Sentence examples for merciless winter from inspiring English sources

At some point, cold and vulnerable and a long way from home, he would be compelled like Napoleon after the battle of Borodino to turn his troops around and lead them back through a merciless winter.

This has been a pleasingly merciless second half by Spurs.

Lord Alan Sugar was merciless this week pointing his stubby little finger at all of the hapless contestants brought into the boardroom to account for their failure: one, two, three.

Outside, the merciless summer heat was well on its way, but indoors in the air conditioning, listeners heard of a different intensity.

It's a searing work, the relentless pounding of the narrator's hatred matched by the merciless summer heat: "That pavement in the middle of Main Street was so hot to my feet I might've been walking the barrel of my gun".

The 85-year-old Swede was Oscar nominated for his 9/11 drama Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close in 2012 and has previous sci-fi experience as Ming the Merciless in 1980's Flash Gordon.

Who's that in the dodgy "oriental" makeup as Ming the Merciless in 1980's Flash Gordon?

Support is minimal and the elements merciless – both this year and last the weather was so bad runners ended up covering part of the course as snow fell around them.

Support is minimal and the elements merciless – both this year and last the weather was so bad runners ended up covering part of the course as snow fell around them.

Self-flagellation was seen at its most merciless in last weekend's For The Record column in the Observer, where readers' editor Stephen Pritchard was characteristically stern in taking a classical CD reviewer to task for praising an oboist for his "almost 40 minutes of continuous solo" in Vaughan Williams's oboe concerto – in reality "the piece lasts barely 20 minutes", he pointed out scornfully.

It's only 8am but the merciless hot summer sun is scorching.