pitilessness
Example Sentences
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There’s a pitilessness in all of it, typical of the Coens, suitable in this movie to situations in which few favored character get out alive.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 13, 2018
Curran’s depiction of this moment is harrowing in its pitilessness.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2018
Its Har-Tru American clay courts are precious enough to elicit a certain pitilessness in its patrons.
From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2012
If there was anything Homeric about her -- and come to think of it, I believe there was -- it was the serene pitilessness with which she dispensed their doom.
From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2011
But as it is I perceive behind them only the suffering of the creature, the awful melancholy of life and the pitilessness of men.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
