Long before they first met in 1946, Belafonte's mentor was Paul Robeson, the singer, actor and activist whose career, and health, were cruelly broken by Senator McCarthy.
England, meanwhile, will be carried all the way to the semi-finals by coach Fabio Capello and striker Wayne Rooney, only to have their hearts cruelly broken by an in-form Dutch squad.
It's so clever I could almost forgive it, if it weren't for these other major campaign pledges Trudeau made during the 2015 election that he has so cruelly broken before our very eyes.
James Milner will captain the side, Fraser Forster begins in goal after Jack Butland cruelly broke his ankle at the Olympiastadion and Sturridge will gain his 17th cap.
"For those who refuse to compromise in the name of job security, I would ask, imagine if it were your child, your husband or your wife whose life was so cruelly shattered and totally broken.
"Imagine if it was your child, your husband, or your wife whose life was so cruelly shattered and totally broken," Trump said, referring to Americans killed or attacked by undocumented immigrants.
"The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have come to weigh upon us," Wolf wrote.
My heart broke more cruelly and deeply than I thought possible the day my son died.
It was, however, Dostoevsky who saw most acutely how individuals, trained to believe in a lofty notion of personal freedom and sovereignty, and then confronted with a reality that cruelly cancelled it, could break out of paralysing ambivalence into gratuitous murder and paranoid insurgency.
Yet when fellow Africans cry out in tortured anguish, broken by the serial rape of children, murder and starvation of civilians, they serially, cruelly, look the other way.
Yet, instead, we have a film detailing Georges' protracted caregiving so respectfully and Anne's decline so cruelly that it becomes hard to disagree with Georges' masochistic choices, or even notice that he has broken down.
