Sentences with word «pitilessness»

The films register period details such as fashion, but the themes Hickey explored remain relevant today, questioning the cruelness and pitilessness of Dev's legacy.

Among its many resonances, Drive reminded me of Neil Jordan's Mona Lisa, another tale of a driver teetering between innocence and cruelty; of Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy and Once Upon a Time in the West, with their nameless, laconic protagonists and meticulous buildups to spasms of sudden violence; of the original 1971 Get Carter and its intoxicating pitilessness; of Halloween in its use of — well, you'll see.

In Godzilla, the orgy of climactic destruction arrived with what Werner Herzog would simply call the pitilessness of nature, with the tears of a cowering human populace finding a visual and spiritual analogue in the glass - strewn weeping of skyscrapers as they collapse.

It is superbly executed and, for all its pitilessness, it's an intelligent dramatization of the impact that consumerist values have had on the psyche of the North American middle class at the end of the 20th century.

There's something in both his choice of subject and his style — portraits of Ralph Lauren - ish, Northeastern types that manage to be both elegant and rugged, happy and haunted, intimate and oddly distant — that whispers of contentment and, yes, money but also of the pitilessness of time and the ability of art to freeze it in its tracks.

The following Generations, who were not so fond of the Study of Cartography as their Forebears had been, saw that that vast Map was Useless, and not without some Pitilessness was it, that they delivered it up to the Inclemencies of Sun and Winters.