The take-no-prisoners pitilessness teenage girls can show one another is nothing new.
The poignance and pitilessness of lives well below the heights of power had overshadowed political priorities, and the 13-month effort to implement peace was thrown into its worst .
Last week, it seemed, the pitilessness that has devoured so much of the former Yugoslavia since 1991 was at last choking itself toward extinction.
Arnold Schwarzenegger in San Diego Union Tribune By returning with Manning to the scene and watching him set fire to Kenney, "Mr. Pintye demonstrated chilling depravity and pitilessness," Schwarzenegger wrote.