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"ruthlessness" Definitions
  1. hard and cruel behaviour; being determined to get what you want without caring if you hurt other people

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Not technical mastery, but ruthlessness, courage, and singularity of purpose.
She was a mother, and her strategy was pure ruthlessness.
Rikabi and Maliki had a reputation for corruption and ruthlessness.
That ruthlessness brings with it a remarkable ability to regenerate.
It's a ruthlessness that is transparently violent, and it works.
The most newsworthy element of this story is Simon's ruthlessness.
While Russia offers military ruthlessness, China offers a mercantile variant.
In terms of size, efficiency, and ruthlessness, Amazon has few equals.
But the Awami League does not have to rely on ruthlessness.
Jon apparently had no idea Daenerys was capable of such ruthlessness.
No one understands Brady's competitiveness and ruthlessness better than Belichick, either.
We wanted to have some of the ruthlessness of The Hound.
He'd had a ruthlessness to him, he told me in Toronto.
The ruthlessness that that real-life story conjures fits Hope perfectly.
Many voters looked at his ruthlessness and naked ambition with disgust.
He has forgotten Ferguson's volatility, his ruthlessness, his hard-nosed pragmatism.
But, of course, good economic management isn't ruthlessness or fighting dirty.
Rumors of his ruthlessness and influence inspired folk songs and popular culture.
Lacking Jeanie's sophistication and ruthlessness, he has no ability to fight back.
The mix of unpredictability, ruthlessness and fragility frustrates policymaking towards Mr Kim.
This demonstrates a level of sophistication, ruthlessness and intelligence on China's part.
Rachel knows what sort of ruthlessness to expect — now more than ever.
Though capable of ruthlessness, Mr. Ochs prided himself on his benevolent paternalism.
He delights in his reputation for ruthlessness and cheerfully shrugs off criticism.
Having witnessed Negan's ruthlessness up close and personal, Rick proposed that third path.
But the latest escalation, if proven, may forever mark him for his ruthlessness.
Merkel cell carcinoma (Image: Nephron/Wikimedia Commons)There's no limit to viral ruthlessness.
The Republican nominee praised Hussein's ruthlessness on Tuesday, according to the Associated Press.
For decades they have justified their ruthlessness by pointing to the bloody past.
Her financing plan shows a nice combination of policy seriousness and political ruthlessness.
There's another important quality that Conway and Frank don't share and that's ruthlessness.
His ruthlessness and fierce rhetoric should not be confused with irrationality, they explained.
"She came to power by an act of breathtaking ruthlessness," Ms. Stelzenmüller said.
This was when Ghosn developed his reputation for both ruthlessness and operational genius.
They're often sophisticated and welcoming, masking their ruthlessness beneath grand shows of generosity.
As Arya comes of age, her capacity for ruthlessness and retribution is softening.
And he built a global reputation for both ruthlessness and a bombastic lifestyle.
Ruthlessness is the order of the day, and Catherine can't entirely trust the military.
Given the diminished space, there is a ruthlessness to how this Barneys is merchandised.
JD: But Bezos impresses me because of the — not ruthlessness — because of the creativity.
What little is known of Mr. Kim's record suggests ruthlessness — and some ideological flexibility.
But no great runner has possessed Bolt's mix of race-day playfulness and ruthlessness.
Some of Trump's supporters, including many women, seem to admire his vulgarity and ruthlessness.
What would a benevolent intelligence possibly make of our ruthlessness, our rapacious quest for understanding?
I respect their knowledge of their craft as much as I despise their callow ruthlessness.
Ruthlessness is more likely the outcome of having power than the pathway to getting power.
What really distinguishes it is not its brutality and ruthlessness, but its stunningly realized aesthetic.
But even with his war-chest, and reputation for ruthlessness and cunning, Mr McConnell may fail.
Old-fashioned values, including sensitivity, kindness, and fragility, they dismissed in favour of ruthlessness, candour, strength.
Divorced from any larger meaning, it can be chalked up as a tribute to gangland ruthlessness.
Ruthlessness has always been the common currency on "Billions," and that continues to be the case.
And where in that ruthlessness is respect for the lofty principles that Sessions so disingenuously espoused?
What characterizes this incarnation of the United States is a coolness that folds easily into ruthlessness.
Even our hero, Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington), is one flawed, twisted human capable of extreme ruthlessness.
" Employees were discouraged from questioning this cultish orthodoxy by her "ruthlessness" and her "culture of fear.
That personality — a volatile compound of vanity, ruthlessness, hedonism and charm — is the movie's central puzzle.
And they see themselves as woefully unprepared to respond with the ruthlessness that the moment requires.
Mr Johnson has made it to the top through a combination of charm, political nous and ruthlessness.
It's a cleaner version of the story, but it undermines Varys' ruthlessness and commitment to his cause.
Lenin knew exactly what he wanted, and he would deploy extraordinary energy and ruthlessness to achieve it.
So capitalism doesn't have to reach the point of ruthlessness like it has here and other places.
Chalk up another success for Asia&aposs most durable leader and the politics of guile and ruthlessness.
He has been fighting dissent with even more ruthlessness than he has been waging war on graft.
Many people hate Donald Trump, and he may have earned their hatred by his combativeness and ruthlessness.
When it forgot that although greed and ruthlessness and self-interest might be sublimated, they never disappear.
In describing this and much more, the book shows the ruthlessness and brutality of the Chinese dictatorship.
What incensed Celine fans was the ruthlessness with which he disposed of the Celine that came before.
And the terrific Mr. Cordero radiates a cool charisma that mixes a surface geniality with shrugging ruthlessness.
That is not to say Sinclair's does not deserve credit for her longevity, her hunger, her ruthlessness.
Editorial When it comes to modern authoritarian leaders, President Vladimir Putin ranks high for ruthlessness and repression.
That caution was matched by ruthlessness as he eliminated opponents and former allies, even within Salafi jihadist ranks.
Mr Rajoy's dogged determination, sangfroid and quiet ruthlessness helped Spain out of its banking crisis and economic slump.
But Child's Play tackles a wide array of industry concerns with enough ruthlessness to make plenty of points.
It was his ruthlessness and his intelligence that catapulted him to the top of the Hip Sing pyramid.
"Breaking Bad" and its prequel "Better Call Saul" have also shown the ruthlessness associated with the drug war.
Business partners sometimes found that tiresome, especially when vagueness about their interests was matched with ruthlessness about his.
It brings out the proper ruthlessness in Lucious, who is supposed to be a doting grandfather-in-waiting.
" In an apparent Shakespearean allusion, he claims: "There is a rhyme to our terrorism, warfare, ruthlessness and brutality.
Is this the slapdash approach to grandiosity and ruthlessness we really want as an example for our children?
This from a man who lives, however uneasily, with a ruthlessness unknown to David Mamet's real-estate agents.
His younger generation has a reputation for ruthlessness and a lack of respect for the old-school rules.
Russia has very little — except, maybe, among right-wingers who find Mr. Putin's macho posturing and ruthlessness attractive.
But the group's ruthlessness in mowing down the middle ground of a compromise Brexit may give them whiplash.
Walmart was ascendant, its ruthlessness toward employees and suppliers celebrated as the only way to survive as a retailer.
The killing in a crowded airport quickly captured international attention, with many shocked at its audacity, ruthlessness and recklessness.
As happens so often in Game of Thrones, your reasonableness couldn't, in the end, defeat vicious ruthlessness and cruelty.
Still, Jon refuses to accept Sansa's counsel about new queen Cersei Lannister's ruthlessness when it comes to her enemies.
We have proof of his ruthlessness: Cushing ordered the execution of the members of Ofglen's house, including the Commander.
Game of Thrones buried the narrative justification for its  ruthlessness beneath the rubble, becoming the worst version of itself.
