Sentence examples for arbitrary cruelty from inspiring English sources

Then there are the times the system inflicts arbitrary cruelty.

But its underlying theme, abundantly clear to all Soviet theatergoers, was the arbitrary cruelty of life under Stalin's dictatorship.

The arbitrary cruelty of a tyrant or the kindness shown by a stranger is as natural and precarious as the destruction wrought by a flood or the vibrant colours of a sunset.

The Obama administration is taking a major step toward bolstering legal immigration and protecting families — while removing some of the arbitrary cruelty from the workings of the immigration bureaucracy.

"The Second Life of Abigail Walker" introduces Abby, a sixth grader, at the moment she decides she's through being pushed around by the mean girl, Kristen, who rules over their social circle with arbitrary cruelty.

Certainly she is a great deal more overbearing than the woman they remember, treating them with arbitrary cruelty, locking them in their bedroom at night and keeping the house in darkness all day.

Tolstoy's Nicholas I in Hadji Murad is a feline creature whose arbitrary cruelties equal his vanity.

The planners are convinced that they can control outcomes; the soldiers know the arbitrary cruelties of fate at first hand -- maiming this one, leaving that one alone.

Perhaps most disturbing of all, no matter how great and arbitrary the cruelty became, none of those who inflicted the brutality expressed any remorse when they returned home and were free of the artificial "prison" in which they'd acted with impunity.

The Prime Minister is freewheeling, fanatic and incapable; she won't let us see the secret Brexit plans she doesn't have; she attaches herself leech-like to the forces of blind dumb patriotism and arbitrary social cruelty, because what else is there?

It was arbitrary and pointless cruelty.