Usefully for her work, Adams was a pitiless romantic: pitiless in the Flaubertian sense — a kind of ideal objectivity — and yet always hoping for better things.
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Make grammar great again, she shouted into the pitiless abyss!
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The court appreciates the pitiless severity of your house rule.
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His advisers are viewed in mostly pitiless terms by Woodward.
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I repeated this several times around the time of Pitiless.
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Dhaka's drivers may be the most brutish and pitiless on earth.
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Life is pitiless and strange; only simpletons look for neat meanings.
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Instead, it was a pitiless mirror that revealed an addict in denial.
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Hillcoat. He seems to prefer movies where a pitiless sky hangs heavy over
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In the pitiless cold it felt like an entire continent was against him.
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I was up there in the sheer, pitiless air of the 82nd floor.
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Central banks are pitiless executioners of long-lived booms, and monetary policy has shifted.
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Mets 4, Dodgers 2 LOS ANGELES — The Mets exacted pitiless revenge against Chase Utley.
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After two pitiless defeats, Thailand still had a chance to reach the second round.
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But it lengthens in an age of relentless government surveillance and pitiless political publicity.
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Serpell is a pitiless and often very funny observer of people and of society.
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Is Louise's pitiless act the transference of her forbidden feelings about her privileged employer?
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The pitiless words of "Bye Bye Blackbird" and "Terre Sèche" were caressed, yet starkly clear.
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Here, the world — white, pitiless, punishing — comes down like a hammer on Fonny and Tish.
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But it is hard not to find something Chekhovian in Osipov's precision and pitiless honesty.
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It softens Jackson's idea of horror, which sees the frail innocent destroyed by a pitiless universe.
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They may not use his particular cover and cast pitiless self-gratification as a healing touch.
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The Pakistani people have suffered terribly in the past two decades of pitiless terrorism and war.
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Cusk is pitiless about her parents, and anyone else, who thinks this is a power move.
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We get M's "Pop Muzik," which to my horror I remember, in pitiless detail, from 1979.
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It is true that Tuco is a pitiless psychopath, but his malice has never been Mike's problem.
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But Clinton was not left to the swift and pitiless justice that today's accused men have experienced.
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Then her rock band kicks in, her voice gets rough and her words turn pointed and pitiless.
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The lyrics begin with the rapper "made of war," personified as a pitiless, incessant force of nature.
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It is unrealistic to order that these programs be dismantled, even if pitiless constitutional logic suggests otherwise.
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Trump's "dog" insults reveal the bleak, pitiless view of the world that characterizes his whole approach to politics.
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Art Review Like many driven artists, Diane Arbus was a pitiless self-editor and a liberal self-documenter.
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The book calls her "a cold and pitiless goddess," but to me she was self-assured, unapologetically powerful.
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Her voice and vision are idiosyncratic and pitiless, combining mischief and crisp authority, formal experimentation and deep feeling.
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Rogue One recently reminded us that Vader was a pitiless commander, a brutal warrior, and evil as they come.
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Here, as throughout, the framing remains steady, a visual choice that can feel like a long, hard, pitiless stare.
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The battle began with life vanishing into the pitiless dark; it ended with life desperately leaping out of it.
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Mr. Murphy, well matched with Mr. Dornan (Christian Grey in "Fifty Shades of Grey"), is impressive as a pitiless patriot.
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It wasn't enough for the Blazers, because the pitiless algorithm that is Curry's jump shot fully calibrated itself in overtime.
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Fear of MS-13 members whistling at dusk, a taunting reminder that they were watching and waiting, armed and pitiless.
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More than three years into its pitiless war, the specter of more death, displacement and hunger is looming over Yemen.
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They grapple momentarily before "The Animal" frees his left hand and lands a series of brisk, pitiless punches on Lessard's face.
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It wouldn't be the first time Kim Jong Un, a youthful dictator still in his 30s, had meted out pitiless punishment.
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At times, heroin and alcohol have the sense of peace within them, but methamphetamine is pitiless, harsh and dry and bright.
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And "Burning Bright (Field on Fire)" is a slow, pitiless, formidably layered rock stomp that could be about immolation or rebirth.
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Ivan, after Rocky beat him, suffered a kind of living death, stripped of his dignity and identity by a pitiless system.
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I was just a mildly rambunctious boy on planet Earth: bicycle crashes, skiing accidents, pitiless shore breaks, a drunken tussle or two.
