Will those who call the statute merciless commit it to a merciless judge?
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As merciless as we can be about how people feed themselves, we're even more merciless about how they feed their kids.
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"Art should shock, hurt, offend, intrigue, be a merciless critic of the merciless times we are not only witnessing but whose victims we have become," Drndic once said.
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It will be merciless ... ... so says Chris Matthews.
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Or maybe a merciless contestant critique that crossed the line?
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For instance, there is a channel called Merciless PR Person.
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In business he was merciless in pursuing his own interests,
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She was merciless to a lie, spoken, acted or insinuated.
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His rapidity from that moment on is merciless and succinct.
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The reaction from the right has been swift and merciless.
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Yet where Myrtha is merciless, La Catrina is a softy.
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In the end the merciless Chinese will kill the Tibetans.
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And they were merciless in lambasting one another's pet predilections.
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They're merciless hellspawn who use their intellects for great evil.
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In some instances, people torture innocent creatures, which perpetrates merciless violence.
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Even with a good Brexit deal, Britain's fiscal logic is merciless.
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His depiction of the jealousies between Mr Trump's advisers is merciless.
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His merciless attacks on the PRI are a double-edged sword.
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The rubble is its own economy, its own tiny, merciless system.
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Is there a sudden and merciless joy welling up inside you?
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The elegantly slender fingers contrast sharply with the creature's merciless mien.
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"History," Grann writes in this shattering book, "is a merciless judge."
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Are the merciless standards of perfectionism just waiting to clamp down?
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"We must be merciless," Sarkozy said in a statement to reporters.
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The old jackal faced the young one in a merciless mirror.
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And she continued to be merciless all while thinking she was good.
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Her commitment to the vague premise of "breaking the wheel" became merciless.
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But in the barrio, violent, merciless police allies look more like oppressors.
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She was, by her own account, merciless in her treatment of him.
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Fire insurance did not exist, and courts were merciless in enforcing covenants.
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It's so sad because we know Morgan can be a merciless interviewer.
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On top of this merciless meritocracy is a layer of cruel fortune.
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The combatants were beavers, indigenous trappers, European colonizers, and the merciless environment.
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The FSU crowd was also merciless in booing and ridiculing him throughout.
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Ms. Weisz, though an intriguing chameleon, lacks a femme fatale's merciless hauteur.
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His tone seems to vary: It can be compassionate, dispassionate, tender, merciless.
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"This merciless and very cruel crime cannot have any justification," he said.
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The fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic has been swift and merciless.
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But John Franco, the star closer in the 1990s, could be merciless.
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But he is far from the merciless monster he depicts on television.
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And the Crimson Tide (13-0) are as merciless as they come.
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And our strikes came in response to their merciless killing of Iranians.
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It's more audacious, too, and more merciless, daring you to walk away.
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But his final prey is Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer), a merciless killer android.
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The trapped activists wanted to have the final say in this merciless war.
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The motley and merciless crew of Edgar Wright's Baby Driver clean up nice.
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That's good news because the replacement head was getting a merciless mocking online.
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It was me that suffered in the merciless heat and the bitter cold.
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This, though, was its most merciless moment yet — and the internet loved it.
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Self-identifying trolls could be harmless pranksters, less harmless troublemakers, and merciless abusers.
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He was merciless, but also wrong, and perhaps more than a bit bigoted.
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Seriously, the showrunners are absolutely merciless when it comes to killing off characters.
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Officials were expected to be merciless for Mr. Pichai's first appearance before Congress.
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He is a classic singer-songwriter with a merciless ear for the contemporary.
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He knew that the Middle East was not Scandinavia — that Israel faced merciless enemies and that the Jews could carve out and sustain their own state in such a region only if they, too, were merciless when they had to be.
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She called for an end to the "merciless attacks" from Russia and Assad's regime.
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NNAF's lawsuit is emblematic of more than just serving justice to merciless trolls online.
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The backlash was swift and merciless, with millions (and counting) signing the inevitable Change.
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The Bad Girl Shaming you received at the hands of the media was merciless.
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It&aposs not like he faced a merciless grilling from NBC&aposs Craig Melvin.
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Even by the standards of Syria's merciless conflict, a new low has been reached.
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Assassinate a sadistic prison guard, chairperson of a corrupt, merciless pardons-and-parole board.
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Fight to the heart of the planet and search for the merciless Metroid leaders.
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In the show, Catherine Zeta-Jones plays a merciless pageant coach from Tulsa, Okla.
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The merciless chill arrived from the Midwest, walloping the region and interrupting daily routines.
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But his obsession with perfection is wide-ranging and merciless, not limited to fish.
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We recovering professors owe him an enormous debt for his merciless treatment of academia.
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Plot: The merciless 1970s rivalry between Formula One rivals James Hunt and Niki Lauda.
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In the ensuing seven days, the fallout for Bannon has been swift and merciless.
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This is not only an insult to the Palestinian people, but a merciless generalization.
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Over the years though, reviewers -- especially male ones -- became increasingly merciless about her writing.
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Now Buttigieg's competitiveness is being tested in the most merciless arena in American politics.
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Not to mention, both Uber and Lyft are relentless and at times merciless opponents.
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The merciless villain enjoys acting like a dictator and bashing people's heads in, for example.
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Despite being the most scenic, however, the park bench is actually a particularly merciless location.
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You are staring into the face of mass murderers, extrajudicial killers, and merciless law officers.
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See the speed on that drop step: a merciless power is flowing through our man.
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Peggy is cold-blooded and merciless, but she never has a hair out of place.
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It calls for merciless violence, especially in Muslim countries where Western countries have some influence.
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But the highlight of Aggretsuko is not the merciless portrayal of old-school workplace chauvinism.
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North Korea responded by warning of a "merciless retaliatory strike" if the U.S. acts first.
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No dish demonstrates this better than vindaloo, a menacing red sauce with a merciless reputation.
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Less necessary is the hot sauce, a merciless blend of chile de árbol and water.
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Those who make it their primary job to run the football take a merciless pounding.
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Still, wherever Lopez goes, he is never far from a disquisition on humanity's merciless ways.
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Those that escape face merciless, sometimes unfair competition (their innovations copied, their projects litigated against).
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The Mets admirably claimed a wild card last summer despite a merciless string of injuries.
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A technological marvel, it welcomed weary travelers into midtown Manhattan until its merciless 21 razing.
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But no matter whom the Democrats nominate, he says, they will come under merciless attack.
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North Korea on Tuesday threatened "merciless retaliation" in response to U.S.-South Korean military drills.
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Its adversary—rising sea levels brought on by man-made climate change—is relentless and merciless.
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Their influence, along with her older brother's merciless teasing, caused Gordon to suppress her inner rebel.
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It's a charming piece of character work in a setting that's much more merciless than Healy.
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The two quickly become entangled in a merciless relationship where each wants something from the other.
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As far back as 2001, though, people were just merciless—so has it changed that much?
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" Meaning: "that sudden, merciless message from a mirror's crystal depths ... 'you are fading, just a bit.
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This rich and merciless production makes it clear that they are indeed damned for all eternity.
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But she was merciless, because she was betting he would lose his temper, and he did.
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Go: Merciless comedy shades to delicate tragedy in "BLKS," by the poet and performer Aziza Barnes.
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India can help by abandoning a merciless plan to deport Rohingya who have taken refuge there.
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But he's a savior in a world that can be merciless to those without a champion.
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Or perhaps it's a just but merciless world, where civilizations are wiped out for their iniquity?
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A wing of white light cuts through the clouds—a merciless angel, it brings no warmth.
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GANZ Television cameras and headphone listening were merciless to Aerosmith, who paired up with Run-D.
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Ms. Whitton regularly received requests to sign photos of herself as the sexy, merciless team owner.
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Then the kindly conversationalist of our leisurely lunches became the tough, even merciless editor of lore.
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Lowe's proposition is thornier: will museums want their doctored Griffoni panels subjected to a merciless critique?
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They're merciless together, but neither can shake the obligation or resist the inspiration of the other.
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Rouhani also accused the United States of "merciless economic terrorism" and "international piracy" with its sanctions.
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I think, if we describe him rightly, he is intelligent and bright, but a merciless guy.
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But life shouldn't be a merciless race to see who can die with the most stuff.
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Billions of dollars are made, and countless lives are ruined, by these ruthless and merciless criminal organizations.
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This is the free market, this is the great game, this is the merciless capitalism of football.
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The task can feel like a western standoff where anything goes and only the merciless finish first.
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He's a deity as merciless as they come, which fits perfectly with the Ironborn that worship him.
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Expect stiff, cheap drinks and weekend bouts of amateur behavior followed by regulars' swift and merciless judgment.
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Those qualities, she's arguing, didn't make him a merciless steamroller but a wonderful cheerleader and supportive figure.
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"This merciless slaughter of Christians in Egypt tears at our hearts and grieves our souls," Trump said.
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Donald Trump, her Republican rival, will be merciless in swinging the inspector general's report like a cudgel.
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The admissions process for Duperré, as for all France's élite schools, was a model of merciless rigor.
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More than 7,600 people have been killed during a merciless drugs crackdown that started seven months ago.
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But time moves inexorably on, and we can only observe it play out at her merciless pace.
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The secret documents reinforced what historians already knew: that the British-led counter-insurgency had been merciless.
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The website supports nationalist movements wherever they arise and advocates a merciless approach against radical Islamic terrorists.
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"Cuz," then, is chiefly a story about these thefts, and the merciless carceral state that perpetrated them.
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" On Twitter, International Film Critique wrote, "Václav Marhoul's #ThePaintedBird is a brutal, harrowing & merciless 3 hour journey.
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Through Hezbollah, its Lebanese proxy, Tehran has provided Assad with his most effective and merciless ground troops.
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Matching content with form, the movie is tight and merciless, even if parts play like a tract.
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Mother nature was a harsh woman, uncaring and merciless, but she could stop the waters from settling.
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It is both the most merciless and most compassionate production of this show that I've ever encountered.
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The others retreated under merciless airstrikes from the United States, returning later to retrieve their battlefield dead.
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Most horror stories have a lot of blood, but this one has a cruel and merciless amount.
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Instead of subjectively judging somebody's influence, people rely on the merciless metrics of views and follower counts.
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His male friends, he was a little shocked to learn, were ineffectual, indiscreet, and bizarrely merciless confidants.
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"Looks like we're forgotten again," Spotted Elephant said, beaten down by the merciless cruelty of the world.
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Jeff Bezos and his organization are notorious for merciless business acquisitions and working employees to the bone.
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Is cancel culture an important tool of social justice or a new form of merciless mob intimidation?
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His father died at Dunkirk, but she is merciless to him, anyway, which he seems to enjoy.
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Now, read the article, "A Merciless Cold Lingers in the Midwest," and answer the following questions: 1.
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Ukraine's Jewish community — long subject to state-level discrimination and merciless street-level pogroms — quickly moved underground.
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His protagonists tend to be characters who compartmentalize their humanity in order to become merciless death machines.
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Especially since it's done under the constant and sometimes merciless scrutiny of the broader investment public and media.
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In an era racked by political espionage, merciless assassinations and ninja attacks, Yasuke was seen as an asset.
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The President, who has a merciless nose for political weakness, may have spotted Biden's vulnerability earlier than anyone.
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Merciless 'pure hatred' Libot said some soldiers used anti-American rhetoric, blaming foreigners for South Sudan's current issues.
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Indeed it is the merciless sorting by technical criteria that makes the world of "Player Piano" a dystopia.
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Donald Trump launched a merciless new attack at a rally in Pensacola, Florida, Wednesday night – on his microphone.
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If Cristiano defeats his opponents in a campy, swashbuckling Hollywood swordfight, Lewandowski is a quiet but merciless ambusher.
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That would be even more devastating to her undeserving rival than this latest attack, merciless though it is.
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"We must be merciless…the legal quibbling, precautions and pretexts for insufficient action are not acceptable," he said.
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But Bertens was slowed by a strained left calf, and Williams keyed in on it with merciless intent.
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And that view—of planet Earth set in a vast, merciless void—will change humanity's view of itself.
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But that left a vacuum that provoked merciless coverage, increased lawmakers' suspicions, and even left some employees demoralized.
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His body is folding in on itself like a sandbag, and is about to begin a merciless descent.
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Nor did reports of Foxconn's merciless and degrading environment put a dent in demand for Apple's coveted products.
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The place was rigged for bedlam: awkward corners, tight squeezes and, of course, the merciless ricocheting of sound.
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There is some level of self-scrutiny too merciless for most of us, some inner corridor too dark.
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" Inside, an opinion piece said Flack had been "tried and convicted by the merciless court of social media.
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It was just about a year ago, remember, that Djokovic was enjoying a merciless tear through men's tennis.
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This powerful novel is marked by moving prose, vivid characters and a balance between compassion and merciless realism.
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When Nida (Radhika Apte), a new, merciless interrogator, joins the center, she meets a prisoner with perplexing behavior.
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" This view is reflected in the Declaration of Independence, which attacks King George III for backing "merciless Indian Savages.
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People take for granted how America's security guarantees have prevented the merciless escalation of a dog-eat-dog world.
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It's one of those lessons we all pick up in that merciless crucible of social education, the childhood schoolyard.
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And Peter's merciless plot to destroy Gawker (itself a former startup that had become an enormously powerful media company)?
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"Democracy is always exciting but it is merciless when it kicks in," RTE News reported Kenny to have said.