Kok was sardonic and charismatic—a class clown—but also tall, beefy, and imposing, with a streak of ruthlessness.
In fact, it was this lack of ruthlessness, rather than its unsustainable business plan, that ultimately did MoviePass in.
The picture, showing Litvinenko hairless, with eerily yellow skin, instantly became a symbol of the ruthlessness of Putin's regime.
"The brutality, the ruthlessness, it's still there, and I don't really see it going away anytime soon," he said.
Casting about for a Polanyi-style countermovement to temper the ruthlessness of laissez-faire, Kuttner doesn't rule out tariffs.
Nicknamed the Crocodile because of his own reputation for political ruthlessness, Mr. Mnangagwa had been booted from power before.
It's a country founded as a utopian "city on a hill" — and defined by ruthlessness in capitalism and politics.
Our sports reporter explains why such displays help Mr. Kadyrov, who's known for ruthlessness and oppression, to project legitimacy.
He's got the tools, he's got the talent, and he's got the newfound ruthlessness to go through with it.
Like an AI program gone sentient, The Bachelor's ruthlessness is only equaled by its perpetually adapting sense of innovation.
The best ones have a ruthlessness, a willingness to get to the marrow of oneself, without preening and dissembling.
Mnangagwa earned the nickname "Ngwena", Shona for crocodile, an animal famed and feared in Zimbabwean lore for stealth and ruthlessness.
In its first few seasons, Veep countered the ruthlessness of Vice President Selina Meyer with the uselessness of her position.
The dramatic footage is, presumably, meant to provide an interpretation of the inherent ruthlessness and struggle inside the animal kingdom.
No one need celebrate Life too loudly, but it goes about its grubby business with a bracing clarity and ruthlessness.
Lesley Manville is especially juicy as the designer's sister, who manages his business and personal affairs with a necessary ruthlessness.
Considering how tempting it is to let loved ones off the hook, her ruthlessness can feel refreshing and often admirable.
The big picture: But the problem may be far more fundamental than an excess of human ruthlessness, as many believe.
But while the city's plight remains a symbol of Communist ruthlessness, reactions at the time were often nuanced, and multifaceted.
His ruthlessness is in no doubt after he presided over the murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 210. 211.
But the news from the Pentagon undermines any idea that the President's ruthlessness cowed Iran from staging an effective retribution.
Yet it is precisely this aura — call it ruthlessness, or shamelessness — that has found purchase among conservatives, particularly young ones.
But to achieve peace in Libya, we need the international community to be honest and cleareyed about Mr. Hifter's ruthlessness.
But Lukach's rare combination of tenderness and ruthlessness is what makes this book more interesting than your typical illness narrative.
In part, Brunk says, that's just holding up Midwestern norms of community-mindedness against the perceived ruthlessness of tech's origins.
A defining feature of Facebook's approach to product development is its ruthlessness, which often manifests as a kind of shamelessness.
Peluchonneau is an invented character, a creature conjured from crime fiction and touched with philosophical melancholy as well as ruthlessness.
He also had dealings with Jack, a slick pseudo-reformer whose natural ruthlessness is checked by a hint of ambivalence.
But they're walking a thin line between justified vengeance that feels satisfying, and the brutal ruthlessness of the people they're fighting.
Hun Sen became prime minister in 1985 and has led Cambodia ever since with a combination of skill, guile and ruthlessness.
RAND Corporation senior defense analyst Bruce Bennett told CNN Kim had shown an "extreme" level of brutality and ruthlessness since 2011.
Kennedy's ruthlessness and ambition, which are treated as the family's hamartia in Chappaquiddick, are swept under the rug of his compassion.
It is proof that Republicans in Congress should consider, as they weigh working with a man whose ruthlessness knows no bounds.
After he read "American Wife," he wrote me an email that said, "Your sympathy is extraordinary, and so is your ruthlessness."
The report led to the ouster of top executives and a push to change a culture that prized a callous ruthlessness.
On sitcoms and in movies, a symbol of wealth, ruthlessness and New York City Mr. Trump has almost always played himself.
Behind the cleverness and charm, honed at first under the tuition of Jesuit priests, always lurked ruthlessness as well as cunning.
"The successive attacks on two different places of worship depict the ruthlessness and the godlessness of these mass murderers," he said.
Atkinson manages them deftly, and equips her protagonist with the streak of ruthlessness, and sometimes cruelty, that she needs to cope.
In 1921, he realized his ruthlessness had brought the Soviet state to the brink of collapse just as it was aborning.
Yet he bet heavily on anti-Communist autocrats like the shah of Iran or Pakistan's Yahya Khan, equating ruthlessness with reliability.
It's a kind of ruthlessness she hardly ever showed onscreen — except in this almost-forgotten role on an almost-forgotten show.
Criminals who gambled their body parts in a card game would do so to demonstrate their strength of spirit, bravado, and ruthlessness.
Doing so would not be easy for a president who has adopted the nickname "lion man" to symbolise his tenacity and ruthlessness.
He is a man proud of his ruthlessness, and his willingness to twist arms, extract concessions and drive the hardest of bargains.
Instead, many have complained about the episode's (literal) darkness, while others were disappointed by the apparent disappearance of the show's old ruthlessness.
That lack of institutional ruthlessness hints at problems beyond a dud candidate who only just avoided coming fourth in the presidential poll.
Cersei picked up all of the masculine "virtues" of toughness, ruthlessness, and the prioritization of the pursuit of power above all else.
Mr Biden has a decades-long reputation for stirring controversy and his current main rival, Bernie Sanders, an emerging one for ruthlessness.
Both Moses and Johnson bent people and institutions to their will through cunning, determination and ruthlessness; both nurtured ambitions that inspired awe.
Along the way, Mnangagwa earned the nickname "Ngwena", Shona for crocodile, an animal famed in Zimbabwean lore for its stealth and ruthlessness.
As the leader of a criminal syndicate known as Crimson Dawn, he's known for both his ruthlessness and his taste for luxury.
If there was any hope that the new parliament might act as a check on the regime's ruthlessness, that has been dashed.
The Taira's tactics were stunning: child emperors abducted, the imperial regalia held hostage, sons of defeated rivals murdered with Herod-like ruthlessness.
Ruthlessness can be a good literary strategy, and any autobiographical novel that portrays a harrowing event must be vigilant about self-pity.
But not for Liu, who's spent the last two decades harnessing the Darwinian ruthlessness of natural selection to create totally novel molecules.
While it often calls for a bit more ruthlessness, most players don't take the competition personally considering there's no million dollar prize.
Three seasons in, the show has morphed into something richer than that, mixing criminal ruthlessness with a family dynamic built on manipulation.
The youthful bloom of the soprano Monica Dewey's voice was perfect for Alexandra, Regina's daughter, who comes to understand her mother's ruthlessness.
Where once Ronaldo's embroidery — his dazzling array of tricks, his jet heels — set him apart, now it is his economy, his ruthlessness.
But "Spring," the latest installment, translated from the Norwegian by Ingvild Burkey, is a return to form, and a return to ruthlessness.
Nike helped reshape Bryant's tarnished image, leaning into qualities that brands had previously shied away from: his competitiveness, his ruthlessness, his ego.
But they must also recognize the danger to Europe's core values: The combination of CCP ruthlessness and Huawei technology threatens human rights.
Though Bryant&aposs popularity dipped and sponsors dropped him following the allegations, the persona of ruthlessness and hard work resonated with fans.
Along the way, he earned the nickname "Ngwena", Shona for crocodile, an animal famed in Zimbabwean lore for its stealth and ruthlessness.
After working as a bookie for Eddie Wingate, a big numbers man notorious for his ruthlessness, she struck out on her own.
You can easily see her becoming someone who combines Elizabeth's ruthlessness with Philip's innate empathy, which could make for a very effective spy.
Life at the bottom of the sea is complicated, and it'd be unfair to speculate on what drives a shrimp to such ruthlessness.
