Sentence examples for cruel assault from inspiring English sources

(Some critics dismissed it as a cruel assault on rock sensibilities).

Some bitterly compared the bombardment they had just endured to the Nazi invasion of 1941, which is the most graphic metaphor any Soviet-educated person can use to describe a mindlessly cruel assault.

Allowing the will of the people at the state level to trample gay couples and their children underfoot is a cruel assault on this most basic human need.

Even more of a let-down: Neither of the now extraordinarily happy Darcys is directly involved with exposing the perpetrator of the cruel assault in the literally and figuratively tangled Pemberley woods.

The ugly reality is that dementia often manifests as a relentless and cruel assault on personhood, comfort, and dignity.

But sometimes the cruelest assaults are verbal.

Many of the 2002 V-Day participants had endured brutal assaults, including rape and incest, along with the cruel corollary of those crimes: the implied imperative to silence.

For Reno to claim "intelligence" (from the F.B.I.?) that the Cuban-Americans' arguably legal defiance was backed up with hidden weapons -- and therefore that she was urgently required to launch a cruel and violent assault by a score of our most ferocious-looking agents -- is ludicrous.

War crimes can include acts like torture, murder, sexual assault and cruel treatment.

Nevertheless, it remains a false, dangerous, cruel, arbitrary, and bigoted assault on Muslims and the very idea of America as an open, welcoming society.

That could extend to depriving people of their liberty indefinitely, by force, subjecting them to assaults and cruel punishment.