His gamesmanship could have a cruel edge, especially when it was directed toward Frazier.
The Night Manager has had a cruel enough edge that you could have imagined the credits rolling over an image of Jonathan tending to Jed's corpse, his victory made meaningless – or even Burr finding the two of them dead together.
The film ends up as enjoyable but slight, lacking the sharp edges and cruel insights of Betrayal or Bergman's Scenes From a Marriage.
Through Bermann, Schnitzler deliberately undercuts moments of potential tragedy with an edge of cruel wit.
I am still hoping that the love I have for America that I know is shared by the vast majority of Americans will finally overcome the cruel rhetoric from the extreme edges of our political world, and that our elected leaders will finally get down to work to find common ground that can return us to a better road for our future.
"We are on a razor's edge between a final plunge into cruel dictatorship and a return home to the European community," Mrs Tymoshenko said in a message to the crowd read out by her daughter.
In the boat, she hopped up and down in the bow, leaned over the edge and made a theatrical speech about the cruel, cruel world and the weedy river's irresistible call.
As soon as the images went viral, she was subjected to jeering comments, Photoshopped screenshots and cruel parodies that, in the end, tipped her over the edge.
Lena Headey, who plays the cruel queen mother Cersei Lannister on "Game of Thrones," also edged her way into the supporting actress category.
Her loss of sight, and the resulting inability to read, is a sudden and cruel blow but does not diminish her need to write, and to search out the ragged edges of a life.
