Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Miss Todd is good because her characterization blends the qualities of the adolescent girl and the ruthless woman. In one scene, we see her primping like a vain child before her large oval mirror; in another, she is the inscrutable defendant sitting stiffly on a bench at her own nerve-racking trial. Could this girl have put arsenic in her lover's cocoa...
...Madeleine's trial, therefore, the jury must balance her character against the Frenchman's. The prosecutor tries to convince them that Madeleine was sufficiently cunning and ruthless to have committed the crime, while the attorney for the defense raises the suicide theory...
...artisan's son, born in the dirt-poor village of Fuendetodos in 1746, he had the ruthless energy that stops at nothing and that nothing stops. Goya fought bulls and men with equally savage joy; had he written his autobiography, it could have been as proud and action-packed as Benvenuto Cellini's. He lived in a time known variously as the Age of Reason and the Age of Enlightenment, but, Spanish to the core, he substituted allegories for reason and sardonic darkness for enlightenment...
...Reformation failed in Spain, says Garrison, not because "the Spanish mind is naturally, congenitally and incurably Catholic," but simply because the church-state's repression of non-Catholicism was so ruthless. How long would such a leader as Luther, he asks, "have lasted in the fires of an auto-da-fé at Seville? Or, even if he had been made of asbestos, what role would he ... have played in Ferdinand's program of national unification by compulsory religious solidarity...
...Empire into war and destruction; of a chest tumor; in Tokyo, where he was serving time on a life sentence for war crimes. Wizened, jovial Warmonger Koiso commanded Japan's famed Kwantung army in Manchuria, earned the title "The Tiger" because of his cat's eyes and ruthless behavior as governor general of Japanese-occupied Korea...