merciless
Example Sentences
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The journalist James Agee’s merciless portraits of his subjects remind Mr. Frazier of “those old-time operations that were done on a kitchen table without anesthetic.”
They were all failed attempts to impose western civilization on the merciless, untamable Arctic.
From Literature
Martin Amis, a merciless observer of foibles, puts one writer’s envy of another at the heart of “The Information.”
Baton Rouge is a merciless hothouse that won’t accept anything short of national titles, but presumably he knows the madness he’s walking into.
Putting it in the merciless terms of the spy game, CIA Director John McCone noted, “This source will be of no further value.”
From Literature
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