Her dragons are just as fearsome as her ruthlessness when dealing with her enemies, and we relive all of Daenerys' badass fire moments.
A warlord capable of ruthlessness, he was also a reformer who wanted education to free his fellow Chinese Muslims from isolation and poverty.
The 14th seed has now emerged as a genuine contender, having shown the composure and ruthlessness required for success at the Grand Slams.
The two fell out over what Mr Lieberman saw as a lack of ruthlessness on his leader's part in pursuing a nationalist agenda.
One achievement will clinch the other, or so he thinks, and he pursues both with a ruthlessness that only Lady Macbeth could comprehend.
That would give North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, a man of unimaginable ruthlessness and brutality, the power to kill millions of Americans.
Some Republicans worry that it has also engendered a sense of ruthlessness among the key players when it comes to protecting their positions.
Prince Muhammad bin Nayef has a reputation for ruthlessness and may not be able to amass support from the royalty and the commoners.
And those shady mailers Trump is still complaining about hint at a Nixon-like ruthlessness not typically seen in Biblically-based presidential campaigns.
His ruthlessness and Elton's appetites combine to push the singer to the brink of self-destruction, a precondition for the redemption that follows.
What's more, it conveys a credible sense of Ailes's psychology through the testimony of peers and co-workers who witnessed his ruthlessness firsthand.
It was advancing across large swaths of San Pedro Sula, using its numbers, tight organization and ruthlessness to overwhelm smaller, less sophisticated groups.
Yet, like him or not, the consensus seems to be that the new president possesses ruthlessness, cunning and tactical skill, all at once.
They dispatch anyone who gets in their way, with all the ruthlessness of Frank Sheeran tapping a mark two times in the head.
Warren's ruthlessness in her dealings with those she believes have done wrong — and her refusal to back down — has propelled her political career.
Preferring machetes over guns, they became known for ruthlessness, even by the standards of rival gangs like the Bloods, Crips and Latin Kings.
About the sheer brutality of Silvio Dante, and how the guitarist of the E. Street Band would surprise you with his practical ruthlessness.
As another side of the same coin, the first queen to ever sit the Iron Throne basks in the legacy of her patriarch's ruthlessness.
In the authoritarian aftermath of the Tiananmen democracy protests, such shows praised 18th-century emperors as stern patriots whose ruthlessness supposedly preserved national unity.
Does being a good spy "parent" to Tuan mean instilling the same ruthlessness in him that made them so good at what they do?
While the Spanish Republic needed Soviet support to survive, the ruthlessness of the Communists' actions gave the Spanish Civil War its Cold War resonance.
There was some hope that a new parliament, elected at the end of last year, might act as a check on Mr Sisi's ruthlessness.
Enheduanna understood this well, praising Inanna for her ruthlessness as much as her tenderness—even when she felt personally victimized by the goddess herself.
Mnangagwa, who bears the nickname of Crocodile for his canny ruthlessness, and who was Mugabe's lifelong friend and ally, fled to neighboring South Africa.
This was primarily because I always wanted to tell a story, to convey more of that ruthlessness that is lost when doing graphical work.
She was a master player of the game, an O.G., and yet doomed because her ruthlessness and murderousness lacked the necessary touch of evil.
The crown prince owes his apparent impunity partly to the nature of power in Saudi Arabia's absolute monarchy and to his own proven ruthlessness.
Generations of strategic investments and tactical ruthlessness have given the Republicans control of state governments and a path to a reliably conservative Supreme Court.
Caesar didn't need to teach Cleopatra ruthlessness — she had that down pat when they met — and he is somewhat crestfallen when she learns guile.
The group had perfected a made-for-screen ruthlessness – prisoners in cages, captives set on fire, death to anyone who stood in its way.
President Trump is Machiavellian, in my opinion, which means that he will use obfuscation, hypocrisy, deception and ruthlessness to reach the ends he seeks.
Still, Koestler saw that, in the modern world, it took the ruthlessness of an idea to marshal ordinary human cruelty into an irresistible force.
Musgraves recently said that she's known as "the axeman" in the studio, a reference to her ruthlessness when it comes to cutting extraneous sounds.
The perception of 3G's ruthlessness comes chiefly from the fact that it has overseen the sacking of thousands of workers at the firms it owns.
Morgan brings a mix of charisma and absolute ruthlessness to the role, as well as the cheerful sadism that Negan possessed on the printed page.
Remoto has no illusions about Duterte's ruthlessness, but he did repeat the idea that many of the extrajudicial killings were not sanctioned by the president.
The al Qaeda-linked group's ruthlessness and ambition has prompted crackdowns from governments around the region as well as their allies, like the United States.
The songs seemed to fit both Rivera, for his inevitability, and Miller, for his ruthlessness, with baseball's second-highest strikeout rate last season, behind Chapman's.
Beyond that, "The Foreigner" bogs down in the politics of the bombing and the formal investigation, which involves plenty of ruthlessness and callousness all around.
O'Hara lacks the all-out physical ruthlessness of an Audra McDonald or the scratch and bite that Patti LuPone would have brought to the role.
In Christopher Hampton's adaptation of the Pierre Choderlos de Laclos novel, French aristocrats beguile and torment each other with ruthlessness sharper than a guillotine's blade.
But whether the current generation of giants will secure their passage to Rio is far from certain, given the trials' reputation for ruthlessness and competitiveness.
Yet the same zeal, tenacity, loyalty and ruthlessness required to wage a struggle against a colonial power become handicaps in trying to lead a country.
Finger size also could be linked to testosterone, and has been cited as a predictor of everything from athletic prowess to ruthlessness on a trading floor.
Meanwhile others say that the apparent ruthlessness in the younger generations is "predictable" given that they have less financial and familial responsibilities compared to older generations.
Notwithstanding his ruthlessness, an image of a dynamic young ruler, determined to drag his country into the 21st century, began to take shape in some quarters.
The Punisher was introduced in the comics as a foe of Spider-Man, somebody whose ruthlessness and vigilantism put him in conflict with more traditional heroes.
What separates the professional talker from the amateur is a kind of ruthlessness, bringing to a conversation the win-at-all-costs ethic of actual sports.
That point seems beyond argument: Bobby has the resources, the connections and the ruthlessness to do anything to thwart the authorities and keep his operation afloat.
Robert Garner sang with a mellifluous baritone and expressive nuance as Severo, revealing both his vulnerability as a forlorn lover and his ruthlessness as a general.
There's a clarity to such commitment that keeps people in their seats, a ruthlessness toward pandering to the prevailing winds (or rain) that is itself desirable.
Wilfried experiences some qualms about the implications of being a German holding Jews at gunpoint, while Brigitte gobbles pills and maintains an air of steely ruthlessness.
And ruthlessness is detected in domineering gestures, such as an elevated chin, which allows the individual to literally look down his or her nose at others.
The conclusion is that our greed, hypocrisy and ruthlessness will ultimately bring doom — even if there are a few laughs to be had along the way.
Putin counts on Kadyrov's ruthlessness to keep potential unrest in his Muslim-majority republic, where the Kremlin has fought two wars, from coming to the surface.
"His ruthlessness is legion," said Peter Fabricius, a South African journalist and one of many observers who fear that Zimbabwe is exchanging one strongman for another.
Mr. Cummings proved that stories and lies, allied to strategic cunning, conviction, secrecy, ruthlessness and upending convention, could be much more appealing than reason and fact.
Cersei and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos both hold immense amounts of power and wealth, and it's thanks to the ruthlessness with which they run their worlds.
His often-ruffled appearance, including a distinctive mop of blonde hair, marks a contrast to the discipline and ruthlessness he displayed to get to this point.
But his grief is palpable at losing his own child, as is his ruthlessness when he orders a hit on the person who pulled the trigger.
