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Sentence Examples The Vikings had a reputation for being bloodthirsty and cruel in an age that was itself hard and accustomed to cruelty. And most of all, there is the unaccountable cruelty, incompetence and stupidity of people. A prince may be ruthless when it is prudent, but wanton cruelty is foolish. The fact that credible scientists found there was not excess suffering or cruelty involved was ignored. The Mayor said that these murders had brought home the dangers of leaving children unattended and showed the cruelty of mankind. What matters most is that prohibitions against human cruelty be hard and binding. I'm too busy taking photos of myself, skulking around NZD, and considering how names like Aethelbald are parental cruelty. The municipality's greatest act of cruelty was to sit and do nothing as a few unpaid tax bills were driven sky-high by compound interest. He served first on a ship then in an artillery workshop but he found his fellow soldiers very difficult as they subjected him to cruelty. There can be no neutrality between justice and cruelty, between the innocent and the guilty. This is a very tragic event, and it is very telling of the cruelty of the Taliban and how unforgiving they are. It's his voice we connect to the stories of madness and cruelty that we associate with that unforgotten war. The cruelty endured by the children of the Victorian poor, who were sold to work as chimney sweeps, was unimaginable. Certainly, that notion is incompatible with cruelty and unkindness to one another. What Johnny Nevin and Johnny Kavanagh have been asked to do, as amateurs, in recent weeks borders on cruelty. We suffered cruelty and abandonment even as we continued to teach the world about a loving God. I shall not treat either of you with undue cruelty, but neither do I have any intention of pardoning your deeds. Much of the edginess, cruelty and complexity of the real Nash is smoothed over in this Hollywood version of his life. She also said he subjected her to mental cruelty and caused her to go bankrupt. Would we then defer to his expressed wishes and enact a scene of cathartic cruelty? Show More Sentences I felt like a Roman emperor, looking down on my subject wondering whether to show mercy or cruelty. They streaked through the streets to highlight what they claimed was cruelty to the bulls. In her family law casebook, she catalogues an interesting array of modern cases in which a divorce was granted on grounds of cruelty. Is the response to the extreme cruelty of tyrants the defining moment of the human condition? If women resisted sexual advances, they risked physical cruelty and punishment. You have to be going fast enough to kill the vermin instantly otherwise it's just cruelty to animals. I have yet to read of their concern regarding cruelty done by the poisoning, trapping etc, of rats, mice, cockroaches and all other vermin. It finds expression in acts of particular virtues or vices like honesty, generosity, cheerfulness, jealousy or cruelty. True, the film gets off on its own sense of creative cruelty, but it is nowhere near as vile or vicious as it thinks it is. I hope the resulting media coverage will help to foster a greater awareness of the cruelty involved. At some point, spying, vindictiveness, cruelty, manipulation, and rudeness turn against the one dishing those things out. At the time i was doing a project at school on vivisection and animal cruelty. The Soviet colonisation of the Arctic was an act of extreme folly and cruelty. His special cruelty is expended on Smike, a half-witted lad left on his hands and employed as a drudge. To continue, hunts would have to meet the twin tests of preventing cruelty and being necessary for pest control. For I do not understand how drunkenness or cruelty can conduce to peace, or the preservation of anyone. Never for a moment did they realize that the existing structure of society is the breeding ground of inequality, hatred and cruelty. The Romans, intuitively, seemed to know better, for they named it after the goddess they feared for her vengefulness, capriciousness and cruelty. The sanctuary takes in cruelty and abuse cases and regularly receives referrals from the police. We speak of inhuman cruelty when atrocities are so hard-heartedly cruel that we cannot conceive of ourselves as inflicting them. Show More Sentences The site features a hard-hitting poster campaign, which uses a series of startling images and facts to highlight the cruelty to animals. This doesn't ensure that they have free-range conditions,, but much commonplace cruelty has been eliminated. In my opinion any individual who takes another life should have no rights with the exception of extreme cases of cruelty suffered by the killer. It was a curious face, comely and yet feline, with a subtle suggestion