cruelty

Circuses using wild animals have fallen out of favour across much of Europe due to concerns over animal cruelty, and France plans to ban them outright from December 2028.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

“The City of Lynwood is deeply saddened and disturbed by the reported animal cruelty incident that has caused significant concern throughout our community,” the city said in a statement released Friday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Beard's latest collection covers a variety of topics including animal cruelty, child poverty and mental health.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

Set between 2019 and 2021, Sorkin’s film stares down the dawn of a new decade, preparing for the birth of our current web of chaos, cruelty and thinly veiled deceit.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 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

Amid these cruelties, the conduct of Mr. McConnell and his staff are worthy of emulation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Their wives benefit from their power and visit cruelties on those forced to serve them, but they willingly trade their agency for those perks.

From Salon ● Apr. 8, 2025

But he also pointed to the cruelties of man.

From BBC ● May 13, 2024

Hedrick and Jerome, as homosexuals determined to flourish in a narrowly heteronormative culture, knew the myriad social controls and cruelties, casual and otherwise, that strangle daily life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2023

In the first two weeks of April 1893 the weather was gorgeous, but other cruelties abounded.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson