without pity
Example Sentences
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I wanted to write a novel that operated without pity or forgiveness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2023
The portrait of life that emerges organically from this understated, observant approach makes “Eyimofe” the rare social realist drama that conveys critique without didacticism and empathy without pity.
From New York Times ● Jul. 22, 2021
Like the book, it looks back without pity or sentiment.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 9, 2017
Great writing demands the universal truths of “love and honor and pity and pride and compassion,” says Faulkner; any writing without pity or compassion is “ephemeral and doomed.”
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2013
How can anybody look at me without pity, the last thing I need?
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
