Sentence examples for swift and merciless from inspiring English sources

The reaction on social media was swift and merciless.

The cancer, I'd heard, was on his esophagus, and its progress was swift and merciless.

But this is the national stage, and the response from Twitter was swift and merciless.

Looks-wise, that single month constituted my moment, a peak from which the descent was both swift and merciless.

Whereas in "By Night in Chile" Bolaño's dissection of hypocrisy and bad faith (the main character is a morally bankrupt priest allied with the junta) is swift and merciless, here it is not only as if the writer in him couldn't keep himself from filigreeing in endless perfect and revealing details about his lost souls and their laughable oeuvres, but also as if he couldn't entirely resist them.

It was swift and merciless.

When it came last June, the backlash against the Brotherhood was swift, powerful and merciless.

The film, made from John Godey's novel about a group of hijackers who take charge of a New York subway car and hold its 18 passengers for a $1 million ransom, is swift, sure and merciless, like a ride on the D train in the dead of night.

The French Canadian auteur's film premiered at Cannes, where the reactions were swift and often merciless -- decrying, among other things, a shrill tone and in-your-face dysfunction.

The music industry's decline has been swift, merciless and bloody; perhaps it's best to broach such a dire story by laughing.

Mr. Washington's Creasy is, in effect, a one-man lynch mob, cutting through the corruption and red tape that protects the kidnappers in order to bring them punishment that is swift, merciless and sure.