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From one perspective, this can look almost cruel; the crystalline, probing ball-movement really is pitiless in its search for a weakness.
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This childishly wily Mary is a very damp match for Catherine McCormack's pitiless Elizabeth and her aureole of fabulous, if anachronistic, hair.
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Handlers from the Jaish-e-Muhammad, the Pakistani terrorist group behind the attack, exploited the young man raised in a pitiless war.
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Speckled with present-day politics and musings on global capitalism, "Have a Nice Day" conjures a small-town landscape of pitiless greed.
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It's an austere, pitiless world and might be a near-unbearable, unwatchable one if the director Daniela Thomas didn't hook you early.
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He's always identified with athletes — the rigorous training, the full-body commitment, the pitiless tug-of-war between ability and dumb luck.
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The opening scene of "Elle" is a shocker: a brutal sexual assault witnessed by a house cat and filmed with pitiless detachment.
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It is a sharp comedy of manners about the nouveau riche of Delhi, refugees who are remaking themselves in a pitiless city.
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Those who lack the means to distort the system for their own ends are subjected to the pitiless letter of the law.
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Walters is no Ruth Rendell, but here she writes with the subtle cruelty and pitiless insights of that author's alter ego, Barbara Vine.
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It's currently available on Soundcloud in its entirety, for the first time in the history of graceful ferocity, youthful anthems, and pitiless eras.
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But "Narcos" makes clear his pitiless willingness to murder thousands of innocents—politicians, judges, children—in the quest to fill his own pockets.
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The melodies on Pitiless Censors are instantly classic, even catchy, but the arrangements are bizarre and spooky, like organs in a haunted house.
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And now the pitiless blades of the backhoes that dug a new foundation had created a Mad Max hellscape of hard-packed dirt.
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Elsewhere in Slight Exaggeration you consider the aphorism as a literary mode — in particular you take up Emil Cioran and his pitiless aphorisms.
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Milosz witnessed World War II and the Holocaust, living through the German occupation of Poland and the terrible, pitiless slaughter that accompanied it.
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"Her voice and vision are idiosyncratic and pitiless, combining mischief and crisp authority, formal experimentation and deep feeling," our critic Parul Sehgal writes.
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I'm pretty pessimistic there, because my favorite records that I've made, the one right before Pitiless, I think they're infused with a lightness.
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UNDER A PITILESS sun, the river of humanity crosses the Simón Bolívar bridge without cease, its flow more powerful than the muddy stream beneath.
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The writer's calling is to set that memory in the amber of his prose; in Proust's pitiless formulation, art is all, life is nothing.
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But, in the flatly pitiless language of official documents, her death certificate lays out what happened next: The 22-year-old granddaughter of Sen.
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It is worth seeing "Happy End" for the long scene between him and the remarkable Fantine Harduin—between the pitiless patriarch and his granddaughter.
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And they sing, all 2249 of them, all through the day, while the spectators look down on them, benevolent and pitiless as the sun.
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He has engaged in a pitiless war with Yemen, imposed a blockade on Qatar and embraced increasingly aggressive positions toward Iran and other rivals.
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But at the moment it looks as if they carried out their plan and achieved their pitiless martyrdom without the support of a group.
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The second half tears it apart slowly and painfully, emphasizing Tom's helplessness and Isabel's pitiless selfishness, which is starting to look like Cianfrance's favorite theme.
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Darwin's death is a reminder of the pitiless power of fentanyl, a drug that can kill children even through accidental ingestion of very small quantities.
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He had spent 15 years caring for her as she slowly died from Alzheimer's, watching the pitiless disease sap her personality, her voice, her vitality.
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In his six-volume autobiographical novel, "My Struggle," Knausgaard documents their stormy marriage in pitiless detail: her rages, his resentments, their ecstasies of mutual recrimination.
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Even Starbucks — once a champion of compassionate capitalism — recently began experimenting with pitiless automated scheduling software to assign shifts, before backing off after public outcry.
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Although the people of Herzogenweiler were deeply devout, theirs was a pre-Reformation sort of Catholicism—a murky brew of folklore, superstition, and pitiless religion.
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That's something innumerable writers have done, obviously, but they seemed to do it in a newly dangerous way — with a pitiless, dispassionate modesty of ambition.
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I wouldn't associate Genghis Khan with palliative care, I think to myself, as I follow them towards the statue of Mongolia's famously pitiless founding father.
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Who could forget Stanley Tucci's pitiless verdict in The Devil Wears Prada when Anne Hathaway ducks into his studio for some real talk about Miranda Priestly?
