Sentence examples for cruel for him from inspiring English sources

But Plunkett's wholehearted and pacy performances deserved much better than that, and it was cruel for him to miss all three victories – suffering an ankle injury that ruled him out of Old Trafford and The Oval after being rested in Southampton.

Yes, Mr. Dando bore a superficial resemblance to Kurt Cobain, and fame, at least the stunted version of it that Mr. Dando had attained, would turn out to be almost as cruel for him as it was for Cobain, who committed suicide in 1994.

It was cruel for cricket – he was the most entertaining, charismatic player of his generation – and even crueller for him.

Already regarding God as cruel for allowing him to suffer from a life-threatening hemorrhoid while Cartman enjoys a million-dollar inheritance, Kyle became further appalled after being read the story of Job.

His federal defenders have filed a new state appeal in the 31-year-old murder case, contending Jones mental condition makes it cruel for the state to condemn him to death.

Something sad, with a lot of self-pity, about an honest, good man whose life and wife had both been cruel to him for no reason.

You wish him less pain, but it seems cruel to wish anything for him that would make him less himself".

His Wallander – emotionally difficult, brooding and self-fancying – has never invited the viewer's warmth, but in his Lear-like roaring against this new, cruel, unreadable fate we feared for him and of course ourselves.

"The sky of Paris," Edith Piaf once sang, "is never cruel for long".

It seems cruel for a civilized society to withhold available help.

"So it's really especially cruel for her to have arthritis".