Word: remorselessly
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...from the cold. (One of the reasons the mole becomes a mole, in fact, seems to be the 1956 Suez disaster. He joins Moscow in part to be where the historic action is.) Le Carré heightens suspense by lowering the number of suspect moles to two. The remorseless world of international espionage is thus transformed into something very like a traditional English detective story with the suspects figuratively locked in the English country house as the sleuth (Smiley) pokes around and the tantalized spectators wonder if he will dare pin it on the butler...
...rueful. It might better be regarded less as a companion piece to Bonnie and Clyde than as an elaboration and reply. It is not loose and high-spirited. All its comedy has a frosty irony, and its violence, instead of being brutally balletic, is executed with a dry, remorseless drive...
...greed and overweening zeal did so much economic and spiritual harm both to the Jews and to Spain itself, crowning the Inquisition's persecution of Jews with the expulsion from the country of most of its best commercial minds. The final irony, of course, is that these two remorseless rulers, who financed Columbus' later expeditions with plundered Jewish wealth, unwittingly opened a New World where, in the centuries that followed, persecuted Jews would indeed find the haven they had sought so long...
Convinced it was racism that had turned her son from a cheerful adolescent into a murderous adult, Mrs. Essex seemed almost remorseless during a press conference last week in Kansas. "I do think Jimmy was driven to this," she said. "Jimmy was trying to make white America sit up and be aware of what is happening to us." Though prejudice is hardly an excuse for wholesale slaughter, Mrs. Essex made her point. So did a white youth outside the church. As a radio reporter walked from his car to the press conference, the boy drove by shouting, "Have fun with...
...common complainer feels the need for a champion is a demonstration that he feels ineffectual as an individual. When he feels like griping, the average American faces an adversary that the framers of the Constitution did not envision. It is the burgeoning mass society, a creature with a remorseless, faceless, self-declared efficiency that intimidates many Americans and renders them silent when they should be talking louder. Too many people still doubt that complaining will do any good. Those ultimately responsible for this state of affairs seem baffling and remote. Is anybody listening when an individual-as distinct from...