Koen, who starts the series as a selfish, conscienceless exploiter, grows into his powers and his responsibilities.
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The seemingly conscienceless Kent Davidson (Gary Cole), watching her stride onto the stage with Jonah to accept the nomination, has finally had it; he leaves the convention and deposits his credentials in the trash.
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Elena (Margherita Mazzucco) and Lila (Gaia Girace), best friends and conscienceless rivals since they were the two smartest girls in first grade, both hope to escape the suffocating grip of their poor neighborhood in postwar Naples.
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With calm, teleprompter-cued statements like this, it's hard to believe that Mr. Trump, who has staked his campaign on erratically screaming his self-serving, conscienceless mind, is the die-hard narcissistic sociopath he wants us to think he is.
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And, as it turns out, the investigation she has set up makes intuitive sense to both observers and detectives because they know it so well from TV. The Law & Order franchise has shaped Americans' understanding of the law to such an extent that the actual legal system can sometimes seem discomfitingly unreal, because it is so little like the version we know from television: the one where prosecutors are incorruptible crusaders for justice, defense attorneys are conscienceless sophists, and trials take place in gleaming edifices of dark wood and marble—and where, perhaps most crucially, the viewer's own belief in the defendant's guilt can allow them to cheer for all sorts of systemic injustices and dirty tricks, because that's how you have to play the game, sometimes, if you just know you have the right guy.
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It was watching her with cold animal curiosity, something demonish and conscienceless.
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Eventually, she is able to seduce Charles's twin brother, George, in order to make Charles jealous. She is a cold-hearted and apparently conscienceless woman.
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Hilliz simply said: "I am not dead yet, but I will die soon". After recovering from their fright, the sisters undressed the resident and put her back to bed. She recovered her conscienceless. She passed away again on the following Wednesday.
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John Mason Brown recommended that Leverson's work be read by "those who find laughter no hardship, high comedy a delight, nonsense relaxing, and who are not made uncomfortable by worldlings both comfortable and conscienceless".Brown, John Mason qtd. in Poupard. "Ada Leverson (1895–1933)".
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In private life, Bezborodko was a typical Catherinian, corrupt, licentious, conscienceless and self-seeking. But he was infinitely generous and affectionate, and spent his enormous fortune liberally. His banquets were magnificent, his collections of pictures and statues unique in Europe. He was the best friend of his innumerable poor relatives, and the Maecenas of all the struggling authors of his day.
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Yuk-fung thinks highly of her friendship with Winnie and refuses to abide with Robert. On the day of her release, Yuk-fung leaves with her kitten, waiting for Robert to pick her up but the conscienceless Robert runs her over with his car and crushes her to death. The kitten flees back into the prison and Winnie picks it up where the film ends with her sad expression.
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Dilulio has since retracted some of his ideas. There are many alternative explanations to the rise in crime until the 1990s and the subsequent drop. One explanation is the lead–crime hypothesis, which says that the use of leaded gasoline could have caused the high crime rates in the 1980s and 90s. Kevin Drum, an American journalist, argued that the "superpredators" that Dilulio described as impulsive, violent, and conscienceless may have actually had lead poisoning.
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He was able to gain the support of the Grand Vizier Khadim Ali Pasha, and became his diwan secretary, who had had plenty of reasons to be annoyed with Mesihi. Mesihi is mentioned as undisciplined, running after a pleasure-oriented life, and conscienceless toward his official duties. The vizier, of Albanian descent himself, is quoted to have called him "street-Arab" or "street boy" (Ottoman: Sheher Oglani). Nevertheless, Mesihi held his position until Khadim Pasha died in 1511 during the Şahkulu Rebellion.
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Generally in the Amazon region, episodes of social injustice and culture clash persisted.Cf., Huxley and Capa (1964) on the exploitation of the mid-20th century Amahuaca: text at 149–50, 161–64; photos at 151–60. Regarding the earlier plunder of the Amazon during rubber boom, Huxley (at 129) mentions "conscienceless whites from England and America, Chile and Italy, Germany, Argentina, and the Levant, quite as much as by Amazon Basin locals."José Eustasio Rivera, La Vorágine (Bogotá: Cromas 1924).
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Barnes accused Adenauer of "opposing the discovery and publication of the truth". Barnes professed to be "deeply puzzled" that the West German government was willing to accept responsibility for the Holocaust and its "downright disinclination to seek to refute the most outrageous charges of cruelty and barbarism leveled against Germany by conscienceless atrocity mongers and the continuation to this very day of not-so-little Nuremberg trials." In 1962, Barnes attacked the West German president Heinrich Lübke for his speech in Israel asking for forgiveness for the German people for the Holocaust.Lipstadt, p. 79.
