Sentence examples for cruel experience from inspiring English sources

None of it can compensate for nor mitigate the cruel experience of this play.

This is partly a reflection of Iraq's ethnic and religious patchwork, partly a result of the diverse spectrum of cruel experience Iraqis have suffered, and partly, Iraqis readily admit, a reflection of national character.

"But people in the community and the P.T.A. said, 'We want to celebrate for these kids, because this is a cruel experience for a 15-year-old.' I want the surviving kids to shine — to continue their lives".

A week after his death, Grace Crane wrote in a letter to a friend: "About three years ago, we had a cruel experience which has separated us ever since…" And fifteen years after his death, her ashes were thrown from the Brooklyn Bridge — an act of love from beyond the grave.

The majority of this novel consists of the words that Ms. Edelman puts in Joseph's mouth, words that show him smarter than everybody else, a consummate realist and a man immunized by cruel experience against the standard appeals to sentiment or to guilt.

Choosing up sides in playground games can be a cruel experience.

And research shows that social isolation is one of the cruelest experiences human beings can suffer.

For once in a Rohmer film, we see tourist Paris, but a cruel Paris experienced from the vantage point of a down-and-out, a clochard.

The Egyptian government's recent decision to seal the few "tunnels of life" that allowed the people of Gaza to bypass the on-going inhumane economic strangulation, harassment and cruel treatment experienced by the participants of Gaza Freedom March and the Viva Palestina humanitarian convoy, earned the country a prominent position in history's page of shame.

It is a cruel and harsh experience, you're naked and you don't understand.

Heath was a deeply cruel man — I experienced his shocking internalized homophobia and racism first hand, at his little apartment near Lincoln Center.