Sentence examples for pitiless power from inspiring English sources
In Wagner's original, the gleaming heroism of the horn motif is pitted against foaming strings evoking the stormy force of nature and the pitiless power of fate.
Petry's The Street (1946) adopted Wright's pitiless assessment of the power of environment in the lives of black urban dwellers, but, unlike Wright, whose female characters generally exemplify demoralization and passivity, Petry created a female protagonist who fights back.
The dark forces of the world had incarnated into 'nonhumans'; they held absolute power and were pitiless toward man.
Hekmatyar is in many ways the incarnation of the Afghan warlord -- ruthless, pitiless toward enemies, dedicated to nothing but power.
Faith in God begets hope, he writes, but faith in man's powers, which inevitably falter and prove pitiless, begets despair.
His Barchester is continually invaded by London and by the power of the media exemplified by the pitiless Quintus Slide, the master of character assassination by innuendo.
The killings were pitiless.
He was completely pitiless.
England are playing pitiless cricket.
Poetry is a pitiless mistress.
