| 单词 | pitiless |
| 例句 | Far worse was the lashing Connelly gave her the next morning under the pitiless boughs of the whipping tree. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z In vain men shook their fists at the pitiless foes that swarmed before the Gate. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z None of the latter's children had looked so much like him, not even Aureliano José, particularly in respect to the prominent cheekbones and the firm and rather pitiless line of the lips. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z His name was Piliso, a tough old fellow who had seen life at its most pitiless. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The land ahead rose in long shallow slopes, barren and pitiless, towards the desert that lay at Sauron’s gate. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Still the parachute-rockets shoot up and cast their pitiless light over the stony landscape, which is full of craters and frozen lights like a moon. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps for the first time, Werner sees in his teacher’s thinning blond hair, in his black nostrils, in his small, almost elfin ears, something pitiless and inhuman, something determined only to survive. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Every day in the pitiless hospital light she saw how patients deceived themselves — about their weight, their drinking, their shortness of breath — only to find herself now, in her estimation, worse than any of them. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z How pitiless were the Fates and how helpless was this poor Black girl. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Eventually you reach a height where you can see the tops of the topmost trees, with nothing but clear sky beyond, and your faltering spirit stirs—nearly there now!—but this is a pitiless deception. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Under the pitiless double assaults of her mother and grandmother, the cottage where she lived was always squeaking clean, mopped and swept and scoured into limp submission. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z But like a great pitiless thing he raises his arm and points, points it directly at me, like I’m sitting across a table from him. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z It rained in New York State, the Empire State, rained cold and pitiless, as the highway-sign writers would put it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z They recalled the sacrifice of Iphigenia, lovely, innocent young thing, trusting her father utterly, and then confronted with the altar, the cruel knives, and only pitiless faces around her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The air hissed from between my teeth as the pitiless gaslight shone upon his back. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Under a pitiless hail of spears, darts, and arrows, Cortes and his men retreated down the long causeways that linked the island city to the mainland. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Apparently, Raizel wasn’t entirely pitiless, because she scooted her chair in so I could reach the seat next to her. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Strangely, it's my mother's voice I hear in my head, cold and pitiless. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The magistrate was harsh with his subordinates, ruthless to his enemies, and pitiless to his people. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Day after day the pitiless sun blazed down, scorching whatever still struggled to grow and baking the earth hard until at last it split and great irregular fissures gaped in the land. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z We became hard, suspicious, pitiless, vicious, tough—and that was good; for these attributes were just what we lacked. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z His pitiless and hate-filled eyes locked with mine as he threw the daisy garland to the floor and crushed it with his foot. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Jean Louise watched his self-important little face and almost laughed when she reflected that the South was indeed pitiless to reward its public servants with extinction. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Luke carried it into the house, where we marveled at its soft plumage and pitiless talons. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I’m sorry, he said to the pitiless dark. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The eyes that had been so warm and compassionate just a minute before were now pitiless black stones, as dark and as dreadful as cold eternity. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Slant's eyes were not open; for several steps he walked with them closed—praying, I suppose, or blotting out that dawn, that pitiless approach. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z And the desert, the dry and sun- lashed desert, is a good school in which to observe the cleverness and the infinite variety of techniques of survival under pitiless opposition. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He was remorseless, disillusioned, logical, predatory, fierce, pitiless—but his great jewel of an eye was that of a stricken deer, large, fearful, sensitive and full of griefs. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The thatch had been ripped from some, where others stood there was now only a heap of mud with their owners’ possessions studding them in a kind of pitiless decoration. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Voldemort smiled his terrible smile, his red eyes blank and pitiless. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Or a dead end, if that’s what fate decreed—nothing but a blank, pitiless wall. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, there are a few tales told of him which show him pitiless and cruel. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z They were pitiless, powerful avatars from another world. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z This childishly wily Mary is a very damp match for Catherine McCormack’s pitiless Elizabeth and her aureole of fabulous, if anachronistic, hair. A Bloody Rivalry for the Throne, This Time With Margot Robbie 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Indeed, hurling continued as a key component of this pitiless portrait of failed or, at best, fleeting relationships. Alvin Ailey at Dorothy Chandler: Brutality chic in modern dance 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z Yet what happens when power descends, razing that village to the ground and remaking it in its own pitiless image? ‘A Thousand and One’ Review: A New York Love Story 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z Usefully for her work, Adams was a pitiless romantic: pitiless in the Flaubertian sense — a kind of ideal objectivity — and yet always hoping for better things. The Decorous Surfaces and Fraught Subtexts of Alice Adams’s Life and Work 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z The wandering in the desert, humanity at its most primitive, the constant confrontation with a nature that is pitiless and overwhelming...incredibly powerful. What are you reading today? 2013-03-05T16:51:30Z But in this pitiless milieu, even the best plans — like the one Walter and Phyllis meticulously contrive to knock off her husband for a big insurance settlement — can be undone by human passions. A steamy, riveting 'Indemnity' at ACT 2011-10-29T21:45:05Z As realized by Helen Mirren in the ‘90s on the British crime series “Prime Suspect” as well as in two chapters that aired in the aughts, the detective is impenetrable and pitiless. “Prime Suspect: Tennison”: An unnecessary prequel to a provocative “Masterpiece” classic 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z But for all his schoolboy ebullience, the message is pitiless: competition is best, leave bankers alone and the poor will benefit from the "trickle-down effect". Johnson's Life of London by Boris Johnson - review 2012-07-17T07:00:19Z Schad’s pitiless gaze on desire is hardly safe for the museum. 33 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z Such gatherings of lost souls had been a staple of the American drama for decades, in works as pitiless as Eugene O’Neill’s “Iceman Cometh” and as cozy as William Saroyan’s “Time of Your Life.” An Appraisal: Lanford Wilson?s Losers, Beloved by Their Creator 2011-03-25T07:50:16Z The family from hell brilliantly anatomised by Gibbons' pitiless genius for comedy. Simon Mason's top 10 fictional families 2011-07-29T10:37:00Z She was a victim herself, preyed on by exponents of controlled crying, or Ferberisation – that pitiless system, cruel to them both. Why parents should leave their kids alone 2013-05-04T08:00:00Z Manet's art is devoted to the wrong thing in the wrong place, unpredictably caught out and spotlit by the fall of light or the pitiless gaze. Manet's portraits: the artist on the knife-edge of photography 2013-01-12T09:01:01Z For the American premiere of “The Low Road,” a satire of unbounded self-interest and pitiless capitalism, the playwright Bruce Norris realized he needed to change the last name of his scurrilous 18th-century protagonist, Jim Trumpett. A Political Satire on Stage, and Not About Trump 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z El Akkad has done nothing less than reveal how a curious girl evolves into a pitiless fighter. ‘American War’ follows today’s vitriol to a dystopian future 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z His father’s loneliness and his solitary vigil with that pitiless world both saddened and frightened Glenn, I suspect. David Rabe on the Netherworld of Fiction 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z I thought the Radio Eds dispatched it with pitiless ease. Radiohead's Colin Greenwood reviews Guardian covers band Radio Eds 2011-03-31T15:51:18Z After all, it was her pitiless judgment that convinced Axe to treat Sandicot harshly, and she’s used to giving her husband’s raging id a lot of latitude. ‘Billions’ Season 2, Episode 10: Nonconformity 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z After his first stint in California he wrote the pitiless story, "Crazy Sunday", about an alcoholic screenwriter. The Great Gatsby – review 2013-05-18T23:07:04Z As Ophelia speaks to her beloved, the music becomes more intensely personal, as the composer seemingly enters not only the pitiless and abstract aesthetic of Xenakis but also the complexly ironic tone of late Britten. Listening Booth: Operas by Rufus Wainwright and Hans Abrahamsen 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z He’s always identified with athletes — the rigorous training, the full-body commitment, the pitiless tug-of-war between ability and dumb luck. Benicio Del Toro, Hollywood’s Instant Antihero, Goes the Distance 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z The phrases “I suffered” and “she suffered” crop up frequently in the Neapolitan novels, and Costanzo is pitiless in presenting the characters’ emotional pain. HBO’s “My Brilliant Friend” Understands Its Source Material, But Its Diligence Feels Misspent 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z The "one white quiet thing" suggests finality, but then, seemingly, life continues, the page of the book the protagonist holds containing an "icy scene" described as "pitiless and horizontal". Poem of the week: A Mind of Winter by Martha Kapos 2010-09-20T09:21:00Z It is a sharp comedy of manners about the nouveau riche of Delhi, refugees who are remaking themselves in a pitiless city. New & Noteworthy Poetry From Sharon Olds, Paul Muldoon and More 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z His advisers are viewed in mostly pitiless terms by Woodward. In ‘Fear,’ Bob Woodward Pulls Back the Curtain on President Trump’s ‘Crazytown’ 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z He ends up shaking a beggar’s tin on a bridge, ignored by the passers-by who surge around him like a pitiless current. Movie Review: ‘Holy Motors,’ From the French Filmmaker Leos Carax 2012-10-16T23:37:21Z Winter counts, however, illustrate sudden, pitiless twists of fortune. ‘Lakota America’ Puts the Tribe of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse Front and Center 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z He energizes his soldiers with grandiloquence bordering on the Shakespearean, warning of “bloodthirsty rogues and unrepentant cutthroats bent on nothing short of our pitiless destruction.” ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 8, Episode 3: Cut to Black 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z At once tender and pitiless towards the contradictions of traditional Italian masculinity, I Vitelloni was a major influence on the young Martin Scorsese. Europe in 25 films: the critics’ choice 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z One moment he's a poor dumb animal caught in the pitiless workings of the human justice system, the next he is a country squire patronising the jailer's daughter. Cornelius Medvei's top 10 talking animals in literature 2011-01-06T11:32:27Z Sergio Corbucci did, too, but his was the most violent, surreal and pitiless landscape of any director in the history of the genre. Quentin Tarantino: my inspiration for Django Unchained 2012-12-30T00:06:26Z “Her voice and vision are idiosyncratic and pitiless, combining mischief and crisp authority, formal experimentation and deep feeling,” our critic Parul Sehgal writes. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Cusk is pitiless about her parents, and anyone else, who thinks this is a power move. Rachel Cusk’s Essays, as Sharp and Glittering as Her Fiction 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z The performances are each calibrated to a static frequency — the forceful and pitiless apparition, the relentlessly placid new occupant — curtailing the potential for more dynamic shifts in character. ‘Happy Life’ Review: Ghosts in the Studio 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z His memoir of his wife Iris Murdoch descending into the darkness of Alzheimer’s, “Elegy for Iris” is not “pitiless,” as Atlas asserts, but self-sacrificial and sympathetic. Literary biography: possibility and peril 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z Her memory of her three lost years is extremely detailed, and it is pitiless. Carrie White: Remembrances of a Hollywood Hairdresser 2011-09-23T22:14:43Z Mr. Xu was one of the countless workers from the countryside who travel to China’s growing cities seeking employment, only to be eaten alive by the tedious, pitiless demands of industry. Review: In ‘Iron Moon,’ Poets Who Know What Work Is 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Is Louise’s pitiless act the transference of her forbidden feelings about her privileged employer? Keep Watch Over Your Children: Danger Lurks Everywhere 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z In her own hard shell of a navy pinstripe suit, she is tart, verging on pitiless; you feel her need to distance herself from the prospect of becoming exactly the same kind of woman. Review: Glenda Jackson Gets Her Queen Lear Moment in ‘Three Tall Women’ 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z In this book’s pitiless world those are last words, and nothing more need be said. Books of The Times: Hired Killer, Forced Out of Retirement, Says Hello Again to an Old Adversary 2011-05-04T22:28:57Z Dawn reminds Brandon of one of his signal acts of cruelty in middle school; his answer, whether true or not, gets to the pitiless heart of the matter: “Funny how none of that stuff sticks.” Todd Solondz’s Exquisite, Imperfect “Wiener-Dog” 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z Underneath this smooth surface you find this crunchy Mother Jones liberalism, though he delivers it with pitiless negativity. Josh Kline’s Survival Art for 21st-Century America 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z A combative Second, a brutal Fifth and a pitiless Seventh were as supremely played as the First, Third, Fourth and Eighth, but they benefited from an added edge of aggression. Review: A Beethoven Cycle From Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z Christopher Walken is a fantastic bad guy – Moore didn’t like the laughing machine-gunning of his miners, said it wasn’t Bond, but to an 80s kid it seemed the true depth of pitiless evil. 'Keeping the British end up': Roger Moore's career in clips 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z Like the earlier movie, del Toro’s is based on a novel by William Lindsay Gresham, a desperate, pitiless book filled with exotic slang and steeped in the soured milk of human unkindness. ‘Nightmare Alley’ Review: Seeing Is Believing. (Suckers!) 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z The competition is pitiless; only three per cent pass muster each year, while the rest barely manage to subsist. A Brazilian Thriller That Exposes the Sinister Side of Meritocracy 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z They don’t all hit the target, but to varying degrees they help clarify the cataclysm we’ve grown inured to in the face of a firearms lobby whose clergy of zealots promotes a pitiless ideology. Review | 3 novels that aim for the heart of America’s love affair with guns 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z The Greek/Roman world view seems far more pitiless than our own; the gods always seem to punish ambition. Lit Life: A Q&A with David Guterson 2011-10-24T01:45:04Z They are pitiless as a swarm of bees, or evolution.They know how to throw fire balls and do their own taxes. The Ninjas by Jane Yeh – review 2012-11-23T22:55:09Z Haneke has become virtually the founding father of an icily detached ordeal cinema, a pitiless vivisection of the west’s conceit, hypocrisy and cruelty. From Hidden to In the Mood for Love: why the 2000s are my favourite film decade | Peter Bradshaw 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z The third movement was somber and ardent, led by beautiful cello solos and the unforgettable rumble of the contrabass clarinet at one point, and the fourth shuddered with the pitiless march of implacable, triumphant death. National Festival Orchestra’s bright performance is a gift 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z I confessed to the reader that the nakedness of the emotions I was describing, undefended against the pitiless glare of irony, made them embarrassing to write about. How Does a Writer Put a Drug Trip Into Words? 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z The quartet’s muscular playing, almost too exciting, brought out the taut energy of Mr. Tynek’s dance, a fantasy about sailors, their wives and the pitiless ocean. Dance Review: Dusan Tynek Dance - Review 2011-11-04T22:32:48Z Serpell is a pitiless and often very funny observer of people and of society. ‘The Old Drift’ Is a Dazzling Debut Spanning Four Generations 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z It's especially good as an account of human frailty in the face of nature's pitiless immensity, the fascination of the abomination, and, the horror. Joseph Conrad's science fiction novel 2011-01-14T10:19:56Z Balty simply doesn’t understand pitiless fanaticism or the coldly austere theology behind it. Review | The timely message in Christopher Buckley’s historical novel 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z His concert was a tribute to Nature, both sublime and pitiless. Music Review: Two Bands Ascending to Falsetto: A-ha and Jonsi 2010-05-09T22:35:00Z Photographed in New Mexico by the incomparable Giles Nuttgens, what will become Toby’s bid for redemption unfolds on a sweating canvas of baked yellow and pitiless gold. Review: A Waltz Across Texas in ‘Hell or High Water’ 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Only at rare moments does the biographer let Mitchell’s dark side — evident, for example, in how pitiless she can be toward former lovers and spouses — speak for itself. ‘Reckless Daughter’: A Protective Biography of Joni Mitchell 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z As in most of his films, Mr. Dumont assumes the aesthetic and moral stance of a semidetached, some would say pitiless, observer of the human condition. ‘Li’l Quinquin,’ a New Mystery by Bruno Dumont 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z His stare may seem at times pitiless, but there’s compassion in his insistence on looking. | 'Aurora': Following in the Shadows Of a Very Shadowy Man 2011-06-28T22:22:04Z Soviet and German treatment of deserters, a story of pitiless savagery, is not mentioned here. Deserter: The Untold Story of WWII by Charles Glass – review 2013-03-28T11:00:01Z The problem is that the killing is so brutal and pitiless that it threatens to overwhelm the rest of the novel. The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes – review 2013-05-01T08:59:01Z Though the female actors bear up admirably, the male ones seem far less assured in the text’s increasingly pitiless landscape. Theater Review: ‘Holy Land’ Examines Dehumanizing Effects of Armed Conflict 2014-04-23T21:27:20Z Speckled with present-day politics and musings on global capitalism, “Have a Nice Day” conjures a small-town landscape of pitiless greed. Review: In ‘Have a Nice Day,’ a Follow-the-Money Tale in China 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z This ghastly scenario of poor preying on poor is, like the film’s gray-green palette, profoundly depressing and entirely pitiless. | 'We Are What We Are': ?We Are What We Are?: They Are What They Eat 2011-02-18T01:25:20Z His Stalin is not a disciple who deviates from Lenin; he is Lenin’s true disciple, in pitiless class warfare, in the inability to compromise, and, above all, in unshakable ideological conviction. ‘Stalin: Paradoxes of Power’ by Stephen Kotkin 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Steen is in every scene and nearly every shot of "Applause," and she portrays Thea with pitiless courage. Pick of the week: The amazing Paprika Steen in "Applause" 2011-01-20T23:50:00Z Switching between the antiseptic medical institutions of 20th-century America and the pitiless chaos of the tottering Ottoman Empire, Mark Mustian reveals the unfeeling man that Conn/Khan was and the man he became. Newly Released Books 2010-09-16T14:56:00Z The abundance of observed fact regarding seawater in these magnificent, pitiless paintings is stunning. Winslow Homer: Radical Impressionist 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z In these books, James functions as an omniscient designer-director and as an intimate portraitist, blocking out complex compositions with epic precision and pushing figures forward for expressively pitiless close-ups. Henry James, a Poohbah Who Painted With Words 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z “Your hair is all weird,” she said one afternoon, in the pitiless light of 4 p.m. How I Came Out as Gray 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z According to this logic, people are wired for greed and self-destruction, subject to a teleology as pitiless as that of Anja’s disintegrating eco-house. In Elvia Wilk’s “Oval,” Earth, Capitalism, and the Human Species Sink Toward Doom 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z But by that time the pitiless forces of the 20th century were inching closer, and the old world was about to vanish — a story told in Sarah Abrevaya Stein’s “Family Papers.” Meet the Levy Family. Their History Is Our History. 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Its memorably pitiless ending also got the ax. A New Podcast Rekindles a Box-Office Bomb 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z The vessel itself is like a ship of state inanely navigating a pitiless vacuum. Armando Iannucci Gets Lost in Space in “Avenue 5” 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z The Nest Rated R. Sex, marital fights and the pitiless treatment of a horse. ‘The Nest’ Review: New Home, Old Wounds 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z Reading Miano’s brilliant, pitiless novel is like treading water in an undertow. Turning the ‘Curse of Ham’ Into a Blessing 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z By the 1980s, a pitiless neoliberalism swept aside much of the abiding faith in public largess and its social agenda. Review: ‘Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980’ at MoMA 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z He fights against a past that haunts him and fights some more against a city that’s indifferent to his cowboy kitsch and absolutely pitiless in spotting a rube in its midst. Midnight Cowboy at 50: why the X-rated best picture winner endures 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z We are the rough beast that slouches towards Bethlehem, turning a blank and pitiless gaze upon our devices. We spend so much time staring at our phones. What do we miss when we don't look up? | Mel Campbell 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Make no mistake: There is nothing pleasant about “Child of God,” James Franco’s very fine adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s short, pitiless novel. An On Screen Adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s ‘Child of God’ 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z “Pay in Blood” from 2012 was a crisp, gory threat, and two of Mr. Dylan’s most accusatory 1960s songs, “Desolation Row” and “Ballad of a Thin Man,” were sped up but remained pitiless. Review: Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones, Electric, Not Just Nostalgic, at Desert Trip 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z Her voice and vision are idiosyncratic and pitiless, combining mischief and crisp authority, formal experimentation and deep feeling. The Kathleen Collins Revival Continues With ‘Notes From a Black Woman’s Diary’ 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z Katarina turns poisoner to resist her constricting environment – she ends in a gulag, her death just one more atrocity silhouetted against a pitiless white sky. Stefanos Lazaridis obituary 2010-05-16T17:48:00Z Deceiving ourselves that way is foolish; using that lie to string along our loved ones is pitiless. In the latest "Succession," a wedding cruise is wrecked by a reckoning 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z As befits a Haneke picture, it is pitiless and unsparing in its focus on the ugly business of dying, wheeling its heroine remorselessly from concert-hall to wheelchair to deathbed. Amour's love is justified, but why cold-shoulder Cosmopolis? 2012-05-27T19:46:59Z They wouldn’t be interesting enough, tormented enough, smart, noble, pitiless or self-critical enough. Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ‘My Struggle: Book 4’ 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Our rampant materialism, boiling planet, corporate overlords, corrupt politics, soulless entertainments, egomaniacal artists, selfish selves: it’s all here, in Tillman’s pitiless exploration of human nature, and of himself. Weekly Culture Review: Pulitzers, Kendrick Lamar, and More 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z In his speech he made special mention of our own Philip French, who he said had a "pitiless mind but a kind eye". Trailer Trash 2013-05-11T23:06:09Z It is one of the most lacerating works of literature ever written, a hard, pitiless stare into the abyss, not just of death, but of human nature. The Death of Ivan Ilyich/The Devil by Leo Tolstoy ? review 2011-07-28T09:00:00Z Our reviewer called the book “beautiful and brilliant, heartbreaking and wise, but also pitiless, which may be controversial to list among its virtues but is in fact essential to its success.” Pulitzer Prizes 2023: A Guide to the Winning Books and Finalists 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z And this new version of the HBO comedy isn’t just a pitiless reflection of Hollywood. Review: Lisa Kudrow Is Back in ‘The Comeback’ 2.0 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z Damaged, twitchy, unfocused, he is a lost soul in a pitiless world, and his evolving relationship with Eric provides an intriguing counterpoint to that man's ferocious quest. A car theft drives the chilling, intense 'The Rover' 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z And by Henry's pitiless order, thousands more taken prisoner were quickly executed. Myth and mirth take the stage at Oregon Shakespeare fest 2012-07-19T21:29:02Z The Rolling Stones mocked the tragedy in "Claudine," a song so pitiless that it wasn't released until decades later. 