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But Lauda and Hunt were good friends, despite turning merciless toward each other when they were behind the wheel.
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Whatever his intentions, Wayne's erasure of everyone whose beats he stole was swift and merciless, not self-aware homage.
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We face an enemy that is resourceful, changeable and merciless, but we have a population that wants to help.
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North Korea threatened "merciless retaliation" in response to the U.S.-South Korea military drills, calling them an invasion rehearsal.
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They were stretched out happily on pristine lounge chairs (some on sand, others on grass) under a merciless sun.
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There are times when Mr. Iannucci seems as merciless as he is funny; hope can seem very distant here.
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In a Thai ring or an MMA cage, spinning elbow knockouts are a merciless and brutal coup de grâce.
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He is still a cerebral, introspective teenager from outer-borough New York, contending with existential confusions and merciless supervillains.
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The race cemented Mr. Cuomo's standing as both an unmatched force in New York politics and a merciless tactician.
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The bluntest, most merciless kiss-off received the loudest cheers from the young women who flocked toward the stage.
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Human soldiers of the merciless ruler Murdano arrive while Byx is away from home, and her pack is destroyed.
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He delves into Jackson's Presbyterian faith, which bordered on fanatical, and how it informed his merciless approach to battle.
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This — repeated one to two million times with subtle variations — is my life under Liking and Disliking's merciless regime.
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"The Duelist" is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian) for violence, nudity and merciless Aleutians.
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A statement from the North's military vowed to launch "merciless retaliation and unsparing punishment," according to The Associated Press.
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He created a team that was a merciless bully: The Tigers were 12-0 and outscored opponents, 322-30.63.
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Candidates run more than 22 miles, swim in freezing water for 5 miles, and endure a merciless obstacle course.
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It's an animal of an album, marking its territory with merciless attacks, and getting uncomfortably close in its confessionals.
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They probably face months of hardship and fear under the ever more merciless and paranoid rule of the Islamic State.
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She proceeded to unspool similarly merciless fortunes to the rest of my friends brave enough to face her firing squad.
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Arya Stark transforms from tomboy into a merciless assassin when she journeys to Braavos and studies with the Faceless Men.
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In one of its most merciless scenes, the writers reflect on their choice to empathize with a character like BoJack.
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Palantir—the Peter Thiel-cofounded data firm, for example—is no stranger to beer pong, drunken injuries, or merciless pranks.
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But I'm also playing No Man's Sky, and that means anything — from interstellar travel to slow, merciless death — is possible.
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For many executives, cultural celebrity is good branding and an inoculant to merciless P&Ls or disapproving boards of directors.
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Like Jobs, Sarnoff was not an engineer but a technology and media visionary, mogul and all-powerful — often merciless — titan.
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And I'm quite certain the CIA must use the suspension system as an enhanced interrogation technique because it's simply merciless.
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Like sisters, they can be merciless towards each others—calling each other names and dragging each other for past failures.
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Rotting Sky's debut, Sedation, is absolutely horrific, toxic, merciless noise—and I mean that as as the highest of compliments.
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Go: Merciless comedy shades to delicate tragedy in the Off Broadway show "BLKS," by the poet and performer Aziza Barnes.
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Go: Merciless comedy shades to delicate tragedy in "BLKS," a terrific playwriting debut from the poet and performer Aziza Barnes.
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I've given up on my long attempt to search for hope in simplicity; there's no allaying today's sharp, merciless cruelty.
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I found myself awake in the early morning hours reading about the trials of the characters in their merciless world.
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And even as Kim Jong-un's regime threatens "merciless blows" to its enemies, Seoul isn't expected to shift its stance.
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On a cultural level, Alexa has even managed to give the cut-throat and merciless Amazon a bit of personality.
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But they know that the nativist ideologues and white nationalists around Mr. Trump are itching for him to be merciless.
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Little does he know that stealing the money found would cause him to be chased by the merciless Anton Chigurh.
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Basically, the website supports nationalist movements wherever they arise and advocates a merciless approach against radical Islamic terrorists. http://bit.
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Once he's whipped himself up into a froth, this merciless madman returns to claim his prey with another horrific murder.
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Orange is the New Black wants you to prepare for Season 5, and the message is clear: It will be merciless.
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Until recently, the Philippines was a growth pocket amidst the merciless international environment, as exemplified by their fairly strong peso currency.
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This is Kobe the competitor, Kobe the merciless and unrepentant and unrelenting, cold-blooded Kobe the vengeful and devouring and obsessed.
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Street protests in November and December were met by a merciless government crackdown resulting in the deaths of hundreds of people.
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In this trying moment, we all stand united against this merciless terrorism, our thoughts go to those affected and their families.
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Twitter, being Twitter, was merciless: Donald Trump Jr. finally proves he's the Fredo of the family in one NY Times article.
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The air-conditioning was merciless; one of the members showed me the long johns poking out from under his shirt cuffs.
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Those with religious-freedom claims must act with superhuman perceptiveness or else be faulted by a merciless court on procedural grounds.
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He's one of the few characters on the merciless show to have survived to the sixth season, which is a feat.
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This provides a palatable front for his merciless nature, closing cases quickly and harshly, hassling for confessions when evidence is doubtful.
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But under the city's "merciless" skyline, in the wake of a hurricane, how similar they suddenly are, how small, how human.
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There's something haunting about the way he put together colors, and the merciless insight of his portraiture can be genuinely unsettling.
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But she strained to see signs of that amid the filth, the crime and the merciless sun on her tin roof.
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"The Democratic-friendly media may nurse him through the campaign, but President Trump will be merciless to 'Sleepy Joe,'" she writes.
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As the Boston Red Sox arrive for a three-game clash starting Tuesday, the Yankees have been on a merciless tear.
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So we are quite merciless, as historians, when it comes to the secrets of the past, the secrets of the dead.
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Khamenei personally supervised the merciless purge of rival factions, but fell short of overcoming the crisis that has gripped his regime.
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But "Forbidden Broadway" follows the merciless out-of-town-tryout model of show-shaping: If a number doesn't work, it's out.
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It feels reductive and merciless, informed too much by the very aspects of our culture that have become deadening to you.
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Either way, the heavens in a Greene photograph have the merciless glare of the desert sky in a Paul Bowles story.
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As the blood spewed, he recalled, he buried his fear, determined to prove he was merciless, the essence of a sicario.
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They are renting their house from a famous Haitian politician named Maxim Bayard, a "legendary Sénateur"—cultured, imperious, merciless, and corrupt.
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How many times in the past had he stood like this, on the brink, with the merciless eyes of a child?
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He is dead set (literally) on revenge, and proves this in one of the most merciless killings of the season so far.
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If Niantic's banhammer does come down on anyone messing about with Pokémon Go, it is likely to again be swift and merciless.
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Such a mirror of his own abilities will no doubt bring out that old merciless side to Cage's hard-won lawful good.
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Its caricatures of spoiled kids and narcissistic parents are unerring and timeless; its satirical takes on human nature are pointed and merciless.
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Every time a character leans unwisely into an impenetrably dark corner, audiences get a glimpse of that better, leaner, more merciless movie.
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The CEO of Amazon was not anonymous, but he could avoid the personal spotlight enough to fully focus on merciless business execution.
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Though the spirit of knockout football is inevitably merciless, there must be some room for clemency when it comes to the rules.
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Four years of war has hardened hearts in Aleppo, a divided city and, for the past week, the scene of merciless fighting.
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Like a perfectly sharp chef's knife, the Hugo 2 leaves me awed by its precision but also bruised by its merciless sharpness.
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It's a merciless 13-mile track with terrifying twists, turns, and dips, and arguably the most dangerous race course in the world.
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"We must be merciless," Nicolas Sarkozy, Mr. Hollande's predecessor as president and the leader of the opposition Republicans, said in a statement.
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Instead it takes on a more personable tone befitting its plain-spoken subject, allowing the audience to enjoy Ivins's homespun, merciless wit.
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He also had a merciless dunk and got a free piggy back ride from Asa Cantwell, the poor sap he dunked over.
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Ho Chi Minh, often romanticized as an amiable nationalist, was in fact a merciless despot who inflicted "systemic cruelties" on his people.
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Under the merciless midday sun, Sloane Stephens was in the unenviable position of battling a cold in the midst of the heat.
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The two reporters agreed the shelling was "merciless" and "dire," the most intense they had ever faced, Mr. Conroy told the lawyers.
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Afterward, his father demanded merciless justice for his son's murderer — only to discover weeks later that the killer was 14 years old.
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One of Mother—amazing how merciless the camera is—made her look like a Roman matriarch, one of those poisoners and plotters.
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Bots aren't typically viewed as vehicles for protest—they are largely associated with merciless floods of spam, from the innocuous to nefariously deceptive.
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If Mr. Trump's merciless methods have seemed to help him so far, there could be a political down side over the long run.
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"My watch can't be talking," Bush said, as recognition that our merciless world can still contain a genuine surprise spreads across his face.
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That gap can lead consumers to ruin their credit and rack up merciless hidden fees, according to a study out Thursday from CreditCards.com.
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In the trailer released Tuesday, the seamen appear to fight against the merciless forces of nature while also growing weary of one another.
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And now (or rather, a year or so from now, when season seven starts), we'll see what a merciless Cersei means for Westeros.
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President Joko Widodo has called for a "merciless" crackdown on narcotics, and told law enforcers to shoot drug traffickers if they resisted arrest.
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His victories are merciless masterstrokes, drawing his enemies into steel space traps that spring shut behind him, closing off any chance of escape.
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Doig gave his own face to the man riding the black horse, although you wouldn't know it—he looks merciless, and possibly dangerous.
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They do so grudgingly, in exhaustion, for Edward has been merciless in quashing opposition, not least the recent revolt led by William Wallace.
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Falk shares this merciless approach to character development; he wanted to put real people on television, acknowledging that real people are sometimes terrible.
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When his opponent stretched as if to suggest a tight back was slowing him down, he gazed with patient silence and remained merciless.
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Others say the country's merciless self-questioning at the moment holds a cathartic value, reflecting a democracy where freedom of expression remains resilient.
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On its spare, merciless summit, craters and cinder cones of indefinable age keep company with a variety pack of architectural shapes housing telescopes.
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He twists words, is merciless in spotting a weakness in an opponent and the chaos he whips up makes normal political debate impossible.
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Directed by Sara Colangelo, this version doesn't have the merciless political bite of the original, but it does star an excellent Maggie Gyllenhaal.
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Or maybe he's just a merciless tyrant and creep, and to dress him in clinical language is to let him off the hook.
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The warring sides in Syria's long and merciless civil war are preparing for another brutal offensive, and this one may be the last.
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Smith has always been merciless in splaying her characters open and allowing their flaws — their weakness, blindness, narcissism, vanity — to spur the narrative.
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And perhaps there's a touch of van Hove in its use of merciless simulcast video and the witty contradiction between text and action.
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Tartakovsky says the inspiration for Aku is rooted in another terrifying-yet-bewildering villain: Ming the Merciless from the 1970s Flash Gordon serials.
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They're merciless and Internet-savvy, which makes them a clear analog for real life terror organization ISIS (right down to the similar org names).
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But as their plan takes a merciless turn, Anna plummets into a world dominated by a shadowy organization with bloodthirsty ideas about divine suffering.
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On Tuesday, Saudi Arabia displayed its merciless streak after it ordered the execution of 37 people across the country for alleged terrorism-related crimes.
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Analysts were merciless Tuesday morning, with several slashing their price targets and ratings on the stock because of worries about such a competitive environment.
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The clock was easy to buy—they got it from a shop in Chandni Chowk, the Red Fort a merciless mirage in the distance.
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The moshpit was merciless, though, and the night came to an end with a seriously frightening, strangem and glorious set from Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult.
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" Pyongyang also declared that its army can target the US anytime, and neither Guam, Hawaii nor the US mainland can "dodge the merciless strike.
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The backlash against those classic TV series' endings was swift and merciless (many thought "Seinfeld's" was too preposterous, that of "The Sopranos" too baffling).
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That's the formula used by Gerard Alessandrini for his long-running "Forbidden Broadway" revues, which poke merry if sometimes merciless fun at hit shows.
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"It is also a record of a feral world where merciless storms convene each spring on the prairies and on the plains," he continues.
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She learned early on to see the media as invasive, her opponents as merciless, and privacy as something to be guarded at all costs.
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The moderators were similarly merciless on Thursday night, at least when it came to Trump, and Trump was the rightful focus — the whole show.
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Compounding problems Thursday were dry weather and merciless winds, with gusts predicted to reach the strength of a Category 225 hurricane in mountainous areas.
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From the very first shot, tight and merciless, Charlotte Rampling's pale, stricken countenance sets the tone of "Hannah" and dominates virtually every moment thereafter.
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You can blame Bouhaddi there a little, but that free kick was merciless, and she had to respect the runners at the near post.
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The race cemented both Mr. Cuomo's standing as an unmatched force in New York politics and a merciless tactician with little regard for diplomacy.
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And know these beings did not have to die a merciless, hapless, sick death in some market of central China where this virus originated.
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The air hums with the sun's merciless beams, and in the summers people hover behind curtains, sucked dry, and sprinkle water on each other.
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While we won't be crying any tears over this, there's some question in The Hill's offices whether our merciless mocking brought this to bear.
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His older brother Freddy, who died young, suffered for not living up the father's expectations that a man be incredibly tough and almost merciless.