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Does it ever occur to some of our more militant millennials that the pitiless standards they apply to others will someday be applied pitilessly to them?
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This is partly due to his pitiless prose, tautly translated from the German by Michael Hofmann, its simplicity and calmness adding to the menace of his images.
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But every so often they will come together in the sky again—a golden ring around a pitiless shadow—and look down over us for something worthy.
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Photographed in New Mexico by the incomparable Giles Nuttgens, what will become Toby's bid for redemption unfolds on a sweating canvas of baked yellow and pitiless gold.
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After a short while Handong's marriage ends in a pitiless divorce, and he manages to find Lan Yu again, but their hard-earned contentment is short-lived.
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He winds up with a dead man riding shotgun and, later, under the thumb of Ann Savage, as perhaps the most pitiless femme fatale of the era.
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I confessed to the reader that the nakedness of the emotions I was describing, undefended against the pitiless glare of irony, made them embarrassing to write about.
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After all, it was her pitiless judgment that convinced Axe to treat Sandicot harshly, and she's used to giving her husband's raging id a lot of latitude.
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Among the most unsettling is "Le Bonheur" (1965), a shocking, pitiless evisceration of the romantic vision of heterosexual marriage in which women are fundamentally disposable and replaceable.
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Books of The Times During the summer of 2013, Joe Biden's oldest son, Beau, learned he had a glioblastoma, an especially ferocious and pitiless type of brain tumor.
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As Mafia rivals waged a cruel and pitiless campaign for control of the island beginning in the late 1970s, Ms. Battaglia was unflinchingly present, unwilling to look away.
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My hormone-therapy prescription was designed both to recognize the suffering of the sinner—he's "sick" and treatable with medicine—and to punish him with that pitiless word. Castration.
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They do, however, have a responsibility to air them amid intelligent engagement including, if necessary in the view of a critical mass of reasonable people, pointed and pitiless takedown.
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There can be something pitiless about Mr. Shults's gaze, but the steadiness of his look is that of the artist who refuses to sell the truth out for sentimentalism.
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On Wednesday, in front of a loud and hostile crowd at Rogers Centre, the Indians took another step on the road to erasing almost seven decades of pitiless failure.
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And though many wage laborers desired unions to protect them from the schemes of mercenary and pitiless employers, competition among the various ethnic and gender groups complicated the effort.
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In Venice, his show will compete for attention with 22017 others held in national pavilions, as well as with numerous "collateral events," and face a pitiless lineup of critics.
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He had a pitiless eye and a penchant for spotting trends and then giving them names, some of which — like "Radical Chic" and "the Me Decade" — became American idioms.
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The battle for Aleppo appears to be reaching a climax with the pitiless tactics employed by the Assad regime and Russia against the city beginning to have an effect.
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Pro sports are a young man's game and a pitiless business, and Deguara is very young by the standards of almost every profession except the one that he is pursuing.
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This story — of pitiless teenagers taking turns with a woman, then caving in her skull — was big enough, terrible enough, to electrify a city grown numb to its own badness.
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Employing neither computer-generated effects nor a distracting score, "The Survivalist" bolsters its pitiless tone and uneasy mood with natural woodland sounds and the unreliable light of fire and lamp.
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Whatever follows Syria's pitiless civil war will not be of America's making; the only thing the U.S. can decide is how many lives to take and lose in the interim.
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"All of Ramtha was just like me," Mr. Moghrebi said, describing a good will rooted in family ties that spanned the border, and sympathy for the victims of a pitiless war.
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And at the Humane Society of the United States, we do, speaking out against the pitiless methods by which this nation raises and slaughters 10 billion animals a year for food.
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Soon after, the province Inquisitor receives a letter threatening to drive all Christians from the region by the same pitiless methods the church uses to force Muslims to convert or die.
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The siege has been deemed "one of the most pitiless onslaughts in this long-running and brutal civil war" by the top United Nations human rights official, Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein.
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The video clip, directed by the Ethiopian photographer and artist Aïda Muluneh, makes the desert a picturesque fashion backdrop for Ms. Diawara and a pitiless passage for a migrant young man.
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Mr. Xu was one of the countless workers from the countryside who travel to China's growing cities seeking employment, only to be eaten alive by the tedious, pitiless demands of industry.
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" But by that time the pitiless forces of the 20th century were inching closer, and the old world was about to vanish — a story told in Sarah Abrevaya Stein's "Family Papers.
