Although Alexis accepted these terms, Peter, using extraordinarily cruel methods, conducted an investigation of Alexis' supporters, discovered the existence of a potential movement of reaction for which Alexis might become a rallying point, and concluded that his son was involved in a treasonous conspiracy.
And a good many took his part, exclaiming loudly against Dion for his cruel and tyrannical conduct, stopping the mouths of the people by bloodshed and peril of life.
Daemonism, in contrast, by holding up an arbitrary God, encourages selfish, cruel, and capricious conduct (C 191).
All four had their photos posted to the same website, which – as Pink News reported earlier this year – is "disturbingly cruel in its conduct with gay men".
All four had their photos posted to the same website, which as Pink News reported earlier this year is "disturbingly cruel in its conduct with gay men".
His treatment of those who worked for him was capricious and cruel and was conducted with the bully's telltale streak of cowardice.
But in a different phase of the study — a realistic setting where subjects learned an experimenter was supposedly conducting cruel sensory-deprivation research — less than 10percentt actually blew the whistle by reporting the experimenter's behavior.
Congress has already granted immunity, over my objection, to those who facilitated warrantless wiretaps and those who conducted cruel interrogations.
For some people there may be crueler forms of conduct, but it speaks to me of a basic abandonment of all human feeling.
Though never cruel in his personal conduct, he was, in principle, exasperated with values of constraint.