of cruelty about the straight, strong little mouth and chubby jaw. And we will have contributed a good deal of pain, cruelty and selfish indulgence to the karma of the universe. We repay them by making them spend short, comfortless, unnatural lives, depriving them of their young who can suffer cruelty and brutal deaths. Superstition, cruelty, religious fanaticism, prejudice and medieval dogmatism were all anathema to a wit like Voltaire. This ending is typical of the series in its combination of crudity, cruelty, and revenge, and in the physical knockabout character of its comedy. When hunting was banned, there was much insincere, scientifically discredited waffle about cruelty to animals. It is tempting to criticize the trial by ordeal, wager of law and judicial combat for their apparent irrationality and cruelty. Those of us who have spent many years in animal welfare work have often come to see the worst of animal cruelty, abuse and neglect. A pilot study by the police force and the SSPCA in 2000 identified for the first time clear links between animal cruelty and domestic abuse. Read the postings without benefit of rebuttals and one is astonished at the level of casual cruelty and abusiveness visited on innocent youth. They create a portrait of a rural community filled with pettiness and cruelty. This is just a small amount of what cruelty actually happens, and this is only in Britain as well. I never buy a product unless it is cruelty free and I always try to buy free range where I can. Finally, states which have enacted statutes to deal with cruelty to animals also include equines in their definitions of domestic livestock. No rationalization that human beings give for their cruelty or neglect is ever meaningful to him. He was especially indignant that when hearing the couple's divorce petitions, the court had affirmed Almena's charge of cruelty. She claimed not to have experienced the teasing and cruelty that other illegitimates remembered. Show More Sentences From there, the action quickly shifts to a battlefield that is dominated by a sense of the grisliness and cruelty of war. She is the director of the Humane Society campaign against animal cruelty and organized animal fighting, such as cockfighting. Their performances invariably involve roughly equal measures of cruelty, obscenity, sacrilege, diabolism, and Norse paganism. The last we heard of him was a piece in the newspaper describing a charge of cruelty to animals. Despite Cookie's ranting about the devilry of the Raleighs, I was still sure that there was a method behind their seemingly random cruelty. Soldiers also learned to abide by the laws of war and set more humane boundaries for future military operations to mitigate extreme cruelty. Charges of cruelty and animal exploitation may also be pressed, animal rights activists said. Wilful, purposeless, ambivalent cruelty seems to have been a major theme of the rudderless summer government. Miss Waine, who has been in the job for a year, said she had come across cruelty cases before but never one involving such a young puppy. On the concerto disc is also a choral work with a libretto devised to show the cruelty of man to beast and bird. Tiberius distinguished his reign by great indolence, excessive cruelty, unprincipled avarice, and abandoned licentiousness. Golf can bring a man rich rewards, but it also possesses a distinctive cruelty. He's balanced in his acknowledgement of the world's brutality and his detestation of its cruelty. Still covered in blood from his sick parody of a baptism, he smiled with such cruelty that even his most hardened captains turned, sickened. They witnessed the cruelty of German guards and watched as Allied bombers leveled German cities. For his love alone does she remain in that contemptible town, suffering the lonesomeness of teenage cruelty. Yes, and the Animal Liberation people complained about what they said was a form of cruelty in the mode of stunning and despatching the animals. The war's cruelty has shocked a country that thought it was desensitized to violence. Her husband faces possible court martial for dereliction of duty, cruelty and maltreatment and conspiracy. He had never professed love, just a lustful possessive desire that fueled the cruelty in his obsession. Show More Sentences What struck me was the genuine enjoyment of the day, the health of the hounds and the lack of cruelty involved. The charges include conspiracy, dereliction of duty, cruelty, maltreatment, assault and indecent acts with another. I only regret that I forgot to take my camera so you urban-dwellers could see the cruelty that they would like little baa-lambs to suffer. How do you understand the savage cruelty shown by the captors to their prisoners? A ban on this horrendous daily cruelty to thousands of animals would impact on the profits of food producers. Remarkable