Sentence examples for cruel behaviour from inspiring English sources

Sentencing the pair, the recorder Mark Dennis highlighted the harm done by their "grossly degrading and cruel behaviour".

The women's main concern was that they and their families might become the victims of stigmatising, discriminatory or cruel behaviour.

In expressions such as cruel behaviour or smart move, the factual-descriptive component cannot, Putnam argued, be disentangled from the value judgment.

Evil Woody was originally pitched as a sarcastic bully, a sneering gunslinger whose cruel behaviour causes the other toys to rise up in rebellion.

But now, when motivation and depth of "heinous and cruel" behaviour are directly at issue, the personality of Tamerlan Tsarnaev is the biggest mitigating factor.

Their attempts to understand the nature of their condition, how such cruel behaviour can be so readily validated, give the reader a much-needed opportunity to seek enlightenment too.

The world of life abounds in "cruel" behaviours.

The most powerful scene in the film, in which one child is forced to shoot another, does not appear in the book, although there are several examples of even crueller behaviour.

And St Aubyn's ability to pierce the façade of moneyed politesse that veils cruel, hypocritical behaviour is as acute as Alan Hollinghurst's in The Line of Beauty.

Perhaps our various levels of government would do well to consult with one another and with a few people in the industry to come to a conclusive answer, because pushing people who have sex for money into the bowels of industrial areas is cruel, discriminatory behaviour, not to mention ridiculously prudish.

In contrast to this, another form of aggression, termed 'appetitive aggression', has been put forth in recent years, based on anthropological observations of cruel human behaviour [ 7, 8].