Sentence examples for cruel power from inspiring English sources

Nursed by affliction's cruel power.

Dilettantish sadomasochism — giddily eroticizing themes of cruel power — abounds at the Jewish Museum.

The cruel power of these nameless men, be they soldiers or guerrillas, is too often treated as sufficient explanation of the violence that demolishes villages and ruins lives.

The story Coleridge told of the origins of his addiction in using laudanum as an analgesic for rheumatic pains, points to his own sense of the cruel power of the random.

His favorite theme, most famously developed in a series of collaborations with the playwright Harold Pinter ("The Servant," 1963; "Accident," 1967), was that of the stranger taken into a seemingly stable household, where he or she begins to exert a cruel power over the other residents, with their mysterious acquiescence.

She commands attention as she crushes her mature maids with the cruel power of her youth and beauty.

Jealousy has a reputation for being an irrational emotion, and sometimes it genuinely is an unreasonable, cruel power-grab.

The one character that would have been alien to this versatile actor was a Fascist madman, a cruel power-wielder or tyrant.

Known as a tough warden but not a ruthless one and a man with an active conscience, Mr. Cabana was the antithesis of the cruel, power-hungry, vindictive prison official of cliché.

All these events are mediated through the perspective and personality of Cromwell, usually depicted by historians as an unscrupulous and cruel power-monger, but here given a far more enigmatic profile as Ms. Mantel's narrative follows his rise from blacksmith's son to heights of power second only to the king.

And about Mr. Brown's treatment of those around him, Mr. Smith (who spoke to many sources) writes: "Cruel powers.