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How is it possible to distinguish between humour that is about ' feeling good about life ' (p. 41) and that which is profoundly cruel or misogynistic ?
What refuge exists for peoples crushed by invaders, whose methods of total war and pervasive social engineering are unthinkably vast and cruel ?
My seventh grader bullies or is cruel or mean to others.
He presented himself as a competent person who knew the answers better than other students, especially younger ones, with whom he was often surreptitiously cruel.
He must be cruel, for they lament and weep, being chastized without cause.
The right against cruel and inhumane treatment is an obvious example among many.
Is that cruel when the end is in sight?
The enterprise was a response to the big city as a metaphor for cruel irrationality.
By comparison, when readers turn the page they see the terrible consequences of the hunter's cruel actions.
I shall not offend you either, brother; you are of very cruel kin, your mighty race.
The most conservative officials had accepted the abolition of cruel punishments.
To achieve this, they had to tame a cruel and devastating nature and to conquer equally cruel savages.
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