Examples of cruel

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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.
Why show yourself so harsh and cruel to me?
A world where friends turn into enemies is a cruel world.
Paradoxically these opinions have given rise to the image of the poor as victims of cruel relief practice.
Without some level of promulgation, and of publication, he says, the practice of legislation is 'a cruel mockery'.
Such music works to integrate the listener into society; it practises the cruel deception of an aesthetic pleasure which is purportedly life-affirming.
In this context the truth was a cruel, blunt instrument.
What laughter there is has become exclusively 'realistic', that is, cruel and coarse.
I believe the stars conspire to oblige me, in spite of myself, to become cruel.
Her song of farewell to the mortal world cries out that her sentence is too hard and too cruel.
Comedy is often cruel, but is generally considered healthy.
The emphasis on the diminutive and the innocent happiness of the child highlight the failure of innocence; "pretty little prattling innocence" succumbs to cruel villainy.
First, she exposes the often cruel politics of gender by which nations are forged and homes maintained.
The absurd cruel system cram [sic] of useless knowledge the lack of individual teaching, the whole waste of time brain is appalling.
They have caught on that clowning doesn't throw off the timing or slow down cruel social machinery.
Seriously, though, such views are a backlash against cruel and violent attitudes that still linger from the past of 'civilized' nations.
Recently, there has been an increase in public and professional awareness that children can be extremely cruel to one another, whether by words or actions.
The focus of crime reportage continued to be upon violent crime, and stories of particularly brutal or cruel criminal acts remained peculiarly newsworthy.
He was a very hot-tempered man, and there were those outside the family who would call him despotic and cruel.
Similar arguments are used to justify cruel treatment of food animals, which is also wrong.
Dumping control on patients with no concern for their self-efficacy is an act of cruel negligence that provides only a frustrating semblance of autonomy.
To this end he subjects her to a number of cruel tests.
Wives made it all seem so very cruel and squalid indeed.
They are named after the cruel machines and instruments that tormented small children in the factories.
There's something inherently cruel about people talking to each other.
I told her it was the cruellest thing that anyone had ever done to me.
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