Word: pitilessly
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...Francisco, in which the title-story is a grotesque fantasy of a rich American who voyages to Europe on a luxury liner, dies on the trip, and comes back a corpse on the same ship; the hero, a symbol of everything cheap in commercial civilization, is contrasted with the pitiless realities of sea and storm. Though he has a resounding reputation as a realist (his "big novel," The Village, is written in naturalistic, Chekhovian style) Author Bunin was once numbered among the symbolists, has also written and translated verse-notably Byron's "Manfred" and "Cain" and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow...
...lady murderess, a psychopath, an Italian woman, a mother of six-blessedly quiet and collected about the whole business-a malingerer who wants the relief of an abortion. The affairs of this gallery of victims to nature run into each other, bump, skip and leap across two hours of pitiless, often nervously gay drama which should give a childless husband pause, possibly make him a little...
Meanwhile things are going badly in the Hinkemann home. Egon constantly hears imaginary laughter ringing in his ears, pitiless, mocking laughter at his infirmity. His best friend seduces, impregnates his wife. She commits suicide. Egon finds himself a piece of rope and walks off the stage to become another victim, Herr Toller would have you believe, of mankind's most savage enemy...
Says Author Walpole, writing of England's northernmost county: "There is no ground in the world more mysterious, no land at once so bare in its nakedness a rich in its luxury, so warm with sun and so cold in pitiless rain, so gentle and pastoral, so wild and lonely; with sea and lake and river there is always the sound of running water, and its strong people have their feet in the soil and are independent of all men." Cumbrian natives say the same thing in fewer words: "Canny auld Cumberland bangs them a still...
Colonel Lindbergh, wishing to avoid the glare of pitiless publicity, seems to have made a mistake. Neither his office, nor the position of his noted father-in-law, nor the decent requests of the less gossipy papers have modulated the stream of photographers and reporters who harass the Morrow home. Not even the air gives him sufficient freedom to run the blockade of prying printers with success...