for their courage, pride, and cruelty, the Mamelukes waited fearlessly for the French armies. The history of mankind is littered with appalling acts of barbarism, cruelty and hatred. Animal cruelty inspectors found the two dogs had been so badly treated they weighed just half of what they should have been. Alladi Jayasri writes about Gurudev, who reminds us of the terrible calamities waiting to punish us for our cruelty to Nature. I admit that there is a slight element of cruelty in fishing, but it pales into insignificance when compared with fox-hunting. The type of commandos hired for these jobs are psychopathic killers for hire who would have no qualms against committing any act of cruelty. There was also a nationwide increase in the number of people prosecuted for animal cruelty. I know of no achievement through vivisection, no scientific discovery, that could not have been obtained without such barbarism and cruelty. The barbarism and cruelty of what Preston was describing is almost beyond belief. This case is the epitome of the brutality, the barbarism, and the cruelty of state regulated nonviolent behavior. The owners of San Diego County ranches where employees tossed live chickens into wood chippers won't be prosecuted on animal cruelty charges. He and my mother fought often, either when his cruelty surfaced or when his behaviour failed to meet her standards of propriety. The owner was traced and a report is to be submitted to the procurator fiscal in relation to cruelty to animals. The film depicts an act of extreme cruelty and barbarity and is deeply disturbing. All three also received ridiculously short sentences for such a base, premeditated act of cruelty. Show More Sentences Solzhenitsyn, we can reasonably assent to Nabokov's formulation, thundered against vicious cruelty. In a time of barbarous cruelty, the human menagerie forms the backdrop to our story. Her evidence was led in support of three so called specimen counts of rape, six of indecent assault and one of cruelty. He pleaded not guilty to cruelty and claimed he had entrusted the puppies to a man called Phil. Charges of dangerous driving and child cruelty were withdrawn by the prosecution. The assailant was charged with trespassing, destruction of property and cruelty to animals. They both were subjected to a daily barrage of insults, hits, cursings, and cruelty. My guess is that he's sick and tired of people trying to blame him for their own cruelty and stupidity. Officials acting on our behalf committed unspeakable cruelty on a man already wrongly imprisoned for 17 years. Mistakes I can forgive, but deliberate intent to harm or random acts of cruelty, I find repulsive. But this temptation is dangerous because history contains too much cruelty at the hands of the pious. In this fact every other possible cruelty, tyranny, and wanton oppression was by implication included. There is nothing terribly original, much less attractive, in this sort of Nature-based defense of cruelty and tyranny. As our society places ever-increasing value on emotional maturity, progressives should expect social conservatives to respond with mounting cruelty and fanaticism. Another American officer, Capt. Edwin Glenn, was convicted of cruelty in a non-fatal turn-of-the-century case in the Philippines. So, in the midst of all this chaos and cruelty to one another, what difference does having faith make? In brief, the knowing group has been enlarged to an enormous audience that enjoys cruelty as a blood sport. They use the methods to make a horse perform correctly without the use of force or cruelty and are developing a growing reputation as horse whisperers. The whole point of this storyline is that he has reduced her to a gibbering wreck through emotional and verbal cruelty without any physical violence. And for another, society at large will not in general desire that its members should be victims of cruelty, and so its desires in this respect will be frustrated too. Show More Sentences I therefore shall not follow the example of LeGallois, in trying to justify physiologists in the eyes of strangers to science who reproach them with cruelty. My sister pointed out if she had made her horse wait 18 months she would have found herself in front of a judge, answering charges of cruelty to animals, and rightfully so. The film is rigorous in its avoidance of scenes of violence or cruelty. I forgave him, although the cruelty that he and the boys at my school displayed stayed with me for many, many years. They run the gamut from callousness and cruelty to kindness and sorrow, with contrasting qualities often converging in the same incident or person. Except in cases with the highest body count, or the most grotesque cruelty, white victims were the only ones that mattered. Such deaths shock and sadden us all in their pointless cruelty. Although