There's something simmering beneath these cruel surfaces: a rage against the machine also vented in Meckseper's films and photos of anti-capitalist or anti-war demonstrations.
He had been arrogant, lawless, violent, treacherous, revengeful, and cruel; his Angevin rages matched those of Henry II.
From the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries, London experienced a cruel civil war, raging fires, enlightenment in thought, government, and living, and the struggle and benefits of empire.
"I would kill my daughter with my own hands rather than see her become a singer," said her mother, who ruled the family with cruel punishments and rages.
In short, Osama Bin Laden seemed to live in an ethereal, postmodern world of symbols and signifiers and also a cruel murderous world of rage and humiliation.
A different contemporary take on the story was released in 1999 — just before cellphones and texting were the rage — called "Cruel Intentions" and starring Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Selma Blair.
Her spasms of temper, sometimes poignant, sometimes cruel — and the counter-rages from her daughter — are compelling.
Though they operate mostly on different registers, there is, in both performers, just beneath the surface, a palpable rage, an almost cruel compulsiveness that makes you wince as much as laugh.
Though the "Hunger Games" trilogy has by now won many adult readers — there are 5.6 million copies of the series in print in the United States and Canada — it is the perfect teenage story with its exquisitely refined rage against the cruel and arbitrary power of the adult world.
Another man, an impoverished Irish immigrant in London, is recruited as a bomber by militants intent on finding someone to redo a hit job gone tragically awry; they appeal to his rage against a cruel, exploitative boss and to his dreams of heroism and distinction.
