Sentence examples for cruel work from inspiring English sources

Him's life becomes a series of hungry nights, cruel work camps and narrow escapes.

Sarah's cruel work is intended not to make a better future for her son but to hide her own past.

I am staring into my 13-day-old baby's eyes and watching death course through his body, hunting opportunities to finish its cruel work.

Benefit claimants have felt this way ever since Iain Duncan Smith got his feet under the table at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and introduced his pointless but cruel Work Programme, modelled on earlier reforms carried out in the United States under Bill Clinton.

Chronically ill, anguished by the deaths of three dearly loved children, haunted by the possibility that he might have transmitted some hereditary vulnerability to his remaining children, Darwin was achingly aware of "the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low and horridly cruel works of nature".

Quinn's current situation gives the show a chance to talk about what nations owe the people who will do the dirtiest, cruelest work "for the greater good," and about the repercussions of surviving and doling out so much violence.

Stevenson says that the great privilege – "the joy, even" – of working in the field of trauma is witnessing people fight back from cruel circumstance, working with people "who are incredibly brave, incredibly resilient, incredibly positively focused about what they're doing".

Lauren Berlant's work "Cruel Optimism".

We know Ramsay is an unspeakably cruel piece of work.

There was a cruel irony at work here.

This Brazilian contemporary dance company has forged a close relationship with British audiences and it returns this spring with a tour of Deborah Colker's latest work, Cruel.