But her newly published works, which include her massive collected letters, allow us to see her again, at full sail, her ruthlessness and hunger for experience.
According to Kevin Dutton, a renowned psychologist, serial killers like Ted Bundy tend to have all the traits that we desire: Fearlessness, confidence, charm, ruthlessness and focus.
"The beatings, starving, efforts to exert authority and control are really reflective of a ruthlessness that is rarely seen," Monterey County Superior Court Judge Pamela Butler said.
As the play's love affair between Philip Rawlings and Dorothy Bridges unfolds, the action contrasts the idealism of foreign volunteers and the ruthlessness of the rival factions.
Earlier this year, Trump referred to Kim as "like a maniac" as well as saying, "you gotta give him credit" for his ruthlessness in eliminating political enemies.
"I think he has a good chance of winning, mainly because of the ruthlessness of his politics," the 74-year-old Emmy and Tony Award winner said.
In Blue Ruin, a trauma victim attempts to avenge his parents, even though he's supremely unprepared for the level of planning and ruthlessness that will be necessary.
We've screamed at length about the casualties of June's self-declared ruthlessness, and it's impossible to ignore how many of those victims are black people, especially women.
Spacey clearly relished the chance to ham it up as Underwood, infusing every bribe and blackmail with just the right balance of ruthless charm (and outright ruthlessness).
Since assuming the mantle of leadership, Kim Jong Un has demonstrated a ruthlessness that has spurred even more fantastical theories about his personality and what motivates him.
The final season of Celebrity Apprentice in 28500 averaged approximately 6900 million people and helped launch Trump's presidential bid — demonstrating his leadership and ruthlessness in the boardroom.
Once again, the show oscillates between past and present, filtered in part through the character of the man in black, played with steely ruthlessness by Ed Harris.
Wright certainly provides a commanding presence at the center of the maelstrom, again demonstrating a mix of grit and ruthlessness that made Claire every bit Frank's match.
Imagine that through some combination of luck, ruthlessness, and an animal feel for what certain American voters like to hear, you become president of the United States.
As well as killing, violence, ruthlessness, hunger, want, misery and, in due course, a system that became ossified, closed to the world, trapped by its own truths.
Barford has to perform, with ruthlessness and charm, a high-wire act of empathy that allows Wheeler to sway from protagonist to antagonist and maybe back again.
In New York, the gang members are known to use machetes, a symbol of their agrarian roots; the weapons quickly helped to establish their reputation for ruthlessness.
He comes across as a secret cheapskate and overt narcissist, a man who's shrewdly selective about dialing up his sincerity, which itself is a mask for ruthlessness.
The statement did not mention that, last weekend, Saudi security forces, showing their usual reputation for ruthlessness, shot dead two Shia militants and seized weapons and explosives.
His combination of energy, ingenuity and ruthlessness made for scintillating viewing throughout the Premier League season, after which he was named the league's player of the year.
"Ailes' power and ruthlessness ... allowed him to take over the Republican Party and mold it to fit his paranoid world view," Sherman told the Washington Post in 2016.
The pragmatic faction of the party—always the majority of Tory MPs—is learning to fight with the same ruthlessness that the Brexiteers have brought to their cause.
Unfortunately, Hamas' stranglehold over the Strip and the organization's ruthlessness in commandeering construction supplies for building terror tunnels and bunkers, blocks virtually all attempts to renovate the area.
He has the ability to think ahead and to seize opportunities; determination bordering on ruthlessness; and a gift for embodying a hopeful optimism that has long eluded France.
But that same will to power makes her unwilling to share it, and that same ruthlessness makes her willing to go to extreme lengths to punish her enemies.
But the more I sat with "The Long Night," the more its relative lack of ruthlessness felt like the most interesting thing Game of Thrones could have done.
This is a visually stunning film about fashion, elitism, snobbery, possessiveness, and the ego of an artist, but it's also about the soft weapons of ruthlessness and politeness.
One explanation is that he doesn't view her as having enough look-ahead ruthlessness, arguing that eBay fell behind Google and Amazon during her time at the helm.
The bottom line: Mugabe's tyranny was purely the product of his own ruthlessness and lust for control, and his removal from office the result of miscalculation and overreach.
CORE MESSAGE His often-ruffled appearance, including a distinctive mop of blonde hair, marks a contrast to the discipline and ruthlessness he displayed to get to this point.
To carve out space among the Gordon Gekkos and Donald Trumps of Wall Street, or navigate the corporate ruthlessness of Thatcher's Britain, they had to dress the part.
But it was as if Republicans, in fixating on their opponents, had failed to acknowledge that the ruthlessness they craved in their leaders was already well at work.
At the heart of Trumpism is the perception that the world is a dark, savage place, and therefore ruthlessness, selfishness and callousness are required to survive in it.
While waiting for their orders, they talked about Gideon&aposs ruthlessness and hit the sweet baby a few times before being beaten to a pulp by IG-11.
In that regard, too, he's like his father-in-law, though Trump wears his self-pity, fury and ruthlessness right out front, for the whole world to see.
President Duterte has drawn comparisons with Mr. Marcos for the ruthlessness of the current campaign against illicit drugs and for threats to suspend habeas corpus or impose martial law.
Responding with the same ruthlessness with which it had dispatched critics over the years, the government jailed the pastor, took him to court and told him to leave Zimbabwe.
Ruthlessness. First, we take a look at Uber, the ride-sharing app that can't seem to stay out of the news for using dubious business practices to crush competitors.
He argues that Hitler's rise was not inevitable but that his domestic adversaries failed to appreciate his ruthlessness, while foreign statesmen naïvely believed that they could control his aggression.
In claiming the mantle of majority for his group when it won a minor procedural vote, Lenin foreshadowed the determination and ruthlessness that would propel him to supreme power.
Prince Alwaleed is considered a moderate by Saudi Arabian ruling family standards, which are very limited ones given its history of brutal human rights violations, military ruthlessness, and labor abuses.
And apparently because the show's deaths now come in pairs, that was followed by the arbitrary shooting of Olivia (Ann Mahoney), as if further evidence of Negan's ruthlessness was required.
Yet the key moment came prior to that, when Tyrion (Peter Dinklage, superb as always) first grieved over his fallen brother, then led Jon through a recitation of Daenerys' ruthlessness.
"This latest loss of a colleague is devastating, and it demonstrates the ruthlessness with which healthcare is coming under attack in Yemen," Teresa Sancristoval, emergency coordinator, said in a statement.
The activity helped win Mahathir the title "Father of Modern Malaysia," but he was known for his strongarm rule, although he fell short of some southeast Asian peers in ruthlessness.
A woman whose iron will and ruthlessness allowed her to rise to power on Essos, and to eventually win most of Westeros to her cause, she's clearly an effective revolutionary.
We come to understand Connie pretty well by the end of Good Time, just from seeing how he operates — his puffed-up grandeur, his sense of wounded injustice, his ruthlessness.
Ms Williamson does not lack ruthlessness so much as experience, attention to detail and (in "A Politics of Love") an ability to speak in anything other than patchouli-scented clichés.
Faced with overwhelming force, and the evident ruthlessness of the Rapid Support Forces, the protesters, most of them young Sudanese and led by doctors and other professionals, have gone underground.
When Republicans cast Mr. Schumer as a sinister figure in the past, it was for his perceived ruthlessness as a partisan warrior rather than for his skill as a deal maker.
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who frequently criticizes U.S. foreign policy under President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, has praised former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's ruthlessness.
Stone has Richard Nixon's face tattooed on his back and Nixon's values imprinted on his soul; the amoral ruthlessness of the thirty-seventh President passed, through Stone, to the forty-fifth.
They plan to tell the jury about his epic rise from mid-level drug trafficker to leader of Mexico's most powerful cartel, an ascent made possible by his cunning and ruthlessness.
