Sentence examples for ruthless type from inspiring English sources

He is also a ruthless type who has spent his ministry's enormous budget building one of the world's most attentive police states.

By early 1947, when Corbin is out of college — "you ought to make a wonderful tycoon," she writes, "the ruthless type who eyes you with a glance of steel and has a lovesick secretary lurking in the background" — the relationship is apparently faltering.

Mr. Bettger was best known for portraying ruthless types who were nonetheless imbued with sly charm in the westerns and film noir thrillers of the postwar era.

This is not only objectionable in itself it encourages ruthless types to commit horrors in the here and now for the sake of some imagined utopia, whilst pretending to themselves and others that they are actuated by the highest motives.

I hope so, but if these political masters are the ones behind him it is troubling to even conceive how he will do against the ruthless types who somehow wrested the presidency in 2000 from the rightful winner who got the most votes.

As he showed in Michael Mann's Public Enemies (2009), he is perfectly capable of playing ruthless mobster types in character-driven crime films.

The characters in this new drama series about pretty prisoners and the women who guard them include an idealistic young warden (Simone Lahbib), a ruthless Alexis Colby type (Debra Stephenson) and a proselytizing born-again Christian Sharonn DunChristian Sharon

But more likely, those who reach the top of the corporate tree whether an MBA or not are just of a certain type: ruthless, focused on the money and with a particular worldview.

Caring is an interesting word there: Ms. Steel shies away from the selfish, ruthless, shameless home-wrecker type, preferring something more genteel.

Thomas Penn in The Guardian newspaper found the ruthless secular Cromwell a type easy to imagine "striding through modern corridors of power"; The Independent's Diane Purkiss noted its "violent absolutism, 21st-century variety".

Shortly after my husband had his brain sliced open a second time, in a futile attempt to remove his malignant brain tumor — a ferocious glioblastoma, the same type of ruthless cancer now afflicting Senator John McCain — one of my best friends dragged me out for drinks.