How to Use unsparing in a Sentence

unsparing

adjective
  • Things get even darker from there as the story unfolds in a frank and unsparing style.
    — John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 16 Nov. 2024
  • The show is not just a work of metafiction but an unsparing piece of self-criticism.
    — John Semley, The New Republic, 28 July 2022
  • In this attempt at unearthing, her prose combines the spare and the unsparing.
    — Madeleine Schwartz, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2020
  • The judge’s takedown was unsparing.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2026
  • The judge’s takedown was unsparing.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Trump critics on the right (both of us) take an even more unsparing view than those who are focused on the recent elections.
    — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 19 Nov. 2019
  • The result is an unsparing look into places from which polite society would rather avert its eyes.
    — E.a. Aymar, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Perhaps with that aid package in mind, Putin was pretty unsparing in his remarks on the war.
    — Nathan Hodge, CNN Money, 19 Dec. 2025
  • Elliot was unsparing in the book about his treatment by Ric on that, about his diminished role.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2025
  • In her fantastical, unsparing world, life is what the factory makes of it.
    — Stephen Kearse, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2022
  • The book is forthright, unsparing, deeply felt but unsentimental, and reads like a house afire.
    — Richard Snow, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2020
  • The lyrics, and the delivery, were unsparing in expressing their love and sadness.
    — Piet Levy, jsonline.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • What is the point of epic or romance, heroic achievements or grand passions, in the unsparing light of eternity?
    — Catherine Nicholson, The New York Review of Books, 15 June 2021
  • But Ramsay is no stranger to an unsparing edit process in time for Cannes and then also theaters.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Get the full, unsparing picture of the industry in their fascinating new deep dive.
    — Rachel Cohrs, STAT, 29 May 2022
  • On trade and geopolitics, Burke was equally unsparing.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 6 May 2026
  • But the unsparing final stretch leads to a sobering body count and some unavoidable acts of violence that look far from heroic.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
  • The episode at the Capitol cast these contortions in a suddenly unsparing light.
    — New York Times, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Yeon-sik Hong’s view of his younger self is unsparing and complex, neither self-loathing nor aggrandizing.
    — Isaac Butler, Slate Magazine, 14 Aug. 2017
  • The result is an unsparing profile that doubles as a powerful tribute.
    — Vikram Murthi, Vulture, 21 Jan. 2025
  • The Democrats’ message to Mai Khanh Tran was polite but unsparing.
    — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 23 Apr. 2018
  • The Father is a polished piece of work but an unsparing one, offering no false assurances.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 26 Mar. 2021
  • The unsparing destruction drove more than half a million people into Bangladesh in recent weeks.
    — Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2017
  • The new one on Rafael Nadal is an unsparing journey into his tennis suffering.
    — Ava Wallace, New York Times, 30 May 2026
  • And if unsparing gender analysis was somewhat beyond Luhan’s reach, Cusk brings it to the fore.
    — Rebecca Panovka, The New Yorker, 2 June 2021
  • His allegations, his most detailed to date, are part of an unsparing and deeply personal put-down of the president.
    — CBS News, 7 Sep. 2020
  • The crossfire was scattershot but unsparing.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 17 Feb. 2026
  • More than anything, this emotionally unsparing but never-punishing movie feels like the work of someone who kept his eyes and ears wide open.
    — Justin Chang, latimes.com, 11 July 2018
  • And, thanks to Balagov's unsparing portrayal, soon too is the audience.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Nov. 2019
  • The artist’s unsparing eye, usually positioned well above his models, refused to edit out stray shadows, even those cast by the easel.
    — William Grimes, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2022

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