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Prodigium, on the other hand, is a cold and merciless organization that plans to execute Nick because they can't break his magical ties to Ahmanet.
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"Those who carried out history's most merciless, bloody, vicious massacres during the first and second world wars should not lecture us on humanity," Erdogan said.
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In particular, she takes merciless advantage of Nate (Saturday Night Live's Jay Pharoah), the one calm, sympathetic fellow inmate who attempts to relate to her.
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Despite encountering, at times merciless, racial discrimination, Young was a true American patriot who held a firm commitment to the democratic promise of equal rights.
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Armed with wisdom and keen insight into the Zodiac, Tumblr astrologers are scathing and merciless as they assess each sign for its absolute worst qualities.
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"Who the hell reads the second paragraph?" snarls Walter Burns, the merciless newspaper editor in "The Front Page," examining the copy of his star reporter.
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A merciless permadeath RPG, it's a slab of tactical granite that you chip away at for weeks or months, one short session at a time.
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But if the public did not support the Rising at the beginning, the merciless British reaction, including the executions of rebel leaders, quickly fixed that.
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A recent DNA analysis showed that parrots were closely related to falcons, a finding that dovetails with field studies of parrots' often merciless dietary habits.
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Grace, in turn, is seen balefully inhabiting a London bedsit, doomed forever to relive her days with a husband she found alternately magnificent and merciless.
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Built right on a rarely traveled road, it seems to rise from an empty field like a giant charred barn after a merciless prairie fire.
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From the beginning, Daenerys has been merciless with enemies like the witch Mirri Maz Duur, the Essos slave masters, the Lannister army and the Tarlys.
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True, there is plenty of repartee between Marianne and Max, some of it flirtatious, some of it concerned with the tools of their merciless trade.
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Synopsis: A woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.
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In an interview with the New York Times in 2011, he warned that the regime would fight to the end, and it would be merciless.
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The villain of this first book is a merciless snake who tricks poor Dragon into thinking an apple is the friend he's been longing for.
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Justino was her usual merciless self against Evinger, but it still took two rounds of work before landing the punches and kicks that ended it.
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Playing as though in a hurry to keep a dinner reservation, Svitolina was merciless in pouncing upon the serve of her 76th-ranked Dutch opponent.
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She is a small woman from a long line of small women and a writer whose dense, fragmented works obey the merciless logic of nightmares.
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It is merciless in its attempt to convince viewers of their own lack and of their need to buy their way out of the hole.
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And Clinton and the Democrats now have their shot for four days to unify the party and take merciless aim at Trump's personality and business record.
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The alternative—that the distribution of news and information had largely been subsumed by an arbitrary and merciless technological regime—was simply too depressing to consider.
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It was once a show that thrived in the gray areas, where heartache undercuts triumph and anything resembling a classical hero was dispatched with merciless efficiency.
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Mexican actress Eiza González also stars as the merciless Darling, and The Walking Dead's Jon Bernthal rounds out the cast as the level-headed muscle, Griff.
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But their misstep was our entertainment for the day, because the White House's tweet spawned a wealth of hilarious (and merciless) jokes at the administration's expense.
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The Creature, in his turn, informs Mary that society's ill treatment of her only proves what he has long believed: that humans are wicked and merciless.
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But as a direct consequence of Assad's merciless brutality, this nonviolent revolt gradually became militarized, and then radicalized, as regional actors intervened to settle old scores.
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A deadly and largely merciless foe, it only takes one look at a Dalek in action for a new viewer to know what they're capable of.
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It's a bit disconcerting to watch the skies light up with these genuine death rays, each one a merciless destroyer of countless worlds unknown to us.
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Growing up in a country ruled by a merciless dictator, Carole watched her neighbors being dragged out of their houses by the dictator's denim-uniformed henchmen.
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A new Terminator, the Rev-9, joins the list of hard-to-destroy, relentless, merciless robots that have raised hell in this 35-year-old franchise.
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When the sun comes out, we roast as the temperature climbs into the high 80s, a merciless high-altitude sun accompanied by swarms of Hitchcockian mosquitoes.
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The attack was methodical and merciless — the jets took run after run over the camp in an effort destroy it, cutting down men as they fled.
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It would also be a huge, risky bet on sustained Republican disarray and a durable Democratic advantage, without which Republican revenge would be swift and merciless.
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Manchester City won easily enough Saturday with a merciless 4-0 drubbing of Aston Villa, a team that appears already resigned to its fate of relegation.
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This slaw has enough citrusy, vinegary kick to wake up your taste buds, but enough buttermilk and mayo to shut down the most merciless veg-haters.
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Then, in a theatrical, merciless act, one child finally assumes control and brings glory back to the family name (or not, it remains to be seen).
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That said, the idea of slathering anything sticky or heavy onto your lips in the merciless heat and humidity of summer doesn't sound anywhere near appealing.
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Nairobi, Kenya (CNN)The terrorists used ammunition with such merciless abandon their automatic gunfire tore through the Nairobi dawn like a chainsaw in long screaming bursts.
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When he is joined by an old goatherd, the pair recalls Don Quixote as they make their way through a merciless world, trying to evade cruelty.
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President Bashar al-Assad's merciless violence may yet produce another wave of refugees, since he plans to retake, among other contested areas, the city of Idlib.
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Meanwhile, this brave new world has given parents the tools to document every moment of their children's lives, and project it out to the merciless world.
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Child-warping mothers like Maggie have been a staple of socially conscious British theater, often created by precocious young playwrights of advanced talent and merciless judgment.
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Anyone who comes here knows that time is merciless and life is brief; one is always aware (sometimes consumingly so) of one's place in the race.
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The opener "One Little Victory" was the merciless lead single, starting with Peart playing what sounds like a rockabilly groove eaten by a thrash-metal monster.
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The result is a psychotic, psychedelic Fantasia-like opera of crushing riffs, furious growls, and merciless drumming, channeled into one seamless, terrifying, and surprisingly organic narrative.
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The villain of the first is downright biblical: a merciless snake who tricks poor Dragon into thinking an apple is the friend he's been longing for.
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The Irishman is one of the fight game's most captivating characters because of his merciless trash talk, his showboating in the cage, and his concussive punching.
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Not since Ken Russell's screen biographies of painters and composers ("The Music Lovers") has a director deconstructed the myth of the heroic creator with such merciless delight.
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The two men have begun to take different paths in recent episodes, with Daryl on a merciless, take-no-prisoners rampage, and Rick dialing back the aggression.
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There's no antagonist whatsoever in Cloverfield Paradox, not even an abstract one, like the sun in Danny Boyle's Sunshine, or the merciless void of space in Gravity.
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He gets nervous, loses his footing, and looks out at the audience with the panicked eyes of a baby deer that just stumbled upon a merciless hunter.
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It also begs a question: Is it time we finally move past this trope of humans getting slaughtered at the hands of an intelligent-yet-merciless extraterrestrial?
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But critics have been merciless in critiquing the group, and it's really not clear why The Chainsmokers are consistently being dragged in story after story after story.
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He doesn't stint on the graphic physical and emotional agonies of slavery, on the grotesque details of physical abuse, merciless labor, and sanctioned rape, torture, and murder.
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Recorded live at the Armory, this engrossing album features pieces by Berio, Takemitsu, Fauré, Ravel, Albéniz, Liszt, Janacek and Debussy that explore water's miraculous and merciless qualities.
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Whether it's because you're exasperated by neverending work emails, mentally fatigued from the merciless avalanche of harrowing election coverage, or just plain NOT IN THE MOOD, OK?
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The one thing these works have in common is a cool and canny authorial distance, a sense of an observer with a merciless eye for human inconsistencies.
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As he does so, she sees not Frank, but his ancestor — the merciless Black Jack Randall, who tortured both her and Jamie — and Claire recoils from Frank.
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It takes someone a few decades older, though, to fully appreciate the play's merciless evocation of a life with a front-row view of its own end.
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But he tells The Verge that creating this new album with the SNES's limitations was more difficult than previous projects because of the system's "merciless" filesize limit.
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Though it was barely midmorning, the sun beat down with a merciless heat, lending a particular inhumanity to Mr. Tyson's descriptions of the grueling sugar-making process.
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That "Deadpool," a super smart, wildly popular movie that makes merciless fun of itself gained such traction means there is hope yet for the awards-industrial complex.
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The champion staggered backward and then around the cage with Jones in pursuit, and Jones finished the fight on the ground with a series of merciless strikes.
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No one questions that Nicolás Maduro has wrought destruction: the worst economic collapse in recorded Latin American history, relentless trampling of political rights and merciless police violence.
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North Korea threatens "merciless" attacks on U.S. forces as they beef up presence in the region North Korea threatens "merciless" attacks on U.S. forces as they beef up presence in the region The U.S. military confirmed Tuesday it will deploy drones capable of carrying missiles to bases in South Korea, as it strengthens its military presence in the face of ever more aggressive missile and nuclear testing by North Korea.
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Until victory is achieved and justice is served for those who shed their blood in the merciless killings, I will continue to resist and stand with my people.
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At 33-29, the youthful bunch is in seventh place in the merciless Western Conference and seemingly headed for a postseason play-date with a top-seeded powerhouse.
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When Leon reveals to Toby that he often contemplated killing himself in high school in order to put an end to merciless bullying, Toby is shocked and upset.
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She's the same person he's always known, but her pivot toward merciless killer has nevertheless changed her, broken something inside her that he intuits may never be repaired.
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For many conservative rural Afghans, Taliban rule provides welcome stability and the merciless punishments and rigid controls on women's rights fit well with traditional practices in many areas.
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Her portrayal of a merciless drug trafficker in the 2011 hit soap opera "La Reina del Sur," or "The Queen of the South," had clearly struck a chord.
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Even the British prime minister, untrammelled by a written constitution, has to submit herself to the courts, a merciless press and a weekly grilling in Parliament, broadcast live.
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The problem with this line of thought is that the "merciless scrutiny" of the internet circa 83 means something different than the scrutiny of the internet circa 2017.
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Jake Gyllenhaal is Morf Vandewalt (one of the many excellent fake names in the film), an art critic whose merciless pen is both respected and feared by all.
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But even the most amicable and even-tempered employees experience their moments of pure, unbridled rage from time to time, which sometimes result in merciless acts of revenge.
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A smart kid, he endured the same thing a lot of smart kids are forced to endure: merciless bullying for a big chunk of his time at school.
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But orc clan leader Durotan (Toby Kebbell) is beginning to understand that Gul'dan's merciless leadership isn't strengthening his people so much as using them to selfish, destructive ends.
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To be followed by something way worse for Yuri Gurka (Goran Bogdan) and Meemo (Andy Yu), who are beyond merciless and into dirty deeds done dirt cheap territory.
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A sneering Gérard Depardieu stars as Robert Taro, the longtime mayor of Marseille now facing a re-election campaign against Lucas Barres (Benoît Magimel), his merciless former protégé.
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In Yemen, the worst cholera outbreak ever recorded has sickened more than a million people who live amidst a merciless proxy war between Iranian- and Saudi-backed forces.
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Prince William suffered from merciless teasing in school after topless photos of Princess Diana were published in 1996, according to a new memoir from Vogue publisher Nicholas Coleridge.
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Wielding maroon and white cowbells in a merciless assault on the ear drums, no fan base inflicts hearing loss on its opponents quite like the Mississippi State Bulldogs.
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Over the course of two hours Thursday night, Sanders was merciless and at times contemptuous toward Clinton (who, as is her custom, gave as good as she got).
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By the end, however, one feels at the mercy of an absolutely precise and merciless prose machine, one simply uninterested in producing the illusion of cause and effect.
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From the beginning, with 1984's The Terminator, the series was primarily about one thing: the merciless, pyrrhic single-mindedness a machine soldier could bring to its missions.
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I don't want to spend $400 to $500 on a finely finished stainless steel stockpot only to load it with shells and hit it with merciless heat, repeatedly.
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"It's a common-sense proposal directly informed by the fact that cetacean species and populations are still recovering from decades of merciless commercial whaling in the twentieth century."
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Martyrs is a study of living trauma and the social systems that cause abuse, and it is as nightmarish, angry, and merciless as any film before or after it.
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The only problem: the piece, titled "Trump's budget makes perfect sense and will fix America, and I will tell you why," was a merciless and frankly blindingly obvious satire.
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The gang is administered with such merciless order that Johnson said one recruit was killed when he failed to show for a neighborhood cleanup event organized by the Disciples.
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They have cows and crops but poor defenses, leaving them susceptible to Negan's Saviors, the merciless thieves, extortionists and killers of youths who claim half of the Hilltop's goods.
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"What the heck are girls walking around in Dutch outfits selling tulips—what do they have to do with the brand?" she chides contestants in one delightfully merciless takedown.
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Yet this kind of deep honesty — the merciless self-examination and exposure that Jamison displays — is increasingly rare in memoirs now that readers can, and will, attack them online.
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QL Score: +5 (Gene Page / AMC) Bryan: TWD is full of moments where Michonne, Daryl, and Rick show off how brutal, merciless, and just downright violent they can be.
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The US has two destroyers in the region primed to fire Tomahawk cruise missiles, but North Korea warned Thursday of a "merciless retaliatory strike" if the US does strike.
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They make virtues of the brutal training regimen forced upon young Spartans, of the city's merciless repression of its surrounding population, of its anti-intellectual and hyper-martial mores.
