as in mercilessness
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Perhaps the surprise return of Egghead Vance will turn it into symbol of resistance, seen at every demonstration against the cruelties and greed of the Trump machine.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
25 June 2025 -
Other laws set to take effect on July 1 in Florida include House Bill 255, establishing harsher penalties for animal cruelty, and House Bill 653, setting new aggravating factors when determining whether someone convicted of a capital felony should receive the death penalty.—
Jenna Sundel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 June 2025
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Known for its savagery and the popularity level of both fighters at the time.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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Slaveholders first developed the trope in the 1790s in their representations of the emergent nation of Haiti, framing it as a dangerous site of social experimentation and savagery where Black freedom would inexorably lead to white death.—
Time,
Time,
9 June 2025
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All circled the same themes: surveillance, body image, sadism, hyperfemininity, male (heterosexual) desire and women’s obligation to fulfill it.—
Dayna Tortorici,
New Yorker,
9 June 2025
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The book’s a meld of true crime, memoir and social commentary, but with a mission: to shock readers into a deeper understanding of the American Nightmare, ecological devastation entwined with senseless sadism.—
Hamilton Cain,
Los Angeles Times,
5 June 2025
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Pellegrino does get into the brutality of the Japanese forces.—
Mike Fleming Jr,
Deadline,
27 June 2025
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Helton and Daniels said history lessons in school often don’t tell the whole story, including the brutality of slavery.—
Deborah Barfield Berry,
USA Today,
26 June 2025
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Host Andrew Zimmern broke from his teleprompter script to decry the inhumanity of ICE raids.—
Caroline Hatchett,
Robb Report,
19 June 2025
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Another recurring theme in this episode was Lois’ inhumanity.—
Andy Swift,
TVLine,
23 Oct. 2024
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Enforcing immigration policy does not have to be inhumane, but the Trump administration is gloating in the very barbarity.—
Ali Breland,
The Atlantic,
14 June 2025
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The Indigenous peoples who survived all this barbarity are now facing the same list of homicidal intolerance.—
Kevin Giraud,
Variety,
7 June 2025
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Amid the ferocity, the Grant Parkers always sounded whetted and clean, moving through the works’ shifting meters with fearsome precision.—
Hannah Edgar,
Chicago Tribune,
21 June 2025
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One thing that set 28 Days Later apart from other movies in the undead genre was the speed and ferocity that propelled its villains, quite unlike the lumbering corpses in Night of the Living Dead.—
Madison Bloom,
Pitchfork,
20 June 2025
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