Luna Papa strives for a balance of laughs and drama, the taint of human cruelty and violence is so strong that many of the comedic elements feel forced. He beautifully captures the Lord of the Flies cruelty of insecure adolescents grasping for their place on the ladder, mashing the faces of those below them under heel. He is merciless toward his characters, subjecting them to all manner of suffering and cruelty. That collective gasp you hear is the audience jolted by intolerable cruelty in 12 Years a Slave. He censures the cruelty of slave masters, the dodges of legacy hunters, and the meanness of the wealthy, but the targets of his criticisms are normally anonymous. It was not an uncommon thing to blood hounds, and with regard to the question of cruelty, if they argued from elemental principles, all sport was cruel. If it's really about animal cruelty, why aren't we banning battery hens? But despite the cruelty of the Red Guards and the highhanded behavior of the Taizhou cadres, Hu never lost faith in the party. Funded largely by public donations and bequests, the RPSCA has a privileged status as the inspector and prosecutor of state laws on animal cruelty. No longer did spouses have to allege physical or mental cruelty, no longer did private investigators have to spring someone in an act of adultery. Mindless bureaucratic cruelty is a recurring theme of observers of the modern state. Perhaps so much so that he aroused whatever cruelty and anger and lunacy that Hernandez may have had pent up. It recalls the violence and cruelty of medieval military expeditions to conquer the Holy Land, all done in the name of Christ and with the blessing of the church. Show More Sentences And, yes, I have neurotically adapted to the gladiator sport of celebrity culture, the cruelty of a life lived as a moving target. Notwithstanding the extreme cruelty shown to these animals, most of us fail to spare a thought on the matter, before sinking our teeth into a non-vegetarian fare. Edward, though unbelieving at first, soon sees Lucy's cruelty. These images unflinchingly confronted the gore, the naked terror, the arrogant incompetence, the pointless cruelty, the insane devastation of the military nightmare. Our wonderful, handcrafted, all natural, cruelty free bath and body products are made with the highest quality pure essential oils and organic botanicals. Throwing good money after bad, into the black hole of the stubbornly unreformed, bureaucratic, top-heavy NHS is a cruelty, not a kindness, to patients. The war on drugs is to be intensified on a European basis, a war that has proved unwinnable all over the world and has been synonymous with repression and cruelty. Just as cruelty to animals on an individual level brutalises and desensitises, cruelty on an institutional level must similarly damage our collective psyche. Throughout this ordeal he maintained a personal diary which records, in language of Spartan simplicity, the daily struggle against disease, cruelty, hopelessness, and death. His cruelty won him the name of Bulgaroctonus, Slayer of the Bulgars. He chronicles the mayor's Neronian cruelty to the poor of Chicago. At least two other teenagers filmed the cruelty on camera phones. The prime minister had destroyed the industrial base with fanatical cruelty, with an impunity largely supplied by the obsequiousness and weakness of the opposition. The adults, who had been staying in the motel room, were charged with cruelty to children, public indecency and obstruction of police and were taken to a psychiatric ward. His unbounded ambition and ruthless cruelty carry all before him. At this time, pepper and spices made their entrance, along with meat-eating, Bacchanalian orgies, gluttony, vomitoriums and the gladiatorial displays of cruelty. Proper grounds for putting children into care are such things as cruelty, neglect or incapacity on the part of the parents, or because the children are orphans. He goes on to say that any allegations of cruelty or misconduct are always investigated and action taken against those responsible if claims have substance. I am not questioning the humaneness or cruelty of any particular practice. It isn't hard to guess that most westerners are appalled at the levels of violence and animal cruelty that go hand in hand with the sport of cockfighting. Show More Sentences In terms of the egregious infliction of pain, it would seem that present practices in industrial farming constitute cruelty to animals and beg for regulative attention. While the institution of the secret police evolved to suit the needs of the Soviet state, the capacity for cruelty at the top remained a constant. Insofar as they do not attend to the perversions of freedom and the flesh that cruelty exploits, they fail to offer a legitimate understanding of our intersubjective lives. By the end of the