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In fact, his determination to avoid American casualties, even as he expanded the battlefield, reinforced the impression that for all his talk of cooperation and partnership, he was a pitiless realist.
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In his rhetoric, Trump is a throwback, using "dog" almost exclusively with its earlier, nasty connotations—and revealing the bleak, pitiless view of the world that characterizes his whole approach to politics.
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His music lacks Varèse's pitiless severity, Boulez's fine-grained intellectualism, Stravinsky's happy embrace of aesthetic discipline—or, on purely American terms, the joyful, uncompromising originality of a fellow Southern Californian, Harry Partch.
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And throughout it's an attempt to explain in dramatic terms how someone lacking the zeal of patriotism might choose a life in the detached, pitiless and barely understood profession we call intelligence.
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WASHINGTON — The bad-news stories slammed into the White House in pitiless succession on Tuesday, leaving President Trump's battle-scarred West Wing aides staring at their flat screens in glassy-eyed shock.
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But more often, and more disturbingly, it feels like a juridical peep show, in which the criminal law appears as just a special case of a male-dominated society's pitiless daily judgments.
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"Pay in Blood" from 2012 was a crisp, gory threat, and two of Mr. Dylan's most accusatory 1960s songs, "Desolation Row" and "Ballad of a Thin Man," were sped up but remained pitiless.
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And whether it happens in the pages of a fashion magazine, under the sexism of the art world, or in the pitiless gears of the atomic age, all that flattening is certainly violent.
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Even decades later, I can instantly see Charlton Heston collapsing on a beach under the pitiless gaze of the Statue of Liberty as he bellows at a world that has betrayed him (us).
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Dewilde renders the jihadists as pitiless, Kalashnikov-firing skeletons in order to express his sentiment that the killers do not belong to a specific human race or religious sect, but are fanatic madness itself.
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As for the pitiless ending, in which Raoul and Valentine die at the Huguenots' side, Kriegenburg directed with restraint, avoiding the temptation to drench the stage with blood and populate it with Fascistic thugs.
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" Jack London wrote about the "imaginative" drunk for whom the "white light of alcohol" granted access to bleak truths about the human conditions — what he called "the pitiless, spectral syllogisms of the white logic.
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In her own hard shell of a navy pinstripe suit, she is tart, verging on pitiless; you feel her need to distance herself from the prospect of becoming exactly the same kind of woman.
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The improved image of the dog is tied to a larger shift in ideology, a move from a view that life is bleak and pitiless to a more optimistic sense of human (and canine) nature.
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When John Maus released We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves, he was just your average deeply neurotic philosophy lecturer from the University of Hawaii on a quest to make the perfect pop song.
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By which I mean that the city's plight today — its exposure to Putin's whims and a revived Assad's pitiless designs — is a result of the fecklessness and purposelessness over almost five years of the Obama administration.
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And as we watch Herold gain confidence in his deception, sliding from fearful fugitive to pitiless con man, we see how the allure of a uniform might sicken its wearer as well as subjugate its followers.
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Easy enough for civilians to conceal or suffer, a pimple takes on major proportions when it happens to someone whose image will be scrutinized by 32.9 million viewers under the pitiless gaze of high-definition television.
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It's a pitiless vision of who we are, crowded with grim hallucinations and grimmer jokes that nevertheless — through startling combinations of color and form in the service of unfettered imaginings — manage to feel lighter than air.
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But her story, based on true events, is no predictable chronicle of wartime woe: she is pitiless toward everyone, herself included, unapologetic about having been a stone-hearted lover, a neglectful mother, and a reckless globe-trotter.
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For the American premiere of "The Low Road," a satire of unbounded self-interest and pitiless capitalism, the playwright Bruce Norris realized he needed to change the last name of his scurrilous 18th-century protagonist, Jim Trumpett.
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And I can't help wondering if his fate might have been different if I had known back then to drag our Christmas tree out to the yard for little birds to shelter in on pitiless winter nights.
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The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks, and Iranian social media were flooded with expressions of grief and worry, denunciations of the attackers' barbarism, and howls of defiance: the mood music of another pitiless jihadi attack.
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In the meeting over what to do about the Sandicot disaster, it was Taylor who argued most forcefully for fiscal austerity, taking the pitiless position that the town shouldn't expect to be bailed out for its mismanagement.
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But in a way, none of the above matters, because the heart of "Were-Monster" focuses on what Morgan has always excelled at — the idea that human existence is long, pitiless, and depressing, but also delightfully weird.
