Word: remorseless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that historic meeting, the boyish-looking professor did more than just a good job; his sparkling clarity of speech, his remorseless logic, his deft and delicate handling of clashing national views made him the conference star. He presided over his own delegation briskly and competently, telling them: "Gentlemen, we must now decide just what is our official position so that when we depart from it we will know what we are departing from." The professor was learning fast how to tie fancy knots in his diplomatic ropes...
...revolutionary Sculptor Jacob Epstein, has some of the humor of a Thurber or a Steig: but he is not trying to be funny. This is his third book of drawings (the others: It's a Long Way to Heaven, What Am I Doing Here?), all owed to the remorseless probings of Drs. Freud and Jung. Like the others, it is a grim search through the weird subconscious levels of John Doe, a search that altogether misses heart & soul but finds a spirit crushed and shriveled by what Abner Dean considers the terrors of everyday 20th Century life...
...Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure. Consider also the devilish brilliance and beauty of many of its most remorseless tribes, as the dainty embellished shape of many species of sharks. Consider once more, the universal cannibalism...
...time Sally knows that she is pregnant, her seducer has disappeared and she is already half in love with an upstanding young gas-station manager (Keefe Brasselle). From there on the plot follows all the steps of Sally's degradation and eventual rehabilitation with a kind of remorseless documentary fervor...
...glance, the letters seem only the posturings of a dilettante, but this impression soon wears off. Proust's letters display a remarkable transformation in character: from an effete youth to a sharp observer of the tragedy in life, from a superficially clever snob to a mordant analyst and remorseless judge of snobbery...