book, readers will have encountered many illustrations of the incredible credulity and cruelty that are among the most tragic of our species' traits. They emphasise, instead, the degree of cruelty inflicted by men on women. Why were children treated with such cruelty, both physical and emotional? The casual, unthinking cruelty of children is brilliantly evoked here. In 1948, Wyman sued for divorce, charging extreme mental cruelty. The April Uprising was crushed with great cruelty by the Ottoman Army. But as it stands, Man's Best Friend is a decent horror film occasionally hindered by the cruelty inherent in its subject matter and an awkward frivolousness in tone. Szentkuthy stood as a beacon in this darkness of misery and cruelty. Can he or she be criminally prosecuted for cruelty to animals? Behind his pudgily smooth, benign-looking face lay ruthless cruelty. For him, cruelty was a legitimate and necessary procedure, almost a profession of faith, and European artists showed him how to excruciate a tame local reality. In retaliation, the Saxons distributed grotesque poems of cruelty and other propaganda, demonizing Vlad III Dracula as a drinker of blood. My contention is that in order to maintain the practice of cruelty, a singular narrowmindedness of purpose is put into operation. There are echoes of these darker experiences in Dahl's writings and his hatred of cruelty and corporal punishment. Butterball allowed a culture of cruelty and abuse to fester at its company-owned factory farms. This is a rollicking, heartwarming story about friendship, loyalty, cruelty, and hope. Emma Seed, of Hampton Street, South Bank, faces charges of animal cruelty relating to her pit bull terriers. Show More Sentences What an appalling picture of cruelty by a gutless blot on humanity, hanging a small dog. Three boys have been charged with animal cruelty after a wallaby was killed at a zoo. Ojeda was no exception to the cruelty of the Spanish against the native people. Heroes are those who affirm this life process, accepting its cruelty as necessary and thus good. Famed for his piety and his remarkably mild and just reign, John was an exceptional example of a moral ruler at a time when cruelty was the norm. American vessels, especially, gained reputations for cruelty as officers demanded high results from their crew. The Daurs initially deserted their villages since they heard about the cruelty of the Russians the first time Khabarov came. To him, cruelty was a criterion that differentiated the Wars of Religion from previous conflicts, which he idealized. The sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness. In this classical humanist view, customs differ but people everywhere are prone to cruelty, a quality that Montaigne detested. He also had a reputation for cruelty in a particularly cruel conflict. These results are the victory of democracy over rudeness, freedom over cruelty, modesty over brattiness, and peace over war. Cruelty to a Jew is as odious as cruelty to any human being, whether that cruelty be moral in the form of insult, or physical. Thus, the archaeological record seems to verify mass popular protest against Rome because of Varus' cruelty. Daniel Labrum, 18, of Abdon Avenue, Selly Oak, was convicted of cruelty to animals after failing to feed his dog Steffi and her three puppies. They should not be given to yobs to be kicked around the floor and bullied, perhaps starved, tied up, and put through a lot of cruelty. Their faces changed, and all the meanness, conceit, cruelty, and sneakishness almost disappeared in one single expression of terror. And everything we know about Jane Austen and her values is at odds with the cruelty of slavery. The excessive cruelty of Richard's punitive campaigns aroused even more hostility. The power relationships of slavery corrupted many whites who had authority over slaves, with children showing their own cruelty. Show More Sentences For no race, however savage, has ever practiced such fierce and unnatural cruelty as the natives of these parts. Medieval writers criticised William for his greed and cruelty, but his personal piety was universally praised by contemporaries. On his second voyage, Vasco da Gama inflicted acts of cruelty upon competing traders and local inhabitants, which sealed his notoriety in India. Official cruelty, supporting extortion and corruption, may also have become more commonplace. The Wildlife Protection Act of 1972 in India technically proscribes snake charming on grounds of reducing animal cruelty. Although portrayed as loyal, honest and moral, Isengrim is forever the victim of Reynard's wit and cruelty, often dying at the end of each story. And if their will prevails they will bring to its accomplishment all the hatred and cruelty which they have already displayed. For us, let our doveship approve itself in meekness of suffering, not