Word: ruthlessness
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...Children of Men portrays a world in which all the men have become infertile. Without the prospect of posterity, the human race collapses into a ruthless, apathetic society, craving only comfort and security. Deranged would-be mothers pamper kittens in prams, Christianity has generated into a backward folk, religion of animal sacrifices, and bloodthirsty Omegas, members of the last generation born on earth, terrorize the countryside, slaughtering innocent passers-by in orgiastic rituals...
...believe that the Vance-Owen plan is in any way a just or practical alternative to military action is absurd. The plan treats Serbia as a legitimate party in a territorial dispute--not as a ruthless aggressor. No person who has seen the devastation, death and rape commited in the name of "ethnic cleansing" will accept a peace plan that rewards that aggression...
...vehemently deny encouraging mass rape but also deny that such rapes have even occurred. Croats and Muslims have also denied such practices. The Balkans reverberate to this counterpoint of denial, a victim symphony of outraged innocence. Radovan Karadzic, who is a poet and a psychiatrist as well as the ruthless commander-in-chief of the Bosnian Serbs, tries a reverse approach. He says soldiers on all sides are committing rape. He sounds the note of bogus fatalism that is also a kind of blessing of rape: "It is tragic. But these dreadful things happen in all wars...
Caught up in its ruthless rhetoric, the staff loses sight of the beauty of the new Tommy's. By focusing on trivialities like high prices, greasy pizza and atmosphere, the staff misses the bigger picture of what Tommy's is really all about...
...fantasy capital of America, Disneyland, and to a host of quieter fantasies as well. For residents of Orange County, California, the most perishable myth would seem to be that honor students, computer geniuses and star athletes would make headlines only for their remarkable achievements, never for their ruthless crimes...