Sentence examples for pitiless to from inspiring English sources

She goes on to say, "Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates.

Hill has been as swift and pitiless as Old Testament justice with the raised finger in the face of every appeal, and just as swift and pitiless to overrule once video evidence has shown every one of his decisions to be wide of the mark.

This could be the moral of "Methland," Nick Reding's unnerving investigative account of two gruesome years in the life of Oelwein, Iowa, a railroad and meatpacking town of several thousand whipped by a methamphetamine-laced panic whose origins lie outside the place itself, in forces almost too great to comprehend and too pitiless to bear.

Few have run through so many exhausting lives as Mr. Giuliani, from crimebuster to consoler, public moralist to straying husband, pitiless scold to teary cancer patient.

Poverty is a pitiless backdrop to the AIDS epidemic and needs to be at the heart of strategies to address the needs of all vulnerable children in hard-hit communities.

When she took the trouble to work at it, Ms. Highsmith needed only pitiless insight to turn her characters inside out.

Some were dangling, having been hanged from banners; others were dismembered in the port, a pitiless reminder to the crowd who, full of curiosity and horror, had come to see the terrible spectacle.

One recent afternoon, he sat at a round table in his office here, in a generic-looking industrial park about 25 minutes northwest of Miami, and explained his rather pitiless approach to cost-cutting and complaining passengers — particularly those who he believes have nothing to complain about.

And while we all treasure Dietrich in "Touch of Evil" (1958), where her black-haired, cheroot-smoking Tanya is a pitiless observer to the last ruin of Orson Welles's bloated cop, the performance is close to camp, and utterly removed from the warmth of that 1945 snapshot.

The polar climate's pitiless ability to expose any slight error and reward it with death caught the imaginations of millions.

The German public, only now being touched by the crisis and having controlled the European Central Bank and E.U. government policy of pitiless austerity — to the vast misery and vocal ingratitude of the Union's southern members — now finds that this policy is failing to work, and that Germany is being blamed.