It is a story of vaulting ambition and ruthless scheming which takes a nation very quickly from stability to chaos.
For example, Mr. Powers wrote a fund-raising letter that described Mrs. Clinton as an "ambitious, ruthless, scheming, calculating, manipulating woman".
The Borgias were rich, ruthless, scheming and corrupt, and so sexually voracious that, if you believe the rumors, they slept with everyone, including one another.
His people -- specifically William Powers, the Republican state chairman -- send out a letter calling her "an angry woman," an "ambitious, ruthless, scheming, calculating, manipulating woman".
Ms. de Niese subtly captured every facet of a role that required her to be a ruthless schemer, a ravishing seductress, a pitiable victim and a fierce opponent.
July 19 -- New York Republicans send out a new letter, accusing Mrs. Clinton of being "ambitious, ruthless, scheming, calculating, manipulative" and "an angry woman".
This week, the release of Nick Broomfield's chilling documentary "Kurt & Courtney" reveals Love as a controlling, conniving, and ruthless schemer who may or may not have driven her late husband, Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, to his tragic suicide in April of 1994.
Bill Gates is a ruthless schemer who demeaned his employees and conspired to rip off his business partner, according to a memoir written by the co-founder of Microsoft, Paul Allen.
WILHELMINA SLATER, the creative director of Mode magazine on the ABC comedy "Ugly Betty," is a ruthless schemer in a high fashion world who can destroy a career with the detachment most people employ when tossing out the garbage.
Accordingly, this is the first production of "Merchant" I've seen that dares to present a wholly unsympathetic Shylock, played as a calculating, utterly ruthless schemer by the impressive Richard Clothier.
