Though the sun beat down mercilessly, there were signs of change.
You see, she was beaten mercilessly by ad for years.
He had been mercilessly beaten, the fingers of both hands broken.
Every attempt to reach him at the bridge had been mercilessly beaten back.
She thought he paused on the stairway, and her heart began to beat mercilessly.
When we toured the ruins, the sun beat down mercilessly.
The tropical sun seemed always to be overhead, beating mercilessly down.
"You should really be strung up by your toes and beaten mercilessly," she said.
He was not given food or water for days at a stretch and was beaten mercilessly.
Whenever a slave tried to stand up, they were mercilessly beaten back by the handlers.