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Their account of the free-market economy sees it as a pitiless world divided between winners and losers, wherein the winners are unfeeling corporations that put profits over people, devoted only to their false idol, the almighty dollar.
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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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Ex-Amish crime bosses, a pitiless gang based on a Native American reservation, a whole military base's worth of corrupt soldiers, a cross-dressing hacker, and 7-foot-tall giants are somehow all crammed into the tiny town.
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Still, nestled within Reichardt's jaundiced portrait of greed, racism and nativism at its most dishonest and chauvinistic, Cookie and King Lu's friendship stands as a reminder that America's most pitiless trajectory didn't necessarily have to be that way.
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But the culpability of any one individual is only part of this meticulously reported book; Keefe is also interested in "collective denial," how an entire society tries to cope with trauma and brutality through obfuscation and pitiless rationales.
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Morrison covers the 1919 Black Sox scandal and 1920s labor struggles, tying their underlying issues of capitalistic exploitation back to the devastation of the Klondike by mining companies, as well as the pitiless pragmatism of the movie studios.
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But instead of pressuring immigrants from multiple directions, Trump is hammering down, again and again, to activate their single biggest fear: that the system will catch them, arrest them, and throw them into a pitiless and grinding deportation machine.
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On the Russian side, Aleksandra Revenko is the most striking performer as she uses her hard stare to play a pitiless lover or comically snap to life as a personified bot advertising a beauty product to a gullible woman.
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A piquant wind blows through you as you ponder the poking device directly linking the humanoid sexual system's electronic signals to some pitiless bio-controller probe, foregrounding the frailty of human flesh when pierced by the somber impregnability of technology.
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Its vision of the future is never mind-blowing, but it's chilling and tragic when Durand sees a sociopathic endpoint for designer babies: children with uncanny adult intelligence on one hand, malformed experiments and pitiless child soldiers on the other.
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In the 1930s, amid the near-pitiless opposition to government payments even to widows, the term "Aid to Families with Dependent Children" was an artful one, sidestepping the financial aspect of the matter with the general term "aid," for example.
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She conjures up '90s-era campus politics with pitiless accuracy: the white students wearing "Recovering Racist" pins; the black girls hacking off their "'colonized' hair"; the empty gestures and the beautiful gestures — the shrillness, to be sure, but the sweetness too.
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Ramsay may be a cackling, big-eyed, cartoon villain played by history's Welshest person, but his father Roose feels like the character with the best handle on the virtues GoT tends to reward: pitiless, mercenary, mistrustful, and unfettered by the slightest moral intrusion.
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" Eddie, who finds himself shipwrecked and stranded at sea, passes "through another layer of life into something deeper, colder, and more pitiless" before at last he reaches "the deepest truth that underlay all the rest, like stirrings from the bottom of the sea.
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GLENS FALLS, N.Y. — Joe Girard III, an 18-year-old senior at Glens Falls High School and a pitiless scoring machine, hurried across the school's hardwood court, placed his inhaler on a table and started his basketball season with a passing drill.
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It's not surprising that Kassabova — who has written three poetry collections, a novel and three memoirs — demonstrates a descriptive sensitivity on the page (climbing in the mountains, she feels "the pitiless sun hammering my head like a judgment for some distant crime").
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There is a widespread belief that it does, however, and that has allowed the Trump administration to portray its pitiless war on informal networks of transnational mobility as a way to protect vulnerable people, especially children, from the "criminals" who ply them.
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Pitiless and ruthless, she kneecaps each of her opponents, especially relishing the fall of former running mate Tom James (Hugh Laurie), finally agrees to take on Jonah Ryan, and at last earns the nomination of her party that she so desperately desires.
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Ms. Le Guin cared passionately about many things, as is clear to any reader of her books: the rights of indigenous peoples, the search for alternatives to our pitiless economic scheme, the myth of innate gender difference, our slow collective murder of the planet.
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With pitiless efficiency, the Astros swept aside the Indians on Monday to advance to the American League Championship Series, the final blow coming via a smothering 21998-22000 victory on a summery day at Progressive Field as the Astros clinched the best-of-five series.
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Scott, a former reporter for the Times and the biographer of Ann Dunham, Barack Obama's mother, writes with both dispassion and passion, pitiless wit and something like love as she describes generations of secrets and the end of the line for her family's preposterous fortune.
