Sentence examples for cruel accuracy from inspiring English sources

But Mr. Boudin seems unaware that Mr. Theroux is, at heart, the obverse of an optimist; his writing's baseline swat comes from its misanthropy, its cruel accuracy.

There are also many factual problems (pointed out with cruel accuracy by the tenacious Hugh Barnacle) and too many demands on reality.

As Daniel Cohn-Bendit, leader of the Greens in the parliament, put it with cruel accuracy, the parliament faced a choice between "a little bureaucrat and an historic figure".

It's a point she makes early in Somewhere Towards the End, her new book about the losses, indignities and compensations of old age: how important appearance still is, if only to oneself; not to risk, say, scarlet lipstick, which will run into mouth wrinkles and make a woman look, as she observes of an old friend with not-quite-cruel accuracy, like a "vampire bat disturbed mid-dinner".

Regardless of the accuracy of the method, past schemesto identify gay people have typically ended in cruel fashion — pogroms, imprisonment, conversion therapy.

We just need to work on our accuracy". "These are games you can lose and it was a little bit cruel on Worcester not to get a losing bonus point.

Regardless of the accuracy of the method, past schemes to identify gay people have typically ended in cruel fashion — pogroms, imprisonment, conversion therapy.

The Soviet vision of the war, of course, has the appeal of both simplicity and (partial) accuracy: Franco was indeed a ruthless tyrant whose victory led to wide-scale purges, cruel imprisonments and extensive constraints.

Cruel, cruel lot.

"Just cruel".

"Cruel Intentions"?