Allegri is right: Liverpool has reached two Champions League finals in a row thanks, in no small part, to a stripped-back ruthlessness on its goals that no team can match.
" 'The Unearned Madness of Daenerys Targaryen' [The Ringer] "In the chaos of 'The Bells,' the show forgot about the empathy that has been as fundamental to Daenerys's character as her ruthlessness.
Nicknamed "the Crocodile", an animal famed in Zimbabwean lore for its stealth and ruthlessness, Mnangagwa has pledged to revive a moribund economy, attract foreign investment and mend racial and tribal divisions.
He calculates that pro-Brexit voters far from the financial and political elite in London will see the prime minister's ruthlessness as proof he's on their side against obstructive metropolitan Remainers.
Thae Yong-ho, who was the North's No. 2 diplomat in London until his defection to South Korea last summer, said he had fled partly because of Kim Jong-un's ruthlessness.
It isn't until the final few scenes of Little, when Jordan becomes an adult after learning her lesson, that the audience learns why April has received the lion's share of Jordan's ruthlessness.
But while Billy and Elijah prided themselves on their quick-witted sass, arguably a defense mechanism to survive the ruthlessness of the city and of their chosen careers, Cary is decidedly demure.
But he had spoken something bluntly that Democrats who are frankly afraid of the New York governor sometimes say in private: that what he has going for him is his utter ruthlessness.
For centuries, business titans have risen in acts of ruthlessness, then washed their reputations in shows of charity, endowing monuments like libraries (Carnegie), museums (Getty), universities (Rockefeller) and plain-old philanthropies (Ford).
But it seems a very selective sort of ruthlessness to allow yourself all the conventional comforts of a bourgeois household and then insist on being unaccountable when it comes to the chores.
Putin knows that his country is unlikely to become the ruler of the world by pioneering AI's technological progress, so Russia will simply have to lead in the ruthlessness of its application.
His ruthlessness in encouraging police to confront and kill gangsters, to diminish or ignore human rights and to silence independent media have been accepted, by most, as the price of greater security.
Bezos could behave one way before, but now he sort of represents all the arrogance and ruthlessness that people have now come to associate with Bezos and Zuckerberg and people like that.
HARARE, Zimbabwe — The rapid fall of Zimbabwe's president, whose legendary guile and ruthlessness helped him outmaneuver countless adversaries over nearly four decades, probably has surprised no one more than Robert Mugabe himself.
Trump's pitch is that he's a ruthless businessman who now wants to change careers and exercise his ruthlessness on behalf of the (implicitly white and Christian) traditional definition of the American nation.
For the youngest Carrington, this kind of ruthlessness proves she should be the next in line to rule the Carrington Atlantic empire, and will therefore be named the new COO of the business.
In this issue, those trying to hold onto power plot their next moves, those trying to snatch up power question the ruthlessness of their tactics, and mystical elements begin to turn the tide.
As always, though, there are complications, perhaps the foremost being that the central couple differs regarding what's best for the business, each bringing his and her special brand of ruthlessness to the problem.
Deschamps had at his disposal more talent than any of his peers: the energy of N'Golo Kanté; the elegance of Paul Pogba; the ruthlessness of Antoine Griezmann and the shimmering brilliance of Mbappé.
Synopsis: The story of Ray Kroc, a salesman who turned two brothers' innovative fast food eatery, McDonald's, into the biggest restaurant business in the world, with a combination of ambition, persistence, and ruthlessness.
It all comes down to Kim Jong Un. The current North Korean dictator is known for his brutality and ruthlessness, eliminating anyone who may threaten his power and regime control, including his uncle Jang.
Amazon (1994)Any semi-competent person could've launched a successful e-commerce business in the mid-90's, but only Jeff Bezos had the foresight, acumen, greed, and ruthlessness to make something like Amazon.
Maybe shouting that Beto O'Rourke is hotter than Ted Cruz to Ted Cruz's face — a mean but harmless act — is the best one can really do in response to this kind of existential ruthlessness.
By the time the scandal that led to  Bill Clinton 's impeachment was in full flower, the operation's ruthlessness and vindictiveness was so feared that even conscience-stricken Democrats dared not speak too boldly.
Gucci's ruthlessness in business left him with no shortage of enemies — including those in his own family, with whom he had run their eponymous brand — but his personal life could be turbulent as well.
GENEVA (Reuters) - More people died crossing the eastern Mediterranean in January than in the first eight months of last year, the International Organization for Migration said on Friday, blaming increased ruthlessness by people-traffickers.
The legal fracas has changed Mr. Redstone's public image from a firebrand whose business acumen and ruthlessness won him control of Viacom, Paramount Pictures and CBS, a $40 billion empire, into something quite different.
In many cases those rebels have been influenced by Islamist insurgencies at home, pushed out of their own countries by security crackdowns, and won advancement in Islamic State through their military skills and ruthlessness.
Clarke had two opportunities to break the Federer serve in the first set and they went begging, while Federer had five breakpoints in the match and, with cold-blooded ruthlessness, took four of them.
While her game might not have been firing on all cylinders her ruthlessness remained razor sharp as the American showed no hesitation storming through second set finishing off her opponent with a thundering ace.
Marx and Engels's takeover of a stodgy workers'-rights group called the League of the Just is a premonition of the tactical ruthlessness that would become characteristic of Communist parties in the 20th century.
These early scenes are meant to conjure an air of 1980-something corporate ruthlessness and dour nostalgia ("It was morning again in America," Gevinson says on two different occasions, from a script Tcheng wrote).
"Bezos could behave one way before, but now he sort of represents all the arrogance and ruthlessness that people have now come to associate with Bezos and Zuckerberg and people like that," she said.
There is reason to be wary of Mr. Kim's intentions, given his history of ruthlessness and threats to launch a weapon against the United States, including the rant that preceded Mr. Trump's belligerent tweet.
Mr. Castro's performances this year recalled the ruthlessness, back in the Republican primary debates of 2007, of Rudolph Giuliani's "sanctuary mansion" charge against Mitt Romney, the effect of which was crushing for Mr. Romney.
Lara and Axe are well suited to each other, both owing their pugnacious aggression to their humble roots, but Lara is capable of a two-fisted ruthlessness that not even her husband can match.
In many cases these fighters have been influenced by Islamist insurgencies at home, pushed out of their own countries by security crackdowns, and won advancement in Islamic State through their military skills and ruthlessness.
In many cases these rebels have been influenced by Islamist insurgencies at home, pushed out of their own countries by security crackdowns, and won advancement in Islamic State through their military skills and ruthlessness.
As well as a standard bearer for liberalism, Mr Macron emerges as an extremely adept political operator with a healthy streak of cynicism and ruthlessness, a hyper-active politician comfortable with the trappings of power.
But Theranos' desire to conserve its trade secrets isn't just another example of the ruthlessness of Silicon Valley startups; we may soon find out that it enabled risky practices at the company's Newark, California lab.
No one, after all, in possession of the titanic ambition, ruthlessness, and self-regard necessary to become president of the United States can be entirely normal; the position self-selects for a kind of monomania.
The case against Mr. Katumbi taps into much of Congo's sordid past: a whiff of rebellion, the talk of foreign mercenaries and the way power in Congo tends to be exercised, absolutely and with ruthlessness.
You and your Republican colleagues in the Senate, every bit as desirous of power as Democrats are, crushed him, and the fact that it didn't involve an attack on his reputation doesn't diminish its ruthlessness.
The scale and ruthlessness of the assault, in an area racked by an Islamist insurgency, sent shock waves across the nation — not just for the number of deaths but also for the choice of target.
The exceptions were Microsoft, which reached towering heights through corporate ruthlessness in the 1990s, and Amazon, which got under people's skin for, among other things, making books cheaper and more widely accessible, thereby hurting bookstores.
