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• r  without pity; in a merciless manner

• Apple's new iPhone could do to the cell phone market what the iPod did to the portable music player market: crush it pitilessly beneath the weight of its own superiority.
• Apple's new iPhone, which will be available in June, could do to the cell-phone market what the iPod did to the portable-music-player market: crush it pitilessly beneath the weight .
• Oh, and it's a comic book Bechdel's breathtakingly, pitilessly smart commentary duets with deliriously eloquent line drawings, as well as letters and maps and literary quotations.

• mercilessly
• unmercifully
• remorselessly

Quotes

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• Friedrich Engels in ZNet
  Capitalism, Marx and Frederick Engels noted in 1848 (in a passage that seems highly relevant more than a century and half later), "has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties...
• Alison Croggon in The Australian
  Forsyth delivers a performance that immediately defines itself as classic; she brings to the role a masterly control and emotional depth that pitilessly excavates every nuance in Beckett's text,wrote The Australian's Melbourne theatre critic...