单词 | pitilessness |
例句 | But as it is I perceive behind them only the suffering of the creature, the awful melancholy of life and the pitilessness of men. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z In a system of brutality and pitilessness, he finds a few people capable of extraordinary kindness, particularly one local teenage girl. Review | ‘What Strange Paradise’ is a visceral account of a refugee’s desperation 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z The phrase is supposed to evoke the pitilessness it takes to survive in “the ultimate jungle,” but we don’t actually feel much compassion for the losers. Trump, Jobs, Zuckerberg: We idolize jerks 2012-08-12T12:00:00Z In her first novel, “The Lightkeepers,” she explored the pitilessness of nature and the biologists who study it on a remote island off the California coast. Review | After an act of ecoterrorism, two siblings go on the run in ‘The Wildlands’ 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z “The Murdochs,” though, is just as persuasive of its namesakes’ pitilessness. Review | CNN’s ‘The Murdochs’ doc is real-life ‘Succession’ — and no less dramatic 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z There’s a pitilessness in all of it, typical of the Coens, suitable in this movie to situations in which few favored character get out alive. ‘The Ballad of Buster Scruggs’: Coen brothers’ Western hits the right notes 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z In a strange way, the pitilessness in the drone’s stare inspires its opposite in human eyes: empathy. See America From Above 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z Its Har-Tru American clay courts are precious enough to elicit a certain pitilessness in its patrons. Central Park Tennis Center in Manhattan Is a Place for Passionate Players 2012-08-22T03:40:09Z Death in its most repulsive form, set in a picture of surpassing beauty, which yet had in it something of pitilessness from the very sharpness of the contrast. White Fire 2011-11-21T03:00:15.067Z There is a certain pitilessness in her analysis of Hetty's shallow, frivolous little soul, almost as if she were saying—See here, what stuff this beauty which you adore is made of in reality! Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z Wherever we have heard of pitilessness in military policy, or in speeches in our Parliament, we see exemplifications of the gospel of Thoroughness, which is madness if not limited by justice and forbearance. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:17.663Z If there was anything Homeric about her -- and come to think of it, I believe there was -- it was the serene pitilessness with which she dispensed their doom. 2011 Pulitzer winners in journalism and arts 2011-04-18T19:53:00Z It meant the beginning of struggle with pitilessness in man and nature. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z Here of a sudden the reverse side of Roman Catholicism, whose passion was immortalised in Le Cloître, is rent open; its pitilessness and asceticism; its obstinate effort to overthrow the irrefragable joy of life. ?mile Verhaeren 2011-02-26T03:00:52.147Z It is noteworthy how full of pity Cadmus is—the sympathetic kindliness of the sons of this world as contrasted with the pitilessness of gods and their devotees. The Bacchae of Euripides 2011-02-06T03:00:51.907Z She was not one to forgive, he knew; the beauty of the equator was in her, and its pitilessness as well. A Transient Guest and Other Episodes For the first time she was wide awake, was facing life as it is without dreams, facing its absolute cruelty and pitilessness. The Benefactress It was the decree of sex, nature's immutable law, sundering playfellows, severing friendships, driving its unwilling victims into opposite corners of the world, with all the pitilessness of natural law. The Master Mummer "I'm afraid you are a helpless creature," Julia told her, with the stern pitilessness that belongs to youth. A Sheaf of Corn But if in a certain pitilessness of character the New Englanders are more English than the English, they still resemble the Puritans of the seventeenth century in their love of a well-ordered life. American Sketches 1908 The Romans showed the pitilessness and inhumanity of their mores in the development they gave to the gladiatorial exhibitions. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals I used to think that his strain of Indian blood, remote as it was, might have something to do with the cunning and pitilessness of the man. The Woman in Black This is the sanctuary from which all human personalities, however weak and helpless, have been permitted to endure the cruelty and pitilessness of fate. The Complex Vision That he was a hard man, austere to utter pitilessness, everybody averred. Cobwebs and Cables The nothingness of man against the pitilessness of fate made all the world a blank. The Eternal City And has Poland well deserved this heartless indifference, this pitilessness of the nations? The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 2, February, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy “Robert Lloyd has half a million, which has been accumulated by the labor of poor men in prosperous times,” said she, with her childlike severity and pitilessness. The Portion of Labor Between the clumps of the stunted acacias the sun beat down with the pitilessness of a battleship's furnace, and it was not much better in the acacias themselves. The Way of the Wild “He cannot last more than a few hours, madam,” replied the doctor, with pitilessness, yet still with the humility of one who has failed in a task. By the Light of the Soul A Novel But the murder of Comyn had changed the king's mood to a terrible pitilessness. History of the English People, Volume II The Charter, 1216-1307; The Parliament, 1307-1400 And with the northman's daring broke out the northman's pitilessness. History of the English People, Volume I Early England, 449-1071; Foreign Kings, 1071-1204; The Charter, 1204-1216 He cares for nothing but human worth, and his pitilessness towards Polonius and Osric and his 'school-fellows' is not wholly due to morbidity, but belongs in part to his original character. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth Those, however, cannot be referred to in reply to thy present query, for all of them have been duly laid down for such Kshatriyas as are not disinclined to pitilessness. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 The rough jostling, the discomfort and pitilessness, the utter animality of it all,—it is hard to conceive it even inadequately. A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees The remainder of the history of that dire Sunday morning differs from that of other assaults only in harrowing details, and the extremity of the pitilessness and ferocity manifested by the conquerors. Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477 She recalled the look his face had worn, the sternness, the pitilessness of his eyes. Rosa Mundi and Other Stories The shadow, the aridity, the barrenness, the solemnity, the pitilessness, the horrid cruelty of the scene, were more than might be received into the soul. Overland I forced myself to an unnatural pitch of pitilessness and vindictiveness. Cord and Creese But it seems right to suppose that the omission of any notice of the beggar's burial is meant to bring out that the neglect and pitilessness, which had let him die, left his corpse unburied. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke He thought many of the leading men among the Liberals superficial and devoid of character, and accused them, with the pitilessness of youth, of mere verbiage. Recollections of My Childhood and Youth And then, again, see how merciful and reformatory is the working of physical retribution compared with the pitilessness of the moral retribution of memory. Dr. Heidenhoff's Process It rang out clear and pitiless, with that pitilessness of a great love. The Heart's Highway You can now persevere in pitilessness, an essential in one who would support what we call justice. The Emancipated Unlike too, of course, but it is the pitilessness common to both extremes that shows most strongly in an old, wrinkled visage. The Nether World Torture,- -poverty,—pain,—pitilessness,—long hours,—scant reward,—tired fingers,—weary hearts!—and a priest of Christ wears this to perform Christ's service! The Master-Christian The whole pitilessness of her nature gleamed like a cold light in her white face. The Witch of Prague While Buchanan, early in the month, was weeping over the pitilessness of fate, more practical Northerners were grappling with the question of what was to be done about the situation. Abraham Lincoln and the Union; a chronicle of the embattled North He realizes Pascal's entre-deux, he comprehends the whole scale between tenderness and pitilessness, and, like Epaminondas, he is equally great in extremes. A Prince of Bohemia |
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