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    pitiless


    1. The game was simple, relentless and pitiless


    2. order to survive on the pitiless streets of Logrono


    3. idols used to be pitiless and pretending immolation in


    4. Overlooking the fact that, for more than three decades, ETA (Basque terrorist group in Spain) has been causing desolation, which has resulted in more than 800 deaths, before Madrid there were already New York, Bali, Moscow, Baghdad, Najaf, Karachi, Istanbul, Mombassa, Jerusalem, Riyadh, Casa Blanca… What do those voices want to accomplish, blame the Spanish government and justify, or perhaps even applaud, the atrocities of soulless terrorists who only desire to kill? In addition, do those heralds long for Spain to be ready to surrender its foreign policy to the demands of pitiless and savage terrorists? Were that posture of appeasement to be adopted, it would create infinity of problems much more severe in the future


    5. How did she feel with only a tin roof between her and that pitiless sun, no tree or shrub anywhere in sight? When I saw a farmhouse with some shelter of green nylon shade cloth spanned against one wall, or even over the roof as well (this would have been expensive), I cried


    6. unanimously by the generals in the several cities, with such stern and pitiless feeling, that the exceptional nature of the infliction


    7. With feelings unsoftened, and eyes pitiless, he longed to gaze at the hard and wretched doom of the abovementioned


    8. Thus, well in the open, that majestic and dramatic giant ball disappeared leaving spectators at the mercy of the pitiless wind that minutes later whipped their surroundings


    9. 3 What home or city or place at all inhabited or what streets were there which their condition did not fill with wailing and lamentatione 4 They were sent out unanimously by the generals in the several cities with such stern and pitiless feeling that the exceptional nature of the infliction moved even some of their enemies


    10. With feelings unsoftened and eyes pitiless he longed to gaze at the hard and wretched doom of the abovementioned Jews

    11. And I said to the Shepherd who talked with me "Sir who is this shepherd who is so pitiless and severe and so completely devoid of compassion for these sheep?"


    12. be true that we all had the capacity to be vindictive and pitiless,


    13. As the beast pulled on the still-standing Athene’s leg, to get back to its feet, she looked down at the pitiless eyes beholding her and slammed her dagger down into its face, the hellfire that spewed from the wound enveloped her arms yet she remained unharmed


    14. They told him that her only companion was a pitiless servant woman who killed dogs and cats and any animal that got into the house and threw their corpses into the middle of the street in order to annoy people with the rotten stench


    15. ” Nevertheless he insisted with such perseverance, begged in such a way, broke his code of dignity to such a degree, that with a little help from here and a little more from there, sneaking about everywhere, with a slippery diligence and a pitiless perseverance, he managed to put together in eight months more money than Úrsula had buried


    16. The indolence of the people was in contrast to the voracity of oblivion, which little by little was undermining memories in a pitiless way, to such an extreme that at that time, on another anniversary of the Treaty of Neerlan-dia, some emissaries from the president of the republic arrived in Macondo to award at last the decoration rejected several times by Colonel Aureliano Buendía, and they spent a whole afternoon looking for someone who could tell them where they could find one of his descendants


    17. The old bookseller, knowing about Aureliano’s love for books that had been read only by the Venerable Bede, urged him with a certain fatherly malice to get into the discussion, and without even taking a breath, he explained that the cockroach, the oldest winged insect on the face of the earth, had already been the victim of slippers in the Old Testa-ment, but that since the species was definitely resistant to any and all methods of extermination, from tomato dices with borax to flour and sugar, and with its one thousand six hundred three varieties had resisted the most ancient, tenacious, and pitiless persecution that mankind had unleashed against any living thing since the beginnings, including man himself, to such an ex-tent that just as an instinct for reproduction was at-tributed to humankind, so there must have been another one more definite and pressing, which was the in-stinct to kill cockroaches, and if the latter had succeeded in escaping human ferocity it was because they had taken refuge in the shadows, where they became invul-nerable because of man’s congenital fear of the dark, but on the other hand they became susceptible to the glow of noon, so that by the Middle Ages already, and in present times, and per omnia secula seculorum, the only effective method for killing cockroaches was the glare of the sun


    18. There have been many crimes committed against humanity in recent times, but the pitiless cause the German military with all its savagery and barbarism has no parallel


    19. Anyway, when I broke up with this other woman, I completely surprised myself – something in me welled up and cried “ENOUGH!” I had finally reached the Place of No Pity – my normally wussy self was shattered and a cold, detached, pitiless higher self took over the reins – rather like how Castaneda describes it