'Moon River' crooner Andy Williams dies at age 84 2012-09-26T14:41:23Z The play, written by Aoise Stratford, is not a Ripper study per se, but rather an engrossing depiction of a time and place, and a woman’s struggle in a pitiless social stratum. ArtsBeat: New York Fringe Festival Report: ‘The Unfortunates’ 2013-08-19T19:30:16Z When you think of photographer Dorothea Lange, you inevitably visualize “Migrant Mother,” the 1936 portrait of a woman and children that has come to represent the pitiless poverty of the Great Depression. Review | How Dorothea Lange ended up capturing the Great Depression — and becoming an influential photographer 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z Demanding wide emotional range and kaleidoscopic movement that veers between flowing liquidity and spiky brittleness, Mr. Neumeier’s approach to “The Little Mermaid” plummets to the pitiless depths of Andersen’s watery fairy tale. Arts: Taking a ?Little Mermaid? to Dark New Depths 2010-03-20T00:33:00Z In the play, written by Mike Vogel, the editorial staff of Drug Store Times toils under a pitiless publisher, a mocking sales department and an inept manager. Theater Review: Mike Vogel’s ‘March Madnesss’ at the Abingdon Theater 2012-11-05T22:43:29Z Unable to forget or forgive, Philemon comes up with a pitiless punishment: the suit must become a third person in their marriage. The Suit – review 2012-05-24T13:27:17Z Stone, one of the two architects of the original Museum of Modern Art, replaced the front of the townhouse in 1956 with an imposing, even pitiless facade of round concrete baffles. Pierre Klossowski Drawings Explore Eroticism and More 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z It is blithely asserted, for instance, that their hunger for dystopian fiction is whetted by having to live in a bleak world under the pitiless authority of adults. Teen fiction and the shadow of cancer 2013-01-26T10:00:01Z Every day for a week I have been looking into this pitiless oracle – and the news is never good. HiMirror Mini Premium – a pitiless oracle that points out every one of my wrinkles and spots 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z Norris can be pitiless toward his characters — particularly the more clueless white folk. 'Clybourne Park': A racially divided neighborhood, close to home 2012-04-27T23:34:03Z Befitting an admirer of Randall Jarrell, that pitiless scourge of critical jargon, Burnside avoids technical terms, though his close readings demand close attention, probably more than many general readers will want to give. Perspective | In a time of crisis, poetry can help focus our fears and transform ‘noise into music’ 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z Here it is further supercharged with a grand tragic theme — the past and its pitiless grip on us. Cannes 2013: The Past – review 2013-05-17T11:16:07Z Displaying an adroit way with language that lifts the film’s saggier, more formless moments, Mr. Fisher is an astute and pitiless observer of our less noble instincts. Movie Review: In ‘Blumenthal,’ Relatives React to a Playwright’s Death 2014-03-27T23:11:50Z This is a brutal, occasionally inelegant film, but it pulls no punches and shines a stark, pitiless light on its subject. Welcome to New York review – Abel Ferrara is unencumbered by good taste 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z Then her rock band kicks in, her voice gets rough and her words turn pointed and pitiless. 10 Artists to Watch in 2019 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Wild was a pitiless and provocative warrior: He liked to goad, to rouse tempers, to leave rubble in his wake, to impose Carthaginian terms. A Rousing Novel Follows a Brigade of Black Soldiers in the Civil War 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z Panoramic shots of the pitiless industrial landscape where they work convey a claustrophobic environment of limited opportunity and crushing social restraints. At New York Film Festival, Michael Haneke and Raúl Ruiz 2012-10-02T12:35:42Z Life is pitiless and strange; only simpletons look for neat meanings. Sex, Drugs and Marxism in ‘Class’ 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z In this deregulated paradise, perfected by algorithms and staffed by robots, the Dutch architect finds a post-human architecture more innovative, and pitiless, than anything back in town. Rem Koolhaas Gives Beleaguered City Folk a Trip to the Countryside 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z Sammy Harkham‘s new graphic novel, “Blood of the Virgin,” carves out an imaginary corner of this pitiless sector of the movie industry and takes up residence. The graphic novel 'Blood of the Virgin' brings ’70s L.A., grindhouse movie biz to gory life 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z After this forebodingly ironic setup, “Beau Is Afraid” sends its sad-sack protagonist on an increasingly deranged journey through what is either a pitiless, reality-adjacent American landscape or his own inner terrors. Review | ‘Beau Is Afraid’: Mom’s inhumanity to man 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z A plain-spoken Methodist girl of 14 exerts pitiless vengeance on the killers of her father in Indian Country. Review | Charles Portis, model outsider, gets the canon treatment 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Putin’s Russia does not build many bridges or hospitals in Africa, but is the master of pitiless protection services, plunder of natural resources and propaganda. Facing a Backlash in Africa, France Promises ‘Modesty and Listening’ 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z That included by Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who — delivering the official Republican response to the State of the Union — complained that “normal” Americans were under pitiless assault from the “crazy” left. Biden-GOP exchanges at State of the Union forecast 2024 battle 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z Love that sears and scars, like the pitiless expanses of the Sahara. How to watch every best picture winner from 1990 through 1999 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z Photographs freeze us in time at odd angles and, sometimes, in pitiless detail. AI’s Best Trick Yet Is Showering Us With Attention 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z Mr. Alsaffar accused the department of trying to drive a pitiless bargain in the Sutherland Springs case after agreeing to large settlements after mass shootings in Parkland, Fla., and Charleston, S.C. Justice Dept. Appeals Ruling on Government Liability in 2017 Church Shooting 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z Mr. Putin’s Russia, by contrast, never builds a bridge, but is the master of pitiless protection services, plunder and propaganda. Putin Wants Fealty, and He’s Found It in Africa 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z The pitiless pudding of a pitch may have been the ideal surface on which to bat like the England of the Ben Stokes-Brendon McCullum era - minimal lateral movement, predictable bounce and an unresponsive ball. Why England's win over Pakistan was exceptional 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z On the heels of “Outer Dark,” McCarthy delivers another dark and pitiless work that recounts the story of a violent drifter: the titular “child of god.” A complete, opinionated reader's guide to Cormac McCarthy's novels 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z Some of this is merely the pitiless calculus of campaign finance: Money is finite, and not every candidate makes the cut. National Democrats are ignoring Ohio's Senate race. Are they blowing an opportunity? 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z They really do have a commitment — to making Washington a pitiless battlefield. Opinion | The GOP’s ‘Commitment’ is to total political warfare 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z She re-creates the pleasures and luxuries of court life, but tells the story with savage dialogue, a pitiless eye and an astute attention to historical detail. Appreciation: Hillary Mantel wasn't just a novelist. She raised the dead 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z Still, a pitiless and unyielding reality remains: a lack of energy that countries can afford. Shock Waves Hit the Global Economy, Posing Grave Risk to Europe 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Last year, corporate America remained mostly silent as Texas launched a pitiless attack on abortion rights, a trend that spread rapidly to other red states. Column: Corporations left California for lower taxes and fewer regulations. Will abortion rights bring them back? 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z The country’s second-largest city, just 25 miles from the Russian border, was an early target of Moscow’s all-out offensive, subject to weeks of pitiless attacks that have left whole neighborhoods in ruins. In a Ukraine maternity ward: The roar of bombs, a newborn's cry 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z Some experts have warned that Russia will now rely on a pitiless bombardment of built-up areas to weaken Ukrainian resistance. Ukrainians rush to buy rifles, shotguns as police relax rules 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z And then the gate agent explained the pitiless calculus of the oversold flight: The man had been the last to check in. Perspective | With the clock ticking down toward takeoff, the airline looked for one volunteer 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z Lehrer’s studio also has transformed schoolyards — historically designed as vast expanses of pitiless asphalt — into greener spaces, and for decades she has worked, in official and unofficial capacities, to reimagine the concrete-embalmed Los Angeles River. Who is the SoFi Stadium architect? 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z Lehrer’s studio has also transformed schoolyards — historically designed as vast expanses of pitiless asphalt — into greener spaces. How SoFi Stadium's landscape designer is transforming Los Angeles' urban grid 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z Full of Herzogian awe at the beauty and pitiless power of Mother Nature, it’s a harrowing, captivating reminder that lava conquers all. Sex positivity, abortion rights and volcanic eruptions among seven early gems at a virtual Sundance 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z The re-released version, lamenting a woman's death at a young age in the pitiless glare of fame, went on to become the second-biggest selling physical single of all time. Abbey pushed for Elton John to play at Princess Diana's funeral 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z Here, Anderson once again turns his affectionate, somewhat pitiless lens on the entertainment world. Review | ‘Licorice Pizza’ movie review: As aimless as a dream, but with its own offbeat logic 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z “It occurs all over the country,” Mr. Weingarten wrote, “the pitiless 24-hour-a-day chaining of dogs to lifelong sentences of misery and madness.” Opinion | Why do people mistreat their dogs? Because they can. 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z Belatedly, the left has discovered its counterweight to the “compassionate conservatism” of George W. Bush: pitiless progressivism. Opinion | The jury gave Rittenhouse the benefit of the doubt. That’s what advocates of criminal justice reform should have wanted. 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z To the pitiless eye of the X-ray machine, the jagged, multipointed object looked like a stealthy weapon beloved by ninjas: a throwing star. Perspective | When is a gun not a gun? When it’s actually a beer tap. 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z The choice for the father was pitiless: seeking medical help would mean a return to Belarus and the end of his family’s desperate journey to Europe. An asylum-seeker’s wrenching decision: Stay on the run or save his child’s life? 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z We might encounter life that is more alien than even science-fiction writers have imagined, or territory desolate beyond belief, or merely the unsettling beauty of pitiless nature. What a Fungus Reveals About the Space Program 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z Originating in constant and pitiless wars against Native people, American fighting was brutal even before it went abroad. Opinion | America Is Giving the World a Disturbing New Kind of War 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z If it is required by our interests, they are selfish and pitiless interests. Opinion | Why did Biden want the Afghanistan withdrawal tied to the 20th anniversary of 9/11? 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z When Yeats writes about darkness dropped in the sands of the desert and a slouching “rough beast” with “a gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,” he could be describing the Taliban. Opinion | A Rough Beast Returns 2021-08-21T04:00:00Z He turned 65 the day after his acquittal, and returned to a pitiless schedule. After 17 wrenching months: Verdicts, death and a witness' shocking admission 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z Malcolm locks a vise on the reader from the first sentence — her pitiless assertion that journalism is “morally indefensible.” Appreciation: Journalist Janet Malcolm's work was a marvel, both chilling and provocative 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z He creates his own aesthetic logic in a film that can feel perfunctory at times but winds up being just as pitiless as the universe he depicts. Review | The movie ‘New Order’ is a diabolically imaginative dystopian fever dream 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z And so the whole thing becomes a kind of pitiless exposure of every weakness that you can possibly have, beginning with the fact that you can’t control. 