Kind and generous in private, Buckley could be sarcastic and cruel in defence of his beliefs.
"Unlike the celebrity contestants who volunteer to be on the show, animals are not there by choice and deserve more than to be used in stressful and cruel situations in a desperate attempt to boost ratings," a PETA spokesperson told The Independent.
The effect isn't cruel, in a point-and-gasp kind of way, like those television 'shock docs' that encourage us to mock the obese.
The casting was almost cruel, in a sense.
Whatever his motives, city officials said, it is both unsafe and cruel to keep a tiger in an apartment.
It may sound glib and cruel, but living in a park is what homeless people do.
And I tried to picture frog love, its possible pleasures, its oozy raptures, but I turned my mind violently away, for in the imagining I felt something petty and cruel, something in the nature of a violation".
"Excuse me, but it would be so stupid and cruel to kill a person in the city center," Mr. Kadyrov said Thursday at a news conference in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, a region in the Caucasus mountains of southern Russia.
It's about a brilliant French judge, a despicable and cruel person, who, crossing a bridge in Paris one day, passes a woman leaning over the edge and looking mournfully down at the Seine.
