“Jones stood close at my elbow, with a face as festive now as it was ruthful not long before.”

“It's a ruthful tale of a mother and daughter coming to terms with the mother's neediness and the daughter's resentment of it.”

“Be ye ruthful over them and rear them after the goodliest fashion.”

“To others he is nothing short of a ruthless builder of wealth and prestige with little concern for those whom he walks over to get what he wants.”

“Be ruthless with clutter, write in the active voice, place each idea into a sentence of its own, and lastly, get your punctuation right.”

“As Sheehan notes, there's a reason why Eisenhower was so intolerant of failure and so ruthless about weeding it out.”