Adjective : pitiless criticism of his last novel. From Dictionary.com.
I forced myself to an unnatural pitch of pitilessness and vindictiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Cord and Creese] Reference
"I'm afraid you are a helpless creature," Julia told her, with the stern pitilessness that belongs to youth. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
I love the series not just for the impeccable acting and directing, but for the pitilessness of the writing. From Wordnik.com. [Breaking good] Reference
The bitter harvest of her wrong deed was garnered for her, poured upon her head at every turn, by the pitilessness of events. From Wordnik.com. [Hetty's Strange History] Reference
It's hard to believe that a person who seems to be a functioning member of society could have such bad judgment, distorted perception, and pitilessness. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-11-01] Reference
Those, however, cannot be referred to in reply to thy present query, for all of them have been duly laid down for such Kshatriyas as are not disinclined to pitilessness. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
‘Not guilty of pitilessness: all I did was to cheer-up, according to my name, for my name is not Pitiless, but Cheer-Up; and I could not abide to see Mansoul inclined to melancholy.’. From Wordnik.com. [The Holy War] Reference
The remainder of the history of that dire Sunday morning differs from that of other assaults only in harrowing details, and the extremity of the pitilessness and ferocity manifested by the conquerors. From Wordnik.com. [Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477] Reference
And Kitty said in a voice shaken with pitilessness. From Wordnik.com. [The Return of the Soldier] Reference
It rang out clear and pitiless, with that pitilessness of a great love. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart's Highway] Reference
And then across her mind, as once before, swept with swift pitilessness. From Wordnik.com. [Winding Paths] Reference
That he was a hard man, austere to utter pitilessness, everybody averred. From Wordnik.com. [Cobwebs and Cables] Reference
The nothingness of man against the pitilessness of fate made all the world a blank. From Wordnik.com. [The Eternal City] Reference
The take-no-prisoners pitilessness teenage girls can show one another is nothing new. From Wordnik.com. [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference
She recalled the look his face had worn, the sternness, the pitilessness of his eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Rosa Mundi and Other Stories] Reference
A sense of the piteousness, the pitilessness, of it all came overwhelmingly to Mary O'Gara. From Wordnik.com. [Love of Brothers] Reference
You can now persevere in pitilessness, an essential in one who would support what we call justice. From Wordnik.com. [The Emancipated] Reference
One senses, as one watches him wield his strap, that this is not just a demonstration of pitilessness. From Wordnik.com. [Forbes.com: News] Reference
His face assumed an expression of cold pitilessness, he bit his lips as if he wanted blood, and screwed up his eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Day of Wrath] Reference
Unlike too, of course, but it is the pitilessness common to both extremes that shows most strongly in an old, wrinkled visage. From Wordnik.com. [The Nether World] Reference
The Romans showed the pitilessness and inhumanity of their mores in the development they gave to the gladiatorial exhibitions. From Wordnik.com. [Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals] Reference
Every airman must have known it at one time or another, a sudden overwhelming realization of the pitilessness of the forces which men let loose in war. From Wordnik.com. [High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France] Reference
This is the sanctuary from which all human personalities, however weak and helpless, have been permitted to endure the cruelty and pitilessness of fate. From Wordnik.com. [The Complex Vision] Reference
The Northern takeover of the IRA, aided and abetted by Haughey and Blaney of course, brought an unprecedented pitilessness to the nationalist enterprise. From Wordnik.com. [Irish Blogs] Reference
And then, again, see how merciful and reformatory is the working of physical retribution compared with the pitilessness of the moral retribution of memory. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Heidenhoff's Process] Reference
He thought many of the leading men among the Liberals superficial and devoid of character, and accused them, with the pitilessness of youth, of mere verbiage. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of My Childhood and Youth] Reference
"Robert Lloyd has half a million, which has been accumulated by the labor of poor men in prosperous times," said she, with her childlike severity and pitilessness. From Wordnik.com. [The Portion of Labor] Reference
'Not guilty of pitilessness: all I did was to cheer up, according to my name, for my name is not Pitiless, but Cheer-up; and I could not abide to see Mansoul inclined to melancholy.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Holy war, made by King Shaddai upon Diabolus, for the regaining of the metropolis of the world; or, the losing and taking again of the town of Mansoul] Reference
Not since the spring day, nearly nine years before, when she began that Vergil lesson which ended in a lesson in the pitilessness of consequences that was not yet finished, had her heart been so light, so hopeful. From Wordnik.com. [The Cost] Reference
It is the very hard-hearted pitilessness and savagery of slavery which can thus wrest the life of the devoted husband from directly beneath the eyes of the loving wife, and tear the life of the fond father directly from. From Wordnik.com. [Discourse the Day After the Reception of the Tidings of the Assassination of President Lincoln] Reference
Jerzy Kosinski’s 1965 novel The Painted Bird is a carefully detailed chronicle of human pitilessness and blank suffering. From Wordnik.com. [Top ten depressing novels] Reference
For the tales of shipwreck sufficiently prove the pitilessness of winds, -- and however much a verse-weaver may pretend to be in the confidence of. From Wordnik.com. [Ardath] Reference
He has been prompted so many centuries only by pitilessness to us, only by the thirst for our sweat and blood. ". From Wordnik.com. [Center for American Progress Action Fund] Reference
Magendie's pitilessness was denounced. From Wordnik.com. [An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals] Reference
The mob has its seasons of pitilessness. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5] Reference
Newton, Isaac, pitilessness of, 108. From Wordnik.com. [Who's Who] Reference
Poverty, -- pain, -- pitilessness, -- long hours, -- scant reward, -- tired fingers, -- weary hearts!. From Wordnik.com. [The Master-Christian] Reference
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