Sentence examples for cruel terms from inspiring English sources

In cruel terms, there is no desperate national desire to win gold at table tennis.

A particular debt of gratitude is owed to courageous Israeli Jews such as Amira Hass who have born witness to the increasingly cruel terms of Israeli military occupation and settler annexation.

He, too, was thought savage and, in his cruel term, half-made.

The same could hardly be said of Cervantes's comedias, which were maligned early and in the cruelest terms, and which have never quite been vindicated.

What sort of person repeatedly picks on a disabled child in the most vicious and cruel of terms?

"The IFS also highlighted that there is 'no reprieve' for those who rely on social security, with yet another year of cruel real terms cuts in benefits ahead.

For the Les Mis cleanskins, here's a heavily spoilerish synopsis: Jean Valjean is a convict who completes a long and cruel penal term for stealing a loaf of bread.

Many of these interviews exhibit what feminist literary theorist Lauren Berlant terms "cruel optimism," the continued hope for a return of the good old days that have been inexorably washed away by the shifting tides of global capitalism.

For Hillary, the current status of the superdelegate system might be a strange instance of cruel irony: The term "superdelegate" was coined by Susan Estrich, who argued that predominantly white and male unpledged delegates could marginalize women and minorities.

It is precisely this kind of cruel twist in the terms of trade, Mr Sen argued, that can bring a community to its knees.

Besides being deprived the physical loveliness of ladies, not being allowed to get high is a close second in terms of cruel and unusual punishments afflicted on us abused inmates.