Sentence examples for cruel practical from inspiring English sources

Mr. Carrey's infantile Almighty is selfish, capricious and short-sighted, and delights in cruel practical jokes.

Mr. Carrey's infantile Almighty is selfish, capricious and shortsighted, and he delights in cruel practical jokes.

To get back at his parents, Mugezi contrives a series of cruel practical jokes.

Indeed, a "crowd-sourced" $50,000 RoboCop statue may seem like a cruel practical joke played on the struggling city by heartless nerds.

Big enough to have played a pointlessly cruel practical joke on a nave underling, pretending to offer him the position of Apple C.E.O.

He's written and performs a one-man show as Malvolio, the puritan party-pooper from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night who becomes a victim of a cruel practical joke and is locked up for being "mad".

The comedian Bob Mills, on ITV4's World Cuppa, summed up the feelings of us 1966 veterans, explaining how he sat his 14-year-old14-year-old14-year-oldands disappointoldt and told him that this was how it was always going to be, so he might just as well get used to it; a splendid example, I think, of cruel but practical parenting.

Clearly it isn't Shakespeare, even if it's less ripe for the cruel kind of faux practical criticism I employed at the start of this review.

He was notorious among his colleagues for his antisocial temperament and his predilection for cruel put-downs and dangerous practical jokes.

Andrew Jackson -- practical, fearsome, often cruel but a man of the people -- is the archetype of this group.

Time to get practical and, like the cruel Greek solon Draco, solve the problem.