pitiless
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Adam Silverman’s pitiless lighting accentuated the mood and brought the characters into strong focus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Before Standard Oil became “the most gigantic, the most cruel, impudent, pitiless, and grasping monopoly which ever fastened upon a community,” it was a start-up.
From Barron's ● May 2, 2026
Philosopher Timothy McGrew then observes that Mr. Dawkins “has famously said that ‘the universe has at bottom just those properties one would expect if there were no design, no purpose, only blind pitiless indifference.’
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
But they subjected the commission’s rulemaking procedure to pitiless quibbling.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2025
Or a dead end, if that’s what fate decreed—nothing but a blank, pitiless wall.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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