pitiless
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We encounter paintings on canvas and on copper; bronzes, terracottas and an impressive ivory; dispassionate portraits, intimate sketches and pitiless caricatures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
“There was a pitiless certainty about her,” Harry realizes by the novel’s end, when the worst has happened.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Before Standard Oil became “the most gigantic, the most cruel, impudent, pitiless, and grasping monopoly which ever fastened upon a community,” it was a start-up.
From Barron's ● May 2, 2026
As Ambrose Pierce wrote, “Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless and the grave, blind as a stone and irrational as a headless man.”
From Salon ● May 17, 2025
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.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
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