cruelty

“You will not face this cruelty alone. This administration will stand alongside immigrant New Yorkers today, tomorrow, and every day that follows.”

From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026

The point was that Bush lacked “moral courage,” Mr. Trudeau explained defensively, though more than a few readers must have tittered at the cruelty of his word choice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

"It's absolutely horrific, a real unique form of cruelty to hold something like this over somebody's head," she said.

From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026

The LAPD’s Mathes said that initiative, launched last November, has saved 45 dogs and led to the filing of six felony cases of animal cruelty and neglect.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2026

She began to hate them for this disloyalty and their cruelty to each other.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

I remember thinking her diatribe about the injustice of Hester Prynne’s shunning would segue into the cruelties Charles faced with the goal of inspiring someone to defy the blacklist.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

For Nikki, who died Monday at 81, our future depends upon our willingness to learn from everyday Black folks’ refusal to accept status-quo cruelties as incontrovertible realities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2024

But those cuts are less likely to matter to the polemicists who will not experience the institutionalized cruelties firsthand.

From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2024

But he also pointed to the cruelties of man.

From BBC ● May 13, 2024

Reading her secrets and polite small cruelties of her heart, I believe she enjoyed taking the dumb grass by surprise, in her poem.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver