Sentence examples for capable of cruelty from inspiring English sources

If the show has a hero, it's Tyrion (Dinklage), who is capable of cruelty but also possesses insight and empathy, concealed beneath a carapace of Wildean wit.

And he does, depicting himself as an actor in turbulent China, and not an admirable actor but one capable of cruelty and deceit, cunning, and sexual predation.

However Highsmith, sexually omnivorous, capable of cruelty, was in quite a few ways a character out of a Patricia Highsmith story.

And yet a growing number of them are proving to be as capable of cruelty to their foes as the regime — which, of course, many of them fought for until just recently.

The crisis of doubt, which came to me six years later, when I was about to be ordained, had little to do with discovering that certain priests were odd or capable of cruelty.

The trouble was that early governments showed themselves at least as capable of cruelty as anyone else: most of the truly horrific instruments of torture Pinker describes were designed and employed by servants of the state.

Are insects sentient beings capable of sensing cruelty?

And why would God make human beings capable of extreme cruelty?

Golding emerges as two people – a loving father and someone capable of casual cruelty.

Richard was a thoroughgoing Angevin, irresponsible and hot-tempered, possessed of tremendous energy, and capable of great cruelty.

Contrary to popular belief, decades of psychological research shows that anyone is capable of aggression, cruelty and violence.