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Recent Examples of unsparing Because this clever, funny play is both an attentive ode to Greenspan’s extraordinary artistry as a playwright-performer and an unsparing meditation on the psychic and financial precariousness of playwriting as a creative life. Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025 Creator-star Richard Gadd excavates the deepest fault lines of his psyche with unsparing, even brutal honesty — but also with profound empathy for himself and the woman (breakout Jessica Gunning) tormenting him. Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019 The result is an unsparing profile that doubles as a powerful tribute. Vikram Murthi, Vulture, 21 Jan. 2025 Roger Ebert famously panned it, though other critics hailed it as a brave and unsparing look at the underbelly of small-town ordinariness. Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 16 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unsparing
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsparing
Adjective
  • Cho, as the perceptive and generous Jin, distracted from his own family troubles by the sudden flashes of Casey’s bright light, is wise and rejuvenated; disinterested admiration makes this man, who looks to be in his forties, nearly a teen-ager again.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 20 June 2025
  • Others like Bill Gates, Laurene Powell Jobs, and Guy Fieri aren’t being so generous with their offspring.
    Ani Freedman, Fortune, 20 June 2025
Adjective
  • Confronting Iran’s ruthless campaign of terror, nuclear ambitions, and regional aggression demands strength, resolve, and strategic clarity.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 21 June 2025
  • Michael Fassbender plays the deceased Apple guru — a flawed, ruthless, but ultimately compassionate soul.
    Tim Grierson, Vulture, 20 June 2025
Adjective
  • Buckingham, on her part, just wants to know the whereabouts of Rak and to go forward with other charitable efforts.
    Deborah Laverty, Chicago Tribune, 30 June 2025
  • The charitable event, which launched in 2006 as an offshoot of the 24 Hour Plays project, has strict rules.
    Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
Adjective
  • While Charlie Brown played things safe, Snoopy lived an exuberant life in his imagination, casting himself as a frustrated novelist, gleeful dancer, merciless attorney and even a prolific flying ace in a World War I Sopwith Camel.
    Chris Carra, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2025
  • Players have openly voiced their struggles with its deep rough, lightning-fast greens, and merciless bunkers.
    Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 June 2025

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“Unsparing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsparing. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.

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