How To Use Merciless In A Sentence

He would tell me who I was, and his judgment was lacerating, merciless.
The magazine is famed for its merciless political lampoons.
Football can be a cruel business and the Premiership is one of the most merciless and unforgiving of all leagues.
And the effort expended under the Mara's merciless sun pays fabulous dividends. Times, Sunday Times
Nowadays, partisans on one side of the aisle mercilessly assail their opponents as nefarious ideologues bent on the destruction of the nation, while claiming the sacred mantle of the Founding Fathers as exclusively their own. Morgan Pehme: Strip Politics: A Cure for Incivility

His head wasn't pounding anymore but it throbbed mercilessly making the room spin.
Almost as bad as with the local humans," said Steadiness, the zoologist who taught and teased us mercilessly. THE BIRTHDAY OF THE WORLD
They sabered the officer who raised a white surrender flag, and bayoneted the wounded in a merciless slaughter.
Choose your weapons carefully, be merciless, be thorough, and take no prisoners!
He slipped on a pair of weighted training mitts and started to belt and pummel the bag mercilessly.
From its panoptic position the eye of the man/aeroplane was objective and merciless, it not only sees, it also judges.
To the average western man, who has an aversion to what he considers unsportsmanlike conduct, merely the mention of the word sniper evokes an image of an evil little foreign man sneaking through the jungles of Okinawa picking off the good guys, or of a merciless Viet Cong hiding in a tree waiting for the opportunity to kill a 19-year-old GI from Des Moines or Wichita as he walks patrol at Nha Trang. ONE SHOT-ONE KILL
Many households must be watching this series in horrified fascination as they see their well-meaning attempts at parenting lampooned with such merciless accuracy. Times, Sunday Times
In its latest directive, the education ministry banned what it described as inhuman and merciless punishment given to students in schools. BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
The novel's title is apt - so to speak - since "Salute the Dark" is brutal with the characters who are treated mercilessly as befits persons caught in total war, while the atmosphere is tensioned and menacing almost end to end, keeping me to the edge until the final denouements. "Salute the Dark" by Adrian Tchaikovsky with bonus first peek at its US cover by artist Jon Sullivan (Reviewed by Liviu Suciu)
The entire enterprise was mercilessly and hilariously satirized in her novel.
The scoundrels who made their living plundering, murdering those who got in their way, mercilessly defiling women… it was too much for her to bear.
A civil war in Sri Lanka, extending nowhere else, untainted on either side by even a whiff of Islamism -- a war in which a minority people, slaughtered mercilessly for decades, have come to identify (at least to some extent) with a brutal counterforce called the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, is now effortlessly connected to 9/11. Archive 2009-04-01
They are the victims of appalling brutality, singled out by the Nazis as subhuman and beaten mercilessly.
And far less than the meagre payouts given to families of innocents butchered by merciless thugs like his son. The Sun
Energy, however, unless properly channeled, formally controlled and orchestrated, can end up as pandemonium - a lot of senseless rushing around and a merciless, cacophonous din.
It is a theme that replicated itself across the mountains with the mercilessness of the parasitic beast in Ridley Scott's Alien, consuming its host forest and moving on to fresh ground.
So it was that the scholar began his researches at the abbey, continuously aware of the three novices who toiled at the drive-mill and the fourth novice who invited glare-blindness atop the ladder to keep the lamp burning and adjusted-a situation which caused the Poet to versify mercilessly concerning the demon Embarrassment and the outrages he perpetrated in the name of penitence or appeasement. A Canticle for Leibowitz
A baying mob of 200 fans mercilessly called for Van de Velde to quit immediately after this third defeat in a row which ended the Wolves' lingering top five hopes.
The cruel master beat his slaves mercilessly with a whip.
They dumped their BMX bikes and scrambled over a fence to launch the merciless attack. The Sun
His cartoons mercilessly lampooned the leading politicians of the day.
Graham Stuart tormented and teased Gary Ablett mercilessly throughout, beating the ex-Liverpool defender at will.
The cruel master beat his slaves mercilessly with a whip.