It's based on conversations with Mikhail Khodorkovsky — the oligarch whose imprisonment in 212 revealed Putin's ruthlessness to the world — three former U.S. ambassadors to Moscow, leading experts and former chiefs of the Pentagon and CIA.
Nicknamed "Ngwena", or crocodile in the Shona language, an animal famed in Zimbabwean lore for its stealth and ruthlessness, Mnangagwa issued a statement from hiding on Tuesday calling on Zimbabweans to unite to rebuild the country.
Above all, this week of high parliamentary drama revealed that the Tory Remainers are at last willing to fight for their cause with the same ruthlessness and style with which the Leavers have fought for theirs.
The alternative was capitalism, which Soviet propaganda had portrayed as a cut-throat and cynical system in which cunning and ruthlessness mattered more than integrity or rules, and where money was the only measure of success.
" The Indian writer and activist Vine Deloria Jr., the author of Custer Died for Your Sins, wrote that Indians thought him "as great a hero the most famous Indian war-chiefs precisely because of his ruthlessness.
Mr Bo's efforts earned him much approval locally, but were also widely criticised for their ruthlessness—critics said the campaign was used as a pretext to arrest businesspeople on trumped-up charges and seize their assets.
Mr. Erdogan would almost certainly have to begin a purge of the plotters and probably hunt for other challengers to his authority — extending a streak of ruthlessness that has left many of his NATO allies gasping.
The creators of "Silicon Valley" love to poke fun at the pretensions of its "visionaries" and the Segways and cereal bars that mask the Industrial Age ruthlessness of tech companies in hip, progressive, candy-colored campuses.
There was little he could do, however, as Tsitsipas raised his game once more, showing a composure and ruthlessness that have him marked for success at the Grand Slams as he raced away to seal victory.
This season also had the most women's deaths, used to emphasize their murderers' previously-established ruthlessness (Osha and Lady Walda by Ramsay, Margaery by Cersei, background women citizens in Meereen by the Sons of the Harpy).
With a level of ruthlessness unprecedented in modern Saudi history, the crown prince has seized more direct power over the kingdom than any monarch in decades, largely by intimidating into submission his own sprawling ruling family.
Along the way, Will picks up more than a little of Tom's ruthlessness as they move forward, never piecing together whether what's happening was caused by an act of war, a seismic event or something else.
It is perhaps the ruthlessness seen in his undefeated fighting record of 34 wins with 31 KOs that captures mainstream attention, as well as stir an excitement to possibly being the next big thing in boxing.
And it's easy enough to believe, given when we've seen of Dothraki culture, that this display of cunning and ruthlessness combined with the timely arrival of Drogon could awe the Dothraki into bowing down to Dany.
If it does, however, given the ruthlessness of its leader and the enormous fortunes at stake, the next demise may turn out to be far less peaceful than that of the Soviet empire that Lenin began.
Listening to the robbed mothers and oppressed spouses and neglected children of literary history, we notice that much of what has traditionally been ascribed to artistic ruthlessness is indistinguishable from the standard-issue selfishness of non-artists.
Evidence presented Thursday against Dominic Ongwen, described as the "tip of the spear" of the Lord's Resistance Army, shed light on the ruthlessness of a group that took up arms against the Ugandan government in the 1980s.
Turkey sees no problem with pursuing its interests with vigor and even ruthlessness, regardless of the costs to us, even as it values its relationship to the US. This is the way the great game is played.
To achieve them, America's tolerance for centralization and ruthlessness will rightly be high — especially in a Saudi society where the ruling establishment has never been much for indulging the rule of law, due process, and individual rights.
Mnangagwa, known as "the crocodile", an animal famed in Zimbabwean lore for its stealth and ruthlessness, was removed as vice president by Mugabe last November to make way for his wife, Grace, to seize power, analysts say.
She worked relentlessly to present herself as powerful and yet vulnerable, cultivating the image of her as both a mother and a goddess, and she navigated her political career with grit, determination, and—at times— brutal ruthlessness.
Mr. Kadyrov is seeking a more elusive kind of rehab: repairing an image of ruthlessness and oppression as he seeks to draw more investors and tourists to this formerly war-ravaged capital in the North Caucasus region.
So well before The Times's blockbuster story on Wednesday about how Facebook deals with its critics, we knew it was a socially toxic force, a globe-bestriding company whose veneer of social progressivism hides amoral corporate ruthlessness.
Widely regarded as the frontrunner in the race for succession, Raisi is a formidable political operator who earned a reputation for ruthlessness thanks to his key role in the regime's 2628 massacre of thousands of political opponents.
Some presidential candidates think the answer is for America itself to throw off the constraints of a rules-based global order and match China for self-interested ruthlessness (Donald Trump fancies punitive trade tariffs of up to 45%).
Bolstering the impression of Macron's ruthlessness, the French media on Wednesday were full of anonymous quotes to the effect that he exercised tight control over ministers: "an outsized ego" who "stops them governing," said the unnamed party sources.
Reunited with Bale and Carell, who he worked with on the splendid "The Big Short," McKay knows his way around the nexus of ruthlessness and power, portraying both in the context of Cheney's bare-knuckled approach to politics.
Thanks to the cast -- headlined by Ed Helms, Jon Hamm and Jeremy Renner -- and the sheer goofiness of the premise, there are some very funny moments, including a certain level of ruthlessness and edge in the early going.
Self-worth, focus, resilience, empathy, loyalty, forgiveness and, yes, optimism are the key ingredients here to getting ahead, and using examples from her own life, she makes some persuasive arguments that there is a path other than ruthlessness.
More than the sophistication and the purpose, it was the intensity with which the United States played that Chile simply could not handle, the coldblooded ruthlessness with which Ellis's players seized on mistakes, pried open gaps, exploited weaknesses.
Salah has scored 41 goals in his first season at Liverpool, a ruthlessness that will surely make him the Premier League's leading scorer this season, just as it persuaded his peers to vote him England's player of the year.
But his ruthlessness was always complimented by an equal satisfaction from creating: he triggered an assuredness in the build-up, he controlled the ball in tight spaces, he lured defenders in to create space, he provided the killer pass.
Crowe's proposal to represent Naz pro bono almost certainly comes with strings attached; that she brings a young South Asian lawyer (Amara Karan) with her to meet Naz's parents speaks to her extreme pragmatism, or her cold-eyed ruthlessness.
But Asher is a writer of his moment—that is, this moment—and he sees something timely in Algren's tough-guy devotion to his underclass protagonists: a plea to acknowledge the ruthlessness we regularly deal out to social failure.
But just as urgent is the need to find candidates who understand what has become of national politics and now are willing to go after their opponents with the same ferocity and ruthlessness as many of their Republican opponents.
After a closing flurry of episodes that consciously leaned into current events, the show closed at its most cynical and acerbic in an effort to trump them, zeroing in on its protagonist's utter ruthlessness in the pursuit of power.
In the hours after the Grand-Bassam attack, expressions of outrage about the ruthlessness of the assault, whose victims included sunbathers and people gathered for a beachside Sunday brunch, poured in from France, the United States and other countries.
The three that followed in a flurry in the second half, though, were a fair reflection of Real's dominance, Zidane's team flicking through the gears, finding an acceleration and a ruthlessness that Juventus, the Italian champion, could not match.
While Trump has clearly softened his rhetoric ahead of a potential meeting with Kim, characterizing the North Korean's intentions as "very honorable" was an interesting choice of words considering the regime's troubling human rights history and reputation for ruthlessness.
There was something weirdly satisfying about watching her ascend from the depths of her desperation to recreate her life with Tyrell to become a fearsome figure in her own right, drawing lines in the sand to justify her ruthlessness.
When Bosnia's Serbs rose up in response to a referendum for independence by Muslims and Croats, Mladic took over Belgrade's forces in Bosnia which swiftly overran 260 percent of the country with a combination of daring, ruthlessness and brutality.
