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Example sentences for "unforgiving"

Lexicographically close words:
unforgetable; unforgettable; unforgetting; unforgivable; unforgiven; unforgotten; unformed; unformulated; unforseen; unfortified
  1. Such unforgiving selfishness is difficult to understand unless as a perverse sort of refinement.

  2. Sir Pertinax would exceed all bounds of moderation; for he is of a sharp, shrewd, unforgiving nature.

  3. Fairthorn was the only being in the world to when Guy Darrell could speak of Caroline Lyndsay--to whom he could own the unconquerable but unforgiving love which had twice driven him from the social world.

  4. Harsh, unforgiving punishment must ever hang over Si'Wren's head now, all because of a broken piece of green rock!

  5. The runner fell backwards and hit the hard, hewn stones of the stairs full stretch against the back of his head, and lay sprawled backwards, head-downwards and facing sightlessly into the heavens on the unforgiving stone steps.

  6. I know I'm a hard, unforgiving man, but there is just one phase of human nature that I will not stand for, and that is the refusal to take the medicine prescribed for the disease.

  7. Handsome, moody, with flashes of fun when not crossed, a good comrade at times, an unforgiving enemy.

  8. Sin, selfishness, an unforgiving spirit--what searchlights these words are!

  9. A third thing spoken of as hindering prayer is an unforgiving spirit.

  10. At sight of the unforgiving line of lip and square set chin to meet adversity, she knew a great soul was hidden behind that sallow mask.

  11. Footnote a: Parable of the Unforgiving Servant.

  12. Yet he says that Jesus did this when he had finished the parable of the unforgiving servant, which we have placed nearly six months earlier (Sect.

  13. His mind was a medley of cunning and simplicity backed by an absolutely unforgiving temper and great caution.

  14. It was of course very improbable that she should be the daughter of Dalrymple and Annetta, but even the faint possibility of being on the track of his enemy had a strong effect upon the unforgiving peasant.

  15. Then, after he had learned from Griggs's brief note that she was dead, he felt that he could not return at once, hard and unforgiving as he was.

  16. To this contempt, however, he gave no expression, for fear of wounding without reason, until that reason did arise by the Laureate's unforgiving spirit.

  17. That is the most unforgiving speech," said Elizabeth, "that I ever heard you utter.

  18. The cruel looking-glass that will never show a lass As hard and unforgiving or as wicked as you was!

  19. My unforgiving friend," he said, "I shall lock thee in.

  20. Not altogether unforgiving was his wife to him.

  21. When she said this Thetis looked full upon her husband, and never had she seemed so unforgiving as she was then.

  22. He was wonderfully patient, grieving only for the sorrow experienced by his wife, and the sad thought that his own unforgiving spirit was in great part the reason why now she would be left desolate without a child to comfort her.

  23. That is my punishment for so long cherishing an unforgiving spirit.

  24. But not long could any unforgiving feeling linger in her heart, and ere many hours were over she was able fully to forgive.

  25. Unforgiving and unforgetting, no trifle was beneath the minute vigilance of the Holy Office.

  26. Sunk in his miserable thoughts, the more miserable that he had now yielded even the pretence of struggle, and relapsed into unforgiving unforgivenness, the father saw nothing of his child's failing strength, but kept trudging on.

  27. But it was no use; his thoughts were such that they could hold no company with other thoughts: the world of his kind was shut out; he was a man alone, because a man unforgiving and unforgiven.

  28. Then, Madam, seeing that we have, if all reports be true, a damned unforgiving kind of King, my advice to you is to follow my example and run.

  29. And now, over the whole of rumbling Paris black night had gathered, an unforgiving night, in which the stars foundered amidst the mist of crime and anger that had risen from the house-roofs.

  30. Then he again pictured Victor, slight and almost beardless, with a straight, stubborn brow, grey eyes glittering with intelligence, a pointed nose and thin lips expressive of stern will and unforgiving hatred.

  31. The warden tilted back in his swivel chair, and gazed at the forgiven, but unforgiving prisoner.

  32. He paused before the court-house with the small "jail-house" squatting in the yard and surveyed both with wormwood bitterness of unforgiving memory.

  33. The unforgiving malice in the boy's eyes, the rigid posture of his whole body as he stood contemplating his enemy, told Red Newton the whole story.

  34. Was Fabien more unforgiving than his uncle?

  35. He smoothed his way for him, all the time writing fierce unforgiving letters demanding submission and return.

  36. When disposed at any time to cherish an unforgiving spirit towards a brother, think, if thy God had retained His anger for ever, where wouldst thou have been?


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unforgiving" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.