6 directors on the illusion of control and 'the pitiless exposure of your weaknesses' 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z “The next prime minister of Israel will be a full-blown total man of the right, uncompromising and pitiless,” columnist Gideon Levy wrote in the liberal Haaretz daily. Saar, longtime Netanyahu ally, emerges as his top challenger 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z Ioannidis became a kind of beat cop in the world of high-stakes epidemiological research, turning a pitiless eye on subjects from nutritional guidelines to antidepressants. A top scientist questioned virus lockdowns on Fox News. The backlash was fierce. 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z The famously pitiless Henry Kissinger called himself a realist. Perspective | Biden’s foreign policy team is full of idealists who keep getting people killed 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z Are the barbarian hordes really arriving under the brutal, pitiless direction of . Opinion | The moral hypocrisy of conservative leaders is stunning 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z But the pitiless exposure of your weaknesses is the essence of directing, isn’t it? 6 directors on the illusion of control and 'the pitiless exposure of your weaknesses' 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z Approach it with carelessness, take ignorant or undisciplined risks, and it’s pitiless. Perspective | As the waves crash around us, learn from one of the greatest riders on the planet 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z In the pitiless glare of the red recording light, it’s the drummer who’s expendable, replaced by a session musician and handed a tambourine. Perspective | With no gigs on the horizon, my band decides to go into the recording studio 2020-10-25T04:00:00Z Soon friends chimed in with their own artifacts, surviving examples of Washington’s pitiless retail ecosystem. Perspective | Archaeology of Washington retail is in our basements, attics and garages 2020-09-06T04:00:00Z Imbued with the pitiless work ethic of the hardcore punk bands they adored, they were resolute in bringing their riotous show to as many people as possible. Riley Gale: the death of thrash metal's great idealist is a terrible loss | Harry Sword 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z At the end of the 19th century, diphtheria, known as “the strangling angel,” was the 10th most common cause of death in the United States, and a pitiless killer of children. How scientists revived an old-school treatment for a 21st century pandemic 2020-08-01T04:00:00Z One of the enduring images to come out of the pandemic was the pitiless spectacle of super-yachts floating off-shore, as far away as possible from us, the "huddled masses." The pandemic is making us question the connection between work and money. That's a good thing 2020-07-19T04:00:00Z The two sides are still arguing — now in the midst of a pitiless pandemic, travel bans and economic meltdown. Boris Johnson still promising to get Brexit done, even amid pandemic and economic collapse 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z Two weeks later, the Democrats had given the presidential nomination to New York Gov. Franklin Roosevelt, who immediately launched a pitiless attack on Hoover’s record. Column: History lesson? After Hoover's military attacked peaceful protesters, he lost reelection 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z Yemen’s conflict is in its sixth pitiless year. Wars without end: why is there no peaceful solution to so much global conflict? 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z His publisher grandfather hated the WPA even more than he hated “Citizen Kane,” Orson Welles’ pitiless fictionalization, but Will Hearst is different. 85 years ago, FDR saved American writers. Could it ever happen again? 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z For 14 months pestilence, pitiless and seemingly random, ravaged the village. What can the 'plague village' of Eyam teach us? 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z “The Plague” is an anti-allegory: It is vivid, tactile and frankly repulsive — the story of particular people actually dying from an actual disease, in ways medieval and pitiless. Albert Camus' 'The Plague' and our own Great Reset 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z In the business world, it was manifested in a newly aggressive stance against unionization, as corporations took a cue from Reagan’s pitiless breaking of the air traffic controllers union during its 1981 strike. Column: The coronavirus crisis shows what happens when a country puts its workers last 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z Retracing Tasi’s journey and pulling together the fragments of a shattered past will be the only chance to survive the pitiless horror that threatens to devour you. There’s a new Amnesia game, and it’s probably terrifying 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z “We were never pitiless. We had the larger pity. Arguably it was misplaced. Certainly it was futile. We know that now. But we did not know it then.” John le Carré on Brexit: ‘It’s breaking my heart’ 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z Two decades ago, Starr became notorious as a pitiless Republican tormenting and hunting down a well-liked Democratic president. Kenneth Starr, driver of Clinton impeachment, does about-face for Trump 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z Pancreatic cancer is a pitiless disease, and like any cancer it consumes all those around it. Perspective | A lot of people complain about car dealers. This one went the extra mile. 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z “We were appalled by the revelations of the aggressive, pitiless billing and collections practices” at U-Va., physician Scott Heysell and two other senior doctors wrote in a letter to KHN published Saturday. University of Virginia doctors decry aggressive billing practices by their own hospital 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z Not only does its style – severe black-and-white, almost photographic in its pitiless detail – borrow from her work, she actually painted a small section of it. Dora Maar: how Picasso's weeping woman had the last laugh 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z I was just a mildly rambunctious boy on planet Earth: bicycle crashes, skiing accidents, pitiless shore breaks, a drunken tussle or two. My Year of Concussions 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z They wanted the pitiless massacre, and instead, they got three hours of frustrating hell. UNC's Mack Brown made the call of the week by going for two...even if it failed - Golf Digest 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z A pub-goer slashed the neck of a 21-year-old man in an act of "pitiless savagery" then went on the run for more than three years, a court has heard. Man's throat cut in 'pitiless' pub killing 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z But the west – turning a blind eye for decades to pitiless autocracy, legalised misogyny and religious bigotry – has continued to court Riyadh and its corrupting riches. The world ignored the warning signs – and now the Middle East is on the brink | Simon Tisdall 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Hence the vital presence of Delon, one of the most pitiless of stars. The Hour of Reckoning Descends in “Mr. Klein” 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z Archer, every bit as pitiless as the Australian quicks have been to England’s batsmen in recent series, followed it up with another bouncer. Jofra Archer’s fire could be key to breaking Steve Smith’s dominance | Andy Bull 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z Trump wants to change not just the policy of our government, but also the character of our country, into something hard, and dark, and dishonorable, and pitiless. Opinion | Trump never takes a vacation from provocation 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z While the Dodgers were punishing baseballs, Hill was avoiding bats with pitiless efficiency. Dodgers blast Reds with four home runs and Rich Hill pitches a gem 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z Duzyj says he had “conversations” with most of the subjects before the launch, about why he’d picked such a pitiless title for the show. The life of a loser: what fuels our fascination with the defeated? | Andy Bull 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z The latest season of "Servant of the People," shown just days before the election, opens with Holoborodko thrown into prison on trumped-up charges fabricated by his pitiless foes. Ukrainian comedian a step closer to taking office for real 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z The latest season of “Servant of the People,” shown just days before the election, opens with Holoborodko thrown into prison on trumped-up charges fabricated by his pitiless foes. Ukrainian comedian sure of victory in presidential runoff 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z The latest season of “Servant of the People,” shown just days before the election, opens with Holoborodko thrown into prison on trumped-up charges fabricated by his pitiless foes. Ukrainian comedian sure of victory in presidential runoff 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z The reaction to May’s speech has been pitiless. Theresa May Has Poisoned the Well of British Politics 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z The book calls her “a cold and pitiless goddess,” but to me she was self-assured, unapologetically powerful. Opinion | Make Me a Cold and Pitiless Goddess 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z At the time, Judge Jim Doolittle called it a “cold-blooded, pitiless killing.” Mentally ill Idaho death row inmate won’t face execution 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z “The world was pitiless,” observes Ted, with weary nihilism. Cat Person author Kristen Roupenian: 'Dating is caught up in ego, power and control' 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z Tuesday when the 91st Oscar nominations were announced, a moon as pitiless and implacable as a police spotlight. Commentary: 2019 Academy Award nominations are all over the map 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z That’s too bad, because if there’s one thing my Giant needs, it’s a pitiless supermarket RoboCop enforcing the rules of the Scan It lane. Perspective | Humans are dumb. That’s why I want robots at my supermarket. 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z The movie is punctuated by moments of pitiless, horrifying savagery, and one genuinely breathtaking plot twist. Review | ‘Widows’ isn’t a feel-good feminist heist movie — and that’s why it’s so great 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Fountain is tough on Republicans but pitiless about the identity crisis of the modern Democratic Party. Review | A novelist’s provocative analysis of the decline of American politics 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z The killing of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul by agents believed to be close to the kingdom’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has cast him into this ruthless and pitiless pantheon. Saudi prince joins pantheon of incendiary Arab rulers’ sons 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z The killing of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul by agents believed to be close to the kingdom's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has cast him into this ruthless and pitiless pantheon. Saudi prince joins pantheon of incendiary Arab rulers' sons 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z As for the pitiless ending, in which Raoul and Valentine die at the Huguenots’ side, Kriegenburg directed with restraint, avoiding the temptation to drench the stage with blood and populate it with Fascistic thugs. The Dark, Prophetic Vision of Giacomo Meyerbeer 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z But it aerates what’s already been well-trod, offering an alternately pitiless and tenderhearted lens on such hardy themes as character, filial loyalty and American progress at its most naive and voraciously destructive. Review | Joaquin Phoenix and John C. Reilly’s new western has bloody violence and suffering. But it also has sweetness. 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z You can see why “Hold the Dark” might have made a compelling book, but the film is one grim and pitiless journey. Review: Alaskan thriller ‘Hold the Dark’ is brutal and bleak 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z It’s a series of pitiless, wearying battles that leaves heaps of ragged, filthy corpses everywhere the story goes. Outlaw King is an empty bid for Netflix’s filmmaking legitimacy 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Instead, it was a pitiless mirror that revealed an addict in denial. How Joe Budden Became the Howard Stern of Hip-Hop 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z Stripping the format down to its deceptively crude basics, filming McNamara in pitiless close-up, he allows his subject to emerge as several things at once: confident, conflicted, brilliant, arrogant and, finally, confounding. From ‘Children of Men’ to ‘Spirited Away,’ here are the 23 best movies of the 2000s. 