How to Use remorseless in a Sentence

remorseless

adjective
  • The tone, both wistful and remorseless, is that of a writer who allows the reader—and history—to be the judge.
    Jonathan Lethem, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The remorseless fact is that, despite Biden’s bravado, his coalition is clearly not ready to get that tough.
    Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 24 Feb. 2022
  • But the remorseless logic of the Irish border is pushing Britain in that direction.
    The Economist, 16 June 2018
  • But the sheer joy of controlling one of nature’s most remorseless killers is strong enough here to pique our interest.
    Kyle Orland and Sarah Leboeuf, Ars Technica, 7 Mar. 2020
  • That hardly prevented him from running with a lead group of Kenyans for the first few miles, after which the marathon imposed its remorseless brand of agony.
    Scott Cacciola, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Ordinary kids may become remorseless killers who shoot at cops and view second chances as a license to do more harm.
    Jill Leovy, New York Times, 1 June 2018
  • The Denver public saw the young Black face of a remorseless criminal, someone who deserved a life sentence or worse.
    Lynnell Hancock, The New Republic, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Barry is a bad guy, of course, a very bad one, a (mostly) remorseless assassin, torturer and abuser.
    Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Co-authored with Yusuf Jah, the 225-page paperback is a readable and remorseless advertisement for Davis’ life as a drug dealer.
    John L. Smith, Rolling Stone, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Winners and losers alike were almost drearily well behaved, and the rhetoric, as custom demands, was one of remorseless uplift.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2023
  • In two games that hardly mattered, since Spurs were certain to finish second, Kane retained his ruthless and remorseless hunger.
    Peter Berlin, SI.com, 21 May 2017
  • The apparently remorseless runner has pooped on the sidewalk in front of the Budde family's home at least once a week for the past seven weeks, according to Budde.
    The Washington Post, AL.com, 19 Sep. 2017
  • Twitter is rife with complaints about shoppers getting blindsided by them, hit in the ankle or shin by an errant cart and its remorseless driver.
    Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Either be remorseless or enable others—squadron commanders, up-and-comers or former officers—to help take the load off the folks aboard the stricken vessel.
    Craig Hooper, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Working against her is the remorseless logic of party politics.
    The Economist, 12 July 2018
  • Like its narrator, this is a remorseless little machine.
    Dwight Garner, New York Times, 2 July 2018
  • But here on the plains’ western edge, where the climate is unforgiving and the boom-and-bust farming economy is equally remorseless, swaths of prairie remain largely unbroken.
    National Geographic, 16 Jan. 2020
  • From Sandoval, there was a lot of crying, but very few actual tears, whereas Leviss seemed practically remorseless.
    Louis Staples, Rolling Stone, 24 May 2023
  • After getting defeated in the Battle of Kyiv, the Russians are making incremental gains in the east based on remorseless artillery barrages.
    The Editors, National Review, 8 June 2022
  • In court documents, Minkler alleges that Burkhart was a greedy, remorseless peddler of corruption who infected those around him.
    Arika Herron, Indianapolis Star, 22 June 2018
  • It’s hard to imagine a less plausible candidate to become a remorseless winning machine.
    Jonathan Wilson, SI.com, 6 Aug. 2019
  • The work can seem to invoke the cascading fatalities of the Covid pandemic and, by chance, the remorseless current carnage in Ukraine, whereby the destruction of so many people occasions news headlines as sullen as those stones.
    Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Trying to defend the seemingly remorseless killing of an unarmed suspect is another.
    Star Tribune, 24 Jan. 2021
  • Under the remorseless influence of the pandemic, the U.S. economy is being reshaped.
    David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 11 July 2020
  • Addressing the court before sentencing, a remorseless Saipov appeared to praise Islamic State and suggested his victims suffered less than Muslims around the world.
    Reuters, NBC News, 17 May 2023
  • But if Martinez’s conversation with the informant sounds like the boasting of a remorseless killer, his attorney’s defense of him paints Martinez as a victim of MS-13’s coercion and influence.
    Crystal Hill, miamiherald, 14 May 2018
  • Others have described him as ruthless, remorseless, empty.
    Laura Crimaldi, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Remorseless brutality, just like fresh buns, turns out to be a necessary ingredient in business.
    Jake Coyle, Orange County Register, 19 Jan. 2017
  • Hildebrandt’s attorney, Douglas Terry, said during the livestreamed hearing that his client is not the remorseless woman she has been portrayed to be and accepts responsibility for her actions.
    Hannah Schoenbaum, Fortune, 21 Feb. 2024
  • But a narrow focus on the man risks a potentially grave mistake: paying too little attention to large, slow-rolling yet remorseless political forces that were in motion long before Mr Trump chugged into view.
    The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018

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