Word: remorselessness
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...remorseless doubles player once had a standard set of pregame excuses printed up on cards and handed them out to his weekend opposition in the form of a check-off list. Among his selections: Sunday-morning hangover; ill-strung racquet; soggy tennis balls...
...only too quickly to her. She was capable of emotional fixity that makes the poems written just before her suicide in 1963 nearly unbearable: pictures of rage and despair drawn virtually in words of one syllable. Her novel The Bell Jar, while written in quasi-Salinger style, is a remorseless account of adolescent breakdown...
...important exceptions, of course, like Lewis's portrait of Wharton's friend and mentor Henry James, who felt during her visits that he was "being seized and carried off in the talons of some monstrous female bird of prey." But, in general, Lewis spends too much time chronicling in remorseless detail the comings and goings of the Wharton set, obscuring his very real insights under a mass of minutiae...
...industrial depression since the '30s. I shall certainly be discussing this with President Ford when we meet together in Helsinki next week. As a big trading nation, we have set ourselves very strongly against physical import controls. But we are not going to sit back and watch a remorseless increase in British unemployment. If the slump doesn't begin to improve quickly, we obviously reserve our rights to protect our balance of payments by various means...
Vargas Llosa's second novel, The Green House, was respectfully roasted by some critics for its chaotic form, thematic dead ends and lock-step fatalism. There remained, however, the author's undeniable ability to generate powerful atmospheres within his remorseless, self-imposed boundaries...