Once home, his father, a freedom fighter, thrashed him mercilessly.
As the caption put it, Behe was cross-examined ‘with cheerful mercilessness.’
They are described as merciless with people who tell them less than the truth. The Bass Handbook of Leadership
The sun beat down mercilessly on the dry earth.
He mercilessly sunk his teeth into her delicate skin and drank the red liquid that he drew.
She ripped off the mask of the hypocrite mercilessly.
Shylock engineers a position where he can punish his enemies on their own terms and his merciless resolve to take what is his is articulated with pained eloquence.
And, as everyone knows, those who are imperfect must be punished mercilessly.
Trees were felled mercilessly to pave way for inhabitations.
As the researchers walked around barelegged, often climbing mountains into cooler, beclouded rain forests beloved of leeches, they were mercilessly stung by mosquitoes.
She patiently waited in the lobby of the delivery room, but the little girl, Camille, had other ideas, and squalled mercilessly.
It says something about our culture that the biggest film released during our biggest celebration of love is a story about one person mercilessly thrashing another. Times, Sunday Times
It touched me deeply to find such a teeming manifestation of indigenous life in a landscape so mercilessly overdeveloped.
The showdown was fierce as both of them employed the basic rules of the trade: ruthlessness, mercilessness, and pitilessness.
he was mercilessly trounced by his opponent in the House
She lashed the horses mercilessly with her long whip.
The play was punctuated by the merciless clangor of wood blocks.
The immense power of the trade unions was often ego and macho driven, and on many occasions that power was wielded mercilessly for short-term gain.
He tweaks the unkempt bristles of yahoos, scourges grunting knuckle-draggers, mocks unibrows and is merciless with gun-totin ', whittlin', racist rednecks who hang out in the fetid swamps of Small Dead Animals and other even danker and oozier places, where pedophile-enablers and stalkers dwell. Archive 2009-06-01
When it comes to brutish tactics and mercilessness, Stefan knows no limits.
The two boys had been mercilessly bludgeoned to death.
For the man inside the hut, his accuser and punisher was being mercilessness.
Its merciless laugh was like blood bubbling in its tufted throat, an ugly sneer produced in sounds.
It was an innings of great ambition as the captain preyed mercilessly on loose bowling and also showed his batting qualities with fluent stroke play all through.
A young Winston Churchill wrote his first book, The Story of the Malakand Field Force, about his experiences fighting those tribes, whom he described as possessed of a “wild and merciless fanaticism.” The Longest War
Timothy, with a swift motion of his hand, broke his pen and the ink squirted mercilessly over the bewildered woman.
The count is a merciless rogue who reminds me of Orson Welles in Citizen Kane, only more megalomaniacal.
It brings some relief from the merciless summer heat.
The exiled Duke in Shakespeare's As You Like It, exposed to the merciless elements in the Forest of Arden, says: ANC Today
Football is merciless and pitiless, and in a business sense Gill merely stated the obvious: no-one is indispensable.
The advertisement, which has been lampooned mercilessly, shows her speaking in a soft voice against a smoky grey background and tinkling piano music. Times, Sunday Times
As I heard "The Voice that breathed o'er Eden" and saw the bride of twenty-five advance up the aisle to meet the bridegroom of forty-five awaiting her deeply flushed, in a distorted white waistcoat -- I had mercilessly alluded to his white waistcoat as an error of judgment -- I gave myself up for lost; _and I was lost_. The Lowest Rung Together with The Hand on the Latch, St. Luke's Summer and The Understudy
As a stand-up comic, MacAulay has a rare gift - he can put his audience at ease and mercilessly ridicule them at the same time.
The tropical sun beat down on them mercilessly.
It went on a rampage and mercilessly drilled another robot.
He was merciless, cruel, underhanded, dirty, and brutal to his enemies.
The favorite tortures of the Soviet Cheka, or secret police (then called NKVD) in the 1930's and 40's were merciless beatings, confinement in refrigerated cells, week-long sleep deprivation, and endless interrogations. Eric Margolis: Make the Torturers Face Justice
She got away with this, but are we to be mercilessly reduced to cogs in the wheels of medical care systems over which we have lost all control?