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Erdogan's rhetoric was merciless ("surrender to justice or be neutralized, one by one"), and so Turks again were angry at the P.K.K., in their mind their historic, existential threat.
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He showed great finesse in his merciless work, he looked explosive and fast, and, above all, he exhibited his fearsome punching power in a four minute, 33 second blowout.
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Read more: Prince William underwent merciless teasing at school after Princess Diana's topless photos were released by tabloids, according to a new tell-all from Vogue publisher Nicholas Coleridge
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In debate after debate, he had been outmaneuvered and humiliated by Donald Trump, whose reality-show instincts and merciless insults had turned the GOP primaries into a demolition derby.
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But they could not stop the Red Sox from scoring five runs in the inning, turning a tie game into another emphatic display of a deep and merciless lineup.
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The 1966 Durango protest and the authorities' deadly response foreshadowed similar gruesome reprisals such as the merciless suppression of student protests during the 1968 Olympics hosted in Mexico City.
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The reaction in Canada, where Mr. Trudeau's sheen has worn off in recent months after a series of gaffes and a conflict-of-interest scandal, was swift and merciless.
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Edit out the body contoured, one-legged jump suits and the coats with Ming the Merciless shoulders and you were left with an awful lot of commercially wearable stuff.
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On Tuesday, North Korea also vowed to "strike a merciless blow at the heart of the U.S., " amid a report the regime was prepping for a new missile test.
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She had won 18 of her last 19 matches on grass, but on the biggest stage of her career she was overwhelmed by nerves, frustration and a merciless opponent.
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To the Editor: The closing line in Linda Robinson's review of "Hue 1968," by Mark Bowden (July 9), is as chilling as the merciless, monthlong engagement the book describes.
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Kimball is merciless — with exquisite prose — in detailing the travails that beset her family; it's nerve-racking simply to read about problems that are unimaginable to most of us.
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His previous work examined the legacy of South America's Operation Condor, a merciless Cold War-era counterinsurgency campaign that targeted leftists, trade unionists, activists and hapless civilians, among others.
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Colbert, a merciless critic of our current Tweeter-in-Chief, has launched a "Trump Attacked Me On Twitter" Hall of Fame and something tells us there will be many inductees.
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She reclaimed it and lost it several times but there were serious concerns over her form going into the U.S. Open and Osaka was merciless in exposing the her weaknesses.
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How had no one ever told me about Emilia, who, in only a couple of lines, brings down one of the most conniving, merciless villains in all of Western literature?
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Perhaps our minds have been changed, and we now see cannabis as something to be handled with a greater degree of care, rather than an end goal of merciless obliteration.
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" North Korean state-run media said the country's military could strike the US at any time and that neither Guam, Hawaii nor the US mainland could avoid the "merciless strike.
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" North Korean state-run media said that the country's military could strike the US at anytime and that neither Guam, Hawaii nor the US mainland could avoid the "merciless strike.
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"Look, no matter how much I admire someone or respected their work, I'm pretty much Ming the Merciless on this issue right now," he told "Daily Show" host Trevor Noah.
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But post-9/11 conservatism helped reinvent the heroic American G.I. as a bearded elite spartan, and now arrays itself around this new object of worship: merciless, unapologetic, and unquestionable.
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Their affection for us never wavered, even on bad days when they returned from the store having hardly sold any merchandise, the bills stacking up in their merciless white envelopes.
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Parenthood is a merciless second-by-second referendum on the person you've already become, and one of its biggest gifts to me has been its relentless grounding in the present.
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For those students, the opportunity is the culmination of uncounted after-school hours devoted to American standardized test prep lessons, and it means liberation from the merciless Chinese education system.
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The reallocating documentary imagery feels wedded to the shifting style, illuminating the piece's innermost theme of merciless transience in the world of leftist (anti-Soviet and anti-American) ideological politics.
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So I guess it stands to reason that in a state so hellbent on suicide, its citizens would seriously consider voting for a merciless, skinflint presidential bootlicker like Matt Rosendale.
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As Can's bassist, Mr. Czukay (pronounced CHOO-kai) was austere: His lines often consisted of just one or two notes, locked into a merciless drone with the drummer Jaki Liebezeit.
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Along the way he seeks help from his former mentor (Anjelica Huston) and a friend from his past (Halle Berry), who has a couple of merciless dogs trained for combat.
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It didn&apost get better after that, with Foles and the Jaguars going three-and-out on their next three possessions before the first half came to a merciless end.
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It was that act of merciless madness that finally pushed the realm over the edge, making the other houses more willing to turn against the Targaryens in support of Robert.
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But what looks at first to be a courtroom drama of sorts becomes instead a merciless inquiry into the stresses troubling two marriages and the individuals caught in their crossfire.
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The "Uncut Gems" creators, Josh and Benny Safdie, are known for their merciless filmmaking style, made up of seedy underworlds and populated with first-time actors cast off the street.
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It is unfortunate that it seems Stephen's merciless violence When Shelly arrives to lend Becky her car — bad news; Becky doesn't have a car — Carl (Harry Dean Stanton) is hanging around.
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Mr Macron has found himself the victim of merciless satire over his neither-left-nor-right politics, giving rise to the hashtag #EnMêmeTemps (#AtTheSameTime) as a dig at his perceived ambiguity.
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So dense are the merciless chasms of darkness at the center of this map, you could pack 5,000 of them into a patch of sky the size of the full moon.
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In the oral argument in Whole Woman's Health, the liberal justices' merciless questioning of Scott Keller, the state's solicitor general, laid bare Texas's true motivation behind the law: limiting abortion access.
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To that is added a merciless amount of shrimp, cucumber, young coconut meat, and enough sticky chamoy—a sour sauce traditionally made from dried apricots—to fill up a small pool.
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There he could battle the villainous Ming the Merciless and rescue the swooning Dale Arden, earning the heroic virtue of his namesake, far from the squalor and broken bottles of home.
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Gasping for life: Syria's merciless war on its own children Last month the US shot down a Syrian warplane, prompting Russia to shut down a communication channel between the two countries.
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So when Mayweather found himself one-on-one with a merciless street baller called "Bone Collector" in an exhibition match on Monday, he wanted to get a highlight-reel block in.
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You see, Federer and Djokovic, for much of the competition, played with grace, finesse, and showed an athletic artistry more akin to ballet and floor gymnastics than merciless finishers in boxing.
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"Indeed the war in Korea was a nitty-gritty deal: bitter cold, a challenging mountainous terrain, and a merciless and well-trained enemy that often significantly outnumbered U.S. forces," he added.
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Gangs in certain communities in the Northern Triangle have become so merciless, and their control so widespread, that a family is often left with a stark choice: Comply, flee or die.
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There's no reason to imagine Trump ever gave a millisecond of thought to the details of abortion policy until he got trapped in that merciless interview with Chris Matthews on MSNBC.
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How else would they conquer a merciless route that includes steep climbs, choking humidity, muddy jungle trails and swift-moving rivers that may or may not contain the occasional hungry crocodile?
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Splintered chunks of roof, sprawled across the lot like beached whales, became bleachers for tired survivors, heads covered in shirts, towels and hats to soothe the hours of merciless Caribbean sun.
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For far too long, generosity has been allowed to serve as a wingman of injustice; giving back disguises merciless taking; making a difference becomes inseparable from making a killing — sometimes literally.
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But Chief Keef's hard-edge drill music, which speaks to the merciless violence that surrounded him growing up on the city's South Side, has never fit well with rap's commercial mainstream.
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As was the case for hundreds of Apple workers in Ireland, their abrupt termination appeared to be a product of a merciless decision that bodes best for the company's public image.
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Sporting his now signature post-Daily Show retirement beard, a wide-eyed Stewart blinked in front of a mic as Colbert teed up opportunities for Stewart to counteract his merciless jokes.
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But I most dread the rhyming history we are plunged into now: the merciless pummeling of a woman who dares to obstruct the glide path of a conservative Supreme Court nominee.
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That vision, every bit as merciless as the cruelties catalogued in de Sade's fictions, isolates the human against vast, encumbering space — helpless subjects evaporating at the whim of an indifferent Creator.
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At the same time, North Korea vowed Tuesday to "strike a merciless blow at the heart of the U.S." amid a report the regime was prepping for a new missile test.
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And Blackstone is sometimes similarly portrayed as a dealmaking war machine, with Mr Schwarzman as the merciless field-marshal; not for him hard-to-measure pieties about the purpose of business.
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"The atrocity of family separation at our Southern border needs to go down in history as one of the United States of America's most merciless acts," the Grammy Award-winner wrote.
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Unlike Romney, who really was merciless about destroying jobs if that's what the business strategy required, Buttigieg was merely a fledgling McKinsey consultant, with scant power to make decisions on anything.
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As terrorist Hans Gruber in the first Die Hard movie, Rickman cooled his voice to a disaffected deadpan, the better to sell Gruber's merciless outlook and counter Bruce Willis's hothead cop.
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Later will come treadmill and spin workouts, like those offered by Peloton, a six-year-old company now valued at $4 billion that was recently mocked in a merciless Twitter thread.
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Splintered chunks of roof, sprawled across the lot like beached whales, became bleachers for tired survivors, heads covered in shirts, towels and hats to soothe the hours of merciless Caribbean sun.
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So in other words, fears of a potential Skynet scenario are not a prerequisite for concerns about whether merciless robots could make the world of the future a nastier, less stable place.
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The film shows the perspectives of both the terrorists themselves (and the moments in which they inflicted merciless violence on victims) and those who were killed, saved, and worked to save others.
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At UFC 212, against the greatest featherweight who ever lived, Holloway went from strength to strength and forced a merciless stoppage in the third round, long after the point had been proven.
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The series, Deadline reports, follows Eve (Oh), a somewhat despondent MI5 security officer who finds a new purpose in life after being assigned to take down meticulous, merciless killer, Villanelle (Jodie Comer).
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"In this extraordinary campaign cycle, where the stakes are so high and the media can be merciless, it can be easy to forget that presidential candidates are human beings too," Stein said.
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The establishment media from the New York Times and Washington Post was merciless in its editorials and opinion pages as were more conservative outlets such as National Review and The Weekly Standard.
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His name is Marco Gutierrez, founder of Latinos for Trump, and he is there to defend Donald Trump's merciless immigrant-expulsion plan as tough but necessary, given what he knows about Mexicans.
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A little protection never hurt anyone, and if you're going swimming, surfing, or skin-diving in the sweet summer sun, it's worth giving yourself a buffer from its loving-but-merciless rays.
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The halls of academe are known to be hospitable to people with radical views on power relationships between capital and labor, but colleges themselves are often merciless actors in the labor market.
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You know, somehow do that disruption thing itself, getting ahead of all those nimble merciless companies with a dozen employees, venture capital, a WeWork space, some laptops, and cold brew on tap.
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Threats against Christians abroad have been a focus of concern for conservatives in the United States, and in May Mr. Trump released a statement denouncing the "merciless slaughter" of Christians in Egypt.
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Another element that comes through: How merciless even nature's smaller beasts can be, an angle in this first episode when the narrator observes a fly perched on the back of a crocodile.
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When not comparing "Uncut Gems" to a heart attack, critics have called it "a merciless assault on the senses," offering earnest and divergent opinions about which sedatives might best help viewers recover.
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Churchill explained the "tribal" inhabitants of this political frontier as the "barbarous people" possessed of "merciless fanaticism" who "freely bought and sold" and "not infrequently bartered for rifles" their wives and daughters.
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North Korea on Tuesday warned the U.S. of "merciless" attacks if an aircraft carrier strike group joining South Korean forces for military exercises infringes on the north's "sovereignty or dignity," Reuters reported.
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Coaches losing their jobs at the conclusion of the regular season is routine and expected, as they fall victim to the merciless pressure from owners and fans to succeed year after year.
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Another element that comes through: How merciless even nature's smaller beasts can be, an angle in this first episode when the narrator observes a fly perched on the back of a crocodile.
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That law has gone long unenforced when the play begins, so the enigmatic Duke of Vienna (Scott Shepherd) decides to step aside and put the merciless puritan Angelo (Pete Simpson) in charge.
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Shortly after that merciless and ineffable 17-point overtime eruption, Curry was named MVP for the second straight season and, for the first time in the league's history, it was by unanimous vote.
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Arguably, Kramer and ACT UP are the reason countless people are alive today, because without his relentless, merciless activism, AIDS would've continued to take the lives of many more than it does today.
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"If they infringe on the DPRK's sovereignty and dignity even a bit, its army will launch merciless ultra-precision strikes from ground, air, sea and underwater," the North's state KCNA news agency said.
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Two and a half years ago, I fell in love with a man who embodied the persona of merciless self-determination described in Odyssey's "Native New Yorker," despite the subjective mismatch of genders.
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The evidence that Jon Snow is dead is pretty compelling, but Game of Thrones fans are hoping against hope that their favorite character will avoid the show's merciless tendency to kill its stars.
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With the right keyblade Sora can build Rapunzel's tower, wave a pirate flag straight through a Heartless's head, slather folks in sticky honey, and yank enemies around the field with merciless mechanical arms.
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"If they infringe on the DPRK's sovereignty and dignity even a bit, its army will launch merciless ultra-precision strikes from ground, air, sea, and underwater," the North's state news agency KCNA said.
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During the races, the booze flows freely, children run around the track, a merciless, endless stream of 80s power anthems blasts through the speakers, and there's an absolute absence of sponsors or bannering.
