Sentence examples for pitiless irony from inspiring English sources
And what pitiless irony, her husband sent once more to Mexico on a gruesome errand.
A pitiless irony enters at this point: while the E.U. looked the other way, miscreant Greece, because of the questionable Greek-Turkish confrontation, has had one of the highest per capita levels of defense spending among NATO's European members — with the French and Germans getting a big share of Athens's arms purchases.
Chekhov is rightly admired for the complexity of his characters and the extraordinary elegance of his narratives, but beneath that it's the dark, dark irony and pitiless gaze that make him truly our contemporary.
The perennial appeal of his ballet pictures to genteel and young-girl tastes is an old irony, given his actual, pitiless focus — pretty costumes and effulgent stage lights aside — on the gruelling strenuousness of the dance.
Reading the piece, with its admixture of news and irony, one is reminded also of the gossip heard on street corners in the West Indies: lively, trenchant, and pitiless, it centers, generally, on money and religion and dashed hopes.
The killings were pitiless.
He was completely pitiless.
England are playing pitiless cricket.
Poetry is a pitiless mistress.
