cruelty

Example Sentences

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I remember pulling through the pages of the book going, “This is me, I understand the cruelty others are showing him, I understand his need for both distance and warmth.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

"It's the gift we give to an audience, it's just to ruminate on that very serious subject, antisemitism, cruelty of all kinds, hatred of the other," Lithgow said.

From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026

To be accused of stealing one’s poems when the poems were the last shelter of the self was an unusual cruelty.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

Altman didn’t build a culture of silence through cruelty.

From MarketWatch • May 27, 2026

But for his color—that extraordinary blue—there was nothing extraordinary about him besides the cruelty in his face.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor