Word: pitilessly
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...family life simmers comfortably until Director Jack Cardiff plunges into the eye of street fights during the Transport Strike and the bloody Easter Rising of 1916, catching the awful impact of thudding billy clubs, of bullets and bombs and sudden death, letting his camera soak up the slaughter in pitiless detail...
...early experience with film. "I started to direct," he explained, "because I couldn't stand what other directors were doing. My first attempts," he admitted, "weren't so good. I didn't understand that the purpose of film-making is the study of the human being. The camera is pitiless. The director is like a surgeon--he opens the chest and shows everything...
...restored. It is as if it wished to delude us into thinking nothing had happened. We do not wish to pass judgment on those who were the cause. But we cannot but deplore that civilized man dared make the tomb of St. Benedict the target of pitiless violence...
...kind of movie that leaves viewers wishing they had seen the play instead. On the screen, it is little more than a melodrama. On Broadway, as an unforgettable vehicle for the Lunts in 1958, Friedrich Dürrenmatt's drama drilled annihilating satire into a spare, pitiless tale of vengeance and greed...
Since William the Conqueror's day, murder most foul has taken the lives of some half-dozen English kings. But priest and poet always agreed that heaven trembled at such impious acts, for even the most pitiless tyrant ruled by divine right. Oliver Cromwell changed all that. He had King Charles I slain in broad daylight, and explained that God willed it so; he made regicide and revolution fashionable...