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z He knows that many news outlets are, in his pitiless term, “failing,” or at least struggling for survival in the wake of vast changes in technology and in the advertising market. Trump and the Enemies of the People 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z The “entrepreneurial” person under precarity capitalism is essentially forced to engage in a battle royale against their fellow citizens, in a pitiless game that the 1% can watch with amusement from a safe, insulated distance. From Fortnite to Love Island: how the ‘fight to the death’ defines our times 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z For a couple of decades, nature programs have pegged their success on hymns to the pitiless efficiency of sharks and raptors. How politicians have corrupted the concept of “survival of the fittest” 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z But this kid, deeply devoted to the game, seemed stronger than anything, on the field and off it, as he prepared from a young age to navigate the pitiless environment of football. Kylian Mbappé: the fast learner who takes it all in his rapid stride 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z But those Arcadian images quickly dissipate, like morning fog burning off under the glare of a pitiless sun, in this intense and bittersweet tale of what it means to be broken and whole. Review | A man and his daughter lived undetected in the woods of Portland. This powerful drama is their story. 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z Pressed on that pitiless policy last week, Trump doubled down by declaring due process and federal judges obsolete. Opinion | Stop mourning, Democrats 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z When Daddy finally ended the pitiless policy that he imposed, she congratulated him on Twitter for white knighting it and urged Congress to “find a lasting solution.” Opinion | Ivanka and Vodka, on the Rocks 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z Data on our dreams, our night terrors and early morning sweating jags, the very substance of our unconscious selves, turn into more fuel for systems both pitiless and inscrutable. Rise of the machines: has technology evolved beyond our control? 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z The erosion of the social safety net means that more and more people are at a sudden breaking point and there are few messages of authentic comfort to offer them in these pitiless times. Anthony Bourdain, Kate Space, and Preventable Tragedies 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z Was the end of the old Gypsy life a tragedy, or was it a case of good riddance to an irredeemably hard and pitiless life on the edge? ‘I don’t look like most people’s idea of a Gypsy’ 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z A deal was implied: The oligarchs got a haven from the pitiless realities of Putin-era Russia, and Britain got an influx of very rich people. A Russian Oligarch’s $500 Million Yacht Is in the Middle of Britain’s Costliest Divorce 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z Ordinarily, it’s only young royals who grow up in lavish official residences and the pitiless media spotlight, a permanent presence in our consciousness. Chelsea Clinton: ‘I’ve had vitriol flung at me for as long as I can remember’ 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z Father Toller joins Travis Bickle as an iconic avatar for his age, another loner restlessly searching for truth, moral reckoning and the salvation of a world mired in despondency and pitiless cruelty. Review | This new movie gets right everything that ‘Mother!’ got wrong 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z He had a pitiless eye and a penchant for spotting trends and then giving them names, some of which — like “Radical Chic” and “the Me Decade” — became American idioms. Tom Wolfe, Author of ‘The Right Stuff’ and ‘Bonfire of the Vanities,’ Dies 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z "This was a pitiless attack on someone who had done nothing but love you devotedly," she said. Killer who chopped up body gets 28 years 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z In conversation, she tends towards flippancy that disguises a pitiless work ethic. From Game of Thrones to The Crown: the woman who turns actors into stars 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Seen through Thornton’s lens, the Outback is a more pitiless landscape than the American West, yet he frames it elegantly, as if to show why settlers might have been drawn there. Review | The Australia-set ‘Sweet Country’ is an Outback western of epic proportions 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z In the opposition-controlled enclave before their abduction, they documented a pitiless government siege of the area, including a suspected chemical weapons attack in August 2013. Four prominent activists were abducted in Syria. Their fate may now become clear. 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z Jack London wrote about the “imaginative” drunk for whom the “white light of alcohol” granted access to bleak truths about the human conditions — what he called “the pitiless, spectral syllogisms of the white logic.” Does Recovery Kill Great Writing? 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z The Australian team takes a more pitiless approach. The Most Dreaded Opponent at the Olympics: The Common Cold 2018-02-11T05:00:00Z He claimed the legal process was biased against Muslims, who he said were treated in a “pitiless” manner with no presumption of innocence. Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam goes on trial over Brussels shootout 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z I am sure we are indeed a better country with this kind of pitiless fealty to the law, but I’m not sure everyone else sees that in your comments. With DACA in Limbo, Teachers Protected by the Program Gird for the Worst 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z It’s an austere, pitiless world, but director Daniela Thomas draws you in. ‘Vazante’: Tale revisits 1821 Brazil in black and white 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z They may not use his particular cover and cast pitiless self-gratification as a healing touch. Opinion | Larry Nassar Is a Familiar Monster 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z The state's response to the uprising was pitiless. 'I climbed over bodies to flee' 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z While Luke gets his big moment, “The Last Jedi” doesn’t do him any favors, plopping him on a pitiless jagged rock away from the action and a backstory filled with regret. Review: ‘The Last Jedi’ a welcome disturbance in the Force 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z During the siege of Sarajevo, which Mladic personally oversaw from mountains ringing the city, pitiless gunfire and artillery shells rained down for 43 months. Genocide conviction of ex-Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic fuels hopes for future accountability 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z In many ways, it’s as harsh and pitiless as their “No Country for Old Men,” achieving that level of hair-raising darkness with a brutal home-invasion sequence near the beginning. ‘Suburbicon’ review: Matt Damon is chilling in dark, twisted film 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z They are relentless, pitiless, inexhaustible, a football boot stamping on the face of the rest of the league, or at least its smaller members. Bigger, relentless, pitiless: are Mourinho’s Manchester United the real deal? | Jonathan Wilson 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z I was up there in the sheer, pitiless air of the 82nd floor. Opinion | Not Surfing on 9/11 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z Set in one of Glasgow, Scotland’s poorest neighborhoods, its unblinking depiction of a pitiless environment is balanced by a remarkable visual imagination that turns grimness into something close to sublime. The buried treasures of cinema from the last 20 years 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z The lyrics begin with the rapper “made of war,” personified as a pitiless, incessant force of nature. null 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z This is partly due to his pitiless prose, tautly translated from the German by Michael Hofmann, its simplicity and calmness adding to the menace of his images. Peter Stamm, looking just beneath the surface 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z For a time, the caliphate really did exist: a terrifying medieval prophecy sprung to life and captured in the pitiless freeze-frames of propaganda videos. The 'caliphate' is all but lost, yet Islamic State's threat remains potent 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z I vividly recall going there in the pitiless heat of August 1996, when I had lost an apartment and a job the same week. Opinion | The closure of a D.C. oasis for the down-on-their-luck is a sign of the times 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z Increasingly outrageous but always plausible, it applies its pitiless, pitch black sense of humor to a very particular situation. 'One Week and a Day' works through grief, one toke at a time 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z Dark, pitiless and despairing, it plays stranger and more distant to me today than it did back in the day. 50 years later, 'The Graduate' is a study in the power of obsession 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z She never raises her voice and never alters the look of pitiless regard in her eyes. ‘The Assignment’ review: a gender-twist thriller full of rage 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z Across the south, small children endure constant, pitiless thirst. In Madagascar, mothers weep and send their children to bed without water to drink 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z One is a tycoon and television star; the other a pitiless product of the KGB. It is now May’s task to tell Trump the truth about Putin | Matthew d’Ancona 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z With its overtones of guile and pitiless cynicism, the phrase is a relic of the past — but in some ways, it distills the harsh political realities surrounding the military and diplomatic jousting over Syria. Who wants what in Syria: World powers jostle for influence 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z It’s an exhausting, Darwinian life he is describing — endlessly adapting to a changing, pitiless world. Silicon Valley Helped Create Trump, and That’s Bad for It 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z It is so pitiless and I am afraid for you when I look at it. Remembering my World War Two fiance - BBC News 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z On Wednesday, in front of a loud and hostile crowd at Rogers Centre, the Indians took another step on the road to erasing almost seven decades of pitiless failure. Indians Defeat Blue Jays and Reach First World Series Since 1997 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z Does declaring war always mean a lesser nation must immediately shotgun troops in your direction, dashed against the sharp, pitiless rocks of definitive military superiority? Review: 'Civilization 6’ Fixes Most of the Series' Biggest Flaws 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z Dhaka’s drivers may be the most brutish and pitiless on earth. The Bangladeshi Traffic Jam That Never Ends 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z “It is well into its terrible descent into the pitiless and merciless abyss of a humanitarian catastrophe unlike any we have witnessed in Syria. “Syria is bleeding. Aleppo facing worst humanitarian crisis of Syrian war, UN official says 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z The second half tears it apart slowly and painfully, emphasizing Tom's helplessness and Isabel's pitiless selfishness, which is starting to look like Cianfrance's favorite theme. The Light Between Oceans is ready to start some fights about faults 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z Duterte’s election and his pitiless war against drugs are terrifying at a time when political scientists warn that democracy is in retreat. Rodrigo Duterte’s Campaign of Terror in the Philippines 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z Belatedly concluding that Hussein’s demise might play into the hands of a still-hostile Iran, the Bush administration ordered American troops to stand down as the Iraqi Army regrouped and began a pitiless counterattack. Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z The idea of a female filmmaker grappling with the pitiless self-interrogation of a compulsive misogynist sounded promising. Adapting Philip Roth novels for film has been hit or miss 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z I observed with shock and embarrassment mobs of people rally behind a man who gazes out at America with eyes, as Yeats put it, “as blank and pitiless as the sun.” Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: The Khans Are America's Wake-Up Call 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z That many people on both sides of the aisle are furious and feel marginalized by the pitiless evolutionary march of globalization is understandable. The GOP is becoming the party of exclusion. Who wants to be a part of that? 