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.
I WADED into the pitiless mid-May sun with a falconer and one of her favorite birds of prey.
This week thousands of civil servants queued under the pitiless tropical sun to collect their February wages from the small state-owned banks that remain open.
Jacques Rivette's sun-kissed, extra-sensory and epic meditation on the art of storytelling, "Celine and Julie Go Boating" (Nov. 15), comes at last to DVD. "Ran," Akira Kurosawa's pitiless version of "King Lear," arrives from Criterion on Nov. 15.
In the scarred and pitiless desert that is the political landscape post-May 7th, these candidates are the mangy, emaciated, mad-eyed scavengers, gnawing at the whitened bones of their party out of sheer desperation, scrapping over a corpse.
On the back of The Song of the Katydids on an August Morning (1917), he wrote, "A stagnant August morning during the drought season, as the pitiless sun mounts into the mid-morning sky, and the insect chorus commences, the katydids and locusts predominating.
The march was attended with much fighting and heavy, pitiless slaughter; at the storming of one town of the Malli near the Hydraotes (Ravi) River, Alexander received a severe wound which left him weakened.
There is no documented truth to the theory that months of pitiless snowstorms, weeks of subzero wind chills and an early April dose of sleet that froze the dog's feet to the sidewalk now guarantee that the 2011 golf season will be the best and most satisfying ever.
Joseph Roth: A Life in Letters, translated and edited by Michael Hofmann, shows the author of The Radetzky March "with all of his flaws and in a quite pitiless light", noted the Independent on Sunday's Lesley McDowell.
Here we observe Billy's sympathetic yet pitiless evisceration of a former professional basketball player who has "accidentally" dropped his four-month-old baby daughter on the floor.
