bloody-minded

"They are just bloody-minded," the envoy said, and pointed to Ukraine's long history of withstanding hardship.

Yet the Democrats are bloody-minded after the routs in Virginia and New Jersey this week, and think they have fresh leverage to extort Republicans to bail out the Affordable Care Act.

He says it had, in his eyes, "come to represent a particular type of bloody-minded person - usually with a degree of what we might call aggressive patriotism".

After a bloody-minded, blooded-brow win over Argentina in Marseille, England are on the up on the pitch.

Will the Duke of Gloucester be re-envisioned as a bloody-minded assassin like the bloody-minded Villanelle of “Killing Eve?”