Sentence examples for cruel beast from inspiring English sources

But the figures show what a cruel beast compound interest can be.

The World Cup is a cruel beast, but it's a dream come true for our nightmare-loving, schadenfreude-craving friends over at Sad Footballers.

The Roman poet Statius calls Hydra "the comrade of the cruel beast Kerberos (Cerberus)." There is mention in Greek mythology of a second Hydra, the Lernaian Hydra, whose killing was the second labour of Hercules (Heracles).

History, cruel beast, had repeated herself in a mocking chorus of eerie parallels.

The high military command tried to persuade us that Chechens are all cruel, beasts, and we should kill them because all of Russia's problems come from Chechens.

Cruel beauty, indeed.

As Dostoyevsky said: "People talk sometimes of bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel".

Forcibly displaced from his mountain village by the construction of a dam, losing his father to unexploded ordnance, Tam is indentured by a corrupt general to a cruel bear-farm where the suffering beasts' bile is extracted for Chinese medicine.

This cruel move to rescind DACA feeds the beast of bigotry, and it will upend the lives of hundreds of thousands of young people across the nation.

He ate differently, and he protected animals whereas they were as cruel as possible to animals unless the beasts were useful in some way.

Over the past 12 months, she has launched a "bio" label for organic products; banned battery hens from 2007; ended subsidies to farmers raising livestock on cruel slatted floors (easy to keep clean, hard for the beasts to stand on); set up a national food-control agency; and introduced a bold consumer-information bill in parliament to encourage environment-friendly farming.