cruelty
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"It's just cruelty and collective punishment," Jayapal added.
From Barron's • Apr. 6, 2026
This is a novel about pettiness, middle-class superficiality, disloyalty, prejudice and cruelty, with this coterie of rather vile friends acting as a microcosm for a society in decline.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
It was like “The Truman Show” mixed with “Twelve Angry Men,” or a segment of “Candid Camera” stretched into a series, or Nathan Fielder’s “The Rehearsal,” minus the neuroses and cruelty.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026
Wars produce cruelty that falls hardest on those with the least power.
From Slate • Feb. 25, 2026
Her mind was all in a maze because of the cruelty of the command; and, indeed, it was of no use to start a task so manifestly impossible.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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