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"If they infringe on the DPRK's sovereignty and dignity even a bit, its army will launch merciless ultra-precision strikes from ground, air, sea and underwater," the North's state news agency KCNA said.
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Three hundred miles south, a US nuclear submarine carrying Tomahawk missiles docked in the South Korean port of Busan—a move which prompted Pyongyang to threaten a "merciless nuclear strike" against its enemies.
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Sitting in a merciless spotlight, Ms. Waller-Bridge never leaves the long-legged chair, on a small red rug, that is the production's set (designed by Holly Pigott, with lighting by Elliot Griggs).
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The director Ben Hernandez Bray began his career in Hollywood as a stuntman, and though too many bones are crunched to describe this film as elegant, Bray directs action with merciless kinetic logic.
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As it meanders north, Broadway is studded with architectural gems like the antique apartment buildings, many of them spared by the Landmarks Preservation Commission from New York's merciless cycle of demolition and redevelopment.
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You see it in Mike Bloomberg's merciless trolling of Trump with commercials that make him look fat and unhinged, and statements that would be shockingly juvenile but for their mimicry of Trump's taunts.
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The North's military statement said it will launch an unspecified "merciless retaliation and unsparing punishment" on the United States over the Ulchi Freedom Guardian drills that began Monday for an 11-day run.
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CHICAGO — A merciless cold crippled the Midwest on Wednesday, halting planes and trains, shuttering schools and prompting officials in Detroit, Minneapolis and Chicago to open emergency warming centers for the homeless and vulnerable.
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Perhaps, but to me it could just as easily be the hands-up gesture of a Black Lives Matter protester, so very much indicative of the gravity of our merciless and ruinous moment.
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Democrats were quick to condemn Trump's comments, expressing shock at his merciless approach to immigration and casting it as un-American and against decades of United States immigration policy toward those most in need.
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Rodin seemed to offer a binding, timeless, and universal point: that the practice of conquering by attrition is as merciless, callous, and was as present within the artist's own time as it is now.
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That strategy eventually paid dividends in the seventh round when Joshua sensed the finish, dropped Povetkin with right hand and left hook punches, and then stopped him on his feet with a merciless attack.
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My character tends to be ruthless and secretive, but if I lean too hard on ambushes and treachery, the bluff, courageous members of my party will become restive while the merciless killers are pleased.
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The true villain of Philbrick's narrative, Joseph Reed — a less-than-loyal former adjutant to Washington who was president of Pennsylvania's Supreme Executive Council — engaged in a "merciless witch hunt" to prove Arnold's corruption.
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"And Saints" teeters on the brink throughout—you kind of expect the signature, merciless Sleigh Bells guitars to cut in halfway through—but it never quite descends into the noise that made their name.
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Abnormal psychology may not reveal Ephron, a seasoned novelist, screenwriter, essayist and humorist, at her merciless best, but she excels at characters' unintended comedy, their emotional warfare and witty observations of travel and consumption.
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Bong's diverse cast of American, British and Korean actors gives "Snowpiercer" the right international flavor, but it's Tilda Swinton who dominates as a Margaret Thatcher type who's a merciless enforcer of the status quo.
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Later, Sacks pointed out to me that I'd just seen, in miniature, the psychological dynamic behind the so-called mommy wars, merciless, no-win public competitions over the best way to raise a child.
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And when Bacon, as Clay's Carol Brady-type mom — tongue loosened by grief, red wine and THC candies — finally serves up a powerful and merciless speech, joke lines cheapen rather than enrich the performance.
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Mr. Poe recalled watching one night as Mr. Boch told a pretty young woman she could come in, but her Wall Street-looking boyfriend had to stay outside: a merciless test of her loyalties.
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That's the stuff that, during the later scenes, falls steadily from above into a pile of cinders, overwhelming the pristine whiteness of Bob Cousin's clinical blank set (lighted with merciless brightness by Sarah Johnston).
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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea's military on Tuesday greeted the start of annual U.S.-South Korean military drills with its standard fiery threats, vowing "merciless retaliation" for exercises Pyongyang claims are an invasion rehearsal.
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What came next was merciless: Violent protests broke out in Buenos Aires, five presidents came and went in two weeks, and soon Argentina began the largest sovereign default in history until the Greek crisis.
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After the merciless events surrounding asylum-seeking immigrant families, I couldn't help imagining this human/insect sculpture as a metaphor of the emotional trauma inflicted by the administration's border policy, tearing children from parents.
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I had no trust fund to finance my goals and was forced to take a job as a waiter, a gig that ensured my status as bottom feeder in the merciless ecosystem of New York.
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An opposite scenario has caused trouble instead: A mother recently went viral after she wrote to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos about how her daughter, Alexa, has faced merciless teasing because of the company's smart assistant.
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Merciless battle A US administration that repeatedly said peace in Syria was impossible while Assad remained in power is about to give way to one that wants to cooperate with Russia against terrorism in Syria.
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But not until the early '21979s did it begin appearing with merciless persistence at restaurants across Manhattan, in tart after tart, fruit salads, compotes and even savory dishes, lending an algal tinge to beurre blanc.
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This helped a ton when walking back and forth from the interior of ride buildings to exterior walkways and looking at images while walking around under the molten, ever-present eye of a merciless star.
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It's a merciless competition that has already ousted big names like Nvidia and Texas Instruments, and Intel will be better off figuring out different parts of the mobile computing world where it can participate profitably.
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"The council has overseen a raft of violations including merciless killings, brutal rape and sexual violence meted out on peaceful demonstrators by state actors and state affiliates," said the Solidarity for African Women's Rights coalition.
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If I get weary of the world becoming a sea of pink and red and floral lace, I can tune it out, or I can replace it, or I can make merciless fun of it.
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" Line by line, the document tore Ackman open, depicting a merciless megalomaniac who "uses philanthropy to deflect critics" and is "inclined to arrogant, haughty, disdainful, condescending, patronizing behavior and attitudes that he seeks to mask.
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The whole journey is a merciless satire on the themes of white fear, guilt, and hypocrisy, played out in the always charged language of miscegenation—only, this time, with the current of that charge reversed.
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Produced by pyrotechnic events like exploding stars, pulsar bursts, or galactic cores, these rays represent light at its most energetic and powerful, and are capable of ravaging wide swaths of space like merciless cosmic steamrollers.
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By contrast, a woman would have no chance of defending herself to the all-male court, or of being pardoned, and she would go to a merciless death by stoning, shooting or being buried alive.
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The last word on that front came several years back in the glorious "One Man, Two Guvnors," which took a merciless comic scalpel to points across the globe, starting with the London suburb of Dorking.
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In his most impeccable performance, Daniel Day-Lewis plays a merciless oil tycoon in late-19th-century California who, with his son (Dillon Freasier) by his side, persuades residents to lease their land for drilling.
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A late suite of images by Mr. Coplans, a British artist (and co-founder of the magazine Artforum) who photographed his body with merciless objectivity, divides his nude, reclining body across four starkly cropped prints.
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Hughes (Jim Carter and Phyllis Logan), to delight in the mutual bullying of sisters Mary and Edith (Michelle Dockery and Laura Carmichael), and to cackle at the merciless roasts of the Dowager Countess (Maggie Smith).
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The merciless defense attorney outs Justin's heroin addiction in court, and to remain credible to the jury, Justin says that he's "in recovery," which, he technically was at the time—at least he was trying.
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The end of labor-management détente — and the emergence of a merciless assault by business and the Republican Party on workers' pay, security and bargaining strength — have been especially cruel to workers without college degrees.
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Rather his merciless ambition has its source in the shame he experienced as an even littler finger, when he was rejected by Catelyn Tully (Arya and Sansa's mother) in favor of the brawnier Ned Stark.
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A mostly impressive array of experts (including, in the movie's one unfortunate off note, Michael T. Flynn, who was forced to resign as national security adviser) adds to the merciless clarity of this tragic picture.
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This British version is the most merciless and empathic interpretation of this much performed work I've seen, and it keeps returning to my thoughts in piercing shards, like the remnants of a too-revealing dream.
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The fact that this is the brainchild of a dental hygienist, a merciless driller of teeth, who is also patient enough to create an entire game in MS Paint is truly the stuff of nightmares.
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Miller looked at Sloan, then looked at Baldwin, trying to intuit who knew what and who might have been pretending not to know and how best to gently reconcile everyone's hopes with the merciless reality.
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After four sessions of these merciless questions, the client is provided written legal testimony in English and, in some cases, legal advocacy (legal representation lite) during their interview at the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
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Arkham VR is merciless of tone—no spoilers, but the situation depicted in one of the two "missions" I play, after you suit up, takes me by surprise with its brutality—and very different of mobility.
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Mr Dershowitz also points to less organised checks, including critical commentary on social media, disapproving foreign allies and merciless late-night comics: Mr Trump has perked up American satire and the career of Alec Baldwin (pictured).
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This year has felt like a sprint in comparison, with moments like Arya Stark's merciless killing of Walder Frey, Euron Greyjoy's capture of Yara, and Ellaria Sand's punishment at Cersei's hands practically tumbling upon one another.
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Congress decided in 1845 — pre-cars, pre-industry-based-economy — that elections would be held in early November because it was after the fall harvest but before everyone hunkered down against the merciless winds of winter.
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ORAL arguments at the Supreme Court often make for excellent theatre: an hour of well-prepared lawyers clashing over an issue fundamental to American democracy, lashed by questions from merciless justices sitting a few feet away.
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Fated from the start to spoil—their average regular would be roughly 55 years old and making $40 million a year by the time his contract ended—the team was in the moment a merciless machine.
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In the tangled web of V.M. Varga (David Thewlis), Emmit and Ray Stussy (Ewan McGregor), Sy Feltz (Michael Stuhlbarg), and Nikki Swango (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), there's a lot of merciless judgment from God on the way.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea on Thursday warned it would take "merciless self-defensive" measures should the United States enforce a naval blockade, which Pyongyang sees as "an act of war", the isolated nation's state media said.
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"The authorities must immediately stop this merciless crackdown on activists, civil society leaders and others who are guilty of nothing more than exercising their right to freedom of expression," Amnesty's Deprose Muchena said in a statement.
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Perhaps my most shameful assumption was in expecting Jillette, who has built a career at high volume and higher dudgeon, to be a merciless and brutal judge, especially of acts that veer into magic's cheesier precincts.
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"If they infringe on the DPRK's sovereignty and dignity even a bit, its army will launch merciless ultra-precision strikes from ground, air, sea and underwater," North Korean state news agency KCNA said, according to Reuters.
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But before her string of lies came to light, Holmes was a merciless boss who demanded a lot from her employees, worshipped Steve Jobs, really wanted to become a billionaire, and believed she was building an empire.
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Never a show hesitant to kill off main characters, the show's finale season has nonetheless been particularly brutal — and no episode has been more merciless in its treatment of characters than "The Bells," the show's penultimate episode.
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He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
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If you find yourself annually plagued by the merciless bites of these evil insects, then you've come to the right place for itchy-welt relief — because we've strategized a shop guide to do absolute battle against them.
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"She did give a warning shot not knowing that it hit him, and she's being painted as this merciless person that would just leave someone dying in the street when it's just not the case," Jesse continued.
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The answer: Sunday's season premiere saw Rick (Andrew Lincoln) facing the gruesome consequences of Negan's merciless spree, which claimed Abraham (Michael Cudlitz), father-to-be Glenn (Steven Yeun) and nearly part of son Carl's (Chandler Riggs) arm.
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North Korea warned the United States on Tuesday of "merciless" attacks if an aircraft carrier strike group led by the USS Carl Vinson, which is joining South Korean forces for exercises, infringes on its sovereignty or dignity.
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Even in the early stages, she took on major dancehall powerhouses in lyrical battles (Elephant Man at Sting in 2002 and Merciless in 2000) and spoke boldly about the obstacles she's had to face as a woman.
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While the review you're about to read may not be "a truly vicious pan, a merciless slam, a full-scale ethering," you should realize from the headline that Wesley Morris, the reviewer, did not enjoy this film.
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In the final five months of the conflict, government forces waged a merciless campaign to destroy the Tigers and their supporters, shelling hospitals and "No Fire Zones" packed with civilians and killing tens of thousands of people.
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The streaming giant's deep reservoir of documentaries about murder trials and scams reveals the darkest side of humanity, whether it's violent criminals hurting others or the merciless criminal justice system hurting the people it's designed to protect.
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The destruction was so widespread that it could be seen from outer space and so merciless that some in the region worried the Hema weren't just being driven from their homeland but being obliterated as a people.
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At the merciless "Roast of James Franco" in 2013, Jonah Hill targeted Andy Samberg's new cop show, predicting that it would be canceled after five episodes and that Mr. Samberg would have to resort to phone commercials.
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But England will have to contend with Rapinoe, who has scored five goals in five World Cup matches and has surged through this tournament with a freewheeling personality off the field and a merciless intent on it.
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She chalked up that tweet of his about Mika Brzezinski ("bleeding badly from a face-lift") to a laudably bold retaliation against a merciless adversary, and she used it as a springboard to swoon over him anew.
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Everyone else gleams, and that's about it: Brandon is a merciless, impish flirt; Kelsey is, like, an actual model, and she dates Garrett, who has an 8-pack or 10-pack, depending on how he is standing.
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Packing boxes to a merciless timetable and under the watchful eye of a supervisor (Aleksandar Mikic) who may in fact be more sympathetic than he seems, Tamsin sustains cuts to her body and her already fragile ego.
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He can bolt up the floor when need be, but prefers to box inside a phonebooth, with daring step backs, hypnotic in-and-out dribbles, and a reservoir of merciless shoulder/ball/head fakes in tight quarters.
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Timothy Egan Donald Trump Jr. came in for some merciless mocking when he posed in this newspaper in a grunge-era flannel shirt, sitting awkwardly atop a tree stump at the family estate, looking glum and lonely.
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He then replaced Kevin Love in the starting lineup for Game 3, and helped shift the overwhelming impression to that point that these Finals would be a merciless execution at the hands of the Golden State Warriors.
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They set out to build a company that was the opposite of where they had left: Where their boss had prided himself on being merciless, they would view spending on employees as a capital investment in the business.
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North Korea's state news agency KCNA said Trump was taking a big step towards nuclear war in seeking a naval blockade and North Korea would take "merciless self-defence" measures if the United States tried to impose one.
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He is perceived as strong, a tunay na lalake (real man), a tough guy, astig, a reputation earned from his merciless approach to cleaning up the streets of Davao City, where he was mayor from 2000 until 234.
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When the company released this video touting Tronc's disruptive new business strategy, it was subjected to merciless mockery from across the internet: "It's about meeting in the middle," says Tronc chief digital officer Anne Vasquez in the video.
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SEOUL, Dec 14 (Reuters) - North Korea on Thursday warned it would take "merciless self-defensive" measures should the United States enforce a naval blockade, which Pyongyang sees as "an act of war", the isolated nation's state media said.
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Haunted by self-loathing and a sense of his own ugliness — he is repeatedly likened to a boar or rooting hog — he found refuge in a feeling of entitlement, blustering overconfidence, misogyny and a merciless penchant for bullying.
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Announcing his nomination for Secretary of Defense, Trump revelled in using the general's nickname—Mad Dog—and compared him to General George S. Patton, who was famous for his tactical brilliance, his profane language, and his merciless style.
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"East Aleppo this minute is not at the edge of the precipice, it is well into its terrible descent into the pitiless and merciless abyss of a humanitarian catastrophe unlike any we have witnessed in Syria," O'Brien said.
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No one wanted the slow, verbose ballads from a band's fourth album, they wanted something they could skull coldies to in a Wawa parking lot—which Municipal Waste, Warbringer, and Merciless Death were happy to supply in spades.
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In the past year, Swift has tried to make a furious meal of everyone who's fascinated and frustrated by her, explicitly calling her new album Reputation and making merciless fun of how people have perceived her for years.
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North Korea's state news agency KCNA said Trump was taking a big step towards nuclear war in seeking a naval blockade and North Korea would take "merciless self-defence" measures if the United States tried to impose one.
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"We will not abandon you to a merciless enemy trying to kills its way to power," Mr. Mattis said, emphasizing the American position that a negotiated settlement was the only way out of the 16-year-old war.
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The image subsumed by black glitter flecked with blue, Bailey meditates on the vastness of the ocean — through triangle trade, the bodies of enslaved Africans engulfed by the sea, their lives lost to a brutal and merciless institution.
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Crosthwaite's work addresses life on both sides of the US–Mexican border where he conveys the feeling of life bottled up beneath a merciless cork, his observations packed with violence, tenderness, pain, boredom, and his mind-boggling draftsmanship.
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Tcheky Karyo plays the French detective who initially leads the investigation, then comes out of retirement when a clue emerges eight years later, and Arsher Ali is the aspiring journalist who's merciless in his quest for a scoop.
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Speculation has swirled in Washington and in Democratic circles that Harris, who has been a merciless critic of the Trump administration in its first several months, could be a prime contender for the party's presidential nomination in 2020.
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One pop response is a 23 hit like Cardi B's "Bodak Yellow," which itemizes her revenue streams over a somber minor-mode loop and ratchety drum-machine sounds, offering only the prospect of endless hustling against merciless competition.
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He returned to Broadway in 2002 in a production of Noël Coward's "Private Lives," and in 2011 in the Theresa Rebeck comedy "Seminar," playing a novelist and writing instructor whose merciless teaching methods are not all that they seem.
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As far as Girls trying to make a larger point goes, though, "American Bitch" is a particularly merciless chapter that gets at a very real divide between powerful men and the women they hope to impress and/or control.
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They also signal to the audience that it's okay to laugh at the manifestly over-the-top violence, and at John's raging self-pity over being forced against his will to be such a merciless wish-fulfillment fantasy badass.
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That conflict between big dreams and merciless reality helps explain why the loser is such an archetype of independent cinema, the kinds of small-scale, inexpensively made, personal stories that Tribeca pulls in by the dozen year after year.
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For we, too, saw the polytunnels—from the coach, on the way in from the airport—and we saw the Africans who work here, alone or in pairs, riding their bicycles in the merciless sun, moving between the polytunnels.
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Congress, the White House and the public must insist that bright sunlight shine into every corner of every entity, public and private, that uses tax dollars to carry American astronauts out into the limitless and merciless depths of space.
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The scariest thing about Joe (Joaquin Phoenix), in " You Were Never Really Here ," is not the violence that he deals in, merciless though it is, but the fact that so much of it is meted out with a hammer.
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There is beauty in the underdog's defiance and a self-belief beyond reason, and there is also beauty in the subsumed and communal thing that the Spurs do, and in the playful merciless expansion that is the Warriors' game.
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Lakers fans — seldom humble in their devotion to the city's varsity N.B.A. team — have grown ever more merciless during the three weeks since LeBron James announced he would be joining the team on a four-year, $154 million contract.
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CreditCreditThe New York Times DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — They are not inclined to complain, not about the merciless sun or the 500-degree heat, as they labor to transform the pale sands of the Arabian desert into verdant fairways.
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Osaka was as sensitive in the aftermath as she had been merciless during their brief match, encouraging Gauff to stay on court with her for the post-match television interview as a way of helping to process her disappointment.
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Should the U.S. dare to show even the slightest sign of attempt to remove our supreme leadership, we will strike a merciless blow at the heart of the U.S. with our powerful nuclear hammer, honed and hardened over time.
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" As one researcher remembered it, Hewat imagined an aerial shot of 20 7-year-olds subjected by voice-over to merciless prophecy: " 'Five are going to be winners (zoom in), and 15 are going to be losers (zoom in).
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Plus, there is the matter of your family's longstanding history as merciless imperialists and a swathe of British citizens and newspapers who, for reasons that couldn't possibly be racism, have harangued, harassed and libeled you both into the ground.
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Joker rewrites the backstory of one of comics' most infamous villains to be one of humiliation and scorn; essentially, the movie says, he is bullied into mass murder, beset by a merciless society that he must eventually rally against.
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A return of the death penalty, over a decade after it was abolished under pressure from the church, has been a top priority for Duterte, who was swept to power on promises of a merciless war on drugs and crime.
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Welcome to the modern papacy — one that is now eccentric, merciless, and shady AF. As I started writing this review, I tried out a few headlines that I felt encapsulated the vastly different but most defining moments of this fascinating show.
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It was, albeit belatedly, a reminder of all the terrible -- or at least merciless -- things she had done, which made her vengeful destruction of the city less out of character than a demonstration of her quest to win the Iron Throne.
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Sarkozy, who announced last month his candidacy for the April 2017 presidential poll, has said France needs to be "merciless" in its response to the attacks and that there is no place for "legal niceties" in the fight against terrorism.
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SEOUL, March 14 (Reuters) - North Korea warned the United States on Tuesday of "merciless" attacks if an aircraft carrier strike group led by the USS Carl Vinson, which is joining South Korean forces for exercises, infringes on its sovereignty or dignity.
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And finally, of course, there's the politician most like Glass in her willingness to crawl through glass, flip her positions and persona, and even bear up under a mauling by a merciless, manic bear to reach that goal most yearned for.
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"Our toughest counteraction against the U.S. and its vassal forces will be taken in such a merciless manner as not to allow the aggressors to survive," North Korea's official KCNA news agency quoted its military as saying in a statement.
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His decision to bring some police back into the campaign comes after a month of uncertainty about whether he would maintain the momentum of a merciless campaign that has defined his eight-month-old presidency, and has earned him international notoriety.
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At one point in The Meursault Investigation, the main character, Harun, describes a scene that is fixed in his mind: the beach ablaze under the merciless Algerian sun, and the ghostly outline of his brother, Musa, prone on the sand.
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The merciless parody of purple-prosed, rural, English melodramas (stay with me: You don't have to be a master of the form to get Gibbons's jokes) stars Flora Poste, an urbane, 19-year-old orphan with a small yearly allowance.
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During the long, eventful chase across the continent, Rom discovers he lusts after Jane, kicking off a Ming The Merciless-style relationship where he keeps trying to seduce the heroine while simultaneously holding her captive and trying to murder her soulmate.
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Officials have pointed to North Korea's threat of "merciless countermeasures" against Sony if the studio released "The Interview," a movie by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg that made fun of North Korea and includes a fictional assassination of its leader.
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"Should the United States and its followers try to enforce the naval blockade against our country, we will see it as an act of war and respond with merciless self-defensive counter-measures as we have warned repeatedly," the agency said.
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On behalf of the dream that was the Black Education Network and on behalf of all of the other generations of quality programming strangled to demise by a merciless cable system, I enthusiastically applaud the FCC's efforts to unlock the box!
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As he slogs through a merciless stretch of the primary calendar, straining to pick off delegates from Northeastern voters who seem disinclined to embrace his hard-line conservatism, Mr. Cruz, of Texas, has appeared increasingly frustrated amid questions about his path.
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They would endure three freezing winters and two scorching summers of merciless siege and shelling before Bosnian Serb Soldiers under Mladic's orders would over the space of two days murder 7,000 Muslim men and boys -- including many of those we met.
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The leaders of the world will put aside their personal differences and learn to focus on what they agree on: the merciless persecution of migrants, the callous extermination of difference, the bright stupidity of the national flag draped over everything.
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Bana has been stuck in grim, humorless roles for most of his career, but he excels here as the kind of merciless egotist Gervais loves to write: the pompous alpha male whose cruelty and self-interest are entertainingly pure and uncompromised.
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It's a merciless pursuit in these days of intellectualizing wine, often in a way that elevates things that are out of harmony and pooh-poohs wines that — even if they are classic and just as natural — happen to be fancy.
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But where Mr. Mamet made his student a feminist straw woman menacing a man who doesn't much deserve it, the likable yet merciless Zoe is the one we're meant to root for here, against a professor who is guilty as charged.
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As if this past summer of merciless heat waves, droughts and megafires were not warning enough, in the past several days the elements sounded another alarm about the state of a world made warmer by the burning of fossil fuels.
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That first excursion gave him a sense of belonging that he explored over 11 years of visits: dropping in on relatives, pursuing the stories of those targeted by current President Rodrigo Duterte's merciless drug war, even getting a museum commission.
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" But Michelle Garcia, 42, a cafe owner in Los Lunas, N.M., where there is an open House seat in a district that is majority-Hispanic and likely to be highly competitive, said the family separations had been "merciless and counterproductive.
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She expressed shock and awe that her fellow members of a familialist flock, whose professed values include compassion, charity and sisterly love, could "evolve" into merciless resource-hoarders who are only out for themselves and do not support their fellow woman.
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Cats are attracted to bushfire scars (one study found a feral cat journeying 19 miles to one), and when these brilliant hunters find their vulnerable victims they kill with merciless impunity—sometimes not even bothering to eat the carcass afterward.
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It is in these lands, which stretch all the way to the Syrian border, that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and his terror group once went to ground to bide their time, before emerging more powerful, lethal, and merciless than before.
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"Cub" offers a road map for the Hildes and Cindys of today, proposing to the awkward and the ambitious that they are not, in fact, hostage to the merciless social sorting that can happen within the confines of middle school.
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LONDON — Family life doesn't have much going for it in "The Duchess of Malfi," the blood bath of a play from John Webster in which corpses are piled high by a conclusion that is merciless even by 17th-century standards.
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My principal anguish and source of all my joys and sorrows from my youth onward has been the incessant, merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh ... and my soul is the arena where these two armies have clashed and met.
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Nishikori, playing Djokovic on grass for the first time and seeking to end a 12-match losing streak against the Serb, held to 3-2 in the third set before running out of steam against an opponent in merciless form.
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FAANG this week Facebook down 17 percent Netflix down 1.5 percent Apple down 0.5 percent Amazon up 0.3 percent Alphabet up 4.6 percent Elsewhere, earnings are good, but markets are merciless when they're not good, or when growth slows down.
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"The Korean people will regard the face of Trump as a symbol of wolf-like U.S. imperialism and as a target of merciless retaliation and send him to the hell he likes so much to tout," the North Korean editorial responded.
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The epaulets, dropped-crotch jacquard biker pants, quilted cummerbunds, storm trooper boots, mink greatcoats, hauberks and assorted braid and regalia summoned up images of Scott Thorson, Liberace's tragic companion, or else a praetorian guard for Ming the Merciless, the despotic Flash Gordon villain.
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The divisive and abrasive Sarkozy, who announced his candidacy for April's presidential poll late last month, has said France needs to be "merciless" in its response to the attacks and that there was no place for "legal niceties" in the fight against terrorism.
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Raspe ends up watching in horror as the man, reduced to "nothing more than a pair of house shoes" by his depression, is subjected to the "merciless booming penetrating word thunder" of the professor and the "silently flashing gazes" of his students.
