As so often, many of those in Rotherham who should have been on the victims' side saw these vulnerable children as authors of their own misfortunes and failed, cruelly, to listen to their accounts.
Top prize goes to Sacha Baron Cohen, who managed to cynically plug his new movie, make the world's billionth joke about Charlie Sheen and hookers, and dis Madonna's failed marriage so cruelly that even the drunken Globers didn't laugh.
He dreamed of competing at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992 but failed to qualify and then injury cruelly quashed his hopes of representing Team USA on home soil at Atlanta in 1996.
The social determinist perspective Wright adopted would fail him cruelly.
Having failed to clear a corner, Ibehre's shot hit Sweeney in the chest and cruelly deflected into the net.
"The demise of Nortel hit the Canadian psyche very hard and the same thing would happen if BlackBerry failed," says Don Drummond, a former senior civil servant.It is no comfort that others in the cruelly Darwinian smartphone business have also begun to look like wounded gazelles.
One of Branagh's finest fantasy flicks, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, was as cruelly treated as any of Charles Perrault's fabled heroines, while the marvellously Ken Russell-esque The Magic Flute signally failed to be showered with riches or made the belle of any box-office ball.
A concerted effort by campaigners and animal charities lodged the image of cruelly caged egg-laying birds in our minds, yet broilers housed in vast sheds (with marginally less space per bird) have failed to register in the same way.
At shop after shop, I had failed, arising at 4 one freezing morning to line up at the Culver City Toys R Us, only to be cruelly denied — the few rumored Dragonzords had not arrived, after all.
Michael Foot, whose failings as a leader are cruelly if accurately described, would have been consoled by the discovery that Pugh believes Attlee should have made Aneurin Bevan his foreign secretary and that Hugh Gaitskell was "an elitist who failed to understand the [Labour] movement".
