She is a tightly fitted mask of compulsive politeness pulled over both great grief and corrosive, unhealed cruelties. |
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If we are not restrained by conventions, traditions or rules we are all capable of grotesque cruelties. |
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When not hypercritical, women often deny that there's any truth to female intra-gender cruelties. |
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There are, according to the American Defense Secretary himself, worse, much worse obscene cruelties, to be revealed. |
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Many regarded the cruelties and barbarities of communist regimes as inherent in communism. |
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These torturous cruelties happen every day and night, also just like I said. |
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He would in a short time have unpeopled the whole island if death had not sheltered 'em from his cruelties. |
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Despite insurmountable difficulties and cruelties he did not leave his homeland and hung on. |
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If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. |
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The dangers, cruelties and stupidities routinely encountered by police officers naturally give rise to heightened emotions. |
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So far the Mission had become an island of peace in the midst of fear, betrayals, revenge on so-called sell-outs, cruelties and great confusions. |
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Indeed if alcoholism before birth criminally harms a baby's life, what about alcoholism and a dozen other cruelties after birth? |
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Others have begun to raise the issue of the cruelties involved in the breeding of animals for the fur trade. |
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Imprisoned in occupied France, they were subjected to intense questioning, beatings and other cruelties. |
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Nigeria is not the only country in the world in which such cruelties take place. |
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In armed conflicts in a number of locations in Africa and Asia cruelties representing crimes against humanity continually take place. |
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Knowledge about the cruelties and the genocide that Roma have suffered should also be disseminated. |
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Her prayer was accepted and the three criminals, after many cruelties, went away leaving her lying in the snow. |
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The tyrannical decision to deport was carried out under circumstances of the harshest cruelties. |
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Human history is filled with examples of horrendous cruelties, aggressions and inhumanities. |
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Furthermore, we must not forget that the members of the Nkunda militia are not the only ones responsible for massive cruelties. |
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Surely one of life's greatest tragedies is that man can always come up with explanations for the unspeakable cruelties people inflict on each other. |
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Since emancipation, countless people have written about the cruelties of slavery but does anyone actually know how this abominable procedure started? |
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At the same time each of its virtues are parallelled and offset by the petty cruelties of a small, incestuous community. |
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Many cherished reforms, to India's land-ownership structure, to the cruelties of the caste system and the status of women, had in many parts of India been stalled, vitiated or ignored. |
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Nevertheless, the school he describes in his introduction to The History Boys is in every way one that I recognise, with its excitements, its insecurities, its snobberies and its occasional very real cruelties. |
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In that sense, the international laws of war attest to the importance of avoiding needless cruelties and limiting the use of military force to the minimum required. |
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Even in politics, such ruthlessness is rare. Yet there are more sides to Benjamin Britten than random cruelties, some of which may have been fired by the lurking Pears. |
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Various cruelties have been inflicted on teachers, nurses and others who, because they can read and write, are assumed to be opposition supporters. |
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Increasingly radical grass-roots rallies are springing up and the wave of opposition to the cruelties of capitalism is swelling in every Member State of the European Union. |
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But Abyan's case – among others – has highlighted the systemic, calculated cruelties which benight Australia's offshore detention regime, and given rise to new debate over the policies' fairness, and morality. |
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These cruelties have been made possible because of the proliferation of small arms in the region of the Great Lakes of Africa to quench the thirst for natural resources of some individuals and organised groups. |
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With his inability to editorialize experience, Benjy shows us that Caddy is the center of her brothers' lives and that the various cruelties they inflict on one another while competing for her love are her undoing. |
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There are individual and personal cruelties that we wish to address but we cannot forget the institutional and commercial cruelty that is sometimes prevalent. |
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They are fuelled by the country's stifling political environment and stultifying developmental process, compounded by a range of stupefying cruelties. |
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The immediate successors of Augustus indulged in appalling cruelties towards senators and towards possible competitors for the purple. |
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The mission was to emancipate Egyptians from the arbitrary and inhumane cruelties of Khedival rule, and to elevate them to a status of humanity previously lacking. |
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The commander of the punitive expedition, General Lothar von Trotha, was eventually relieved and reprimanded for his usurpation of orders and the cruelties he inflicted. |
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