Sentence examples for cruel stage from inspiring English sources

He's winning Alpe d'Huez.' " Now he has done that, becoming the second American, after Hampsten, to win what Armstrong described recently as "a beautiful stage, a legendary, mythical, cruel stage".

From the opening battle against the Gauls, it's a gritty affair, cruel, exciting, magnificently staged.

A living embodiment of the phrase "cruel irony", Asheton stands stage right, watching the singer fling his impressively muscular body around the stage with a thoughtful expression.

This is why it is important to regularly groom long-haired cats, as to leave their hair to reach matting stage is cruel and harmful to their health.

But tennis can be a cruel sport; the biggest stages owned by those with confidence but a vast, lonely cavern for those who struggle to handle the occasion.

But even discipline and all the exercise in the world can't stave off the cruelest of the stages: Desperation.

"It almost reaches the stage of seeming cruel to me".

Activists are becoming bolder, posting video footage of cruel treatment on Youtube and staging protests.

By dispatching troops into the streets and imposing a curfew, Myanmar's cruel military junta has set the stage for a serious clash with pro-democracy activists.

There is a toughness in Synge that was lost, in the years after his death, to stage Irishness and the cruel sentimentality of Irish nationalism.

Among Arlt's plays, Trescientos millones (1932; "Three Hundred Million") and Saverio el cruel (1936; "Saverio the Cruel," not staged until 1956) stand out.