Ben sees himself as a rebellious hero, rejecting release in order to nobly face the punishment that was his due, while fighting the cruel authorities, whose serving up of punishments seemed such a delicious treat.
It also reads as a commentary on how emerging genius can be stymied in a world obsessed with other, crueller things, such as fighting and dying for patches of land.
Writer did not think sport cruel, because birds not baited like fighting terriers or bulls.
* Assemblyman Jeffrion Aubry, a Democrat from Queens, has spent much of his career fighting to end New York's cruel Rockefeller drug laws.
Mr Assad can revel in the seeming proof that the people he is fighting in Syria are both monstrously cruel and the sworn enemies of the West.
Kelly and Mark make eye contact when they're fighting to prevent themselves from saying cruel things.
Instead, it's a gritty as hell orphanage, run by these spooky-cruel nuns who've set up a kid fighting league!
"Instead of preventing, investigating, fighting crime," the judicial police have become "cruel and dangerous criminals," more so "because of the impunity that follows their actions," he said two years ago.
The valor exhibited by Afghan and American soldiers, fighting to free Afghanistan from a horribly cruel regime, will inspire even the most jaded reader.
A few youngsters start a career of antisocial behavior early in life--destroying property, being cruel to animals, or getting booted out of grade school for fighting.
