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Sentence Examples These housing projects are cruelly juxtaposed amid the sublime beauty that surrounds Nuuk. Banstead Athletic were cruelly denied three points at play-off chasers Burgess Hill Town because of a late penalty on Saturday, writes Ray Best. Lakha admitted cruelly ill-treating the goats and slaughtering without a licence. At the same time the inadequacy of all the present radical groupings in the party was cruelly demonstrated. They chattered politely for a few minutes, and then Will cruelly suggested that Clara entertain them on the pianoforte. The six individuals, who looked fine, healthy and happy in real life were cruelly presented in muted monochromatic colors. The director's favourite vantage point is that of a god who is cruelly indifferent to our individual fates. His literary criticism, often intemperate, was cruelly dismissive of his fellow Irish writers. The painter cruelly depicts the ambitions of the middle class, now naked for all to see. His portrayal of the cruelly cunning main character is what ultimately drives the film. His harmless jokes turn nasty, though, when he cruelly pretends to have died. The girl is being cruelly taunted by her French schoolmates for being Polish. Her desire to pass as white is presented without a great deal of judgment, except insofar as she acts cruelly towards her mother. Boy meets girl, falls in love but fate intervenes cruelly and compels them to part ways. Some of the world's greatest art is exhausting, and painful, and just as cruelly revelatory. The inadequacies of the national orchestra were cruelly exposed in this recording. The DVDs foster the cult of the cruelly cancelled show way too much for my taste. Political idealism is cruelly betrayed by successive waves of political oppression. The second movement was simply gorgeous, especially in the cruelly demanding central section, which really caught wing. Vivaldi's writing tends to treat the voice like a violin, and as such, it can be cruelly difficult. Show More Sentences Obviously here, we have a romantic, a cuddlesome creature, probably cruelly scorned, and our sympathy goes out to her. They have been cruelly deceived by an industry that doesn't care and a government that doesn't seem to understand. On his next run, after a circuit or so of Exeter, my words were confirmed as cruelly prophetic. In the short stories, disease and illness are deployed as prosopopoeia, the cruelly indifferent natural forces that control life and death. The Party is dead and working class people have been cruelly disenfranchised. A few months ago, he was poised to quit the game after being ditched cruelly at the end of last season by Glasgow. Vegetarians' concern for animals and their refusal to treat animals cruelly does not mean that they regard animals as equals. On the day Laois were cruelly punished as a rampant Tyrone side tore them apart and cruelly exposed their frailties. Note the downiness of Cupid's wings and the unblemished quality of the flesh in cruelly close proximity to the sharpness of the lion's claw. He neglected his wives, whom he treated cruelly, and had no time for his children. Her eyes, her cruelly turned eyebrow, and her wantonly parted lips evoked a whole range of feelings I'm still trying to fathom. Does Claire Baron not realise that a large percentage of the animals under their care have been abused or cruelly treated? In reality, as the conflict in Bosnia cruelly showed, neutrality can become discreditable as well as counterproductive. The worst horse in the race has been cruelly handicapped by its own jockey. After our plan to snorkel Wednesday was cruelly dashed by a huge thunderstorm, today we finally made it snorkeling. Brian grinned cruelly and ran at him with his sword thrust out like a jouster. I had read enough Indian book reviews to know that reviewers are ustads with blades sharpened on a cruelly efficient whetstone. There is an all too-human tendency to rationalise our own behaviour, especially when we act irresponsibly or cruelly. Some call it writer's block, others, cruelly, call it a lack of creativity. The sun was relentless, and the heat reflected cruelly off the parched earth. Show More Sentences Throughout the long day, they suffered cruelly under the constant whining shells and relentless, baking sun. England does not possess a more admirable competitor and the doughty Lancastrian has been cruelly served by umpiring standards in this series. With space at a premium, books have to justify quickly their presence or be cruelly remaindered. I'm sad that such noble, amiable and inventive creatures could be treated so cruelly. Every light inside the ship burst on at full intensity, the bright glare cruelly lighting the snow and lowering skies. Drake grabbed a handful of his hair and twisted cruelly just as he finished tying off the rough bandage. He takes them on a fishing trip to a remote island, cruelly asserting his authority en route. At the same time, to call them monsters, however loutishly or cruelly they treat each other, would be to resolutely condemn them. Our society has become less cruelly conservative, our politics less atavistically nationalistic, and our culture less turgidly insular. However, with the wind at his back, Bart Daly cruelly missed the forty-five and his side's last chance tailed to