How to Use pitiless in a Sentence

pitiless

adjective

• The soldiers were pitiless toward their enemy.
• But the apex of peace and love and the abyss of pitiless violence were born out of similar drives as old as the U.S. itself.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Aug. 2019
• The pitiless spotlights glaring above did little to help the matter.
  — David Weiss, Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2017
• Here, as throughout, the framing remains steady, a visual choice that can feel like a long, hard, pitiless stare.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2018
• Out in the woods, under the pelting of a pitiless storm, a middle-aged American male, stripped to the waist, fights a furious bear.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2023
• There’s no other game on the market like Sea of Thieves, which simulates the life of a pirate by pitting the player against the pitiless sea.
  — Matthew Gault, Time, 5 Feb. 2020
• There is brief room here for men too, as both pitiless detractors and vague supporters of Hilma’s work.
  — Tomris Laffly, Variety, 30 Mar. 2023
• Many people ran but some stood their ground and put up a fight, throwing things at the attackers to try to halt or at least slow their pitiless rampage.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 5 June 2017
• Horror? Pitiless tsk-tsking from snooty British scolds?
  — Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 6 July 2017
• The abolition of a pitiless world through pitilessness.
  — Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 21 June 2023
• No one wants to think about this now, but eventually our old friend Adam Smith will come calling to collect his inevitable and pitiless fee.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2020
• The competition is pitiless; only three per cent pass muster each year, while the rest barely manage to subsist.
  — Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2017
• Whatever rough beast Yeats had seen had already slouched its way out of the desert, laying waste to everything that fell under its pitiless, blank gaze.
  — Colin Dickey, Longreads, 31 Aug. 2017
• The writer’s calling is to set that memory in the amber of his prose; in Proust’s pitiless formulation, art is all, life is nothing.
  — Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, 4 May 2018
• And Trump, like Cohn, got away with it all under the ostensibly pitiless magnifying glass of New York.
  — Frank Rich, Daily Intelligencer, 29 Apr. 2018
• With her lion mane and second-skin catsuit, Jayne, who tries hard to affect pitiless self-interest on the series, seemed smaller, near to sweet.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2023
• El Akkad has done nothing less than reveal how a curious girl evolves into a pitiless fighter.
  — The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 30 May 2017
• Yet what happens when power descends, razing that village to the ground and remaking it in its own pitiless image?
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2023
• Football training camp is drudgery under a pitiless summer sun.
  — Gary Peterson, The Mercury News, 10 July 2019
• As far as Hollywood is concerned, Anastasia wasn’t shot or stabbed in a pitiless slaughter.
  — Nancy Bilyeau, Town & Country, 25 Apr. 2017
• Others take the voice of Charles, directing an impassioned j’accuse against his pitiless creator.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2018
• One’s eye is at first dazzled, then sated, and eventually tired by this pitiless inflation of scale.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2021
• 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.
  — David Waldstein, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2016
• That unlucky sojourner happens to be the one person here that otherwise pitiless Adem cannot bear losing.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 5 Feb. 2024
• Prices dropped to less than $10 a barrel, triggering a pitiless industry shakeout.
  — Jack Farchy, Bloomberg.com, 5 May 2020
• 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.
  — Nabih Bulos, latimes.com, 14 July 2017
• More important, the anguish, the fury, and the deceit that the affair unleashes—and the pitiless precision with which Breillat films them—provide a surer and clearer judgment on the action.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2023
• Nabokov started to seem less like a lovable, bumbling Professor Pnin and more like a pitiless White Russian with a monocle and an ebony cigarette holder.
  — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2020
• Good thing young Joe Montana was not subject to social media’s pitiless knee-jerk determinations back in 1979.
  — Gary Peterson, The Mercury News, 20 Aug. 2019
• Lucian, eager to have a younger person in the role, accepts, underscoring the idea that growing old in the hyper-competitive drag milieu can exact a pitiless price.
  — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 1 May 2018

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024