Sentence examples for cruel side from inspiring English sources

Worse, adoption reveals a cruel side of charity.

I think you already know that he has a controlling and cruel side and you are ignoring it and the warning it should give you.

It was Nabokov, in his Lectures on Literature, who pointed out that Lenin had a sentimental as well as a cruel side.

But, just as Falstaff has a darkly cruel side, Rylance subtly caught the less obvious aspect of Byron: that, essentially, he was a loner.

The rest of us should also contemplate this cruel side effect of our criminal-justice system: it punishes not only the prisoner herself but also her family and, indeed, all who love her.

But Mr. Levy at PS Brands says the rise of the renminbi is going to have cruel side effects: job losses in America's retail sector and higher prices for consumers.

The carefully orchestrated official accounts released tonight emphasized what were portrayed as the irrational and cruel sides of Falun Gong and its leader.

The circumstances of Odoacer's death illustrate the crueller side of Theodoric's character, a side he normally concealed.

Unfairly dismissed as a Bridesmaids cash-in, its study of the crueller side of female friendship cuts wincingly close to the bone, and Kirsten Dunst is tremendous as a critically insecure queen bee.

Wolf Won't Bite! by Emily Gravett (Macmillan £10.99) explores the cruel flip side of friendship.

In "Watchman," there's a cruel flip side to this seemingly Christian kindness.