Sentence examples for cruelly sensitive from inspiring English sources
First, they never hesitate to ask why, apparently oblivious that it might be cruelly sensitive territory; and when they have established that (in my case) it is a positive choice, it is not unusual to be informed baldly that I will regret it, and that I am selfish.
Just suppose the sensitive, cruelly treated Braunstein had fallen among that bunch!
Alessandro Nivola and Elle Fanning give devastating portrayals of a dashing, smug left-wing teacher and his sensitive daughter, whom he cruelly betrays by having an affair with her best friend.
Her breakthrough role, after three years of more or less routine assignments, came in John Cromwell's 1934 adaptation of the W. Somerset Maugham novel "Of Human Bondage," in which she plays the coldhearted Cockney temptress Mildred Rogers, a vile specimen who cruelly — and protractedly — abuses the affections of a sensitive, artistic, clubfooted young medical student.
The second half of NSFW takes place in a glossy women's magazine called "Electra" and has merciless fun with a female editor in her late 40s who forces a prospective editorial assistant, a sensitive young man who needs the job, cruelly to find flaws in the perfect celebrity bodies that will grace her pages.
There is no better choice for the role -- she has the psychological depth to reveal sensitive moments even among one of the most cruelly insane characters known to man.
That was cruelly smashed.
Dignity was cruelly besmirched.
The phrase seems cruelly ironic.
These hopes were cruelly shattered.