Are we to be mercilessly reduced to cogs in the wheels of medical care systems over which we have lost all control?
His cartoons mercilessly lampooned the leading politicians of his time.
Then the road got worse, the shade diminished allowing the sun to beat down mercilessly, and the gradient steepened as the corkscrew twists became sharper and sharper.
As Imogene, she teases Bellini's nobly sculptured melodies mercilessly.
Everything is being scrubbed mercilessly so that not a speck of dust or grime will survive into the new year.
A case of beer, a case of wine, and six bottles of Wild Turkey were disposed of in merciless fashion.
The candidate ripped into his opponent mercilessly
I've seen a lot of these complaints and criticisms before, and even voiced a few myself, just never sharpened to this kind of shiv-point or stuck in quite so mercilessly. Archive 2009-08-30
As he engages with the merciless classmates who rag him and pick at him every day, he imagines himself in computer graphics in the armour of the warrior.
Under that merciless star light of infinity, any unrightful challenger would be brushed into nothingness as effortlessly as a man might brush an ant from his sleeve. The Grey King
Dalziel drove his troops mercilessly when the occasion demanded, but he took his own bumps and rarely passed them on to his underlings. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
In court, he was accused of being a merciless predator who had tricked his grandmother out of her savings.
Once they launched their rocket and gave away their position in the dark, dried-up riverbed, they were exposed to a merciless rain of machine gun fire, mortar bombs and claymore mines.
In many of his over 150 tales, Andersen flirts with mercilessness and amoralism.
She also ran a grocery store which hardly made any profit, since it was also the family food-stock and we, the children, pillaged it mercilessly.
His useless jostling composed no escape in the least, setting the audacious Risaku up to get mercilessly slaughtered by this fiend.
Between the Shrek brand recognition, the bright 3D, the broad-spectrum comedy and the prospect of cute cats dancing, it's hard to imagine a more mercilessly commercial proposition than this animated spin-off. This week's new films
However, get female soccer players on a field, and different characteristics emerge: bravery and mercilessness.
They had been teasing him mercilessly about his unkempt ginger barnet. The Sun
There were whispered rumors that went even farther than these -- rumors which I dare not even set down here, for the busy tongues that dealt so mercilessly with the name and fame of Eliza Floyd were not unbarbed by malice. Aurora Floyd. A Novel
Trips can also be arranged to visit the decrepit gulags and labor camps used so mercilessly by Stalin during the Red Terror.
I heard its stealthy steps in my sleep, and in the dead city under the merciless sky, as I randomly searched for shelter and food.
Such films should be taken apart mercilessly with every weapon in the critical armoury.
I always wanted to be part of a merciless crew, and the Rochester Massif never quite cut it.
The former striker's features contain hard, merciless eyes. Times, Sunday Times
Brooks’ coaching style was hypercritical and merciless, overworking his players to the point that they vomited blood.
During the merciless heat of noon one of the frailer females collapsed, far from any possible shelter.
Though he's chained up with other "lycan" slaves, werewolf messiah Lucian (Michael Sheen) pursues a love that dare not howl its name with vampire princess Sonja (Rhona Mitra), while her aristocratic dad, Viktor (Bill Nighy), skulks around like a Balkan Ming the Merciless. NashvilleScene.com
During the merciless heat of noon one of the frailer females collapsed, far from any possible shelter.
William Hague lampooned him mercilessly for it afterwards.
Also, her older sister drilled her mercilessly every day in martial arts, saying that both of them had gotten shamefully out of shape and needed practice.
One product of that dispute was Pascal's famous Provincial Letters, a merciless but beautifully-written satire of Jesuit probabilism. Casuistry
His father was a patient, long-suffering character who was mercilessly hen-pecked.
The sibling miscreants were in the grasp of the relentless and merciless Jack Clarke.
Sunaparant had mercilessly attacked Ravi Naik for usurping the chief ministerial gaddi (throne). Behind the News: Voices from Goa's Press
So compulsive were his sketches, in which he mercilessly took the mickey out of his erstwhile colleagues, that at the age of 53 his public profile is higher than that of almost anyone in the shadow cabinet.
He glanced through the open door at Charles Foxley and saw the same composed face, the same merciless self-control. LAST SHOT
Miserable men commiserate not themselves, bowelless unto themselves, and merciless unto their own bowels. Letter to a Friend
Success here is only the first step towards a very high target, which imposes merciless requirements.
'Doubtless,' says Risdon, 'in the Saxons' heptarchy, it was a town of some note, that felt the furious rage of the merciless Danes. ' Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts
Why be so merciless to her and treat someone who proposes evil with kid gloves?
Their retreat had been a rout, and thousands of fleeing refugees, the elderly, women and children, had been slaughtered mercilessly.
He tweaks the unkempt bristles of yahoos, scourges grunting knuckle-draggers, mocks unibrows and is merciless with gun-totin', whittlin', racist rednecks who hang out in the fetid swamps of Small Dead Animals and other even danker and oozier places, where pedophile-enablers and stalkers dwell. Monsters from the Id
Despite Mussolini's colonial policies of racial superiority and mercilessness, the fascist regime claimed to be different from the other colonial powers.
She was beautiful, clever, witty, effective, a merciless realist... it is harder to perceive what Anne saw in Mac...for all his gifts and charm, Mac was a fantasist of heroic proportions.
He is not alone in his depravity, however; his mistress is an opportunistic parvenu, and his wife is a merciless harpy.
This is precisely one of those compositions that a cold, clear, shrewd, and sarcastic critic would delight in clutching into his merciless grasp, to tear it into pieces and strew the floor of his study with its shivering fragments. Review
Every time the minister got up to speak he was barracked mercilessly.
And far less than the meagre payouts given to families of innocents butchered by merciless thugs like his son. The Sun
But consequentialism is the merciless mistress of foreign affairs. Matthew Yglesias » Self-Defense
Of course, the spirit of these themes remains very much present in BUNSHINSABA, named for a particular mercenary haint summoned by a troubled schoolgirl Lee Se-eun who is bullied mercilessly after moving from Seoul to the superstition-hagged Korean provinces. Learn Witch Learn
On one hand, the seekers must be cold, impersonal, testing each theory mercilessly.
What killed them was unreasoning, remorseless, merciless evil.
Not just the desecrated bodies of the dead, but the shattered lives of those who knew and loved them are thrust into the merciless gaze of the public eye.
The scene mercilessly loops through the ‘he said’ and ‘she said’ of a broken relationship while the brutal realities of class and skin tone differences keep the dialogue both acidic and poignant.
At one time he formed part of that merciless decemvirate which -- with Robespierre at its head -- meant to govern France by laws of bloodshed and of unparalleled ferocity. The Elusive Pimpernel
Whether it be lumbago, angina or merely the merciless ravages of time that are getting you down, the answer to your problem may well lie at the bottom of the garden.
The merciless street-fighter known as the ‘fists of stone’ went on to win world titles at lightweight, welterweight and light middleweight.
In appealing to the Bible, the Puritans exercised a merciless critique of the spiritual life in Anglicanism.
He saw the shafts sleet down across the fort, and his heart rejoiced, for surely nothing could live under the merciless beating of that steel-pointed blizzard!
David who has now retired from the service after 27 years was ribbed mercilessly by his White Watch colleagues for his studying.
This convinced D' Ewes that ‘all impartiall judgements [had] just ground to conclude it to be the finger of God himselfe, in punishing the mercilesse murthers of his dear Saints.’
And the effort expended under the Mara's merciless sun pays fabulous dividends. Times, Sunday Times
Such at any rate was the fact; the roach and the cat, by their humble station in life, and the lowliness of their associates, proved an admirable vantage for merciless joshing of everything biggity. Christopher Morley writes about Don Marquis
Russian vine is a relative of another mercilessly invasive plant, Japanese knotweed. Times, Sunday Times
The intelligent, genuinely-Scientific, American knew well in advance of Copenhagen that so many bureaucrats congregating in one mercilessly-policed place was never going to be other than a heavily-disguised tyrranical-power world-money grab by Uber-power-starved Bureaucrats and the always-Under-funded Banksters. Holocaust Deniers, Global Warming Deniers, Chris Wallace: Any Difference?
