Sentence examples for a certain cruelty from inspiring English sources

"There's a dark, edgy menace to it," says Fleet. "There's a certain cruelty in there.

There is a certain cruelty in approaching a problem but failing to recognize the depth of the problem.

And a certain cruelty, which has always been lodged in the underside of Allen's sense of character, comes out.

In the background is Steve Hamilton's video — the scene has shifted to a nearby park — where children splash in a puddle, kicking water at one another, not without a certain cruelty, and giggling.

Furthermore, the critique of reason is not a method, but is achieved by "culture" in the Nietzschean sense: training, discipline, inventiveness, and a certain cruelty (see Nietzsche 1887).

The administration's attentiveness to the Darbi girls hasn't always prevented a certain cruelty that some of the other students have displayed toward them.

There's a certain amount of cruelty in what I do.

"It takes a certain type of detached cruelty to victimize people in this way," said Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly, who added that one member of the service returned home from duty for Christmas only to find his bank account cleared out.

A Quiet Adjustment is the story of Byron's relations with his wife and sisters, and seems to be a work of standard historical fiction – albeit one that is devastating in its account of the cruelties of a certain kind of marriage.

I like the way the "Gordon Brown factor" has been acknowledged, but with a certain dignity and without jeering or cruelty.

Wayne Johnston's The Son of a Certain Woman depicted the small-minded cruelties of conventional people toward exceptional ones.