Sentence examples for on a pitiless from inspiring English sources

They murdered his father and sent his mother, sister and two brothers on a pitiless death march into the scorching desert; Kourken survived only because he escaped over the Caucasus to Russia.

Or when he huffs and puffs thoughtfully about Los Angeles, "a city of big dreams and cruelly inevitable disappointments," where noir is "a disillusion that shadows even the best of times, an alienation that assails the senses like the harsh glitter of mica in the sidewalk on a pitiless Santa Ana day".

Readers will share in the environs of the author and her characters, be taken into the hardship of a pitiless place and emerge on the other side — wiser, warier and weathered like the landscape.

It was the end of a pitiless era.

Instead of throwing out the oil, Paul had it "sanctified" by a priest, and continued selling it – an ur-Chekhovian episode, complete with a climax that is at once a non-event (business going on as usual), and a pitiless illumination of the father's character.

From now on, we will wage a pitiless, purifying war against the last elements of our cultural decay".

Arthur Miller's "All My Sons," which first appeared on Broadway in 1947, hits on many themes — including a pitiless industrial war machine, self-denial, crime and punishment, the individual and the community — but the relationship between Chris and Joe is at its center.

There are three sons, a lost daughter, and a pitiless storm; one of the characters floats along on gentle waves, another sings a lament; all are stirred and tossed by feelings that batter the bounds of reason.

The event was, in short, a pitiless machine for piling on frustration.

The British Officee" was a pitiless meditation on rules and class.

But this crisis has shone a pitiless light on that failure.