Sentence examples for pitilessness from inspiring English sources

There was – and is – a discomfort about the pitilessness of the whole episode.

Even Hodson's reconstruction, he said, recoils from the pitilessness of the scenario; in the "Danse sacrale," the Chosen One is shown trying to break out of the circle, introducing "a bit of humanitarian sentiment".

"Mahagonny" is a delicate balancing act between Brecht's pitilessness and Weill's humanism, not to mention a tricky synthesis of classical and popular traditions.

But the crackdown on them — not just in extreme examples like Eric Garner's but in the general pitilessness of the pursuit — can make urban life less civil, not more.

Dad likes to say this in a grave voice, as if it explained her jaundiced pitilessness: "Boys.

Its Har-Tru American clay courts are precious enough to elicit a certain pitilessness in its patrons.

He doesn't have the pitilessness it requires.

Youthful aggression has always been a problem and always will be; the pitilessness of childhood, like that of the world, is most likely a constant quantity.

The paradox of the primitivism in The Rite is that it can be heard as both a horrifying vision of the pitilessness of nature – and as an expression of the inhumanity of the machine age.

His pitilessness is also made much of – as if it were a branch of truthfulness rather than a defect of character.

In isolation, almost everything here would be a solid example of the songwriter-for-hire's art: if nothing bowls you over with its originality, it's hard not to be impressed by the pitilessness with which the songs sink their hooks into you.