Sentence examples for cruel rejection from inspiring English sources

Would Orest move from friendly overtures to Rose to brutally cruel rejection of Megan so easily?

Was President Kennedy's cruel rejection of the actress after a New York liaison really the catalyst for her accelerating slide into despair, as Ms. Oates suggests?

With great ingenuity, he created Kayak's archly cruel rejection slips: Victorian engravings depicting a beheading, or a mountain climber slipping into a crevasse, with a brush-off caption appended.

And in failing to explain fully Gregor's cruel rejection of his adoptive parents (he refuses to see his father, even on his deathbed), Hamilton leaves a hollow at the heart of his story, diminishing the revelations that finally emerge.

It does, at least, acknowledge his later problems: insomnia, depression, bankruptcy, cancer and, perhaps most painful of all, cruel rejection by the football establishment, which saw him reduced to managing non-league clubs and commentating on local radio.

In these days of smart, knowing literary fiction, with its ironic debunking of manners and morals, there's something refreshing about reviewing a book that inspires phrases like "desperate longing," "cruel rejection," "deadly truth" and "lonely passion" to describe its characters and their lives.

In the face of cruel rejections and bitter failures, Keith tumbles from despair to agony as he ends up running panic-stricken and wounded through an indifferent, uncomprehending city whose streets he is unable to negotiate — yet Bronstein can't resist endowing him with a Dostoyevskian grace and seeing him through to a peculiarly serene and ironic redemption.

Stanford was nominated for cruelest rejection.

Pacers center Roy Hibbert had one of the cruelest rejections of the postseason when he blocked a Carmelo Anthony dunk attempt in the fourth quarter of Indiana's Game 6 victory over the Knicks.

But he said the themes of "criticizing the unbridled free market, fear of cruel globalization, rejection of an irresponsible financial system" have become popular in a time of economic uncertainty.

None of this changes the cruel reality of rejection.