| 单词 | mercilessness |
| 例句 | One of the things he’d respected most in his mentor was his mercilessness, his willingness to do hard things for the sake of the cause. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z This was the dark tangent in every man’s belly, the sickness, the coldness, the mercilessness, the lust to cause pain or fear through self-power. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Greed, delusional visions of grandeur, the mercenary mercilessness that made every relationship expendable—Midland perfected all these long before they became the standard of the eighties around the rest of the country. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Guojing amplifies the suspense and sentiment of her story with the skill — and mercilessness — of a great Disney or Pixar director. Are You a Dog Person or a Cat Person? Or Hamster, or Turtle, or ... 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z Her work is a strange combination of mercilessness and warmth. Lucia Berlin’s Roving, Rowdy Life Is Reflected in a Book of Her Stories 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z While we may not exactly love Theon, the mercilessness of his fate — and the relentless tediousness of his arc — tried viewers’ endurance perhaps more than any other. 10 times “Game of Thrones” ripped fans’ hearts out 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z But as Mr. Letts’s performance also makes clear, underneath George’s seeming mercilessness is a mournful sense of compassion. Theater Review: Tracy Letts in ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ 2012-10-14T21:52:14Z You emerge stunned at the sheer mercilessness of it all, but moved? Review: ‘A Little Life’ Is Quite a Lot 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z His mercilessness applies, first and foremost, to his family. Noah Baumbach’s New Movie “While We’re Young” 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z The judge at the trial of 11 family members, Timothy Spencer QC, described their behaviour as “chilling in their mercilessness”. My brother was held as a slave for 26 years 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z Smudges and clouds of dark gray reveal the mercilessness of her corrections and revisions. Lee Krasner, Hiding in Plain Sight 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Reed knows firsthand the mercilessness of the camera, and the critics. Rex Reed Bangs a Gong on the Mediocrity of Modern Life 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z As a criminal defense lawyer for 15 years — many of them as a public defender — she’s well acquainted with the mercilessness of America’s criminal justice system. Lawyer’s mission: Translate Tenn.’s bewildering abortion ban 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z He stood at 4 over par amid the mercilessness of Winged Foot. Phil Mickelson, five-time major winner, returns to the scene of his most famous failure 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z But on Wednesday, the genre’s sometimes-toxic community harnessed its digital savvy and mercilessness for more noble causes: shutting down white supremacist social media and overwhelming police tip lines meant to identify Black Lives Matter protesters. K-pop fans flood social media to support Black Lives Matter and combat racism 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z “The coronavirus crisis provides a vivid reminder that the state is perfectly capable of sheltering its constituents from the market’s mercilessness,” Levitz says. Will COVID-19 Make Us More Socialist? 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z But if Trump’s mercilessness has emerged as core to his ethos, not everyone has responded in kind. Trump’s mean streak spares no one — living or dead 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z Jackson’s Lear movingly bears witness to the mercilessness of old age. Review: Glenda Jackson battles through a brazenly busy ‘King Lear’ on Broadway 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z That’s one reason these kinds of ghost stories work so well — at least when they’re crafted with the kind of “don’t watch this right before bedtime” mercilessness of “Mercy Black.” Review: Don’t watch the horror film ‘Mercy Black’ right before bed 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z “Certainly wasn’t an easy decision,” the younger Mr. Goodlatte tweeted in reply to a Twitter user who commented on the mercilessness of the son’s decision to publicly criticize his father. Family Feud Breaks Out Between Judiciary Committee Chairman and Son 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z If only she and her campaign team had dogged Trump's bizarre bromance with Putin more, um, doggedly, with the same mercilessness as Trump displayed with his "crooked Hillary lock her up" trope. Trump Aide Spoke During Campaign to Associate Tied to Russian Intelligence 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z The family were described as being "chilling in their mercilessness" towards their victims. Head of family slavery gang jailed 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Entire villages emptied as word of the group’s mercilessness spread. Behind the front lines in the fight to ‘annihilate’ ISIS in Afghanistan 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z The dynamics remain much the same, with global capital able to exploit the 99% wherever they are with exceptional mercilessness reserved for those living in the ex-colonial outposts. Africa is being choked. But corporations leave their grime on us all | Lola Okolosie 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z What most drew the attention of Majd Ibrahim was the group’s reputation for complete mercilessness, for eliminating by the most horrific means possible any who would resist its will. Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z It is giving an animal human qualities of bloodlust and mercilessness. ‘Shark Week’ coincides with centennial of Jersey shore shark attacks 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z It was not the first time the Warriors, featuring the NBA’s premier defense and best record, had suffocated an offense with such mercilessness. At end of Wizards’ 1-3 trip, Speights says Warriors knew they would quit 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z In between describing his mercilessness against IS fighters, Rubaie told AFP that he is a father of five. Who is 'The Archangel of Death' fighting IS? 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Alone, the 16-year-old entered an immigration courtroom on Broadway in Lower Manhattan and braced for mercilessness. In Court, Children Lead Line of Migrants 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z A similar mercilessness pervades the cells—the small groups that devise games and are the inspiration for the company’s name. Finland's New Tech Power: Game Maker Supercell 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z In addition, he was fitted for the work by the ardent fanaticism of the convert, by his learning, his fiery eloquence, and his mercilessness. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II 2012-04-18T02:00:12.957Z If a potent faith, it degrades to imbecility alike the teacher and the taught, by its abhorrent mercilessness; and if mere form instead of a faith, then is the Devil doctrine a misleading sham. Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z The next minute with desperate mercilessness he had loosed a long plaited whip like a crackling flame upon the necks of his horses. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z If there was one thing for which this Murad Afzul and his band were known and dreaded, it was for their absolute mercilessness. The Sirdar's Oath A Tale of the North-West Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:25.780Z Thus the Christian religion was made to sanction bloodshed and massacre, unsparing and fiendish in its extent and in its mercilessness. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z Absolute mercilessness, utter callousness, incredible inhumanity beyond anything known in the animal world is the natural and commonplace practice of the insects. The Mad Planet 2011-03-02T03:00:25.117Z So away the boy sped on his errand of mercilessness, when of a truth he should have been in bed and fast asleep. A Woman's Burden 2011-02-13T03:00:21.253Z The most influential has doubtless been Homer C. Davenport, whose slender artistic resources have been eked out by a vigour and mercilessness of assault rare even in American annals. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" He had as yet shown no symptom of mercilessness; but one night, as he was traversing an ill-lighted passage in the palace, a Senator rushed upon him with the words: "The Senate sends you this." Roman Women I don't mean his spending money and running debts and things, I mean—your—your father's horrid—mercilessness! Happy House The Inquiry was written at a time when its author had suffered from the tyranny and the mercilessness of booksellers. Oliver Goldsmith But Mr. Tiralla did not notice the mercilessness of it in his delight at seeing his wife in a better humour. Absolution There was a certain mercilessness in the way she waited for him to break the silence. The Dominant Strain He consequently did every thing in his power to mitigate the mercilessness of the strife, and to win his Catholic subjects by the most signal clemency. Henry IV, Makers of History An Indian chieftain by the name of Mugg, notorious for his sagacity and his mercilessness, now came to the Piscataqua River and proposed peace. King Philip Makers of History Dr. Bird shivered despite himself at the cold mercilessness of the railing voice behind him. Poisoned Air He knew the mercilessness of the red men near at hand, and he was equally merciless to them. The Young Ranchers or, Fighting the Sioux They went at her, poor creature, those two, with all the mercilessness of a couple of wolves. Cleek, the Master Detective His effects are helped by the fact that he is an excellent mimic and by his utter realistic mercilessness. When Winter Comes to Main Street They call out all the mercilessness in our disposition, and do not easily forgive us if we are so soft-hearted as to shrink from sacrifice in their behalf. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy He had taken her as his wife, and then written her that cruel, insulting letter, and left her to the scorn and mercilessness of a hard world. The Day of Judgment To them the most powerful of motives in human conduct were those of revenge, of prowess in battle, and of mercilessness toward an enemy. Deerfoot in The Mountains They heard fearful accounts of attacks by ferocious tribes rushing down upon them, plundering, burning, killing, scalping, with mercilessness which demons could not exceed. The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago They knew everything well, they calculated all with cold mercilessness. Debts of Honor Time alone will tell whether these stories have a chance of permanence, but I am disposed to rank them with that other portrait of the mercilessness of war, "Under Fire," by Henri Barbusse. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story God will rule the world by justice as long as we rule it by our mercilessness. Serbia in Light and Darkness With Preface by the Archbishop of Canterbury, (1916) May struggled hard against the mercilessness of the judgment contained in the last words; for it ought to have proved quite final as regarded Alexander Quisanté. Quisanté It had come with a mercilessness which those who knew him regarded as only to be expected in a man of Pap Shaunbaum's record. The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon He actually found his heated mind making a statement of the case as wild as this and its very mercilessness of phrase checked him. Robin Slavery has no respect for the affections, as is evinced by the mercilessness with which she sunders every family tie. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy These two Christian Kaisers conquered Serbia by their iron and mercilessness, and bound Serbia's throat so horribly that in Serbia there is now air and light only for the conquerors and not for the conquered. Serbia in Light and Darkness With Preface by the Archbishop of Canterbury, (1916) And since cruelty denotes excess in exacting punishment, it is more directly opposed to clemency than to mercy; yet on account of the mutual likeness of these virtues, cruelty is sometimes taken for mercilessness. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province There ran through her a fine vein of mercilessness, but it was without cruelty, it was leavened with both logic and justice. Parrot & Co. Nothing could have excelled the smoothness and even sweetness of Fowler's tone and manner; nothing could have excelled the mercilessness of his blue eyes beneath rather heavy lids, and the lines of his fine mouth. The Debtor A Novel It is full of mercilessness and of wickedness. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant Mercilessly he confiscated the estates of those who displeased him, and with caprice equal to his mercilessness, he conferred their possessions upon his favorites. The Empire of Russia There was a glint of mercilessness in his eyes. The Keeper of the Door The vile cruelty, the loathsome, unspeakable, dastardly mercilessness of the world. Flames He began by applying this rule of terror not vindictively, but with impersonal mercilessness, against the lives and property of the opposition. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval History Governor Robinson was much opposed110 to any such provocative and apparently purposeless action, no one knowing better than he Lane's vindictive mercilessness. The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War He was ably seconded by Albert Gallatin, the high-minded young Swiss doctrinaire from Geneva, a terrible man, in whose head principles became two-edged weapons with Calvinistic precision and mercilessness. George Washington Now, although she had not changed, she was like an angel of mercilessness and vengeance. The Inferno There is a just mercilessness in an aroused God. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 Sometimes she presents this doctrine with all the stern, unpitying vigor of an Aeschylus, as a dire effect of wrong that comes upon men with an unrelenting mercilessness. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy The girl was appalled by the mercilessness of a destiny that had so outraged right. Within the Law The origin of all lay in his unsociable, supercilious, and self-willed disposition, which, in all cases, is offensive to most people; and when combined with a passion for distinction passes into absolute savageness and mercilessness. Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans Taking life is a mere incident in the accomplishment of his schemes; men, women and children are sacrificed with equal mercilessness to the necessary end. A Book of Remarkable Criminals The mercilessness of nature about them, of heat and cold, rain and snow; the mercilessness of the city, of the country in which they lived, of its laws and customs that they did not understand! The Jungle The boys could understand the reputation for cruelty and mercilessness which attached to this sinister-looking figure, but there was none of the savage power which they had expected to see in so celebrated a leader. The Young Buglers There was in Guy Oscard a dogged sense of justice which sometimes amounted to a cruel mercilessness. With Edged Tools The entreaties of the aged Phoenix, who had helped to rear Achilles, and his arguments against his mercilessness, were of no avail; neither were the words of Ajax. National Epics He had condemned New York with all the mercilessness of a small-town superiority, and he had told funny stories that were as funny as the moss-bearded cypresses in a lone bayou. We Can't Have Everything It sounded compatible with the mercilessness she had herself experienced. The Sheik The terror, beauty, caprice, and mercilessness of the sea; the silence and strangeness of the impenetrable tropical forest; atmospheres tense with storm or brilliant with sunshine,—these he records with strong effect. Halleck's New English Literature Along with austerity of manner, speech, dress, and fast-day observance, they revived much of the mercilessness with which the Israelites had conquered Canaan. A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. The coolness with which boys will drown dogs or cats, or hang them to trees, or murder young birds, or torture frogs or squirrels, is like Nature's own mercilessness. Birds and Poets : with Other Papers The landsman can know little of the wildness, savageness, and mercilessness of nature till he has been upon the sea. Winter Sunshine Thousands of young men, with compressed lip and moistened eye, lean against those marble pillars, lost in thought, and almost excuse even the demoniac and blood-thirsty mercilessness of Danton, Marat, and Robespierre. Napoleon Bonaparte The mottoes on the banners attacked with impartial mercilessness both Democrats and Republicans. Jailed for Freedom It was then that good news went the rounds and the men looked forward to a week of pleasure, which was all the sharper accentuated by the grim mercilessness of the expedition into the Panhandle. Hopalong Cassidy's Rustler Round-Up Merciful in its mercilessness, the hard-driven right front wheel smote the silky golden head with a force that left no terrible instant of fear or of agony. Further Adventures of Lad |
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