We initially heard from the US State Department that the human rights agenda would be sidelined, and we've watched President Donald Trump repeatedly praise some of the world's most repressive rulers, at times seeming to praise them precisely for their ruthlessness.
That would mean no more fines for Catholic charities and hospitals, no more transgender-bathroom directives handed down from the White House to local schools, and restraint rather than ruthlessness in future debates over funding and accreditation for conservative religious schools.
LONDON (Reuters) - With his usual level of ruthlessness and near effortless efficiency, Roger Federer dashed home hopes of an outlandish upset at Wimbledon by easing into the third round with a straight sets victory over Britain's Jay Clarke on Thursday.
Almost in spite of itself, in the face of a rising tide of partisan ruthlessness threatening to overwhelm the Supreme Court as well as the White House and Congress, the Senate on Friday took a half step toward doing its job.
Even if M.B.S. were pushed aside, if you think there are a 100 Saudi royals with the steel, cunning and ruthlessness he had to push through women driving, removing the Islamic police from the streets and reopening cinemas, you are wrong.
Those not working for a corporation live in the Red Zone, a seamy place where hardship and ruthlessness prevail, because that too is a rule: Resistance to the corporate overlords must arise from the hardscrabble heroes of the lawless badlands.
Flovent, the only detective working for the city's Criminal Investigation Department, teams up with a military police officer named Thorson to make what they can of "the implacable hatred, the anger, the utter ruthlessness" reflected in the execution-style murder.
Perhaps less obvious, though, is the extent to which Mr. McConnell owes much of his new viability to Mr. Trump — how his brand of staid ruthlessness has thrived as a counterweight to the brash, whim-driven style of the president.
While Oscar campaigning dates back to Mary Pickford (she invited the judges to tea at Pickfair), no one has pursued it with the vigor, ingenuity, and ruthlessness of Weinstein, who, with his brother Bob, ran Miramax from 21974 to 22016.
If Michael Schumacher remains the winningest F1 driver in history (though his records are teetering before Lewis Hamilton's relentless perfection), he also typified a kind of ruthlessness that many of his contemporaries and especially his teammates were unable to match.
As a young hitman in Corleone, the hill town near Palermo made famous in the Godfather films, Provenzano made a name for himself with such ruthlessness that he became known as "the tractor" because of the way he mowed down clan enemies.
There are many reasons to be skeptical of the North and pessimistic about the prospects for solving the crisis over its nuclear program, given the ruthlessness of its leader, Kim Jong-un, President Trump's bombast and the deep mistrust between the two countries.
The persecution of the wolf continues the age-old devastation and ruthlessness our species has imposed on the entire outback of the American landscape ever since Lewis and Clark heard there might still be mammoths roaming out West more than 200 years ago.
Drexler here seems just as interested in boxing as a spectator sport as she was in the 1960s, but her focus has shifted from the ruthlessness of the competitors to the bloodlust of their audience, and what that means to society at large.
Similarly, if a fair referendum indicates that the people of Puerto Rico want to be a state, there is no reason to deny them their aspiration — and certainly no reason for advocates of the idea to characterize it as a form of ruthlessness.
It's an interesting anecdote for many reasons, above all because it shows that Murdoch may be worth tens of billions of dollars less than Zuckerberg but he still has the connections, ruthlessness, and savvy to be a tremendous thorn in the young CEO's side.
It's a story of loss and longing — Circe is an outcast among the gods for her inability to match their ruthlessness; she is betrayed by the mortals she trusts; and even when she discovers her immense powers, those powers often serve to alienate her further.
"Refugee" (1980) Nothing to do with immigration, literally; just Petty's defiant take (or so he claimed) on the ruthlessness of the music industry — though it works just as well for doomed relationships — set to a spiraling vocal refrain and ridiculously great guitar hook. 4.
How many times have we heard people plead that they need a break -- from the shocking news, from the unceasing attacks, from the bitterness that has ended friendships, sparked social media ruthlessness and toxicity, and generally produced a permanent state of medium-grade national anxiety.
Baier's point was one hotly debated at the time: In order to understand the evil of a group like ISIS, underscoring its ruthlessness and disregard for human life by killing those captured in one of the most horrible ways possible needed to be shared.
It's difficult to watch these episodes without reliving your own torment as a child—the ruthlessness with which peers cast judgment, how bullying escalates, the often uncomfortable transformation of your body, and the way adults are ill-equipped to deal with any of it.
The ruthlessness, the careless behavior, the dance moves, and slang (specifically "Gltttttt," a phrase meant to mimic the sound of gunshots and uttered in nearly every song) has made a movement that some have unfairly dismissed as a drill rebirth something entirely its own.
Romney suffered from a patrician affect that Trump certainly lacks, and Trump has done a pretty good job of casting his past business moves as simply examples of the kind of ruthlessness and intelligence he would like to deploy on behalf of the American people.
Trump's situation shares some similarities with Nixon's, and the two men even know people in common—Roger Stone, a young Nixonian ratfucker in the 70s, worked for the Trump campaign in 2015—but Trump doesn't have anyone on Liddy or Nixon's level of ruthlessness.
Were Mr. Anaya to win, it would crown a vertiginous rise to the top of the Mexican political firmament, a climb driven by a consummate political savvy — some say genius — and a ruthlessness that has stunned even the most seasoned political operatives in Mexico.
For Koestler, it was the belief in the historical inevitability of this outcome that enabled the Bolsheviks to act with such ruthlessness: acts that ordinary morality judged to be wrong would be justified as right and necessary once a classless society had been established.
Her glamour, ambition, ruthlessness and unshakable loyalty to both the Republic and her team of lawyers, hackers and assassins — her "gladiators" — at Olivia Pope and Associates made her one of the most memorable antiheroes, let alone one of the more complex black characters, on television.
At its best, the fact-based film examines how Jewell -- depicted early as an overzealous campus security guard, and a ripe object for ridicule -- fell victim to the ruthlessness of law-enforcement authorities desperate to make an arrest, and journalists eager for a headline.
Now, I have to admit that when Travis found out from the tourists that Chris had died in a car accident — the audience got to see it in flashback, so we'd know their story was true — I was impressed by the ruthlessness of this story turn.
Framed by President Trump's U.N. speech in which he belittled the North Korean leader as "Rocket Man," the PBS program explores Kim's ruthlessness through the murder of Kim Jong Nam, but also offers dimension regarding his nuclear ambitions while expressing skepticism that Kim is irrational or suicidal.
Jordan lent the character openness and sensitivity: He embodies the good-hearted kid who isn't cut out for the ruthlessness of the drug trade, making his death at the hands of his childhood friends — and his pleas to them in those final moments — that much more heartbreaking.
This is ridiculous, actually, but Vikander keeps these sentiments in check and lets Heather's opportunistic ruthlessness guide the performance: If Bourne doesn't warm to the idea of reteaming with the CIA, Heather is all for putting him permanently on ice instead of bringing him in from the cold.
Her new allies may not have all of these details from her history — though Varys likely does, and may well have passed some of it along — but even if they don't know the steps that made her decide to burn the Tarlys, they've seen her ruthlessness up close.
The show tells the story of former prosecutor Maya Travis who left Los Angeles for a quiet life in rural Oregon after losing the biggest case of her career and experiencing the ruthlessness of media (which sounds very similar to Clark's real life, with a slight location change).
Yet since its first season aired six years ago, The Americans has presented a more than usually complex vision of the struggle between capitalism and communism, in which there are principled and sympathetic characters on both sides and also appalling acts of brutality and ruthlessness on both sides.
The juiciest ballet autobiographies tend to overflow with three things: pain (the sacrifices, the blood-blisters, the ruthlessness of a discipline that eats your body); gossip (everyone always wants to know what bad boys like Baryshnikov were really up to); and ego (each favorable review the dancer ever got).