Merciless, cruel, and unforgiving," wrote Angela Carter a more obvious admirer in her 1982 preface to this edition: "Stead has a rare capacity to flay the reader's sensibilities. The Man Who Loved Children – review
But Vanderbilt's parents passed on a shrewd and merciless business sense — his mother once foreclosed on her own widowed daughter's mortgage — and as a young man he quickly found a mentor in Thomas Gibbons, whose battle against a steamboat rival led to the landmark Supreme Court case Gibbons v. Ogden, which struck a blow for antimonopolist laissez-faire principles. The Sage of Steam
Such men have generally arrived at the dignity of a pack-horse – no unmixed benefit in the eyes of people driving, since most of the country horses are reduced to frenzy by the sight of the lean screw with his immense white pack – the hawker is merciless to his horse – led by the "black" man in flapping clothes and gay turban. Mates at Billabong
Sanford Sigoloff 1930 - 2011 Sanford Sigoloff gloried in the nickname "Ming the Merciless," for the mass firings he triggered as a corporate turnaround specialist. He Wielded Ax in Bankruptcies
In the US justice system if an innocent man found guilty at trial does not feign guilt and remorse he is likely to be mercilessly punished.
The careful and merciless dissection of human nature was the aim of both writers.
He didn't want Hakida to think him a heartless, merciless killer, as that wasn't it.
Critics mercilessly panned this romantic gangster comedy when it first appeared on the big screen, but is it really that bad?
I drew open the curtains on a glorious day, the light even, clear, and merciless.
When Newton had the institutional authority to do so, he lanced some of his colleagues ferociously and mercilessly.
If you refer to your collection of tortoiseshell guitar picks as plectra, the rest of your rock group are going to make merciless fun of you.
Opening the prosecution case today, Gerard Elias QC said the two double killings ammounted to what he called merciless executions for pitifully small gain. WalesOnline - Home
Gay culture has developed a powerful, even merciless system of rewards and penalties based on body image.
The regime was mercilessly brutal and bloodthirsty.
The bigoted advocate of popes and monks may be turned over even to the bigots of Oxford; and the wretched Travis still smarts under the lash of the merciless Porson. Memoirs of My Life and Writings
Slaves were mercilessly ground down by slave holders.
In court, he was accused of being a merciless predator who had tricked his grandmother out of her savings.
She was tormented by a furious little gadfly that bit her mercilessly, though she flicked her tail this way and that.
I noticed that stressful, anxiety-provoking events encountered during the day had a habit of cropping up in my dreams, augmented to terrible proportions by the merciless magnifying glass of the subconscious.
He used to rib her mercilessly about her accent.
Without protection of the sails against a merciless sun, it became unbearable on deck.
The former striker's features contain hard, merciless eyes. Times, Sunday Times
All sang the song of war, and burning with impatience to imbrue their hands in the blood of their enemies, rushed down among innocent and defenceless families on the frontiers of Carolina, where men, women and children, without distinction, fell a sacrifice to their merciless fury. An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2
The aiming system is merciless in its accuracy and demands enormous patience as you try just one more time. Times, Sunday Times
The judge described the attack as savage and merciless.
A large Freud etched self-portrait, with typical merciless etching to delineate each patch of skin, is perhaps the most memorable work in the exhibition.
Subtle yet merciless, Clouzot's wartime masterpiece "The Raven" "Le corbeau," 1943 attracted a flood of controversy that stained his career. A French Director Ripe for Rediscovery
She was subjected to the merciless criticism of her opponents.
It is argued that these punishments are extreme, severe and merciless.
Tenses are confused, verbs are conjugated and there's a creek to swim in to give relief from the merciless sun.
It's addressed to his supporters both inside and outside Iraq and it takes a swipe at Americans, which Saddam refers to as merciless tyrants. CNN Transcript Dec 28, 2006
The attackers, 20-30, in number mercilessly descended upon him, armed with snooker cues and bats, beating him to the ground while unconscious.
