Sentence examples for a rather cruel from inspiring English sources

He was handsome in a rather cruel, caddish way – he seemed to exude arrogance and indifference.

It's a rather cruel irony when you haven't actually got a postcode to begin with.

Theseus's court, where desire is constrained within marriage and a rather cruel humour reigns, seems chilly and formal in comparison.

It is a rather cruel irony that the emblematic architect and the emblematic capital of the twentieth century never crossed paths.

"The elected representative for Bethnal Green and Bow retaliated with a rather cruel 'oh poor me... poor me... pour me a drink' stab at Barrymore's addiction problems.

After Arnold Schoenberg's death, in 1951, Boulez wrote a rather cruel article titled "Schoenberg Is Dead," in which he said that the modernist master had lost his way in later years and should not be mourned with "pointless melancholy".

That's a cool — and rather cruel — logic for you.

From the prime minister David Cameron down, the Tories were considered too posh, supercilious and in a time of austerity, rather cruel.

I visited on two consecutive days, and each day Annis, Flew's wife of 55 years, served me a glass of water and left me in the sitting room to ask her husband a series of tough, indeed rather cruel, questions.

(A cunning, tempting, and, in fact, rather cruel strategy — Richard would have approved).

He was considered a class clown, always up to rather cruel pranks.