Unpitying

But not even this induces us; more foolish are we than any, putting golden necklaces about our servants and mules and horses, and neglecting our Lord who goes about naked, and passes from door to door, and ever stands at our outlets, and stretches forth His hands to us, but often regarding Him with unpitying eye; yet these very things He undergoes for our sake. ❋ Unknown (2009)

How can such a nice, kind man write such cruel and unpitying music, one listener asked the composer at an early rehearsal. ❋ Unknown (2012)

His description of what it is to live with a disease that immobilizes your limbs and your capacity for speech, but leaves you able to feel and remember, is pitiless and unpitying, but it is among the most touching vindications of the power of language that I have read. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It is unpitying that you are tired or broke or ill yourself. ❋ Elizabeth McClung (2009)

Philip was a voluptuary, that is, a completely selfish egotist, whose disposition and character resembled the rapier he wore, polished, keen, and brilliant, but inflexible and unpitying. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Oh wretch, unyielding and unpitying! where shall hereafter be clemency for thee! — ❋ Unknown (2008)

It helps that Santayana wrote witty, pointed, frank and unpitying letters that beautifully reveal his mind. ❋ Robert D. Richardson (2008)

Amphitryon, together with warlike Iolaus, destroyed with the unpitying sword through the plans of Athene the spoil-driver. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I saw that his ideas were right, that we wallowed in an unpitying sink of privileges for the upper classes. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2007)

Kato regarded Sims, and continued to regard him, with the tranquil incuriosity of the unpitying East. ❋ Adams, Stephen (2005)

The door opened; in came the roar of Regent Street, the roar of traffic, impersonal, unpitying; and sunshine grained with dirt. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Undaunted by these giant forms, Los smites the Spectre, "In unpitying ruin driving down the pyramids of Pride/Smiting the Spectre on his Anvil" (91: 42-43), so that "all his pyramids were grains/Of sand & his pillars: dust on the flys wing; & his starry/Heavens; a moth of gold & silver mocking his anxious grasp" ❋ Unknown (2001)

And still as Ahab glided over the waves the unpitying sharks accompanied him; and so pertinaciously stuck to the boat; and so continually bit at the plying oars, that the blades became jagged and crunched, and left small splinters in the sea, at almost every dip. ❋ Unknown (2002)

When close to the whale, in the very death-lock of the fight, he handled his unpitying lance coolly and off-handedly, as a whistling tinker his hammer. ❋ Unknown (2002)

“The same unpitying being who so cruelly rebuffed my poor father in his hour of crisis.” ❋ Harold Schechter (1999)