Sentence examples for cruel future from inspiring English sources
Prescience is not the measure of a science-fiction author's success — we don't value the work of H. G. Wells because he foresaw the atomic bomb or Arthur C. Clarke for inventing the communications satellite — but it is worth pausing, on the occasion of Ray Bradbury's death, to notice how uncannily accurate was his vision of the numb, cruel future we now inhabit.
Other books about bears include Sheila Lavelle's Ursula Bear, the delightful story of a little girl who can turn herself into a bear with the help of a magic spell she has learnt from a library book and Gill Lewis's Moon Bear, the story of a young boy's fight to save a bear cub from a cruel future on a bear farm.
He often talks as if he's a social democrat wanting government to provide for everyone ("We're going to have insurance for everybody"), but then moves to remove government protections and move us toward a cruel Randian future more in line what what most Republicans would like to see.
If it were not bad enough that studio Lionsgate has been forced to base the latest instalment on the final, middling-at-best novel in Suzanne Collins' bestselling young adult trilogy, someone decided a while back to shoot only half of the far-from-epic tome at a time in order to squeeze every last drop of profit from the hit saga about a cruel dystopian future America.
Instead, he is nurturing hatred and hostility between the next generation of Israelis and Palestinians, and is condemning them to a cruel and violent future.
That's also evident from a streak of hometown nostalgia on "Cruel Summer" — when his future pursuits aren't occupying his mind, his past is.
It is a fate Dad could never have imagined when we lived there, just as he had no idea of the cruel twist his own future held.
In stream-of-consciousness passages, he thinks about its future: the cruel jokes, the stares, whether it will have to wear a padded helmet, how it would get to school.
The shortness of electoral cycles in the rich world means that almost all governments need economic growth today, whatever the cost to be repaid with cruel interest in the future.
With the cruel rulers of the future nation of Panem fighting the first stirrings of rebellion, Katniss and Peeta find themselves plunged back into a new and very different Hunger Games arena.
Now, in a cruel twist, one that future Americans will recall with much historical chagrin, the Islamic State, the successor of al-Qaeda in Iraq, is now in operation in Afghanistan.
