Word: remorseless
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...international cachet by dealing in delicate feelings and poignant renunciation. It got there with sex and violence, action and atrocity, deftly orchestrated mayhem - exactly the elements that the press continues to exploit long after the Golden Age of Hong Kong films got tarnished. And with exactly the same rampaging, remorseless vigor...
...environment where a single phrase can cause so much consternation, it's no wonder the White House was both swift and remorseless in burying the Pentagon's proposed Office of Strategic Influence. When word leaked that the office's mission would include the spreading of false information to foreign journalists, the White House knew what it had to do. "It was dead when it was born," sniffs one aide. Their pride wounded, Defense officials complained privately that they never had a chance to explain themselves. It's not as if the White House and State Department have changed many hearts...
...torturers could attempt to excuse themselves by claiming they were only following orders [WORLD, Feb. 18]. And if the person at the top of the chain of command was killed or missing, the accused might get away with their crimes. But we now have an opportunity to prosecute the remorseless Slobodan Milosevic. His acts were worse than those of Osama bin Laden. The genocide and rapes will harm people for generations to come. GURKAN HASIRCIOGLU Centurion, South Africa...
Recent incidents, such as the projectile-throwing tantrum at the Yankees-Red Sox game at Fenway Park and the abuse of European golfers at the Ryder Cup in Brookline, Mass., suggest an answer: legal hooliganism. Teams will sponsor cells of well-trained, remorseless thugs ready at any moment to storm the field and waylay players. Athletes will be expected to hone those skills necessary to contend with this exciting new variable...
...with a crisp assent. Unseen by the gallery, he even laughed during a private exchange with an attorney as the charges were being read. I was chilled, not only by the tragic events that left anguished relatives, maimed victims and grieving widows in their wake but especially by the remorseless behavior of the man responsible. If those eyes weren't the eyes of "a sicko," then they belonged to a man twisted by evil. Though a journalist may view Kaczynski's piece as a good story, for the sake of the Unabomber's family and his victims...