Sentence examples for certain cruelty from inspiring English sources

"There's a dark, edgy menace to it," says Fleet. "There's a certain cruelty in there.

There is a certain cruelty in approaching a problem but failing to recognize the depth of the problem.

And a certain cruelty, which has always been lodged in the underside of Allen's sense of character, comes out.

In the background is Steve Hamilton's video — the scene has shifted to a nearby park — where children splash in a puddle, kicking water at one another, not without a certain cruelty, and giggling.

Furthermore, the critique of reason is not a method, but is achieved by "culture" in the Nietzschean sense: training, discipline, inventiveness, and a certain cruelty (see Nietzsche 1887).

The administration's attentiveness to the Darbi girls hasn't always prevented a certain cruelty that some of the other students have displayed toward them.

There's a certain amount of cruelty in what I do.

The law, which Congress passed in 1999, had been intended to restrict certain depictions of animal cruelty.

"It takes a certain type of detached cruelty to victimize people in this way," said Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly, who added that one member of the service returned home from duty for Christmas only to find his bank account cleared out.

Yet the power of Islam shows us that for many human beings, experience seems to teach that conscience is not irrational, and that there are certain things – dishonesty, greed, cruelty, withholding bread from the hungry – which are not merely imprudent, but wrong, and certain things which are self-evidently and self-definedly good.

Doing less would not only leave animals unprotected, but would signal to society that certain forms of abject cruelty are conscionable, that we don't care about desensitizing our society -- and our children -- to despicable animal abuse.