in actions of cruelty. While some Yanks treated contrabands with a degree of equity or benevolence, the more typical response was indifference, contempt, or cruelty. It is thou that inspirest tyrants with rage against the innocent saints of God, and actuatest their hellish cruelty. Plays within the genre of theatre of cruelty are abstract in convention and content. Parents felt the tales about the perils of such vices as thumbsucking, cruelty to small creatures and failing to eat soup, would keep their offspring on a righteous course. But there are harmless wrongs, such as cruelty to animals or desecration of the dead, and wrongless harms, such as economic injury by fair competition. He revealed his beasthood only in rare moments of absolute cruelty. Severus attempted to revive totalitarianism and in an address to people and the Senate, he praised the severity and cruelty of Marius and Sulla, which worried the senators. Divorce legislation introduced in 1857 allowed for a man to divorce his wife for adultery, but a woman could only divorce if adultery were accompanied by cruelty. The islanders found fierce pleasure in these acts of cruelty. The philosophes contrasted their own irenic calls for tolerance with the church's historical record as the perennial source of cruelty and fanaticism. He is remembered very much for his cruelty, just like his father. The Henry that many people picture when they hear his name is the Henry of his later years, when he became obese, volatile, and was known for his great cruelty. Show More Sentences Though they live in the form of men, they have the cruelty of wild beasts. His coach was also arrested for exploiting and cruelty to a child. In March 2012, European consumer protection organizations published a study about slavery and cruelty to animals involved when producing leather shoes. His operation was prone to cruelty against those he captured, including torture to gain information about booty, and in one case using priests as human shields. She'd endured cruelty and grief and still came out swinging. Surely she wasn't going to suggest that the flag showing three lions passant and guardant represented cruelty to lions and that they should be removed. Supreme Court declared unconstitutional a federal statute making it a crime to create, sell or possess depictions of unlawful animal cruelty for commercial purposes. We have a strict cruelty-free policy for our entire range of products, and work closely with a number of organisations that are helping to stamp out animal cruelty. Holub was jailed for life with an order to serve a minimum of 20 years after admitting murder, child neglect and child cruelty at Leicester Crown Court. And Brown shows that both revolution and counter-revolution were Janus-headed, with heroism, devotion, and high ideals going hand in hand with violence and cruelty. To unearth cruelty and carnality, honesty and deep feeling, all the things that lie buried under all that Salzburg sunshine and the radiance of Julie Andrews? Contracts have been broken on all sides, careers destroyed by the hundred and the thousand, individuals have been treated with the most hideous and disgusting cruelty. The stink, bawdiness, cruelty and criminality that characterised London during the life of the artist William Hogarth come vividly to life in this fascinating book. Examples from Classical Literature For which great losse We ayme at nothing but his rotten flesh,Nor is that cruelty. Most of this cruelty, I think, is born of a sheer excess of animal spirits. Mr. Ezra Gold is a person who would not stop at any act of baseness or cruelty. To the cruelty of turning the slave away, Halleck added the dishonesty of slandering him. Why, Philomela, are you complaining of the cruelty of Tereus, the Ismarian tyrant? Of the tendency of cruelty to demoralise its victims I have already spoken. Common enough it was for those in power to treat their dependants with cruelty. But Pokopokowo was soon to be paid for his cruelty, and by poor spraddle himself. The cruelty of boys is an idiosyncrasy in their otherwise generous character. Moral strife, as well as legal penalties, would bear all the stigmata of unmitigated, imbecilic cruelty. But he who is a despiser of glory, but is greedy of domination, exceeds the beasts in the vices of cruelty and luxuriousness. The treachery of Jehu, in addition to his inexpiable cruelty, terrified the faithful, even while it served their ends. All the cruelty and bloodiness of the latter half of the play come from that man's beautifully clear, cool brain. There was no crime black enough, no desertion, no cruelty horrible enough to outspeed her pity. They endeavored even to debauch our pity, and to suborn it in favor of cruelty. Did not this seem to border upon cruelty, my dear, in so indulgent a mother? My aunt Dorothy supplied the