Sentence examples for cruelly powerful from inspiring English sources

Brett Littman, the Drawing Center's executive director, who curated the show, has had them floated in identical white frames and hung on walls painted a variant of one of Golub's favorite symbolic colors: Pompeian-oxide red, cruelly powerful.

Karl Rove's powerful Crossroads GPS money machine cruelly underlined the agency's impotence last week with a snippy rebuff of a legitimate inquiry from the commission staff about the shadowy sources of the group's war chest.

Thus we have cruelly estab lished the economic stability of so many powerful nations upon the trading of arms to poor nations lacking plows, schools and hospitals.

In Seneca, clementia is a kind of restraint in a powerful person who might otherwise lash out and act cruelly, and it is something like equity (cf. Braund 2009).

"The McCain-Feingold Act criminalizes politics," he growled to George Stephanopoulos, launching into an explanation about how the law would have cruelly required him to sever his ties with a political advocacy group in order to run for the most powerful job on the planet.

unnecessarily or cruelly..

Thus, Hogarth made powerful enemies at the start of his career, and, when they retaliated about 1730 by nullifying royal interest in his work, he was cruelly disappointed.

That was cruelly smashed.

My face ached cruelly.

Dignity was cruelly besmirched.

Unemployment is cruelly high.