangouts as low-London franchises of the Ba-Da-Bing. The dialogue has an East End accent, but it's basically Tarantinian chatter - the joking among ruthless men with roguish rhetoric and short fuses - leavened for variety with the odd upmarket observation. "Beauty is a cruel mistress," Uri says of his painting, with a mixture of connoisseurship and threat. Some of the lines could almost be put to music, like "The streets are alive with the sound...