What is "unforgiving"

Usage examples of "unforgiving".

There were many strange things taking place, but the strangest of all, to Clevinger, was the hatred, the brutal, uncloaked, inexorable hatred of the members of the Action Board, glazing their unforgiving expressions with a hard, vindictive surface, glowing in their narrowed eyes malignantly like inextinguishable coals.

Those who know often say that of all the disciplines the triathlon is the most brutal and unforgiving.

Frozen in place like a panicked rabbit, Aisling held her breath, then retreated, and willed her body to shrink back into the unforgiving elevator wall.

Bryson risked snake bite and hantavirus to trudge up unforgiving mountains, plod through swollen rivers, and yearn for cream sodas and hot showers.

Now, in the unforgiving light of a chilly Istrian dawn, there really could be no mistake.

Fat Dhuta on Wutai, in full fighting form against the Eighteen Lohans, shivered to see him contemplating the possibility of suicide, rather than face the wrath of an unforgiving Leader.

From Nialli Apuilana to the Queen goes an image of the terrain that surrounds the Nest of Nests, as she knows it must be, though she had never seen it with her own eyes: hard sparse plains, broad endless grayness under an unforgiving sky.

And she had also seen the unforgiving memory as his eyes found Sparks beside her.

Terrified of what they might do next, she was straining so violently at the unforgiving iron rings around her wrists and ankles that she knew she was starting to bleed.

In his mind, he saw the two figures he had watched fly off into the distance suddenly stricken for a moment, then plummeting to their deaths on the unforgiving ground below.

DO remember his boasting one day, at Netherfield, of the implacability of his resentments, of his having an unforgiving temper.

After his previous mistake of the transposed shipments, his boss would be utterly unforgiving.

Safwan, their unforgiving timetable ruined by half a dozen minor snafus and a midair refueling problem.

Stern, unforgiving faces regarded him from beneath both turbans and bristling black beards.

Nearly all of the trees were gone, and those few that had been left clung to the unforgiving boundary where the soil met the sea, as if waiting to cast themselves into the next large wave in a kind of mass xylemic suicide.