Cruelty
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297 examples of Cruelty in a sentence
The story-telling is direct, yet it's different from the heaviness and
cruelty
of "Night & Fog".
Despite countless sacrifices in the face of the drone strikes’ arbitrary cruelty, the resolve of the tribal areas’ people remains undented.
As for Iraq today, Rasheed says, “I do not think that Americans are indifferent to what happened and what is happening, but the daily details of
cruelty
do not give them either the time or the energy to think about larger issues.”
That effort should compel us to confront an uncomfortable reality underlying both the British phone-hacking scandal, with its penumbra of appalling
cruelty
and wanton corruption, and Fox News, America’s most popular news channel: too many people want what the News Corporation has been offering.
In Trump’s hands, a constitutional power intended to mitigate the “necessary severity” of criminal justice was deployed to sanction
cruelty
by a sworn officer of the law.
He tried to humanize it and undo the
cruelty
of Stalinist orthodoxy, but never doubted that the Leninist system was the way of the future.
From 1957 to 1976, from the beginning of Mao’s “Great Leap Forward” which led to a mass famine that killed tens of millions of people, to the end of the “Cultural Revolution” which left Chinese society divided and traumatized due to its wanton
cruelty
and the destruction of cultural goods, China endured two hideous decades.
St. Thomas Aquinas interpreted that verse as implying that it simply does not matter how man behaves toward animals; the only reason why we should not inflict whatever cruelties we like on animals is that doing so may lead to
cruelty
to humans.
The suffering from past wrongs does not justify current and future
cruelty.
Indeed, to subject people who are born into royal families, or people who marry into them, to lives in a fishbowl, where they are on constant display, like actors and actresses in a continuous soap opera, where human relations are distorted and stunted by absurd rules of protocol, is a terrible form of
cruelty.
The Koran forbids that kind of injustice and
cruelty.
The Rohingya’s unique status is stunning in its calculated
cruelty.
Interestingly, while the Polish version of the statement admits of individual instances of “cruelty to Jews” by Poles, the Hebrew version states that, “we acknowledge and condemn every incident of cruelty.”
Many Chinese do not accept communist rule precisely because the Communist Party denies its past, (and remains) unapologetic about its
cruelty.
Everything we get from whales can be obtained without
cruelty
elsewhere.
With some isolated and short-lived exceptions – for example, in India under the Emperor Ashoka and in Japan under the Tokugawa shogun Tsunayoshi – laws to protect animals from
cruelty
are less than 200 years old.
The savagery and wanton
cruelty
of the attack shocked the country to its core.
The plot then takes another turn when Caesar becomes too big and aggressive to live in a human home, and is taken to what is supposed to be a primate sanctuary, but is in fact a dumping ground for unwanted apes, run by humans who display
cruelty
to the captive animals.
Granted, the term sounds archaic; but the Torah is the first systematic legislation that forbids
cruelty
to animals and mandates that they be treated with consideration and respect.
All of us tend to make the same mistake repeatedly: we think at the beginning of a revolution that freedom and justice have prevailed over dictatorship and
cruelty.
Government indifference is a strange and unnatural state of mind, in which the lines between crime and punishment,
cruelty
and compassion, and good and evil blur.
In essence, humans living today are less likely to meet a violent death, or to suffer from violence or
cruelty
at the hands of others, than their predecessors in any previous century.
In part, this reflected the new regime’s
cruelty.
I don’t like his methods, his cruelty, his crudeness, and his sadism.
I found it difficult to watch the videotape of the beating of Anne, but that recording did not compare to videos I have seen of animal
cruelty
in China.
Now the Chinese government has forbidden state-owned zoos from taking part in such
cruelty.
And the way West Germany rolled over the wreckage of its East German neighbor seemed almost like an act of
cruelty.
After all, beyond the social misery produced by the re-institutionalized
cruelty
of the current global economic system, the greatest danger facing the world nowadays is that very system’s inherent instability.
In this sense, The Lucifer Effect is a celebration of the human capacity to choose kindness over cruelty, caring over indifference, creativity over destructiveness, and heroism over villainy.
Although figures do not convey the
cruelty
by all sides, it has become de rigueur to cite the numbers: more than 100,000 dead, 2.3 million refugees, and four million people internally displaced.
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