He sent dozens before firing squads, shocking friends with his mercilessness.
All parties agreed that he was a brutal, merciless tyrant whose removal was desirable.
He was mercilessly satirical on the failures of his pupils, to whom (having reduced them, by the most ridiculous imitation of their unfortunate vocal attempts, to an almost inaudible utterance of _pianissimo_ pipings) he would exclaim, "Ma per carità! aprite la bocca! che cantate come uccelli che dormano! Records of a Girlhood
It delineates the swift and unerring execution of Yhwh's laws upon His merciless foes and those of His people, and also points to Him as the sure refuge and security of those who obey and trust Him.
Inhaling deeply Samantha started pushing and shoving people out of her way mercilessly.
I mercilessly left his fate in her hands; it was like leaving a goldfish in the care of an alley cat.
But this anxious feeling of antagonism and mercilessness is rarely talked about - if at all.
His cartoon mercilessly lampoon the leading politician of the day.
As she becomes more emotionally involved the little madam becomes mercilessly manipulative and demanding.
We mercilessly critiqued one another, and explored weird mixes of Bizarro, Horror-eroticism, metafictional, vulgarian, bloody stories, and things that are yet to have names. Author of "HPL and His Legacy" : The Lovecraft News Network
In the second half of the book, Athill describes, with a strange combination of amiability and mercilessness, the main writers with whom she worked.
Recently, one friend "was ragging me mercilessly," he recalled, after noting that Mr. Mukasey slipped into Washingtonese during his confirmation hearings. Mukasey Shows Independent Streak
Such at any rate was the fact; the roach and the cat, by their humble station in life, and the lowliness of their associates, proved an admirable vantage for merciless joshing of everything biggity.
The cruel master beat his slaves mercilessly with a whip.
A bewildered self would be enthralled in its merciless depths of shadows and kismet.
All the injuries were consistent with an enraged and merciless attack with a blunt instrument.
In court, he was accused of being a merciless predator who had tricked his grandmother out of her savings.
No other colony showed such supine, selfish helplessness in allowing her own border citizens to be mercilessly harried
Their passions, tumultuous and merciless as the Tyrrhene Sea, raged indeed with the danger, but also with the uses, of naturally appointed storm; while ours, pacific in corruption, languish in vague maremma of misguided pools; and are pestilential most surely as they retire. Val d'Arno
a merciless critic
The life-support system was just beside you with tubes piercing mercilessly into your left wrist.
As I stood outside the store, battered by the merciless, penetrating wind, I was reminded of days when I'd wear two pairs of pyjamas under my uniform in a vain attempt to keep warm.
And there are few things more vicious than the mercilessness fallen man shows a penitent.
She was mercilessly teased by boys and other girls about her physical appearance and called a snob because her father was wealthy.
His is the humour of merciless exposure to our own absurdities.
Relishing her best film role for some time, Stockard Channing is the high-powered business executive wedded to her mobile and merciless in the demands she makes on others.
He was both a hero (in the war with the Harvang) and monster (due to his mercilessness) and Ford's prose, which is delivered swiftly and with confidence, makes it one to remember. REVIEW: Eclipse Two edited by Jonathan Strahan
Her fear is that of a prisoner, awaiting execution, in the merciless sunlight of an American dream.
Dalziel drove his troops mercilessly when the occasion demanded, but he took his own bumps and rarely passed them on to his underlings. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
The little boat was buffeted mercilessly by the waves.
I observed her curiously as she hesitantly took off her coat, wincing as she did so; my eyes were called to her neck which was flawed mercilessly with red marks around the left side.
So what do I, a staunch Thing fan with a mercilessly scrutinous eye think of all this? Prequel to THE THING Starts Shooting In March « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more
They dumped their BMX bikes and scrambled over a fence to launch the merciless attack. The Sun
I teased her mercilessly - what was the point of getting a degree for a life of TV, coffee mornings and school runs?
The sun beat down mercilessly on the dry earth.

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