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• s  without mercy or pity

• Famine, unpitying and inexorable, is drawing ever nearer in the country districts of Russia.
• Kahn, who also writes for the unpitying New Yorker, declares :"0ne man is apt to feel fine when he has reason to believe another feels worse.
• Nicholas Crabbe concerns Rolfe as a pitiful but unpitying literary hack in turn-of-the-century London -badgered, betrayed and swindled by a gallery of grotesque clowns called .

• pitiless
• remorseless
• ruthless

Quotes

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• Guy Verhofstadt in New York Times
  In his works he gave us a mirror on our lives,Mr. Verhofstadt said. "Certainly a hard image, often unpitying, which helped us understand who we really were."