Sentence examples for ruthless personality from inspiring English sources

At home North Koreans are smothered by his ruthless personality cult.

A ruthless personality, naked opportunism, and good luck, Edward had argued, could divert the fates of millions, a wayward conclusion that had earned him a B-minus, almost imperilling his first.

In this voluminous biography, which was selected by the editors of the Book Review as one of the best books of 1999, the enigmatic J. Pierpont Morgan is portrayed as an inarticulate man with little interest in introspection but whose imperious, ruthless, indefatigable personality enabled him to forge the financial superstructure of the leading American industries in the Gilded Age.

It is not just that the ruthless assassination of personalities is ugly, but the tone of faintly hysterical aggression that characterises the debate is deeply offputting to many voters.

(Holden) 'New World' (No rating, 2 14, in Korean) Set in the scheming heart of a powerful crime syndicate, this stylish South Korean saga from Park Hoon-jung pairs an impassive undercover cop (Lee Jung-jae) and a ruthless gangster (Hwang Jung-min, oozing personality and thuggish panache) in a shifting-alliances plot with more intrigue than blood.

He likened himself and his employees — "artiste engineers," Schlender and Tetzeli call them — to artists; he deployed his mercurial personality in the ruthless way that artists sometimes do.

By Joshua Rothman October 14, 2015 Steve Jobs likened himself and his employees to artists; he deployed his mercurial personality in the ruthless way that artists sometimes do.

But four years later, Scotland's largest selling daily paper was ruthless in its demolition of the credibility and personality of the then Scottish Labour leader Iain Gray, and glowing in its support for Salmond.

For her senior project, he said, she had chosen to play a ruthless, dictatorial character -- a stretch for her gentle, sensitive personality.

Allies of the prime minister resent the idea that the president he resembles most is Richard Nixon, another son of a God-fearing home with a big brain, a personality scarred by trauma and a taste for ruthless tactics.

Such rivalries work best when they involve a pair of team-mates with contrasting personalities, like the one that pitted the brooding, ruthless Senna against the pragmatic, calculating Prost.