The figure was soaked through and through in his coat that ought to have been protecting him from the pitiless storm. |
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But the pitiless character of his criticism diminishes these letters in this respect, even as it enlarges them in other ways. |
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I would add a few refinements of my own devising, concessions to our cruel and pitiless modern age. |
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Did their pitiful cries and prayers rise into the night to a God who seemed deaf and pitiless as their cruel jailers? |
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It's a vicious ideology and it's sustained by violence and by the pitiless conversion of its own adherents into dumb weapons. |
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Her spirit had blazed the blinding blue of pure fury, and her soul had been filled with the purest black of the most pitiless executioner. |
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And doubtless in surveying American culture our pitiless foe finds much evidence to support such a malign view. |
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Marcus is a pitiless, fast-talking psychopath who can turn his disadvantages into yours in one sentence flat. |
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Unrelenting and pitiless in their quest for fun, they snuff out their torches and shout louder while walking upon the poor squire. |
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One of the indubitable masterpieces of his later years is the pitiless Self-Portrait in a Dressing-Room Mirror. |
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I used to think it was beautiful, but now the weather's my enemy, pitiless and uncaring as napalm and bear traps. |
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It was a brutal, vicious and pitiless attack in which you showed your victim no mercy. |
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He uses the mesh of the jungle screen to play on our fears of the unknown and the pitiless savagery that is the reality of nature. |
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But 10 days ago a pitiless thug broke into her home, kicked her around like a football and stole her life savings. |
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The pitiless showerhead continues to drench her, the water bearing her life's blood down the drain. |
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They utterly failed to see how the event had changed everything, by revealing just how pitiless and ruthless our new opponent was prepared to be. |
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The Mediterranean climate, pitiless as it is, is really going to put us through it because our situation is already critical. |
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He approaches me while I'm sheltering from the hideous, pitiless weather. |
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Cocaine is the most pitiless hard drug: it can make a psychopath out of anyone. |
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Unfortunately, there are times when one is trying not to be a person without pity, yet one becomes pitiless. |
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A pitiless dogmatist, he once declined to save two nieces from his own regime. |
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Soldiers squat under makeshift palm leaf or reed shelters to escape a sun as pitiless as a nuclear warhead. |
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The ayatollah warned Iran would be pitiless towards rabble-rousers. |
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The same pitiless suppression must be targeted at employers who exploit immigrants completely outside the law. |
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To have at an early age the courage to peer directly into the pitiless eyes of life. |
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And his pitiless beliefs would be no stranger to the political discourse of today. |
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Reacting to this injustice with the righteous indignation of the Lord's anointed, David is enraged that anything so egregious, so pitiless, should take place in his kingdom. |
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The plague in Wales and the Marches were as pitiless as elsewhere. |
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Somewhere in the nether regions of his pitiless heart, the ancient patriarch knows he cannot live forever. |
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Today's enemy, however, is not a philosophy that condemned millions, but an implacable, unappeasable, pitiless fanaticism that exists on the very fringes of humanity. |
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If they complained, they received a no doubt well-deserved and pitiless beating. |
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We thus remember Portnoy, impaling with pitiless thrusts invasive mothers, plugged-up fathers, dizzying shikses in heat. |
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It is better to make discipline something that will help us to get what we want out of life than to be driven into accepting it as a pitiless force. |
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In the South, particularly Africa, the unbearable pictures that we have seen from Mozambique cannot be explained solely by the natural disaster, but reflect the pitiless consequences of under-development. |
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Atomic energy was the green movement's darkest nightmare: the child of mass destruction, the spawner of waste that will remain dangerous for millennia, the ultimate victory of pitiless technology over frail humanity. |
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Tim Uncle' as he is known to his co-workers and charges, spends his time rescuing waifs and strays from the pitiless streets of the Bengali slumopolis. |
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By his hubristic defiance of time, Dorian wanders into an infrahuman realm where he is at the mercy of pitiless daemonic agents. |
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These Vikings were pagans and savages of the most unrestrained and pitiless type. |
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Utterly unlaughable, it has all the wit of a malevolent commentator as pitiless and well-informed as the records of the Day of Judgment. |
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What if your professional workaday turned into a pitiless hunting ground? |
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Efficiency may seem a pitiless term to use but it does have meaning. |
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How to describe the fluidity and the pitiless beauty of this place? |
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I shall bring him forth and shine on him the pitiless light of history. |
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The face of his grandmother, Annie Gillies, was tanned dark by sheer exposure to howling winds and seas and, in summer, a pitiless sun untempered by the shade of a single tree. |
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He saw people as puppets, controlled by some pitiless force much as he, in boyhood, had controlled his own marionettes in his toy theatre, making Mr Punch jibber and squawk in nonsense-language. |
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A pitiless, stringent organiser in a chaotic world, ironic and furious reflection on the disorder of our time, Rodrigo Garcia emerged last year in Rennes at the Festival Mettre en Scène. |
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With the development of decision theory over the last 60 years, the principle of reasonable probability has been subjected to pitiless, critical scrutiny. |
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It seemed to be the case of a wildly talented youngster touted too early, possibly losing his way in the pitiless world of international football. |
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The perennial appeal of his ballet pictures to genteel and young-girl tastes is an old irony, given his actual, pitiless focus — pretty costumes and effulgent stage lights aside — on the gruelling strenuousness of the dance. |
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Even though he was at times extremely brutal and pitiless, William was a generous prince, who protected the poor and used his talents to work for peace and justice. |
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The Kurdish literary life in Iraq suffered the repercussions of the failure of the long Kurdish insurrection and the pitiless war between Iran and the Iraq. |
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A speaker appended to one mobile sibilates with white noise, possibly echoing a shower room, that pitiless incubation chamber of high school neuroses. |
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