| The founding of order on fury, of empire on violence, of peace on pitilessness is disclosed unflinchingly. |
| He gazed down at Ataren with pitilessness building in his eyes. |
| But the crackdown on them — not just in extreme examples like Eric Garner's but in the general pitilessness of the pursuit — can make urban life less civil, not more. |
| There was – and is – a discomfort about the pitilessness of the whole episode. |
| In that awful melancholy of life, in the pitilessness of men, I watched him struggle, watched him cling tenaciously to those last frayed threads of life. |
| Their pitilessness for those in power is to be feared more than any usurper's greedy heart. |