interlining eagerly to mollify the seeming cruelty. What shall we say of the ingenious system of penal laws, which, with Draconian cruelty, was enacted against Catholicity? He was never shocked, and nothing made him angry, except cruelty or a jack-in-office. Who but a driveling fanatic has thought of the necessity of protecting domestic animals from the cruelty of their owners? Show More Sentences The time-honoured brutality of swan-upping is now mitigated by law, its cruelty being obvious. To her, too, it was apparent that she had been treated with extremest cruelty. He had especially agreed with me in deprecating the cruelty of the regicidal sentence. Only, the cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and a pretence of reluctance. They learned that the victorious allies had been guilty of the most intolerable cruelty towards the people of Tewa. The devotion of Mr Sparkler was only to be equalled by the caprice and cruelty of his enslaver. For in them he could see no expression, no feeling, but only abysmal cruelty. For nothing can be clearer than that Nature is full of cruelty and maladaptation. Tenney stood there, his heart swelling within him at the contrast between the child's forgivingness and her cruelty. Mankind has not been capable of more utter cruelty and wickedness than were in their hearts. Her strangest mood of the tender cruelty was when the passion to anatomize him beset her. At this period, Rothe, a Ruthenian rover, almost destroyed our country with his rapine and cruelty. And the Spaniard here, who has been driven out for his cruelty and rapacity. He was brought from a nasty jail, where mephitic filth was supreme, to this place where brutal men are supreme in their cruelty. There ran through her a fine vein of mercilessness, but it was without cruelty, it was leavened with both logic and justice. De La Warr was a humane man, who thought that order could be maintained without cruelty. With cynical cruelty, he set himself to insult, to undermine, to mutilate it. They entered into the contest, therefore, with their usual vigour, and their usual cruelty. He had been often guilty of injustice and cruelty in his public administration. Shall I add that the immanence of farce just spoken of does in a little degree mitigate the cruelty by generalising the vulgarity? Show More Sentences Being transported to this country, he was employed as a scourger, and thus trained to cruelty, entered the bush. To this day there is no old lag that was ever exposed to his cruelty but reviles his memory. He had been severe, almost to cruelty, but he had been quite as unyieldingly austere in dealing with himself. The possibility flashed on me when I was half-mad with rage and disappointment at the callous cruelty of the aristo Council. The poor brute must have suffered agonies, showing what horrible cruelty the practice of muzzling is. To her, if absence of cruelty is kindness, he had been uniformly kind. The vaunting cruelty with which she met my glance, I never saw expressed in any other face that ever I have seen. But what was the political or personal reason for morays cruelty? They had been heritors and subjects of cruelty and outrage so long that nothing could have startled them but a kindness. From now on if you overfeed your pet you now face a fine of up to pounds 20,000 or 12 months in prison on a charge of cruelty. It would be the vilest cruelty not to take him along, I thought. The scene of Turkish cruelty was now transferred to the isle of Crete. The tender women, and helpless children, fell victims to their cruelty. Now, after all I have suffered, you have the cruelty to tell me so? Do not think yourself excused by any weakness, any natural defect of understanding on her side, in the wanton cruelty so evident on yours. Enyo was the Grecian name of Bellona, the goddess of war and cruelty. All charges of cruelty and inhumanity were vile and calumnious falsehoods. The trend of his characterizations was towards the cruelty in mankind. That he joyed in killing, and that he killed with a joyous laugh upon his handsome lips betokened no innate cruelty. Then it was that the cruelty of the sea, its relentlessness and awfulness, rushed upon me. Show More Sentences No deadlier instrument was ever invented by the cruelty of man. No cruelty must ever defame it, no malice, no gross bitterness! All that fiendish cruelty and the demon of destruction could do was done. I've seen unfortunate little creatures left to servants, or backward ones pushed forward, when it's real cruelty. And still the boy gazed, till the eye was sated and the cruelty returned. A MAN who whipped his children with a riding crop as punishment was yesterday found guilty of cruelty. From this comes the hard cruelty that flares forth luridly at times. Find more words! 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