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z And so at the low point so far in Mrs. Clinton’s campaign, Mr. Trump redirected the media’s pitiless glare away from her and back to him. Trump’s MAD 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z When they returned home, they were confronted yet again by pitiless armed men who, at gunpoint, took what meager belongings they had left, sometimes the very clothes off children’s backs. Trump terrifies the planet: The entire world is watching us with fear and loathing 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z When Donald Trump warns that the United States is threatened by a marauding wave of pitiless Latin Americans, he may well be right. Argentinian TV channel mocks Donald Trump to promote Copa América 2016 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z “The sun rose with a pitiless red,” she writes toward the end, “and the shuttle rattled across the ancient loom.” A Sweeping Novel About Race in America 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Photograph: Andy Hall for the Observer Syria’s largest city is once again under bombardment: its residents are, once again, exposed to pitiless, wanton attack as the world looks on. ‘We’ve had massacres all week’: Aleppo on fire again as Assad consigns ceasefire to history 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z With pitiless logic, he rattles off a proof for his candidacy: Ted Cruz’s Establishment Turn 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z His elaborately specific fantasies about interior design are winningly strange, and his stare is memorably pitiless. Timothy Spall makes 'gamely' Caretaker stage return - BBC News 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Recent visitors report to us that while foreign diplomats in the capital fret over how to implement the peace agreement, Mr. Kiir and Mr. Machar continue their pitiless war with impunity. Enough is enough. It’s time for an arms embargo in South Sudan. 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z Trumpist scapegoating appeals to those suddenly confronted by the pitiless logic of the market: essentially, he’s inviting whites to say “target them and not us”. The scapegoating of America's poor has echoes of the 'lifestyle choices' of Indigenous Australians | Jeff Sparrow 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z By focusing on the apparently human aspects of animals – proud lions, pitiless sharks and cute koala bears – they win large audiences. What you see in this picture says more about you than the kangaroo | Stephen Moss 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z They know that a handful of pitiless citizens can bring a country to a near standstill. The scurrilous lies written about Charlie Hebdo | Robert McLiam Wilson 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z Survivors of the pitiless winter of 1941-42 in Leningrad recall bodies lying in the street, with nobody to bury them. Shostakovich's symphony played by a starving orchestra - BBC News 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z What most of us in these bountiful countries can’t understand is how our young, raised with such opportunity, choose to abandon our values to embrace a culture of pitiless violence. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Donald Trump, ISIS's Candidate 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z All of this is like manna from heaven for the Islamic State, the more “pitiless” the better. The GOP is a gift to ISIS: Paris, Osama bin Laden and the shadow of the Twin Towers 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z His neighbors on Corbillion Street, it eventually became clear, were Europe's most wanted: heavily armed Muslims accused of helping to organize the slaughter of 129 people in pitiless attacks on Paris nightspots Friday night. In Paris suburb, residents wait out bloody gunbattle; 'No way they're going to be taken alive' 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z “We are going to lead a war which will be pitiless,” Hollande said outside the Bataclan concert hall, scene of the most bloodshed. String of Paris terrorist attacks leaves over 120 dead 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z This morning, under the pitiless glare of portable floodlights, excavating equipment began plowing through the blackened remains of the building. David Vitter hooker shocker: New charges that Louisiana pol missed vote honoring soldiers while scheduling prostitute rendezvous 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z The Wallabies put a ruthless and pitiless conclusion to this tournament’s most compelling story: the rise of the Pumas to join the game’s elite. Australia Advances to Rugby World Cup Final 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z In van Hove’s pitiless version, Mimi dies, with her last moments represented on video. Theatre Laid Bare 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z But pay attention, for the lightness conceals pitiless depths – it’s a glaze that, miraculously, doesn’t sweeten anything. Elena Ferrante on Sense and Sensibility: ‘I was passionate about Austen's anonymity’ 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z The recruiting drum he beat was loud and clear: summoning followers to a pitiless jihad against Shi’ite heretics, Christian crusaders, Jewish infidels, and Kurdish atheists. Islamic State can draw on veteran jihadists, ex-Iraq army officers for leadership 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z He did not believe that the “pitiless process of natural selection” that ruled in the camps confirmed man’s essential brutishness. Primo Levi’s Indestructible Humanity 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z Within a month, Delhi was surrounded by the British and the scene was set for one of the most gruelling and pitiless conflicts in Indian history. The vivid paintings that record a Briton's love of Delhi - BBC News 2015-09-19T04:00:00Z But seen today, "Forbidden Games" also fascinates in its affectionate yet pitiless black comic portrait of the Dolle family and its bitter internecine battle with the family that lives just next door, the Gouards. 1952's lauded 'Forbidden Games' from France remains in a class by itself 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z Compared to the carnage in Syria wrought by the pitiless combatants — 230,000 dead, half the 22 million population driven from their homes — it’s a paltry sum. Syrian Christians and the English Jew 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z When he wasn’t interested in someone, Frank could be pitiless. The Man Who Saw America 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z She admires various classical and modern dancers and choreographers and works, but her own dancers enact a brash and pitiless system of movement that disdains and subverts politer forms. The Action Heroes of Dance 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z But perhaps more important than highlighting those who suffered at the hands of a pitiless elite, A People’s History emphasized those Americans who resisted injustice. The right’s big history lie: Reagan, Disney, Vietnam and the war to redefine America 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z Some of the illustrations showed grown men, guards and warriors and courtiers, whose faces scared me—their stylized cruelty, in a pitiless world of all-powerful chiefs and quaking commoners. Surfing into Adolescence 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z Judge William Kennedy described the attack as "pitiless and wicked", adding: "It was quite simply an act of brutality which defies reason and compassion." 'Honey trap' murder: Woman jailed for 16 years - BBC News 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z With a boy’s pitiless hunger for detail, I conjured an image of these dowagers inside their walls, sipping tea from priceless cups. A Boy’s Dream 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Stories of pitiless carnage have emerged, with accounts of gunmen burst into a morning Christian prayer meeting where about 30 people had gathered, and opening fire. Families mourn victims of Kenya campus terror attack 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z “Savannah is dead. Joyce Garrard is pitiless. She doesn’t believe she did anything wrong,” he said. Prosecutor: Grandmother should die for girl’s running death 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z Here we observe Billy’s sympathetic yet pitiless evisceration of a former professional basketball player who has “accidentally” dropped his four-month-old baby daughter on the floor. You Will Get Yours 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z And, of course, there are the killings themselves, methodical executions conducted by pitiless gunmen. When Brothers Kill: Explaining the Siblings Accused of Paris Attack 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Those warriors were as pitiless as any raptor, but they also aspired to the refinement of Chinese scholars. Art review: ‘Zen, Tea and Chinese Art in Medieval Japan’ at Freer Gallery 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z Working out spurs many people to gain weight, primarily in the form of body fat, a pitiless but important October study showed. The Super-Short Workout and Other Fitness Trends 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z In the countryside, Kurdish tribal chieftains carried out the killings with pitiless savagery. Atoning for a Genocide | The New Yorker 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z The gray-black tiger cowrie, with its gaping maw and its dozens of hyperactive tentacles, is reminiscent of one of the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft’s pitiless dark gods. Susan Middleton Explores the Riot of Life in the Oceans in 'Spineless' 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z They mark the pitiless murder of millions from many countries by the leaders of one country. Germany considers a more active role 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z The malevolent bureaucracies, the pitiless killing machines, the cruelty of fate. Reading group: searching for meaning in Kafka 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z Though the constitution protects press freedom, there is no mention of a right to leak classified information: hence the pitiless prosecutions of those who have done so. Placing Holder 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z He is moving the nation back onto a pitiless battlefield, with a war plan that is long on good intentions and short on clarity about the ultimate mission. Stepping warily onto the battlefield For his part, Wilson advocated “pitiless publicity” of government actions but suspended presidential news conferences for the duration of the war on the grounds that he was too busy. Happy 100th birthday, information warfare But three weeks later, on June 10, the narrative of the newly in-touch G.O.P. met the colder reality of politics, with its pitiless winnowing of winners and losers. Can the G.O.P. Be a Party of Ideas? 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z This fierceness is everywhere in Rhys's work, converting self-pity into a pitiless critique. 'Every hour a glass of wine' – the female writers who drank 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z It has also focused a pitiless light on the flaws in its structures. Why David Cameron is right in his bid to junk Mr Juncker 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z However, give entertainers a break – they have to ply their trade in pitiless HD. Solange and Jay-Z: it's simply not the same if a man is hit by a woman 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z This pitiless American free-marketeering wasn't the only extraordinary mutation of Indian political and economic discourse. The new face of India 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z The Sinaloa cartel - its tide of dirty cash and its pitiless violence - reaches into the police, business, and politics. Inside Mexico's feared Sinaloa drugs cartel 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Many years later, the ancient Taney authored perhaps the most pitiless Supreme Court decision ever, named for Dred Scott. Walter Issacson, Francis Scott Key and America's Conflicted History 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z And then, in recent years, it has become the object of a pitiless experiment. Drowning Kiribati 2013-11-21T18:25:49Z These are the words not of a pitiless capitalist, it would seem, but of a philanthropist who’s committing his money to protect a public good. Vanity Fair: America's Newspapers Are Getting Bought by Billionaires 2013-08-06T10:50:23Z "He has a pitiless mind but a kind eye," said the Slumdog Millionaire director, saying it was "a great pleasure" to have had his films appraised by the veteran reviewer. Boyle honoured by Critics' Circle 2013-05-07T17:34:04Z In response, the government began a pitiless witch hunt; thousands of practitioners were imprisoned and tortured. China Arrests Christian Sect Members Over Doomsday Chat 2012-12-19T23:59:38Z Consider what follows a list of the Top 10 verbal misfires under the pitiless glare of the national political stage. Political Memo: Romney Is Latest in a Long Line to Trip Over a Tongue 2012-09-20T15:49:30Z There is no hiding from the numbers: data-laden documents are distributed before the meeting, and overhead map projections pinpoint the sites of individual incidents in pitiless detail. Crime in cities: America’s safer streets 2012-08-23T15:11:37Z There are sound astronomical reasons for such a pitiless verdict. Pluto Now Has 5 Moons, But It's Still Not a Planet 2012-07-13T22:35:32Z He tried to lay down a coherent line to the offshoots about the need for militants to wage pitiless attacks against the United States, Israel and "apostate" Arab regimes. Insight: Local wars blur al Qaeda's threat to West 2012-07-05T07:38:47Z The forward could not have been more pitiless against the Germans. Mario Balotelli One of Soccer’s Most Gifted and Eccentric Players 2012-06-30T20:04:33Z And the visuals, rendered into pitiless life by the complex Frostbite 2 engine, are grittily sublime. E3 2012: Medal of Honor Warfighter multiplayer preview 2012-06-07T07:08:00Z It was the end of a pitiless era. India Ink: A Final Interview with Brahmeshwar Nath Singh, leader of the Ranvir Sena 2012-06-04T10:45:57Z Through the diaphanous veil the strong light seemed to show her a grotesque and lamentable figure: heavy fullness instead of shapely slenderness, exaggerated curves, distorted outlines,—the pitiless ravages wrought by time. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z Banished from the land of their birth after having endured pitiless persecution, did they not have the right, relying on the Revealed Verses, to resort to the force of arms? The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah 2012-04-25T02:01:04.030Z When it had passed, not a sign was to be seen of the brave and ill-fated captain, who, with a score of his men, had been swept against the pitiless rocks. A Lad of Grit A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times 2012-04-21T02:00:23.363Z The pitiless forays of Borel drove the poor wretches from their native valleys, and they poured over into Piedmont. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II 2012-04-18T02:00:12.957Z Thinking it might be some benighted stranger, he hurried to admit him, as soon as possible, to a shelter from the peltings of a pitiless storm. I've Been Thinking; or, the Secret of Success 2012-04-18T02:00:11.437Z The cruelty of the process of confiscation was enhanced by the pitiless methods employed. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z Consequently, union and progress becoming impossible, incessant warfare and pitiless vendettas between tribes and families submerged all Arabia in a sea of blood. The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah 2012-04-25T02:01:04.030Z I was the tool of the pitiless one, his breath, the slave of his malice. Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes 2012-04-10T02:00:19.943Z For this they were exposed to pitiless persecution wherever their adversaries could exercise it. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II 2012-04-18T02:00:12.957Z You know the world, and I need not tell you all the pleasant things it told this fellow, for men are pretty nigh as pitiless as crows to their wounded. Barrington Volume II (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:32.490Z In a series of edicts dating from 1220 to 1239 he thus enacted a complete and pitiless code of persecution, based upon the Lateran canons. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z In the pitiless desert there was no other sign of life, except the presence of Him who is everywhere, eternally existant, but not to be seen by mortal eyes. The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah 2012-04-25T02:01:04.030Z Not for me the favors of the cruel, nor the grace of him who hath been pitiless. Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes 2012-04-10T02:00:19.943Z Oh! beware of yourself in company with the polished antagonist, who only smiles when he loses, whom nothing adverse ever disturbs, but is calmly serene under the most pitiless pelting of luck. Barrington Volume I (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:31.357Z They are wicked and gleeful, defiant and pitiless, those little, twinkling eyes. Treasure of Kings Being the Story of the Discovery of the \\"Big Fish,\\" or the Quest of the Greater Treasure of the Incas of Peru. 2012-04-09T02:00:30.007Z By the pitiless employment of confiscation, exile, and the stake he labored to purify it, but the evil was stubborn and constantly reappeared. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z Oh, how cruel Nature was, how pitiless to women! Mademoiselle Blanche A Novel 2012-04-07T02:00:33.037Z Hearing this pitiless word, Wehatpolitan caught up her child and disappeared. The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce 2012-04-07T02:00:31.747Z The earth, always pitiless to them, which never feeds them from her bosom, does not suffer her dead children of the Innuit people to sleep their last sleep in her lap. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z One sensed the pitiless savageness of the struggle for life, in which the beaten were devoured by the survivors before they were dead. Wyndham's Pal 2012-04-04T02:00:54.360Z We have only to look upon the atrocities of the criminal law of the Middle Ages to see how pitiless men were in their dealings with each other. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z She was pitiless, she would have flung the gentle flaccid little clergyman between the angry combatants without a moment's hesitation, if she could only have brought him there by the force of her desire. Mitchelhurst Place, Vol. I (of 2) A Novel 2012-04-03T02:00:33.630Z He also explained to them that they would receive from his government guns and ammunition which would enable them to cope with the dreaded Sioux or the pitiless Blackfeet. The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce 2012-04-07T02:00:31.747Z They are Germans, and hard and pitiless, but you may trust them. The Story of Francis Cludde 2012-03-30T02:00:16.347Z And all the time the pitiless flames were coming nearer and nearer, greedily licking up everything that disputed their advance. Bert Wilson, Wireless Operator 2012-03-27T02:00:19.467Z Indeed, the pitiless cruelty and brutal licentiousness habitual among the Crusaders, who spared no man in their wrath, and no woman in their lust, aided no little in inflaming the resistance to foreign domination. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z He was pitiless and wholly unscrupulous; but at the same time, he had in his own way certain estimable virtues. Held by Chinese Brigands 2012-03-26T02:00:40.573Z The Spaniards expended their energies in the gold and silver hunt in Mexico and Peru and annihilated the races of those lands in their pitiless rapacity. The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce 2012-04-07T02:00:31.747Z I have tried to keep it always in mind; remembering too a saying of my uncle's, that "there is nothing on earth so merciful as a good woman, or so pitiless as a bad one!" The Story of Francis Cludde 2012-03-30T02:00:16.347Z Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z It meant rather a place of pitiless discipline, whereby the natural man should be reduced to the lowest terms and thus the spiritual life be given its largest liberty. A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance 2012-03-23T02:00:40.930Z His eyes, however, burned with a gloomy rage, and when he recovered himself his voice was pitiless. The New Rector 2012-03-22T02:00:35.997Z But Might must have his last pitiless speech. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z Hitherto I had always been satisfied to answer, "He is a Protestant"; but face to face with this terrible old man and his pitiless charge, the words came but faintly from my lips. The Story of Francis Cludde 2012-03-30T02:00:16.347Z Drear is thine aspect, tyrannical December, O hast thou no mercy for the pitiless poor; Christmas is thine, and we shall remember, Though dark is thy visage, we honour thee more. Random Rhymes and Rambles 2012-03-21T02:00:31.003Z Perhaps he began to fear that even if his wife loved him not, he had been unnecessarily hard and severe, and pitiless, very pitiless and unloving. It May Be True, Vol. III (of III) 2012-03-20T02:00:14.013Z "The scoundrel deserves no better fate," said the guide, hard of heart and pitiless where his enemies were concerned. Across the Cameroons A Story of War and Adventure 2012-03-19T02:00:28.667Z At times his face was utterly inane, at times it had an expression of stagnant amazement, as if he saw before his eyes with pitiless clearness the dishonour and mischief of his being.... Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul 2012-03-18T02:00:19.567Z Under the pitiless hail of bullets horses and men went down like grass under the scythe. A Hero of Li?ge 2012-03-16T02:00:21.347Z Witty, incisive criticism and pitiless invective secured it a large circulation, and from this source alone Hook derived, for the first year at least, an income of �2000. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z She stood as one stunned; dazed by his treatment of her; shaken to the soul by his relentless, pitiless tone, by his thinly veiled hatred. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z "Therefore he trusts you," was the unyielding, the pitiless answer. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z And with pitiless finger she pointed to the old plotter, who, sneaking, and cringing in the background, had already his eye on the door and his mind on retreat. Shrewsbury A Romance 2012-03-15T02:00:22.177Z Pitiless he was, as pitiless to himself as to others. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z We could not face the pitiless storm at our backs, and to go forward seemed impossible. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z Clyne continued, in a voice cold as the winter fells and as pitiless. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z Whatever new wickedness he should have to do, not his the fault, but that of this pitiless and unjust Fate. A Desperate Voyage 2012-03-11T03:00:11.030Z Higby, not knowing how many weapons were turned upon him, and unable to see anything in that pitiless blaze, lay perfectly still. The Motor Girls in the Mountains or, The Gypsy Girl's Secret 2012-03-07T03:00:15.897Z No one took pity upon him, because those in the village were all still heathen and pitiless, as was he whom they adored as God. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 30 of 55 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XXX, 1640 2012-03-06T03:00:26.127Z The wild, infatuated youth often becomes the stern, pitiless old man. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z A faint surprise, therefore, pierced his pitiless composure when, after the lapse of a long minute, she spoke in a tone that was comparatively calm and decided. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z The afternoon sun flooded it with a pitiless heat and dazzling brilliancy, and there was not a movement in the stagnant atmosphere. Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z The spirits of the men ran low, and they were two hours in building a snow-hut in which to hide from the pitiless wind. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z Fate, a cruel, pitiless fate, was closing upon her. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z A flame of scarlet leaped into her face and the glare of the blue eyes was pitiless. The Chase of the Golden Plate 2012-02-27T03:00:13.060Z The Waldgrave changed colour, glared and fumed; but the Count was pitiless, and laughed on. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z It ceased in a few minutes, but the men crouched bewildered for another half hour ankle-deep in water while a pitiless blinding deluge thrashed them. Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z As the pressure came steadily, in well assured strength, she groaned and shrieked like a thing of conscious pain, writhing and twisting as if striving to escape her pitiless adversary. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z Still, deep in his strong soul lay unconquered the fierce passions that ruled the viking age—pitiless cruelty, craving for revenge, consuming hatred, and lust for power. Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age 2012-02-23T03:00:38.817Z This episode recalls the rage of the fish-women of Paris during the Reign of Terror, those unsexed and pitiless viragos of La Halle. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z This pitiless indictment I bring without pity against myself. The Trial of Oscar Wilde From the Shorthand Reports 2012-02-19T03:00:17.513Z He was only conscious of the little curl of blue smoke in the entrance of the hut, and the black object that writhed in the pitiless glare in front of it. Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z The symbolism of the play is concentrated in these scenes below the ground: the thought that life is sublimated in moments of enchantment which pitiless light soon dispels. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z And the pitiless steel found his heart again. The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z But the four men met his look with stern, pitiless faces and set lips. A Little Wizard 2012-02-15T03:00:38.160Z Miss Wolfe failed to consider that the rapid action of that Jewish tragedy, with its pitiless termination in the murder of a helpless sleeper, did much to keep the tongue of scandal quiet. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z The woman was brutal and pitiless and devoid of shame. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z The Queen has a power that none can fathom; "and we live here with a great pitiless weight on our soul." Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z "His own sister, fifteen years old," the pitiless voice repeated. The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z Gabrielle, under the scrutiny of six pitiless eyes, took the chalice in her hands and drank. The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-14T03:00:29.027Z Oh, cruel one! oh, pitiless!--steeped to the lips in crime. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z For his part, Quenneville seemed resigned to taking some heat, given the pitiless stretch his team is enduring. Hawks unwavering in support of Quenneville 2012-02-13T21:09:00Z The hive of to-day is perfect, though pitiless; it merges the individual in the republic, and the republic itself is regularly sacrificed to the abstract, immortal city of the future. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z Snow showers had been falling much of the day, there was a pitiless east wind, and as darkness came on snow fell persistently. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z And yet, with all your sensibility, you hold the most remorseless and pitiless creed in the world—a creed in which there is not a gleam of mercy or of hope. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z Why should a Christian pity an unbeliever—one who has rejected the Bible—when he knows that God will be pitiless forever? The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 2 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:51.557Z Left to yourself, you could not condemn me in this cold, pitiless manner.' The Monctons A Novel: Volume 2 (of 2) 2012-02-11T03:03:50.943Z FATE.—Never hurried, never delayed, passionless, pitiless, patient, keeping the tryst—neither early nor late—there, on the very stroke and center of the instant fixed. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:47.297Z A sun without heat glared and scintillated like an electric light, white and unsympathetic, out of a pitiless sky without a cloud. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z Kings were tyrants, priests were pitiless, and the poor multitude were slaves. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your unhoused heads, your unfed sides, Your looped and windowed raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these? The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z Marshal Narvaez thereupon assumed the dictatorship, and wreaked upon the insurgents a series of reprisals of the most pitiless character. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z The one answer presented itself with pitiless promptness: Dupont had changed her. For the Major A Novelette 2012-02-10T03:00:17.550Z Sincerely did I pity this poor man, for his scant and tattered clothing was no protection from the pitiless blast, and excessive cold of that hyperborean clime. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:13.500Z And five games remain in this pitiless stretch of road tilts, and there's little time to dwell on an ever-swelling pile of regrets. Hawks collapse in 3rd to lose 6th in row 2012-02-08T05:36:00Z They were pious and pitiless—devout and devilish—meek and malicious—religious and revengeful—Christ-like and cruel—loving with their mouths and hating with their hearts. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z This code, entitled “Articles, Lawes, and Orders—Divine, Politique, and Martiall,” but popularly known as Dale’s Code, was notable for its pitiless severity, and seems to have been prepared in large part by Dale himself. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z The mischief had been done when he tore off his jacket and ran home, through the pitiless sleet, in his ragged shirt-sleeves. The Little Princess of Tower Hill 2012-02-06T03:00:11.547Z For many of the displaced people in Kabul’s camps, however, international humanitarian policy subjects them to a pitiless Catch-22. Cold Weather Kills Children in Afghan Refugee Camps 2012-02-04T02:58:50Z Moreover, aerial raids on towns, which are counterpart of the pitiless submarine war and the attacks against American rights, are the very explanation of the reasons why America entered the war. Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2 2012-02-04T03:00:16.443Z She is his daughter, his flesh and blood, Jimmy, and his pitiless, hateful nature is in her. Thrice Armed 2012-02-03T03:00:24.970Z The chance Beggar in the street is impersonal in his appeal, and yet he makes us uncomfortable by his mere presence, symbol as he is of the huge and pitiless waste of life. Our House And London out of Our Windows 2012-02-03T03:00:24.190Z A pitiless sleet shower overtook him, however, and the two were wet to the skin when they arrived at their attic. The Little Princess of Tower Hill 2012-02-06T03:00:11.547Z It was blazing hot that afternoon, and the wide plain lay scorching under a pitiless glare. A Prairie Courtship 2012-02-01T03:00:12.830Z And the sun was pitiless all day in a shadowless sky. Lawrence Clavering 2012-02-01T03:00:11.667Z The darkness rushed down between them, and almost immediately the storm broke in a pitiless shower of hail. A Romance of Wastdale 2012-02-01T03:00:11.227Z "Father Abraham!" he muttered, himself amazed at Amraphel's pitiless joy in triumph. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z And exposed to that pitiless assault a silent crowd of men stood packed together in the narrow street between St. Anne's Hall and the railings of the church. The Turnstile 2012-01-29T03:00:09.260Z Like a forest after a great burning it stands in skeleton and carries no leaf now, a curious reminder that water can be as pitiless as fire. Down Under With the Prince 2012-01-29T03:00:07.103Z They woke from freezing nights to the bitter winds of dawn, and two hours after dawn they were parched by a burning sun, and all the day they suffered under its pitiless and blinding glare. The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z His frank confession of how he had defined women came back to her with a pitiless conviction; "A brake on the wheel going up hill, a whip in the driver's hand going down." Miranda of the Balcony A Story 2012-01-28T03:00:24.760Z The rain was pitiless, and I in my best clothes, and without rubbers. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z Even this afternoon he had accused her--for so she now looked upon his words--with his pitiless truths. The Turnstile 2012-01-29T03:00:09.260Z So pitiless and fundamental was the challenge to his hope. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z Ah, cruel Child, though of all things most mild, Yet to Thyself Thou canst be cruel, Child; To Thyself cruel, but most mild to me; A Lion mild, a pitiless Lamb here see. The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) 2012-01-14T03:00:20.483Z Men's lusts, like house-dogs, still the house distress With clamour, barking for mere wantonness; Foxes are they, and sleep the sleep of hares; Crafty as wolves, as tigers pitiless. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z Night closed around us, and a darkness which almost equaled that of “Egypt” settled over the battle-field, and the pitiless rain came down in torrents, drenching alike the living and the dead. Nurse and Spy in the Union Army The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields 2012-01-07T03:00:15.907Z His mental action was deliberate, and he was pitiless and persistent in pursuit of the truth. Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 (of 2) The True Story of a Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:32.877Z To this end let any reader note the fact that in that stern day, and in this plain speech, Lincoln faced, and that under a pitiless compulsion, an exigent alternative. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z An implacable expression of security, and of ferocious coolness, radiated from that man, with arm upraised, so motionless, and pitiless. The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) 2012-01-02T03:00:27.980Z Would it be the work of Divine power, flashing forth and executing its pitiless reprisals? Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z On his arrival at the door the old servant who opened it started back aghast, the face of her master looked as if his throat was being squeezed by pitiless, invisible hands. The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 2011-12-25T03:00:12.817Z The capture of Paris, late in May, was accompanied with pitiless slaughter of the rebels, though many lives were saved by Victor Hugo. Liberty In The Nineteenth Century 2011-12-24T03:08:02.240Z History, with pitiless irony, has told the sad fate of his ambitions. The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe 2011-12-24T03:07:55.507Z These rolled on and vanished in the east, while many an anxious farmer wondered when the last would rise from the horizon and leave the pitiless sky uncovered again. Harding of Allenwood 2011-12-21T03:00:21.617Z But when he looked at her she was so wan and pitiful that he could not be as pitiless as the wan daylight was. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z The sea’s as treacherous as the winds that vex it; pitiless, murderous. The Protector 2011-12-14T03:00:17.460Z His fellow-men had made him a wolf, and a wolf he was now to the end of his spurs, as pitiless to his victims as they had been to him. The Heart of Denise and Other Tales 2011-12-14T03:00:15.733Z The schemes manipulated by means of mixed marriages, the long and pitiless persecutions of Frederick William III., followed by the comparative peace during the reign of Frederick William IV. The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe 2011-12-24T03:07:55.507Z There were some land and mortgage agents who dealt fairly with their clients and even ran some risk in keeping them on their feet; but Davies was cunning, grasping, and pitiless. Harding of Allenwood 2011-12-21T03:00:21.617Z His work on them is a masterpiece of pitiless satire. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z There was pitiless cruelty, and the sacking of cities was accompanied by fearful butchery. A History of the Philippines 2011-12-12T03:00:36.870Z At that time, however, I was dazzled--all but overpowered by him, and day by day my struggles were growing weaker, like those of some poor fly caught in a pitiless web. The Heart of Denise and Other Tales 2011-12-14T03:00:15.733Z I built street-railways, so that the workers of the world might save a few minutes from their days of pitiless toil, and so might have a little leisure for enjoyment and self-improvement. My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year 2011-12-12T03:00:33.863Z The frost was pitiless, and a strong breeze whipped up clouds of dry snow and drove them in swirls across the plain. Harding of Allenwood 2011-12-21T03:00:21.617Z The troop leader, without making any effort to avoid her, rode on in a pitiless manner, and she was flung senseless to the ground. The Honour of Savelli A Romance 2011-12-10T03:00:15.560Z Jack’s hopefulness was only intermittent and vanished again almost as soon as it came, leaving him a prey to vain, pitiless regret and longing. Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing 2011-12-08T03:00:28.210Z But small and poor and obscure as Lorgnac was, the hand of war had not spared it, and blackened rafter and fallen roof still bore witness to Monsieur de Ganache's pitiless visit. The Heart of Denise and Other Tales 2011-12-14T03:00:15.733Z Therefore it is more probable that by them the minds of her cruel husband and of her mother-in-law, who was pitiless and implacable, as experience teaches us, were exasperated all the more. The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book 2011-12-08T03:00:22.847Z The pitiless autocrat was now striking through the tone of detachment. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z Delhomme is full of passionate intensity, and he is not quite the worst: Brett Favre, with his gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, was also mentioned as a possible replacement. The Fifth Down: Week 13 Matchups: We Don't Want to Brag 2011-12-02T11:00:55Z What if this, one of her beloved mountains, had turned upon her in pitiless treachery and swallowed her up in one of its treacherous bogs? Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing 2011-12-08T03:00:28.210Z And the speaker, whose rough, harsh voice was as pitiless as his speech, swore a bitter oath. The Heart of Denise and Other Tales 2011-12-14T03:00:15.733Z The desire of Arabs to be free of their spiteful and pitiless dictators is sometimes expressed in grotesquely anti-Jewish terms. Praise Arab Spring, Except for Anti-Semitism: Jeffrey Goldberg 2011-11-29T02:15:30Z If they left their homes to take the field, their wives and children would be at the mercy of Spanish troops or of the still more to be dreaded and pitiless Volunteers. The History of Cuba, vol. 3 2011-11-28T03:00:26.510Z He would feel his wound, now that he knew the pitiless truth of her indifference, but he would make the engrossing ventures of his business-life drown its pain until this had perhaps ceased forever. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z Though larger than the noble Falcons, it is far inferior to them in daring and muscular strength; cowardly in attacking the strong, pitiless to the weak. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z The sun shone as brightly as before, but there was something pitiless in his unwinking glare. White Fire 2011-11-21T03:00:15.067Z It sounded cold and heartless ... pitiless ... like messages from the dead ... warnings of evil. Maid of the Mist 2011-11-21T03:00:11.937Z Thou and thy brothers committed a wicked and pitiless deed when you slew my father. Old Celtic Romances 2011-11-19T03:00:26.863Z Her sarcasms were more pitiless than Claire had ever remembered them. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z You can see the dreamer in his eyes and on his forehead, and you can see the doer on that beautiful, pitiless mouth of his and the square, strong jaw which is under it. The World Masters 2011-11-18T03:00:31.543Z Certain it is that the author of this pitiless tale is neither ordinary nor inexperienced. Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z "I don't care enough for you to marry you," she said, pitiless in her great pity. Diana Tempest, Volume III (of 3) 2011-11-12T03:00:34.213Z The water looked so black and cold and pitiless. Plays: Lady Frederick, The Explorer, A Man of Honor 2011-11-11T03:00:30.420Z With the pitiless logic of the French character every disputed point stands out clear and sharp, and discussion is very difficult. Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 2011-11-10T03:00:11.267Z Surely no girl, before or since, has imagined, and carried out to its pitiless conclusion so grim an idea. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:08.903Z In the light of thousands of candles she glistened, a barbarous idol, and shot forth rays like a rainbow, representing every colour; dazzling, fear-inspiring was her look, pitiless and soulless. Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z Never had this absolute master exercised a more despotic power; this pitiless god seemed to place his iron thumb on the eyes of the prisoner, and to close them by force. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z I scarce know; but through the midnight dim The pitiless ice-wind streams. A Book of Irish Verse Selected from modern writers with an introduction and notes by W. B. Yeats 2011-10-27T02:00:26.373Z As she grew older she developed a pitiless self-criticism—of her speech, her manners, her looks, her attainments. The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z For a distance equal to that from Philadelphia to Chicago stretched an unbroken expanse of pitiless, sun-scorched desert, boasting no single living thing save an occasional band of nomad Arabs or a herd of gazelles. Gentlemen Rovers 2011-10-22T02:00:27.907Z |
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