Sentence examples for ruthless purpose from inspiring English sources

It was Bolt who nicknamed him the Beast, because Blake trains with ruthless purpose.

But Mr. Gomez said he believed the money served a more ruthless purpose: as a bounty-style reward for a shooting.

We face a hostile ideology -- global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose, and insidious in method.

Coetzee has little patience for the way in which this American expatriate, through "a diffidence concealing ruthless singleness of purpose," has "made himself into the deliberately magisterial voice" of London and of imperial Europe.

"Many politicians on both the left and the right already know that the use of ruthless force has no purpose, and that we are galloping toward disaster.

Venice, he writes, was a "joint-stock company" run by unromantic opportunists for a "frighteningly consistent" purpose: the ruthless pursuit of material gain.

Aguirre is sympathetic, but his own purpose is more ruthless.

The result: the first "Pavlova" western (named after a much-beloved NZ dessert) about a beautiful heiress (Rademeyer) kidnapped by a ruthless, murdering cowboy (Cohen Holloway) for the purposes of ravishment.

Though Newhouse built Condé Nast with ruthless commercial motives - when someone asked him about the purpose of his company, his answer was, simply, "To make money" - there are clearly other motives at work.

In both triumphs, Mr Rajapaksa's critics say he displayed a ruthless streak and a capacity to condone or overlook the use of violence if it served his political purposes.

At the center of these cases is Frederick Ashton, an abolitionist whose younger sister falls in love with a ruthless industrialist, "a man who believed so strongly in his own purposes as to appear stricken by them".