the right and wide. Kent slapped the cuffs on both of us, and then tugged cruelly on them, making them scrape against our skin. Can she who professed delicacy of sentiment and sincere regard for me, use me so very basely and so very cruelly? And the manner of almost all those defeats was so cruelly unfortunate as to be beyond belief. The authorities had forced students to do household chores and those who resisted were cruelly dealt with, Mr. Augustine said. The distorted semblances of the trees on the other side were vaguely visible through it, mocking him cruelly in the emptiness. My fingers slipped through his as though they'd never been separated, cruelly ripped apart by decency and weakness. What makes an otherwise gentle and benign guy like him speak so callously and cruelly of 950 deaths? These poor dumb harmless animals are cruelly caught in a trap made of a short chain and wire rope and a three-foot bar driven into the ground. In Iraq every day even the best of intentions are cruelly put to test by the miseries and sorrows of war. His lover makes him wear a long blonde wig, and cruelly casts him off when he's dressed as a man. Show More Sentences He's a Chilean hero, cruelly held here for more than a year, in squalor, against his will, while mentally weak and physically unfit. Claudio cruelly accused his wife-to-be of unmaidenly behaviour, leaving her fainting at the altar. This narked a few people, including his apparently unpaid vet and a group who claimed that the animals on his ranch were being treated cruelly. Look at that smile, the way he casually, almost cruelly swirls the snifter in his hand. So, you murder, kill, and butcher, she thought cruelly, so what are you doing here in an office full of paperwork? By the summer of 1792 France was being invaded and Paris itself, a mere 200 kilometres from the north-eastern border, was cruelly exposed. People capable of that sort of uncaring and cruelly callous behavior tend to move on to humans if they are not stopped early enough. But, star-crossed lovers as we are, fate has cruelly intervened and given us tickets for different days. They were hard at work heading over the cruelly steep hill that would take them into Denholme then home. She cruelly locked her stepson in an attic room, but her own son befriended him. Jude and Tess contend with the stifling conventions of their society and are dealt with cruelly by it. The head seamstress decided she was clean enough, and hauled her out of the bath, and gave her a cruelly brisk dry all over, hoping to teach her a lesson. He wept inside for the pain that she was feeling, for having just found her father and to have him taken so cruelly from her was something that was nearly unendurable. When she wore a black-and-white striped dress, the Internet cruelly compared her to a Killer Whale. The sunset was cruelly beautiful and as dusk deepened the Christmas lights on the firehouse grew grimly brighter. A scene ripe with comedic possibilities is then cruelly squandered. He cruelly locks the dog out of the house in the middle of the night. It seems cruelly ironic that the sculptor, once ridiculed for the mirrors' construction, should not, until now, have received credit for their design. His gold Chain of Office glittered cruelly in the morning sunshine. At the outset critics cruelly wrote him off as a doddery old bloke who lacked the drive and energy necessary to head a modern, dynamic political party. Show More Sentences Time cruelly accelerates and yesterday's icon is today's TV history. Instead, he is cruelly jailed solely for the peaceful expression of his beliefs. Even very senior officers can beguiled into behaving unbecomingly, cruelly, and destructively while believing they are acting in the best tradition of the service. He was severely reprimanded by the court, for aggravating his guilt by aspersing the character of a woman of remarkable virtue and piety, whom he had cruelly deprived of life. The author stumbles a touch in the third act, dragging his ending out too long, and giving us a finale that's either falsely uplifting or cruelly imagined by a dying boy. Rationally, most people understand that civilised life in this country faces a heartless and implacable foe who is prepared to strike as often and as cruelly as possible. The horrendous accident cruelly cut short the career of an incomparable artist, who was already famous as one of the greatest horn players of all time. The limits of a managerialist approach were cruelly exposed in May. Once they were married, Matholwch treated Branwen cruelly and she was forced to work in the kitchens. On the ice floes off Canada hundreds of thousands of baby seals are being cruelly clubbed and killed. A strike eight minutes from time by German linkman Ersan Tekken finally, and cruelly, cut down the swashbuckling Welsh. We should remember the valley of Tryweryn and the monoglot Welsh-speaking village of Capel Celyn so cruelly erased from the map. As for shooting a man from behind a wall, it is cruelly like to stalking a deer. Brenda, who is also famous in Argentina as a singer, hit back at fans who cruelly mock Tevez as a bit of an ugly duckling himself. Forget the giant lugworms that look like they could eat you and the wire trace that will cut cruelly into your fingers if you make a bad cast. Macbeth orders Macduff's castle be seized, and, most