pitiless

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“Amongst Women” revolves around Michael Moran, a widowed farmer who rules his family with pitiless vigor.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026

She can peg a person’s height at a glance and sum up their prospects in a pitiless snap judgment.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2025

As Ambrose Pierce wrote, “Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless and the grave, blind as a stone and irrational as a headless man.”

From Salon • May 17, 2025

After this forebodingly ironic setup, “Beau Is Afraid” sends its sad-sack protagonist on an increasingly deranged journey through what is either a pitiless, reality-adjacent American landscape or his own inner terrors.

From Washington Post • Apr. 19, 2023

In vain men shook their fists at the pitiless foes that swarmed before the Gate.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien