She added, "He was ruthless about detail and language".
Internet language is pared, ruthless, stripped of emotion.
I might even go so far as to argue that Disney has ever dreamed up a more rounded, convincing villainess than smothering Mother Gothel, a canny, ageing hippie who coats her ruthless self-interest in the language of love.
You must be ruthless in purging your CV of language that doesn't make sense to readers outside your current institution because you run the genuine risk of offending.
Language was perverted ("brutal" and "ruthless" were terms of praise), laws were enacted to sanction mayhem retroactively, and faith in science yielded pseudo-archaic notions of "blood and soil".
The man had been trying to tell her about a case he had been working on & she felt that his language had reached a point of obfuscation which called for ruthless action.
Such language and imagery demonized and dehumanized Indian populations and justified ruthless, retaliatory violence against native people.
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Though Stephen Schlesinger could not recall specific language from his father's evaluation of "Profiles in Courage," he said: "Kennedy asked him to be perfectly ruthless in his comments.