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She sails away from her lonely island in Tempest's yacht, the Circe, and begins her married life at a luxurious villa in Nice. Much to his own surprise, Tempest, a heartless libertine, finds that he, too, has fallen in love. He tries to make Rosamond happy, and succeeds for a while; however, after a year in his company, she begins to realize how conscienceless and cruel he is. She then discovers that Tempest has a wife and son already, making their marriage a sham and Rosamond the unwitting mistress of a man who has grossly deceived her.
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Bob Reynolds is a young construction engineer, living with his pretty wife Jane in an old bungalow on Staten Island. He has become bitter because of his failure to get ahead and the fact that he is unable to get the clothes which he wishes for his wife. One night at the theater they witness the production of "Paid in Full" and Bob's sympathies are with the husband who succumbs to the temptation to steal, while Jane chides him, saying nothing should cause a man to be dishonest. A few days later Bob receives a letter from John Brand, a shrewd conscienceless capitalist whom he has known in college.
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A Los Angeles Times editorial dated December 8, 1942, stated that: > The Japs in these centers in the United States have been afforded the very > best of treatment, together with food and living quarters far better than > many of them ever knew before, and a minimum amount of restraint. They have > been as well fed as the Army and as well as or better housed. . . . The > American people can go without milk and butter, but the Japs will be > supplied. A Los Angeles Times editorial dated April 22, 1943, stated that: > As a race, the Japanese have made for themselves a record for conscienceless > treachery unsurpassed in history.
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Set in 1948, Devil in a Blue Dress introduces Easy Rawlins, a newly unemployed factory worker, let go from his job building aircraft because his white supervisor found him "uppity". Needing money to pay his mortgage, Easy agrees to search for Daphne Monet, the missing mistress of a wealthy white politician. No one is willing to tell Easy just why so many people want to find Daphne, and the trail leads him through the intersection of crime, corruption, and race politics in Los Angeles. In the course of the search Easy reunites with a childhood friend, Raymond "Mouse" Alexander, a charming but conscienceless stone-cold killer, recently arrived in LA from Houston.
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While Kel struggles with her responsibilities and the urge simply to abandon the camp and find a real fight, another obligation hangs over her. Before the war began, she was given a task by the Chamber of the Ordeal: to find and destroy the mage who is using foul magic to create the rat-like, swift-moving, deadly metallic things known to the Tortallans as "killing devices." But, tied to the camp, she cannot pursue it. However, as the summer wears on and the war intensifies, events move to put that perverted mage and his conscienceless war-leader in Kel's path, and at last her resolve is tested, and she and all of Tortall find out if she is truly worthy of her shield.
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McLaughlin walked free, and many in the community – judges, lawyers, and merchants – apparently shared the view that the perjured testimony was somehow McParland's doing. A meeting chaired by a local Socialist denounced the "infamous" detective. A statement was issued stating that when money could be made, > ... he will do anything, no matter how low or vile, to accomplish his > purpose ... There is not today, in the United States outside prison walls, a > more conscienceless and desperate criminal than McParland. Lukas wrote: "What lay behind these accusations is difficult to say," and that it is "hard to imagine" how McParland became associated with "a scoundrel like McLaughlin," but "if the story is accurate," he speculated that the connection must have resulted from activities relating to the strike.
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Before the war began, she was given a task by the Chamber of the Ordeal: to find and destroy the mage whose necromancy creates the giant, swift-moving, deadly metallic machines from the souls of children, known to the Tortallans as "killing devices." But, tied to the camp, she cannot pursue it. However, as the summer wears on and the war intensifies, events move to put that perverted mage and his conscienceless war-leader in Kel's path, and at last her resolve is tested, and she and all of Tortall find out if she is truly worthy of her shield. After months of hard work with the refugees, Kel feels that they can sufficiently take care of the camp while she is gone for several days to deliver a requested oral report to Lord Wyldon.
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The Declaration cited the accusation that Watch Tower Society literature constituted a danger to Germany's peace and safety, and suggested the publications had been misunderstood by officials because of the bluntness of much of the language, which had been originally written in the United States for an American readership. It said people in Britain and the United States had suffered, and continued to suffer, from "the misrule of Big Business and conscienceless politicians" supported by "political religionists", and the Society's literature had therefore employed plain language to convey that message. It drew parallels with similar oppression from which it said the German people suffered: Nazi book burning in Germany. The Declaration asserted that Jehovah's Witnesses had no political ambitions or involvement, and did nothing to hinder the beliefs of others.
