Sentence examples for cruel god from inspiring English sources

As the American revolutionary Thomas Paine said, belief in a cruel god makes a cruel man.

She has an elderly, bedridden mother who speaks in the tones of a cruel god (the voice of Kathleen Chalfant).

He pronounces himself more compassionate than the Almighty - he will not serve a cruel God, even if he must renounce Paradise.

At a young age, M.R. was abandoned by her Christian-fanatic mother in a river in the Adirondacks as a sacrifice to a cruel god.

O'Toole also repudiated the extremist rationale that inspired the Tsarnaev brothers: "Surely someone who believes God smiles on and rewards the killing of innocents believes in a cruel god.

When she views the "huge and brittle" dead cockroaches from her "frigid height as a human being", she is like a cruel god observing slaughtered innocents, her motives increasingly unknowable even to herself.

Events, meanwhile, generally seem like the caprice of a cruel God-like narrator rather anything that makes sense – even within the warped logic of the novel.

Euripides used cruel gods to show how humans must work out their destinies for themselves.

Midway through the play a storm arrives, cueing a scene in which Vilem wanders around his courtyard, railing against the cruel gods, in words drawn more or less directly from "Lear".

Its horrible headmaster Mr Wilkes and his still more horrible wife – they were nicknamed "Sambo" and "Flip" – presided over the school like cruel gods, fawning over the richer children and constantly reminding Orwell (a scholarship boy) of his second-class standing and the relative poverty of his parents.

But the cruel gods had one more treat.