Sentence examples for a cruel response from inspiring English sources

Similarly, it may be that a cruel response is exactly the one called for in the circumstances; cruelty, according to particularists, need not be an invariant reason.

This is a cynical and cruel response.

There are people who arrived here immediately after the government's cruel response to the initial student protests against President Yanukovych's refusal to sign the agreement with the EU.

The "Pretty Little Liars" actress recently called out a body-shaming man on Twitter when he tweeted a cruel comment in response to a photo she posted.

But this full-scale retreat into fantasy was a response to a cruel, chaotic world.

Did you see the Funny or Die skit he did in response to a cruel petition that Nickelback be replaced as NFL half-time entertainment?

At first there didn't seem to be much of a problem; after a 1-1 drat at West Ham, Allan Evans praised McNeill for relaxing the players, McNeill also complimenting his squad for their response after a cruel 2-1 defeat at Southampton in the Littlewoods Cup, a match that had seen a Garry Thompson effort not given even though it looked a foot over the line.

Basil Kennett, writing in 1820, describes the "Avete vos" response as a cruel jest: "[W]hen they would gladly have interpreted it as an act of favour, and a grant of their lives, he soon gave them to understand that it proceeded from the contrary principle of barbarous cruelty, and insensibility".

The response landed like a cruel joke: He could buy the house for what he owed on his mortgage -- more than $155,000 after late payments.

Michelle Thomas, a blogger from London, had a killer response to a man she'd met on Tinder who sent her a cruel message about her weight.

It was a cruel, cruel time.