Across the 1930s but especially 1937 and 1938, Stalin ordered the arrests of some 1.6 million party officials, military officers, intelligence agents and others on trumped-up charges of betraying the nation, a stunning display of ruthlessness that gutted Soviet leadership circles at a time of mounting threats from abroad.
But looking into his notebooks and file drawers (sample tab: "Johnson Personal: Ruthlessness"), he was expansive, offering anecdotes within anecdotes about the events and people he was trying to reconstruct, and about how he and his wife and longtime research partner, Ina Caro, found sources, secured interviews and tracked down documents.
Related to Trump's insistence on total agreement is the vengefulness and ruthlessness with which he has gone after those who has dared to express disagreement — even when, as in Comey's own case, the disagreement was an inevitable and proper result of recognizing truth in the course of performing official duties.
All of the questions directed at Zinedine Zidane, the victorious Real Madrid coach, in the immediate aftermath would have been about the brilliant ruthlessness of Cristiano Ronaldo, whose hat trick eventually finished off Bayern; about the energy of Marcelo, Real's unstinting fullback; about the poise and panache of Toni Kroos.
With Goiko at the centre of their defence, they earned a reputation for ruthlessness and cynicism as well as excellent football, and so there came to be a fundamental contrast between their style of play and the expressive and philosophical outlook at Camp Nou, or that's how Barcelona supporters saw it, anyway.
She becomes the new landlord, and in going around to various tenants, finds in herself a new ruthlessness and thrill for business negotiations (much of Lister's real diary entries are about monetary transactions and entrepreneurial gains; she may or may not be the "first modern lesbian," but she was definitely a modern capitalist).
The problem with your preferred model of permanent class struggle is that it ignores the importance of social capital — the trust in each other and in our common institutions — in much the same way that our current version of American capitalism does, with its ruthlessness, its inequality, and its celebration of greed and indifference.
The steady drip of reports from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government-controlled news media over the past three weeks, exposing grisly details of the killing, has drawn the world's attention to the ruthlessness of the kingdom's young crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, even as the Trump administration gave every sign of longing to look away.
They both leave such lasting impressions in brief scenes — Narducci in a flashback (one of the few not from Frank's perspective) in which she barely flinches when her husband, played by Joe Pesci, comes home covered in blood, and White when her husband Jimmy, played by Al Pacino, marvels at her political guile and ruthlessness.
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Their corporate overseer (Elisabeth Shue) -- or "senior VP of hero management" for a conglomerate known as Vought -- is responsible for preserving their squeaky-clean image; still, peeking behind the curtain -- or under the capes -- reveals utter ruthlessness, with a core group of heroes known as The Seven whose powers roughly approximate those of the Justice League.
Ultimately, for these books and show to come to a satisfying end, someone needs to become a Robert the Bruce or a William the Conqueror, a medieval politician who understands the right balance of genuine public spiritedness, utter ruthlessness, general competence, coalition-building, loyalty-maintenance, and charismatic leadership to win as both of those men did.
Jeff Bezos' techno-populist suggestion that he can "see the elimination of gatekeepers everywhere" is contrasted with his personal purchase of The Washington Post and his stewardship over Amazon, which is a massive, diverse and participatory marketplace, but one under the control of a single private company with a reputation for ruthlessness and strong-arm negotiation tactics.
During the scene in which Mother Courage cannot resist haggling over the price she will pay to ransom her son Swiss Cheese (Deandre Sevon), who has fallen into the hands of the enemy, her hard carapace of ruthlessness melts away, and we see the shellshocked mother, aghast that she has just allowed her son to die to save a few pennies.
If it can keep its head, though, and bring off a Brexit that does not plunge the country into chaos or paupery, then its long habit of exercising power, its ruthlessness with its leaders and its ability to mix firmness with flexibility—qualities which have made the Conservative Party the democratic world's most successful political machine—may yet see it through.
At once babyish and solemn, Platt is 25-years-old but easily passes for a fussy and fastidious kid, his puppy fat and cartoon eyes making what ought to be unwatchably repellent—a character fueled by ruthlessness, self-certainty, and an attitude towards his immediate peers that verges on the sociopathic—bearable for a full season of high-voltage and high-volume television.
Jordan admits to April that she didn't listen to her pitch or promote her because she was afraid that April was trying to replace her, giving context and an emotionally relevant backing to what could be blind ruthlessness (it should be noted that Miranda Priestly also has a backstory that makes her ways more understandable as well, though not one that's so relevant to contemporary professional fears).
There are perfectly liberal weapons in the legal armoury for use against intolerance, if only liberal society will use them: laws protecting speech (including the offensive kind); personal protections against abuse or discrimination that the devout enjoy, not as privileged believers, but as citizens like everyone else; bans, as in Germany, against anti-constitutional politics; ruthlessness in the pursuit and punishment of ethnic or religious violence.
The ruthlessness of those regimes, notably in Guatemala and El Salvador, are documented in Golub's White Squad paintings, which stand as a testimony to a Cold War strategy that tolerated torture, murder, and repression as long as they were used against the spread of Communism — an irony lost on the lemmings of the Republican Congressional Caucus as they disappear into Trump's lurid embrace of Putin's Greater Russia.
But if television has long been paving the way for a Hillary Clinton presidency with high-striving women characters who are superficially similar to her, House of Cards is the one show to posit that all the things people don't like about her — the switching to politically advantageous positions, the assumption of cool ruthlessness, the willingness to stick by a husband who cheated — are actually strengths.
Benson: "The Snake" earned his nickname and his reputation for ruthlessness when he tried to kill Larry Gallo in 1961 in the dim-light of the Sahara Lounge in Brooklyn—a scene that appears almost as it happened in Godfather II. Carmine's ol' buddy Larry would be dead if a beat cop hadn't wandered in, wondering why the door was open on a Sunday morning.
The viewer is introduced to the extended family of the central terrorist: a wife who loves him but must pretend that he is dead; a protégé who reveres him but grows disillusioned with his ruthlessness; a young woman whose husband-to-be is shot to death at their wedding, and who, in her fury and despair, volunteers to be a shaheeda , a martyr, and strap on a suicide vest.
The English Puritans and Pilgrims who, wishing to escape the oppression and persecution of the Church of England, fled to America in the early 17th century to create smaller societies where they could live according to their faith were followed, notably, by the Transcendentalists in 1830s New England, who sought to distance themselves from the ruthlessness of the Industrial Revolution and instead lead a life driven by Romantic ideals.
Though Kim Jong-il was infamous internationally for his ruthlessness and taste in luxury goods, Michael Madden, an expert on North Korean leadership and a contributor to the Johns Hopkins-affiliated North Korea analysis website 38 North, said the late leader tended to shun public appearances on his birthday, preferring to portray himself as a man of the people who would rather inspect a factory or military site than celebrate himself.
And it's much more than a few dozen players and a handful of Super Bowls they're bringing with them: Rams owner Stan Kroenke, known for his ruthlessness, has already broken ground on a huge stadium complex on the former site of the Hollywood Park racetrack, adjacent to an enormous mixed-use development that will include housing, office space, retail, a hotel and a lake (altogether it covers about 300 acres), which Kroenke is co-developing with Stockbridge Capital Group.
Trump had a better idea: As Axios reported weeks ago, Team of Vipers contains a passage in which Sims sits down for a clandestine talk with the president to create naughty and nice lists of staffers (in Sharpie, of course) in an attempt to root out leakers: In one of the more damning excerpts of the book, published in Vanity Fair, Sims spends a great number of words dissecting the ruthlessness and tenacity of Conway, one of the president's longest-serving aides: Sims describes how, while working on Conway's laptop to compose a statement for her repudiating allegations that she talked trash about Trump, he caught evidence she was a frequent leaker on her still-open iMessage: As of Tuesday afternoon, the book was number six on Amazon's list of best-sellers.

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