as in mercilessness
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Regardless, the making of the monster lies not in the moment of senseless cruelty but in the selfish impulses most ardently encouraged and cultivated by an unforgiving world.Andy Andersen, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2024
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Unfortunately, Mama Elena, a woman driven by cruelty and customs, has other plans.Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 3 Nov. 2024
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The point of all that money, like of the attack on Porter, has been to draw attention to Silicon Valley’s financial might—and to prove that its leaders are capable of political savagery in order to protect their interests.Charles Duhigg, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
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There is no real bloodshed in Red Rooms, but there is a kind of spiritual savagery.Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2024
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Popular on Variety But Art the Clown takes the concept of enjoying homicidal sadism to new levels of sick-puppy insanity.Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 11 Oct. 2024
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That’s a victory made all the more triumphant by the film’s moderately budget (it’s estimated around $3.5 million) and an ambitious commitment to pulling off some all-time theatrical sadism.Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 27 Sep. 2024
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Specifically, North Korean Christians endure serious bodily or mental harm, killing, and targeting of their children through severe public executions for their faith, being sent to political prison camps, and the targeting of their children through the Kim regime’s brutality.Olivia Enos, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
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Since making the announcement in the summer of 2019, Jay was criticized for getting in bed with a league that allegedly blackballed San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick for choosing to kneel during the national anthem in protest of police brutality.Angel Diaz, Billboard, 16 Oct. 2024
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Throughout his diary, excerpts of which we are honored to share today with our readers, Navalny writes with a fierce moral clarity about the inhumanity of Vladimir Putin’s regime, and about the power of its opposite force—the humanity of his fellow-countrymen.David Remnick, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
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Carreira is not interested in vilifying individuals but in teasing out the inhumanity of working conditions that grind people down little by little.Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2024
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In the face of tragedy and crisis and inequality and barbarity, artists make work.Chadd Scott, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
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Italy’s solitary-confinement policy—a regulation called carcere duro, or hard prison—is controversial in northern Europe, where it is seen as an example of southern barbarity.D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
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Milton spread destruction across Florida overnight, whipping up tornadoes in areas not accustomed to such ferocity and cutting power for more than 3.3 million energy customers.Sam Brock, NBC News, 11 Oct. 2024
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Interviews with residents, experts, meteorologists and local officials paint a picture of a storm rapidly intensifying, barreling farther inland than usual and stunning many residents and officials with its ferocity.Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2024
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“Ruthlessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ruthlessness. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.
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