cruelly, sends murderers to slaughter Macduff, as well as Macduff's wife and children. Speaking as an alleged eyewitness, Marcellinus recounts how Theodorus and several others were made to confess their deceit through the use of torture, and cruelly punished. Pleased with his work, the swindler struts into a neighbouring room, where an argument ensues and an enraged associate cruelly ruffles the coiffeur into humiliating disarray. And his chinless blunder son Edmund was genuinely crestfallen when one of the oikish young visitors cruelly dismissed his cross-country assault course. Examples from Classical Literature Why should I cudgel my brains with your new music when I have cudgeled them cruelly with the old? And then too how cruelly, how damnably he had been used by the Duchess of Omnium! To ride the stang was a popular punishment for husbands who behaved cruelly to their wives. His knighthood as a sworn chum was put in question and he was cruelly hurt. How strangely and how cruelly has the character of a bibliographer been aspersed! By nine o'clock lancing had read in print how he had been cruelly betrayed. I have no wish to comment upon that past with which you reproach me so cruelly. They have begun so cruelly with me, that I have not spirit enough to assert my own negative. Deeply, however, did she err, and cruelly was she destined to be undeceived. It was also generous of Neaera to send Mrs. bort ten pounds immediately after that lady had treated her so cruelly. Yet of this, my only remaining comfort, I was treacherously and cruelly deprived. She thinks he has treated her cruelly and tyrannically, and she will not pretend to worship him. I was now as cruelly disappointed by Minos as I had formerly been happily so. The brownish fins were rigid as metal, the retractile claws unsheathed and cruelly curved. To be quite frank, he seems to me to pursue it ruthlessly, cruelly, unscrupulously. And Karna also, his soul and faculties possessed by the inmost soul of Naraka, had at that time cruelly determined to slay Arjuna. The gesture swung the heavy leading-bar, digging the nose ring cruelly into his sensitive nostrils. When his thoughts settled on the pain this gash caused him, he suffered cruelly. Some helpless thing in him wanted her and she was killing it cruelly and senselessly. Every shire in Wessex had they cruelly marked with burning and with harrying. Show More Sentences Stark and cruelly naked they lay there, pulsing with life that should not have been. The wicked Nysa, the crafty nurse it is that cruelly severs me from thee. We were very late, for we had waited cruelly for the coach, and pac. The imp-like beings were cruelly inserting what looked like hatpins or needles into Edna's back. Once, in boyish mockery of Narcissus, he had kissed, or feigned to kiss, those painted lips that now smiled so cruelly at him. The latter was cruelly polite and attentive in his demeanour. Last Sunday, indeed, coming earlier than usual, I heard him abusing poor Linton cruelly for his conduct of the night before. It has already, and I am down and hipped and bedevilled cruelly. Already our bloodstock has suffered cruelly from gaps in the Grand Stand. Such a denouement appeared to them horribly and cruelly ridiculous. I remember being in the parlour after they had quarrelled, and Edgar being cruelly provoking, and me running into this room desperate. The ebb-tide, which had so cruelly delayed us, was now making reparation and delaying our assailants. They might only be cruelly holding out hope to one of the doomed. How could I fear to die after he was taken away from me so cruelly! A crunching of gravel upon the driveway startled the girl cruelly. He smiled cruelly, his own anxieties forgotten in the savour of vengeance. There never was a race of people who so completely gave the lie to history as these giants, or whom all the chroniclers have so cruelly libelled. But he got through safely, though cruelly scared, and got a fine round of applause when he made his manufactured bow and retired. What but thy malice moved thee to misdeem Of righteous Job, then cruelly to afflict him With all inflictions? He often scolded her for nothing, quite habitually terminating his tirades by cruelly beating her, until her little body was black and blue. Show More Sentences When a familiar coach horse is treated cruelly by its owner, the obsessed knight ends the beast's misery with an expert stroke of his lance. That she should have been treated so leniently and Jeanne so cruelly! Theodora was cruelly alive to the helplessness of her situation. Laughter can be used well or poorly, in excess or moderation, fittingly or unfittingly, generously or cruelly, morally or immorally. Ah, but Jack, it would be cruelly hard for her to change back to Marley! That country which had ejected you so cruelly from her bosom you still delighted to contemplate in the character of an affectionate and beloved mother. They keep cruelly late and early hours, for such noisy folk. He looked at the cruelly healed stumps of the first and second fingers of his left hand, then rubbed them softly into the indentation in the back of his skull. He was doing his best to pull a heavy cart, while a strong rough boy was cutting him under the belly with his whip and chucking cruelly at his little mouth. Find more words! 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