Mr. Pittu is clearly an actor capable of savage caricature, but Jacob is less a merciless jab at the insularity of show folk than an affectionate chuckle and a pat on the head.
Without Cameron's eye for detail and obsession with the lives of ordinary people, later movies in both futuristic sagas have languished in a sea of vapidity, unable to interest their audiences in protagonists with less apparent humanity than the merciless extraterrestrials and metal killing machines whose eternal task it is to hunt them down.
Mr. Nader referred far less to Mr. Bush, but was also merciless toward him, saying, "He's nothing more than a big corporation running for president disguised as a human being".
If we are honest, working for positive change in the world does not make us any less vulnerable to the temptations of the merciless demands of the "gods" of this world.
The romantic dilemma is that people who are idealistic about true love probably have less chance of attaining it than even the most merciless sexual sceptic.
Witty, cynical and erudite, André enthralls two younger, less confident students with his self-assurance and his merciless commitment to criticism.
He would have spent the first half of this N.B.A. season rising with the Nets in the less competitive East instead of falling with the Lakers in the merciless West.
It was a bit less rowdy than last year, when some young Tories were subjected to a merciless egging.
It is stated that the swallows, great destroyers of insects, came this year in fewer numbers than usual, and that sparrows, which wage a merciless war on flies and gnats and mosquitoes, are growing steadily less numerous.
If he were a less genial writer as a whole, one might describe both set pieces as merciless... Trollope fails many tests for me – I do not find him rereadable, as all my truly favourite novelists are.