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Hannah Giorgis wrote in The Atlantic that the "greatest success" of Killing Eve is how alluring it makes Villanelle — both to an intelligence agent dedicated to tracking her down and to the audience. More specifically, Jia Tolentino wrote in The New Yorker that Villanelle's character works because of Comer's "mercurial, unassailable charisma", and Willa Paskin wrote in Slate that Comer's Villanelle (twisted and conscienceless but also irrepressible) is "flat-out incredible". In The Irish Times, Peter Crawley characterized Comer's Villanelle as "a young woman with an angelic face and a devil’s stare", adding that she embodies "a pleasing paradox: a phantom who craves recognition". In December 2018, The New York Times included Oh's and Comer's performances in its "Best Performances of 2018", noting "these two women are inventive about how to be funny in a thriller" and "make run-of-the mill embarrassment seem more lethal than any bullet".
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Joseph Heller intentionally seeded Catch 22 with "anachronisms like loyalty oaths, helicopters, IBM machines and agricultural subsidies", all of which only appear in the McCarthy Era, in order to create a more contemporary atmosphere. Likewise, Heller created Minderbinder's famous saying "What's good for Milo Minderbinder, is good for the country" (insert Syndicate or M&M; Enterprises for Milo Minderbinder) as a parody of Charles E. Wilson, who said "What is good for General Motors is good for our country" during a hearing of a Senate subcommittee in 1952. Wilson was the head of General Motors in 1952, but became Secretary of Defense in January 1953, thus being an early example of the military-industrial complex, which the Minderbinder character well represents. According to Heller, he modeled the character traits of Minderbinder — fast-talking, self-promoting, thoroughly conscienceless — on his Coney Island childhood friend Marvin Winkler (or Beansy to friends).
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The position of the Western Church that Christian captives could not be enslaved mirrored that in Islam, which had the same condition in respect of Muslim captives. This meant that in wars involving the two religions, all captives were still liable to be enslaved when captured by the other religion, as regularly happened in the Crusades and the Spanish Reconquista. Coastal parts of Europe remained prey throughout the period to razzias or slaving raids by Barbary corsairs which led to many coastal areas being left unpopulated; there were still isolated raids on England and Ireland as late as the 17th century. "As a consequence of the wars against the Mussulmans and the commerce maintained with the East, the European countries bordering on the Mediterranean, particularly Spain and Italy, once more had slaves: Turkish prisoners and also, unfortunately, captives imported by conscienceless traders .... this revival of slavery, lasting until the seventeenth century, is a blot on Christian civilization".
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The Steven's Copper Handbook, 1911, said of Heinze: > The United Copper company is operated as a blind pool by F Augustus Heinze, > who has shown himself utterly rapacious, unscrupulous and conscienceless in > his mining and financial operations. About one-third of the common stock is > held in Holland, and the unfortunate Dutch investors were endeavoring June, > 1911, to obtain some explicit information regarding the company's affairs > ... the United Copper Company can be considered only as an exceptionally > daring piece of stock jobbery.Horace J Stevens (compiled and published), > "The Copper Handbook – A Manual of the Copper Industry of the World, Vol X, > 1911", Houghton, Michigan, 1911, Retrieved 2011-03-11 In February 1913 the United Copper Company was placed into receivership, so its assets (including Ohio Copper) could be unwound.Anaconda Standard, 11 Feb 1913, "Receivers Appointed for United Copper" In mid-1914, at an acrimonious shareholders meeting, control of the Ohio Copper Company passed from Heinze to William O Allison, President of the company.
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Reverend Jesse Custer, a tough and principled Texan preacher who has lost his faith, is possessed by a mysterious entity called Genesis — a conscienceless offspring of an angel and a demon whose power may rival that of God Himself. Through insight granted him by Genesis, now lodged in Jesse's mind in a sort of supernatural symbiosis, Jesse learns that God has left Heaven and abandoned his responsibilities, and that he (Jesse) possesses the power of The Word Of God—depicted in the comic through the use of red text (a reference to the printing method often used for indicating Jesus' speech in the Bible)—allowing him to deliver irresistible commands to any being, whereupon the commanded cannot help but to comply fully. Armed with these newfound attributes, he sets out on a quest to find God (literally) and make Him answer for His dereliction of duty. Accompanying Jesse on his journey are Tulip O'Hare, Jesse's former girlfriend who has long thought that he abandoned her, and Cassidy, a 100-year-old Irish vampire who prefers a pint in the pub to the blood of the innocent.
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