(a.) Being without remorse; having no pity; hence, destitute of sensibility; cruel; insensible to distress; merciless.
Example Sentences:
(1) Labour will then be challenged – remorselessly, day after day – to back these measures or face that most familiar of charges: that it is planning a tax bombshell (with the added piquancy that this time the increase is needed simply to pour money into what will be billed as a broken welfare system).
(2) Unable to stand or swallow and forced to communicate through a computer, John Close, 54, a former musician, chose suicide in 2003 as his body succumbed to the remorseless grip of motor neurone disease.
(3) But the bedeviled foray also works as a potent allegory on the slow, vice-like workings of conscience, as guilt hunts down the protagonists with the shrieking remorselessness of Greek furies.
(4) When they took the lead through Omar Gonzalez’s first-half header it had been coming, but not so much through frantic pressure as from the kind of remorselessly confident performance that characterises this team when they’re on form, as they had been in winning five of their previous six.
(5) The underlying trends in carbon pollution and resource use are still driving us remorselessly towards a painful crash, as a recent reassessment of the original 1972 Limits to Growth study has highlighted.
(6) There, proprietorial and remorselessly downbeat, like the ogre in Shrek, stands MigrationWatch UK.
(7) It’s a remorseless process of winnowing down, from which only one worthy champion can emerge* and the Guardian is here the whole way through, with spoiler alerts roughly every minute, having read the book (Klinsi turns out to have been a wolf all along...) One of tonight’s teams is playing roughly a game a minute at the moment — Confederations Cup and Gold Cup scheduling saw Jamaica’s game against Mexico moved to earlier this week — and that 1-0 loss was the first of three games the Jamaicans will play in eight days (Mexico are doing the same thing).
(8) Speaking without notes and saying he was at the start of a eight-month job interview ahead of May’s election, the Labour leader focused remorselessly on health and the crisis in living standards, including a six-point plan to improve Britain over the next 10 years.
(9) He is brutal and remorseless, because he is not himself.
(10) Her gold armour is terrifying, her gaze as remorseless as the logic of diplomacy that would shortly unleash the psychosis of the first world war.
(11) Thoreau's purpose is to reconcile us, after centuries of hazy anthropocentricity, to Nature as it is, relentless and remorseless.
(12) But Ali said it was "the closest thing to dying" - while Frazier, who had beaten up his enemy remorselessly, was plunged into near darkness when his only good eye was sealed shut in the last few rounds.
(13) I feared it had come back to biological remorselessness again.
(14) Because in Minecraft the night is full of horrors – spiders, skeletons, zombies and camouflaged creepers, all of which have an eerie ability to pursue you relentlessly and remorselessly.
(15) In a video conference with Merkel and the new French president, François Hollande, ahead of last month's G8 summit at Camp David, the prime minister recited passages from a speech in Manchester in which he warned of a "remorseless logic" that stronger parts of a single currency help weaker parts.
(16) Now that we have edged away from the clifftop, the remaining question – a question made all the more urgent by yesterday's figures – is whether we are set to succumb to the slow, remorseless slide.
(17) This "conceptualised" work has been regurgitated remorselessly since the 1960s, over and over and over again.
(18) Later in my relationship with him I learned that he could also be remorseless and harsh – but then we were, after all, political opponents.
(19) That said, the costs of PIP and its predecessors have been on a remorseless rising curve since the early 1990s.
(20) It never was credible that the many aspects of this country’s ties with its closest neighbours and most important trading partners could be renegotiated to the remorseless timetable that kicked in when Mrs May invoked article 50.
Unyielding
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) In these patients, the conservative treatment by bouginage could not be continued due to a stricture unyielding for dilatation or early recurrence of the stricture after a number of dilatations.
(2) Suturing of these ostia is occasionally difficult because of an unyielding calcified vessel wall.
(3) The captain, Rio Ferdinand, was nearly as unyielding.
(4) Its enlargement of the lower portion overlying the basal portion of the heart formed an unyielding, tense membrane.
(5) The inefficient application of an unyielding (non-inertial) lap and diagonal seat belt permitted this injury, although one does not know what other injuries might have occurred had the belt not been worn.
(6) Recommendations to avoid this complication include shortening of the forearm at the osteotomy site and the release of unyielding soft tissue restraints.
(7) Although this study supported the thesis that a porous HA matrix can function as a bone graft substitute, it is noted that the unyielding nature of the implant blocks, compared to granules, requires a solution to the challenge of long-term denture support without ulceration before it can be used with clinical confidence.
(8) If Hollywood needed an emblematic heroine for a year of hard times and tough decisions, it came in the form of Jennifer Lawrence: resolute, unyielding and somehow old beyond her age.
(9) Climate change provides an unyielding science-based deadline.
(10) But he was more than just cinema's great choreographer of scale, the man Anthony Quinn likened to a general, commanding his troops and preparing for battle out in the blazing Arabian desert, or the unyielding Burmese jungle, or on the frostbitten Eastern Front.
(11) And there is the flinty personality, sharp, jagged, unyielding.
(12) The unyielding response of Italy, France and Germany came amidst a tsunami of global condemnation for Trump’s decision to renege on an agreement made by 195 countries after decades of negotiation.
(13) This happens in an area in which the deep branch of the radial nerve crossed some narrow structures which are unyielding and have more compression strength (tense cords of connective tissue Fig.
(14) Chen Xi once saw the one-child policy as a brick wall, unyielding and inevitable.
(15) Philosophers first, then early academic physiologists began to exhibit interest in pain, that all too common phenomenon, only too often unyielding to theoretical as well as practical efforts.
(16) This procedure consisted of the application of a rigid clip with a fixed and unyielding gap to the left renal artery and removal of the right kidney.
(17) He admired, and liked, practical people, especially those who had tasted some experience of life outside the City and Whitehall; he often appeared unyielding and unforgiving to the fumbling contradictions of political life, and he certainly had a very low threshold of patience with fools.
(18) As it was, the dominant performer in the stalemate was a resourceful and unyielding centre-half, United's Nemanja Vidic.
(19) It’s the work of the old masters, whoever your masters are, really, that remind you that you have to be singular, inflexible, unyielding in your own work so that even the struggle, that very struggle to achieve, becomes its own reward.
(20) But dogma has a habit of being unyielding, and Corbyn shows few signs of being able to develop fresh responses to a world that has changed out of recognition since his formative political impulses of the late 70s: what to do about the growing influence of Islamic State, the ethics of gene editing or the challenges that technology presents to issues as diverse as employment or transport.