How to Use unsparing in a Sentence

unsparing

adjective
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  • In this attempt at unearthing, her prose combines the spare and the unsparing.
    — Madeleine Schwartz, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2020
  • The show is not just a work of metafiction but an unsparing piece of self-criticism.
    — John Semley, The New Republic, 28 July 2022
  • The Democrats’ message to Mai Khanh Tran was polite but unsparing.
    — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 23 Apr. 2018
  • 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 work is emotional, unsparing, and, for Cherkassky-Nnadi, a meaningful way to take stock and make sense.
    — Marley Marius, Vogue, 27 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • The episode at the Capitol cast these contortions in a suddenly unsparing light.
    — New York Times, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Seeing Jess in the aftermath of Leslie’s death prepared many of us for what loss would feel like, the unsparing pendulum swinging between the good days and the bad.
    — Usa Today Staff, USA TODAY, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Those are Luster’s opening lines, and the first cue that its unsparing narrator may be looking for love, or something not quite like it, in all the wrong places.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 31 July 2020
  • 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
  • The book is forthright, unsparing, deeply felt but unsentimental, and reads like a house afire.
    — Richard Snow, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2020
  • Her analysis of the modern-day NFL is whip-smart, unsparing, and often prescient.
    — Longreads, 13 Dec. 2017
  • In her fantastical, unsparing world, life is what the factory makes of it.
    — Stephen Kearse, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • The craving for access (often access to be lied to) can blind some reporters to the need to be unsparing in calling out misstatements and evasions, big and small.
    — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 16 May 2017
  • To know him was to feel his warmth, his curiosity, and his unsparing attention to detail—and to fête him was to promise to somehow pass those virtues on.
    — Marley Marius, Vogue, 30 Apr. 2022
  • Get the full, unsparing picture of the industry in their fascinating new deep dive.
    — Rachel Cohrs, STAT, 29 May 2022
  • The Real referred to the unsparing view of blood and guts inside Jugenburg’s operating room, as well as the limits of what surgery can do.
    — Katherine Laidlaw, Wired, 19 Jan. 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 Father is a polished piece of work but an unsparing one, offering no false assurances.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 26 Mar. 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
  • And, thanks to Balagov's unsparing portrayal, soon too is the audience.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Nov. 2019
  • Cohen’s allegations — his most detailed to date — are part of an unsparing and deeply personal put-down of Trump.
    — Jim Mustian and Michael R. Sisak, chicagotribune.com, 6 Sep. 2020
  • The unsparing destruction drove more than half a million people into Bangladesh in recent weeks.
    — Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2017
  • It’s an unsparing indictment of how Americans can blithely dismiss so much death when the deceased don’t look like them.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Son is an unsparing novel that presents Texas, and by extension America, as an epic land grab that takes a mighty psychic toll on the grabbers, at least those who possess a conscience.
    — Chris Vognar, Chron, 28 May 2023
  • Even by the unsparing nature of the Studio 60 Problem, Che’s comedy — both on stage and in civilian quips — remains almost shockingly unfunny.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 24 Aug. 2023
  • But coupled with the additional unsparing headwinds wreaking havoc on the entire industry, the job is downright Herculean.
    — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 14 Aug. 2023

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