Word: pitilessness
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Once he sets foot on Jerusalem soil, contradictions pursue Bellow like a shadow in the pitiless sun. The city itself is "the only ancient place I've ever seen whose antiquities are not on display as relics but are in daily use." People he meets on a nearby kibbutz work in the fields until the afternoon, then listen to Mozart and discuss nuances of Goethe. An Arab who is mildly sym pathetic to Israel has his car blown apart by terrorists; Israelis confide pro-Palestinian sympathies. The nation, demoralized by the Yom Kippur War, is also torn-and sometimes...
...break up the Arizona dog racing monopoly, controlled in part by Emprise. A special prosecution fund providing $100,000 to investigate Bolles' murder is assured of speedy approval by the legislature. The Arizona Republic vowed to intensify its crusade against "the slimy hand of the gangster and the pitiless atrocities of the terrorist...
...efforts. As artistic director of the festival, Robin Phillips deserves unstinting credit for offering Stratford audiences the full bounty of a playwright of Congreve's stature. In The Way of the World, Congreve walks as close as he ever could in Moliere's footsteps. He casts a pitiless light on the vices of a leisure class that is trapped too high on the social scale for aspiration. Following an endless round of pleasure, these people are self-indulgent, inconstant, frustrated and foiled. In their cynical worldliness they dare not believe in friendship or hope for love. They...
...then hurled it on the ground so violently that the package broke. Then the man leant against the wall, slowly slid to the ground and stayed there, dying. No one stopped to watch him, help him. I didn't either. But is that wrong? Is it pitiless? Maybe it's a superior form of pity. You understand, to let others...
...Norway. It is one of Dorst's achievements that a thousand questions about the debts owed by the citizen to the state and vice versa press wordlessly on the action. Roberts Blossom is a tremendous Hamsun, a man who sees the world narrow but himself whole. Unpitiable and pitiless, Hamsun retains to the end the stature of King Lear before his arteries hardened...