    20. This contrasts with the torturer or sadist who, like the vampire, is pitiless

    21. You are not so much uncooperative as disinterested; not so much unsympathetic as pitiless


    22. After being baked for years in the oven of the tropics and scorched for years in their pitiless suns, Edward was now as dry as a biscuit and as bald as a coot


    23. She was looking quite straight for the first time at certain pitiless aspects of life


    24. The child - like twist of his mouth under his piercing, pitiless eyes, was scary


    25. Nicolette seemed to sense this immediately and paused, staring pitiless into his eyes, not inviting, just waiting


    26. Their trainers are pitiless with them


    27. The historians of His life are men of the Roman age, that age so supremely realistic and business-like in its tastes, so proud and pitiless in its skepticisms


    28. The soul is and should be pitiless to its form and its problem


    29. "O hard heart!" said Don Quixote, "O pitiless squire! O bread ill-bestowed and favours ill-acknowledged, both those I have done thee and those I mean to do thee! Through me hast thou seen thyself a


    30. Pray, don't imagine that he conceals depths of benevolence and affection beneath a stern exterior! He's not a rough diamond---a pearl-containing oyster of a rustic: he's a fierce, pitiless, wolfish man

    31. Instead of encountering friends on this approaching ship, we would find only pitiless enemies


    32. d'Avrigny in the same pitiless tone,—"M


    33. "But," said Danglars, whose weak mind was at first quite overwhelmed with the weight of this pitiless logic, marking evident premeditation and force of will, "what is your reason for this refusal, Eugenie? what reason do you assign?"


    34. To make himself the one trusted friend, to whom should be confided all the fear, the remorse, the agony, the ineffectual repentance, the backward rush of sinful thoughts, expelled in vain! All that guilty sorrow, hidden from the world, whose great heart would have pitied and forgiven, to be revealed to him, the Pitiless, to him, the Unforgiving! All that dark treasure to be lavished on the very man, to whom nothing else could so adequately pay the debt of vengeance!


    35. The gratings are every day carefully examined by jailers, whose herculean proportions and cold pitiless expression prove them to have been chosen to reign over their subjects for their superior activity and intelligence


    36. Sometimes interrogatories, backed by some primitive method of torture, were administered to them by a commission of officers hastily assembled in a hut of sticks and branches, and made pitiless by the fear for their own lives


    37. Now pitiless sapphire eyes, far colder than their artificial origin could ever have explained, gazed over the rifle’s open sights and his index finger stroked the trigger


    38. Monygham could by no manner of means forget the zeal of Father Beron, or his face, or the pitiless, monotonous voice in which he pronounced the words, "Will you confess now?"


    39. strength to the wiles of swindlers and to the pitiless enthusiasms of leaders inspired by visions of a high destiny


    40. She saw the San Tome mountain hanging over the Campo, over the whole land, feared, hated, wealthy; more soulless than any tyrant, more pitiless and autocratic than the worst Government; ready to crush innumerable lives in the expansion of its greatness

    41. And even as they fled, the Charisian guns continued their pitiless thunder


    42. I risked the pitiless brute force of the law by calling Chief Porter without pulling off the highway


    43. of a noon of glaring blue sky and pitiless bronze sun


    44. Lying in the pitiless sun, shoulder to shoulder, head to feet, were hundreds of wounded men, lining the tracks, the sidewalks, stretched out in endless rows under the car shed


    45. Lastly—and this was the most pitiless torture of all—we heard the rain and it was not raining! This was an infernal invention


    46. pitiless, towards the desert that lay at Sauron's gate


    47. And she was so pitiless


    48. Everything had been eaten up and the inhabitants had all fled- if any remained, they were worse than beggars and nothing more could be taken from them; even the soldiers, usually pitiless enough, instead of taking anything from them, often gave them the last of their rations


    49. Pray, don’t imagine that he conceals depths of benevolence and affection beneath a stern exterior! He’s not a rough diamond—a pearl-containing oyster of a rustic: he’s a fierce, pitiless, wolfish man


    50. Hardly had the cursing and indignant carter had time to utter with proper energy the sacramental word, Matin (the jade), backed up with a pitiless cut of the whip, when the jade fell, never to rise again

























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    Synonyms for "pitiless"

    pitiless unkind remorseless ruthless unpitying fierce barbarian unnatural barbaric brutish cruel

    "pitiless" definitions

    without mercy or pity


    deficient in humane and kindly feelings