pitilessness

Example Sentences

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“The Murdochs,” though, is just as persuasive of its namesakes’ pitilessness.

From Washington Post • Sep. 23, 2022

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

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