cruelty
Example Sentences
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It’s strange and instructive how readily cruelty presents itself as patriotism when it feels authorized.
From Salon
A petition created on Thursday, demanding prosecution of the perpetrators and measures to prevent similar acts of cruelty, has garnered more than 400 signatures.
From BBC
“The real evils in war,” St. Augustine once wrote, are “love of violence, revengeful cruelty, fierce and implacable enmity, wild resistance, and the lust of power.”
To quote Adam Serwer’s famous line, “The cruelty is the point.”
From Salon
There have been numerous variations on “the cruelty is the point” since then, but Serwer’s take remains the original.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
