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Cruel in sentence

686 examples of Cruel in a sentence

But this, surely, whoever that man is, whatever he's done, this is cruel and unusual punishment.
As the story goes, the legendary marksman William Tell was forced into a cruel challenge by a corrupt lord.
Henry was captured, while Margaret fled into exile with their reportedly cruel son, Edward of Westminster.
Our fear of the cold, cruel world tempts us to build hard shells to protect and isolate ourselves.
Hey? Oh, grade eight, what a cruel master you can be.
It is creative and mechanical and exhausting and exhilarating and hilarious and disturbing and clinical and maternal and cruel and judicious, and what makes it all so good is the hum.
Yet knowing more about its fascinating and often cruel history, as well as its production today, tells us where these associations originate and what they hide.
But as the Congress ground to a halt and the country ripped at the seams and hope and change began to feel like a cruel joke, I knew that even the political second coming could not save me.
That's not just cynical marketing, that's cruel.
I then searched the word "globalist" and got things like, "Socialist Sell-Outs," "Disgusting Corporate Propaganda," "Elitist Financial Overlords," "Ruthless Cosmopolitan Rats." (Laughter) Even by social media standards, the words are cruel and disgusting.
But all of these changes also yield a strange and paradoxical result, which is that even as the world is becoming a better and more humane place, which it is, there's a very common perception that it's becoming worse and more cruel, which it's not.
A victim of circumstance caught up in a war, cruelly thrust upon him by the cruel circumstances of the time.
We became the very instrument through which more deaths occurred, complicit in causing further misery for the selfish benefit of the cruel few.
So my plea today to everyone, especially those who sincerely believe in Islamist jihadism ... refuse dogmatic authority; let go of anger, hatred and violence; learn to right wrongs without even attempting to justify cruel, unjust and futile behavior.
Kim is unapologetically feminine in a world that is often cruel and violent to women who are too proud and too freeing.
They want us to become like them: intolerant, hateful and cruel.
The cruel behavior that defined the end of his life showed me that he was a completely different person from the one I knew.
This path has brought us cruel, sniping, deepening polarization, and even outbreaks of violence.
So Dr. Z's "Lucifer Effect," although it focuses on evil, really is a celebration of the human mind's infinite capacity to make any of us kind or cruel, caring or indifferent, creative or destructive, and it makes some of us villains.
But bottle three is spared the cruel purgatories of his brothers.
This thing has got to be considered a cruel and unusual punishment."
And treadmills lasted in England until the late 19th century, when they were banned for being excessively cruel under the Prison's Act of 1898.
So the next time you voluntarily subject yourself to what was once a cruel and unusual punishment, just be glad you can control when you'll hop off.
This is a cruel, impulsive, and extravagant king who had as little regard for his people as he did for his six wives.
But God, being cruel, yet still a sap in part, rushed two angels out to Sodom to warn Lot to gather up his folks and get out of Dodge.
It sounds cruel, but it is the reality.
We live in a very cruel world.
Dictators are cruel monsters, and I am not saying it to be nice.
There are cruel, selfish people, and it's not only OK to be angry when we're treated poorly, it's right to be angry when we're treated poorly.
It's all part of this complex pattern of physiological experiences that exist today because they helped your ancestors deal with cruel and unforgiving forces of nature.
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