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García Martínez's book is an exercise in bridge-burning (I suggested he call it "You'll Never Eat (Free) Lunch in This Town Again"), but his candor in recounting this incident shows that he is just as merciless when examining his own behavior.
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"The brave artillerymen mercilessly and satisfactorily hit the targets and the gunshots were very correct, he said, adding that they showed well the volley of gunfire of our a-match-for-a-hundred artillery force giving merciless punishment to the hostile forces."
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Now, I wouldn't expect Abraham of all people to be the star of a Days of Our Lives-style mini-soap, but it's a welcome reminder that even amidst zombies, outbreaks, and merciless villains, people will still have time for romantic angst.
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ABOARD THE USS CARL VINSON (Reuters) - As the USS Carl Vinson plowed through seas off South Korea on Tuesday, rival North Korea warned the United States of "merciless" attacks if the carrier infringes on its sovereignty or dignity during U.S.-South Korean drills.
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Gasping for life: Syria's merciless war on its own children Nine months later there are remarkable changes in the city, but much of it remains in a state of utter devastation, and the massive rebuilding effort that will be needed here hasn't started.
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But when he let his hands go, it became clear his arsenal was varied and included solid overhand rights, lunging shots from unorthodox angles, and merciless digs to the body — one of which sent McCorry down to the ground in the third round.
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The number one problem with most fishing rods for the average person is that they're made of high-modulus graphite, which is lightweight, but often terribly brittle, especially for something that not only has to withstand the elements but merciless human hands.
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Syria and its merciless civil war is back in the news and in policy discussions, after months of being all but ignored, following reports that President Donald Trump discussed potential resolutions with Russian President Vladimir Putin during last week's summit in Helsinki.
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On the one hand they were handsome, well dressed young men about town at a time when the country was enjoying its post-war boom; on the other they ran a merciless crime syndicate that exerted its power through intimidation and extreme violence.
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Ituri is no longer the bloodiest corner of Congo, but the violence there in recent months was as severe and merciless as the slaughters at the turn of the 20th century, the 21st century, and almost anytime or anywhere in the world.
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Perplexing in other ways were the trousers with high gathered paper-bag waists, vaguely emasculating short shorts, creepy Cliff Huxtable cardigans tucked into waistbands, fanny packs worn at the small of the back, shirts with popped collars reminiscent of Ming the Merciless.
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That's partly because the focus of the night fell most heavily on Michael R. Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City, who came under merciless attack from all five of his onstage rivals — but who is not competing in the Nevada caucuses.
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The Russian attack, initially in staggering disarray but then increasingly organized and brutal, signaled not just the start of the First Chechen War — a merciless conflict that killed tens of thousands of people, mostly civilians — but also the end of Russia's liberal dream.
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Kathryn Hahn has been churning out some of television's most reliably sharp performances for years, portraying an impressively wide range of characters — from an exhausted mom (Girls) to a casually merciless campaign manager (Parks and Recreation) to a horny-as-hell writer (I Love Dick).
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But the best posts, the ones that distinguish his Instagram from hundreds of other stars', the ones that endear him to the 78,000-plus fans who have followed him over the last month, the ones that just slay me, are his merciless self-owns.
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The country's state-run news agency KCNA published an article that said Pyongyang would strengthen its nuclear force and its "merciless sword of justice will cut off (South Korean President) Park Geun-hye's windpipe... despite her attempt to cling (to the) coattails of foreign forces."
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LONDON (Reuters) - For an hour Arsenal were at least salvaging some pride against Bayern Munich, then the ceiling came crashing down as they exited the Champions League last 16 on Tuesday with a matching pair of 553-1 defeats against the merciless Bundesliga giants.
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Compared to the scorched-earth takedowns of Reagan and Bush/Cheney, it's a bland, even benign image, though I can only imagine the truckloads of merciless new Trump drawings tumbling from the artist's studio in the months since the selections for this retrospective were made.
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The 1989 cult hit "Heathers" took this final act of vengeance to an extreme: A merciless group of high-school girls harasses their peers until the characters played by Winona Ryder and Christian Slater murder them one by one, then blow up the entire school.
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"We once again warn the enemies that it is the steadfast will of the KPA to make merciless retaliatory strikes to reduce South Korea to a sea in flames and debris once an order is issued," KCNA cited the Korean People's Army as saying.
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It's finely stitched (as in, I can hardly find the stitching); the fabric, again, is soft as can be; and after repeated use (including a dip or two in the Atlantic) and several trips through my cheap and merciless washing machine, it's holding up.
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Then, with an airplane soaring off it segues into "Earth (Gaia)" which merges Ming the Merciless' Flash Gordon quotes with doom-laden bible soothsaying and rich ambient sounds—and so begins a near-two hour progressive journey that doesn't do a disservice to the title.
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Ms. Crowe-Legacy (recently seen in "If Pretty Hurts ..."), Ms. Fuller ("Is God Is") and Ms. Gilbert ("School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play") are so delicate with the sadness that it keeps coming as a surprise how merciless they are with the comedy.
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Only two of those drives took longer than three minutes, quick strikes that represented a staggering blend of speed and arm strength before giving way to a workmanlike drubbing: methodical, mostly monotonous and essentially merciless — a rarity in a matchup of top-five teams.
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The most astonishing accomplishment of The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. is to catalog this way of thinking in merciless and unsparing detail, to depict exactly how this constant weighing and reckoning of women's market value plays out and justifies itself in men's minds.
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The secretive WTO was a natural target for protest: it had become the most notorious symbol of corporate power run amok among quarters of the left who were skeptical of the belief that there was no alternative to an increasingly merciless model of global capitalism.
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From the phalanx of international germs swirling in the air and coating every hand like deadly, invisible pollen, to the harsh environment of the desert and the merciless schedules, it's easy to go home feeling like a piece of old fruit ignored in a school cafeteria.
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According to Ames, the Word of Life Christian Church – where nine congregants allegedly kicked, whipped, and punched Lucas and his 17-year-old brother, Christopher, who survived the merciless, 12-hour blitz – had lost its luster, transforming from a place of worship to a house of torment.
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This year's Berlin Biennale is only the ninth iteration of the German artistic capital's arts festival, but judging by the swift and merciless dismissal of its curators, DIS, and their theme—a cynical post-internet present—one might have confused it for a hallowed art institution.
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Responses to the commercial, titled "Live For Now Moments Anthem," were swift and merciless on social media, with many detractors accusing Pepsi of blatantly appropriating the spirit and imagery of the anti-Donald Trump resistance, Black Lives Matter and other movements in order to sell their product.
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Whether that's black students getting into school solely because of affirmative action or Asian-American students pushed by merciless "tiger moms" to do whatever it takes, popular stereotypes around race tend to fuel the idea that people of color are "cheating" their ways into elite schools.
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The "forbidding bearded patriarch and lawgiver, a thinker of merciless consistency with a commanding vision of the future" worshiped by leftists was, in Stedman Jones's view, a flawed theorist and failed revolutionary socialist, who overlooked the significance of the democratic revolution he was actually living through.
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Sartre's embrace of Soviet communism, which he abandoned only to endorse Maoism instead, led Aron to condemn him as "merciless towards the failings of the democracies but ready to tolerate the worst crimes as long as they are committed in the name of the proper doctrines".
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Half a decade on and witnessing the calculating and merciless fighter Jones has become, turning every inch of height and reach to his advantage and not even allowing his opponents into the fight, it is fascinating to return to this bout and watch a reckless Jones.
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On a recent weekday in the E.R., John Schiraldi, 25, a recovering heroin addict, was grateful that his merciless kidney stone pain was ebbing not because of intravenous morphine — a conventional E.R. protocol — but because of a regimen that included intravenous lidocaine, a non-opioid analgesic.
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Nadal, who had won 37 completed sets at Roland Garros before losing the first on Wednesday, was back to his old merciless self on Thursday as he belted 26 winners in the last two sets — compared to the eight he had produced during the opening two.
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Tcheky Karyo plays the French detective who initially leads the investigation, then comes out of retirement when a clue emerges eight years later; Jason Flemyng is the police representative on the British side; and Arsher Ali is the aspiring journalist merciless in his quest for a scoop.
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As someone who remains incensed by Frank's merciless treatment of the best character on the show, Peter Russo, the fact that his murder has re-entered the conversation makes me eager to rip through more episodes to find out how that long-festering story line gets resolved.
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In songs from his new album, "Azel" (Partisan), Bombino sang on Saturday about how materialism was displacing ancestral ways, about the merciless conditions of the desert and about lost love — thoughtful tidings delivered with brisk, sinewy guitar lines and arrangements that accelerated dramatically as they went.
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During his four-year trial, the prosecution portrayed Mr. Mladic, who led the Bosnian Serb army during the 1992-1995 war, as a merciless and fanatical commander, responsible for the destruction of Sarajevo and the massacre of thousands of captured Bosniak boys and men at Srebrenica.
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Described by colleagues as endlessly curious and fearless about venturing into unexplored zones, he studied fruit flies, bacteria, Italian marriage records, human blood groups, African Pygmies and the political and religious views of American college students and their parents, analyzing his own findings with merciless statistical rigor.
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After making layered, silk-screened floral patterns in the 21970s, Mr. Wool became more gestural; three extraordinary paintings here from the 21984s, with cloudy spray-gun loop-de-loops and merciless erasures, exhibit a simultaneous love and doubt of abstraction that recalls the best of Albert Oehlen.
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After making layered, silk-screened floral patterns in the 1990s, Wool became more gestural; three extraordinary paintings here from the 2000s, with cloudy spray-gun loop-de-loops and merciless erasures, exhibit a simultaneous love and doubt of abstraction that recalls the best of Albert Oehlen.
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"Such acts prove that the U.S. is hatching a criminal plot to unleash a war against the DPRK and commit a crime which deserves merciless divine punishment in case the U.S. fails in the scenario of the DPRK's unjust and brigandish denuclearisation first," the paper reportedly said.
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" It does not mention the only statement about Indigenous people in the Declaration, an accusation that the British monarch "has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes, & conditions.
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On Monday night Mr. van Hove, the recipient of both an Olivier Award and a Tony for his abstract, and merciless, reinvention of Arthur Miller's "A View From the Bridge," opened a scarcely less bruising production of that Ibsen stalwart "Hedda Gabler," in his National Theater debut.
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From hundreds of conversations with grieving relatives and friends, witnesses and police officers, the social forces that flare into murder in a place like the 40th Precinct become clearer: merciless gang codes, mental illness, drugs and long memories of feuds that simmered out of officers' view.
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In response, Pyongyang accused the US of preparing a "preemptive strike", according to North Korea's Korean Central News Agency, KCNA, "If they infringe on the our sovereignty and dignity even a bit, our army will launch merciless ultra-precision strikes from ground, air, sea and underwater," read the statement.
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" An editorial in the state-run Rodong Sinmun newspaper said: "If the enemies recklessly provoke the DPRK, its revolutionary armed forces will promptly give deadly blows to them and counter any total war with all-out war and nuclear war with a merciless nuclear strike of Korean style.
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Lean, sturdy, with the stern, scholarly face of a politician, and the merciless eyes and mouth of a Chinese hatchet man from an old Hollywood film, he was dressed in a blue vest and wearing a pair of black Muay Thai boxing shorts turned inside-out (for good luck).
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Here are some pieces you may have missed in a busy news week: Gasping for life: Syria's merciless war on its own children In a CNN exclusive report, video footage of the aftermath of the recent chemical attack in Syria reveals the unsanitized view of what happened that day.
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" Case in point: "I'm not exactly a macho dude, and my girlfriend's a staunch feminist, but you'd better believe I watch any kids' movies I want to when she's out of the house to avoid the jovial but merciless teasing that would surely follow if she found out.
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Maggie's worried about the remaining Saviors mounting a revenge attack, Michonne tells him, but despite the fact that Rick has been bloody, brutal, and merciless in the name of making sure his people are always as safe as possible, for some reason he strangely doesn't seem vigilant anymore.
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That said, the Salford City lion looks as if it is pondering something philosophical – like the ethical implications of former Premier League footballers commandeering a local non-league side, say – while the Wolverhampton wolf appears to be thinking solely about devouring its prey with its merciless, menacing, triangular eyes.
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The singular strength of this merciless yet compassionate work, closely modeled on O'Neill's own savagely unhappy clan and set on one devastating day in 1912 in a run-down Connecticut summer house, lies in its cadenced cycle of recrimination and forgiveness, of attack and retreat and renewed attack.
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Read more: Carlos Vela dribbles past 4 players to score outrageous goal, clapping back at Zlatan Ibrahimovic's merciless trollingAnd all City can do is watch from the sidelines as its former son shines bright, with his next match on Friday when Dortmund travels to FC Koln in the Bundesliga.
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The bubbles protect, but they also distort, and in so doing they make a thousand little paradoxical miracles: action without impetus, consequences without causes, sprawling and merciless bigotries without individual bigots carrying them out, a world that makes perfect sense to the beholder and precisely no one else.
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However, their merciless intensity surely delivers the greatest ocular impact and stands in stark but complimentary contrast to Lequeu's utopian visionary architectural drawings done in the Neoclassical vein of Étienne-Louis Boullée and Claude-Nicholas Ledoux (though Lequeu's taste is a bit more degenerate, flamboyant and ornamental than theirs).