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Broth is the most expensive and labor-intensive part of a bowl of ramen; in the 1950s, a Tokyo noodle shop, in the pitiless logic of the restaurant business, began omitting the broth when ladling out noodles at staff meals, or so the story goes.
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Jon Stewart, who hosted the show from 1999 to 2015, paired a pitiless attitude toward hypocrisy and bullshit with a rigorous command of facts, which allowed him to directly address issues that mainstream media outlets, bound by norms of balance and objectivity, could only dance around.
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His story involves elites (and he includes President George W. Bush in this group) who naively toppled autocrats—"foreign regimes that we know nothing about, that we shouldn't be involved with," as he puts it—when they should have been hunting down terrorists with pitiless, single-minded violence.
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STOKE-ON-TRENT/WHITEHAVEN, England (Reuters) - Two parliamentary by-elections in Britain next week are likely to cast a pitiless light on the Labour Party's loss of working-class votes and expose its leader to the anti-establishment backlash that is driving the country out of the European Union.
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The snow and mud were over ankle deep in the middle of the street, but stout Irish legs encased in triplet solid 'stogies' would unquestionably have essayed this, only for a pitiless pelting rain that set in early and kept up with slight cessation until the after part of the day.
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Her decision to open Germany's borders came only a few weeks after she had thrown her weight behind a new bailout agreement with Greece that imposed on the Greek people a pitiless schedule of debt repayments and led to an outpouring of anti-German sentiment in many parts of Europe.
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Think Television circa Marquee Moon joining forces with Murmur-era R.E.M. to cover Love's Forever Changes on Sebadoh's gear, connecting 1977 to 1983, 1967, and 1996 to reveal a sound that encapsulates 2017—and 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022, and the entirety of this pitiless era we can't put our finger on.
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What makes "The Largesse of the Sea Maiden" different is that in this case Johnson knew his own time was short, and embarked on his material with an admirable and pitiless openness he conveys through his characters: "It's plain to you that at the time I wrote this, I'm not dead," one says.
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It's a song that neatly brings together the disaster of pain pill culture with the pitiless allure of celebrity ("I heard the tales, fortune and blame / Tigers and wolves defanged by fame"), while visually St. Vincent watches on dispassionately from the luminescent mise-en-scene like some austere dominatrix with an Ayn Rand hairdo.
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Freud's career paralleled the dismantling of the British Empire, and his pitiless eye tracked not only the dissolution of colonial privilege, but also, through the forensic inspection of unsound bodies, the undermining of the grand traditions of Rembrandt and Velázquez, subverting the painterly splendor he so revered with the grating realities of quotidian life.
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A great hotel is a theater of dreams, and Julie Satow, a journalist who covers New York real estate, digs deep into the forces that took the Plaza from a living center of aspiring social connection tied to the fortunes of American high society to its present status in an atomized era of pitiless transactional globalism.
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We knew there was no escaping human nature: my grandmother taught me that: my own pitiless nature taught me that: but we exist inside an order, I thought, of which history is the mere shadow— * Every serious work of art about America has the same theme: America is a great Idea: the reality leaves something to be desired . Bakersfield.
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O.K., not a great visual but it's only TV. Blind luck has often played a role in world-changing breakthroughs and, in the case of the Non-Hosted Oscars, blind luck drizzled with bad taste, bad vetting, bad foresight, bad values, pitiless social media and widespread early-onset flop sweat, added up to a delightfully obvious remedy to a 91-year-old problem: The Academy Awards as drying paint.
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" Aleppo teeters but no sign of US action "Let me be clear, 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, with no access by the UN since 7 July; and the health sector in east Aleppo is reportedly on the very verge of total collapse.
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Over the two decades since "The Brand Called You," full-time employment has steadily atomized into casual, part-time and temporary work, culminating in the "project world" of the gig economy — microjobs driving for Uber, running errands for TaskRabbit or cooking up side hustles on Fiverr, a company whose subway ads glamorize pitiless overwork ("sleep deprivation is your drug of choice") despite its being named after a woefully small amount of cash.
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When an imam of the Grand Mosque calls upon Muslims to obediently accept Prince Mohammed's incredulous narrative about the murder of Mr. Khashoggi; to accept his abduction, jailing and torture of dissenters, including imprisonment of several revered Islamic scholars; to ignore his pitiless and cruel war in Yemen, his undermining the democratic dreams in the Arab world, his support for the oppressive dictatorship in Egypt, it makes it impossible to accept the imam's categorization of the crown prince as a divinely inspired reformer.
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