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The book was revolutionary for its time, in its willingness to portray alcoholism as a state of merciless dependence rather than a metaphysical state illuminated by the sepia-tones of tragic myth, as Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Faulkner, the holy trinity of modernist drunks, had done half a generation earlier.
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Slick and fierce and merciless in front of the goal, Ricardo was picked out during an area scouting day this year and offered an opportunity: Leave home, move to Dallas, live with a family there and join the youth academy of F.C. Dallas, the city's Major League Soccer team.
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Competition is merciless — one coach here recalled a 13-year-old who was sent home after only three days because he had sprained an ankle — and the living situation in a team's Casa Club, or clubhouse, is rarely luxurious, with players sometimes living a dozen to a room.
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When it's safe, text, iMessage or WhatsApp your videos, photos and stories to CNN: 347-322-0415 Lumberton, North Carolina (CNN)Florence's merciless deluge has already killed 183, trapped hundreds and made parts of North and South Carolina impassable -- and authorities say the worst flooding is yet to come.
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REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson Death of a businessman: How the Philippines drugs war slowed downWhen Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte summoned his security chiefs to an urgent meeting last month, they had no idea what was coming: a suspension of the police force's leading role in the merciless war on illegal drugs.
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Related: Calabrian Mafia reportedly cultivated suspicious links to Australian politicians Italian prosecutor Federico Cafiero De Raho described Fazzalari as a "merciless killer" and a central actor in a bloody six-year turf war between rival 'Ndrangheta clans that left more than 600 people dead from 1985 to 1991 in Calabria.
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It runs from the standard right-wing propaganda of Stephens, to the centrist bromides of David Brooks, to a moderate liberalism that cheers Trump's bombs on Syria and boos student protesters at Middlebury, to the howling wasteland that is Thomas Friedman's column, where he screams gibberish at a merciless sky.
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Though the world knew him for his fiery threats to obliterate the United States, and he entered the U.S. pop culture lexicon in 2014 with Seth Rogen and James Franco's movie "The Interview" — for which Kim threatened "merciless" retaliation — he hadn't stepped foot outside North Korea since becoming its leader.
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Unassuming in a baseball cap and shorts, Hodgson was earnest and thoughtful, discussing Mystery Science Theater 3000's enduring popularity, how he decided to cast updated versions of beloved characters, and why new movies should be spared the merciless riffing treatment of robot sidekicks Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot.
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On Friday night, he recast and zeroed in on some of his most caustic and merciless songs — among them "Masters of War" from 1963, "Ballad of a Thin Man" from 1965 and "Pay in Blood" from 2012 — and sang them with deep cunning and venom coming through his much-weathered voice.
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He exists in two states: slow boil and merciless eruption, and is so comfortable in the mid-range, with a confidence that reinforces itself every time he drills a baseline fadeaway from behind the backboard, or uses the intuition of a warhorse to casually draw fouls 18 feet from the basket.
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Murdoch is the last of the media moguls who rose to power in the latter part of the last century, part of a colorful cohort that includes Sumner Redstone, John Malone and Barry Diller, merciless executives who forged the TV industry as cable and satellite became the dominant platform for entertainment.
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The central figure in one tale struggles to face his own mediocrity, even as the neighborhood animals show him his musical gifts; another features a merciless oppressor who exploits a band of tree frogs; elsewhere, a boy undertakes a seemingly useless project that ends up serving his community for generations.
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In a letter to the members of her caucus released Tuesday night, Pelosi warned that the GOP's replacement legislation represents "a merciless assault on working families" nationwide, enjoining the lawmakers to use every tool at their disposal to rally public opposition to the Republicans' repeal-and-replace package ahead of Thursday's scheduled vote.
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They make you feel, whether it is Tomas Munita's moody images of the unending wait for change in Cuba; Daniel Berehulak's documenting of the merciless, vigilante-style war on drugs in the Philippines; or Newsha Tavakolian's portraits of her fellow Iranians as they go about daily life against the backdrop of geopolitical drama.
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As usual, the tag "experimental black metal" only scratches the surface of what they get up to in this one—their customary complexity and dizzying technicality is on full display, and speeds by at a breakneck pace, cramming stop-start riffs, merciless drumming, churning death, malicious black, and unexpectedly clear, shouted, manic vocals.
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But in her review of "The Campus Rape Frenzy" (April 9), Jill Filipovic is merciless in her criticism of its authors, KC Johnson and Stuart Taylor Jr., for their use of anecdotal evidence about men falsely accused of date rape in order to call attention to the ruinous effect of such denunciations.
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This is also, sadly, the long and stubborn story of wrestling and labor, which is a generations-spanning game of divide and conquer, with big bonuses for the powerful, encouragement of petty spats by management, and the merciless casting of those who dare to question the status quo into the memory hole.
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As is now customary with the passing of public figures, social media exploded with condolences for the family of the late Mayor Rob Ford on Tuesday, making it clear that a man once the subject of merciless ridicule was now being afforded a level of sympathy and kindness unfathomable just a few short years ago.
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But the Times story shows that Wells Fargo employees were victims of merciless pressure across the company to jack up the number of accounts per customer, resulting in as many as five accounts for a single person, including accounts that were supposed to be used on special days like Christmas or a family member's birthday.
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"When the state gives the 'License to Kill' with impunity and abdicates its solemn responsibility to uphold the 'Rule of Law,' resulting in vigilantism, death, and merciless killings of innocent lives, then each one of us should castigate it, decry it, and question it," Abhishek Singhvi, spokesperson for the National Congress Party, told reporters.
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Perhaps the best indication of General McMaster's thinking, and the likelihood of conflict with Mr. Bannon and others, is his 1997 book, "Dereliction of Duty," a merciless, meticulous study of the early days of the Vietnam War, and how senior civilian officials and the Joint Chiefs of Staff led the country into a quagmire.
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But her slam-dunk portrayals of real and fictitious killers — the convicted murderer Aileen Wuornos from "Monster," Imperator Furiosa in "Mad Max: Fury Road," Ravenna in "Snow White and the Huntsman" and now a merciless hand-to-hand combatant in the new "Atomic Blonde" — all suggest a woman who does not easily suffer fools.
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The merciless enforcement of the conditions routinely placed on those on the registry has resulted in the constant re-incarceration of offenders — not because they have committed new crimes but for technical violations of the conditions themselves, like failure to maintain a driving log, being late for curfew or failing to pay polygraph fees.
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For the first two games of the Grizzlies first round series with the Spurs, Selden looked exactly as lost as you would expect a rookie to look against Gregg Popovich's merciless basketball machine; he scored just five points on ten shots, and looked at times like a player who was a little bit too aware of the moment.
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He addressed topics that the people in charge think millennials are too stupid and apathetic to understand, like the NHS, Syria, and police brutality, and did so with intelligence and wit, even imploring the Leader of the Opposition, Jeremy Corbyn, to do more on behalf of the young people and minorities suffering after merciless cuts and austerity measures.
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Walker's merciless flights of fantasy, taken together with Golub's acid-washed realism, form a compelling diagnosis of the sickness we call Trumpism: the original sin of slavery compounded with the wages of imperialism, from the crucible of Vietnam to the Reagan/Bush proxy wars of the 1980s, to the endless debacle of the Bush/Cheney invasion of Iraq.
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On songs like "The Sparrow," Agrimonia's uncanny ability to cogently blur the lines between the already closely-related, often amorphous sounds of post-metal, post-rock, rock, and doom is on full display, and despite this sonic cannibalization, the result sounds completely fresh and new (especially once they fire up the keyboards and Blom unleashes her merciless growl).
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When just about every old-school science-fiction villain would seem at least faintly ridiculous if they returned these days — think Ming the Merciless in Flash Gordon or Ricardo Montalban's bare-chested, long-haired appearance in Star Trek: Wrath of Khan — why are we still so perversely fascinated by the guy in a breathing apparatus and motorcycle gloves?
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The best-possible-girl-who-wants-to-be-a-boy was confronted by a direct challenge to her identity: In the story of art, a story of merciless male excellence, a story littered with neglected or abandoned children and the neglected or abandoned careers of those women whose capacity for selfishness failed them, who was she?
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While Edison's poor judgment in the War of Currents is perhaps his most famous fuck-up—it incited a spate of back-and-forths when the Oatmeal published a comic portraying him as a villain and Tesla an angelic science unicorn in 2012—he was also a merciless thug who attempted a monopoly on the movie-making business.
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Read more: Zlatan Ibrahimovic proved once again that he's soccer's biggest ego with a brutal response to a reporter's harmless questionCarlos Vela dribbles past 4 players to score outrageous goal, clapping back at Zlatan Ibrahimovic's merciless trollingZlatan Ibrahimovic's wife only lets him hang one picture of himself at home, and it's not even of his face
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It said the possibility of a naval blockade, a sanction proposed by the U.S. as a response to North Korea's launching of intercontinental ballistic missiles and nuclear tests, was a "violation of its sovereignty and dignity" and that it would take "merciless self-defense measures" against the blockade, which it sees as an act of war.
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We're going to let you in on one of life's biggest secrets: "I'm blue da be dee da be dai de da be deedee da be da dabe di da be daiiii..." Some people know this song from MTV or because it was was on constant rotation on the radio; other people know it thanks to merciless 9gag users.
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On the opposite wall of the room, merciless lampoons of Il Duce's fall from grace hang alongside graphic depictions of corpses in a concentration camp by Carlo Levi and the hellish landscape full of writhing nudes of Mario Mafai's Il Bivacco (1939): this is one very rare instance of "resistance" art, which is, though not shockingly, is largely absent from the exhibition.
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Jolted from our reveries by the more brutal stories of the merciless, news-cycle variety, it's as though we've woken from a beautiful dream to realize that having once elected an idealistic black president did not in fact ensure that other revolutions would quickly follow, and indeed that certain structures of power, soft and hard, remain all the more firmly entrenched and internalized.
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It's covered in an oily slick of dark and iridescent paint, but periodically significant colors splash across it: the green of money and the state, in the form of a throne; the red of sex and sin in Gertrude's satin-draped bedroom; the merciless and earthy brown of death in the grave dirt that strews across the stage in the final act.
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And yet the episode's tense climactic set piece is innovative and deftly paced: a wordless infiltration of David's house by the rescue team, which culminates in an assassination attempt by the merciless mutant-hunter, the Eye, and a reality shift through David's white room into an asylum where he and his fellow mutants find themselves under the tender mercies of "Doctor" Lenny.
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All those merciless cullings and endless organizational refinements, all that data and all the brilliant minds and machines working it over, all resolving to some underpaid grunt in a folding chair whaling away on a garbage can because the members of the team's brain trust of thoroughbred data nerds simply took it for granted that they could get away with it.
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" The offending excerpt, which details a long list of transgressions committed by King George III, contains the following passage: FACEBOOK SLAMMED FOR &aposCENSORSHIP&apos OF COUNTRY GROUP&aposS PATRIOTIC SONG "He has excited domestic insurrections against us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
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Amy Berg's documentary, presented here in an extended version by "American Masters," analyzes Joplin's needy inner child as it recounts her merciless bullying as a teenager — at the University of Texas, Austin, a fraternity campaigned to elect her the "ugliest man on campus" — lonely nights and eventual abandonment by a San Francisco drug dealer after he asked her father for permission to marry her.
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And it will lead to a two-tier system in which wealthy Americans go "off grid" to get high-quality medical attention while the rest of the country is stuck in a system that will resemble the V.A. Trump will also be merciless about this, politically, claiming that this is just the sort of socialism he warned about in his State of the Union speech.
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A spokesman said North Korea "will strike a merciless blow at the heart of the US with our powerful nuclear hammer," should the US offer any indication of an attempt to get rid of Kim Jong Un.—CNN Wildfires in France Force 10,000 to EvacuateAt least 10,000 people in France's Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region were evacuated from their homes Tuesday night to avoid rapidly spreading wildfires.
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Looking at the 867 Democrats satisfied with Warren as nominee across the four polls: 44% are also satisfied with Buttigieg35% are also satisfied with Booker33% are also satisfied with O'Rourke22% are also satisfied with Castro19% are also satisfied with KlobucharThe math of the debate gauntlet is merciless for middle-tier contenders, as only two-thirds of the candidates on stage in Ohio have punched their ticket to the November show.
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They are Terence Rattigan's "The Deep Blue Sea" at the National Theater, in which the wondrous Helen McCrory adds yet another memorable portrait to her gallery of devastatingly devastated women; a three-play, single-day, engrossing marathon of early Chekhov works (also at the National); an especially bruising "Midsummer Night's Dream" at Shakespeare's Globe; and Simon Stone's merciless and mesmerizing updating of Federico García Lorca's "Yerma," starring a fabulous Billie Piper.
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I'm not naming names, but it's been a long time since I've owned a grill that didn't immediately show signs of wear and tear, let alone last a full year (four seasons in the temperate Northeast of the United States) out in the open, pelted with everything from wind (upwards of 60 mph), rain, hail, snow, salt (it lives less than 100 yards from the sea), and merciless summer sunlight.
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Read more:Meet Diego Rossi: The unheralded 21-year-old 'quarterback' who has steered Los Angeles FC's march toward the MLS CupJosef Martinez has won the 'MLS Goal of the Year' award for his extraordinary rainbow flick and top corner finish against FC CincinnatiCarlos Vela dribbles past 4 players to score outrageous goal, clapping back at Zlatan Ibrahimovic's merciless trollingUSWNT star Alex Morgan just announced that she's pregnant on social media
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