Sentence examples for cruelly torn from inspiring English sources

The sense of a world cruelly torn out from under one's feet was intensified when his mother sold the ranch Sam and his siblings had expected to inherit.

It is an endless tragedy that Men have been so cruelly torn from existence's grasp, but may we not seek revenge on Hanna Rosin, for she is merely the messenger, the person charged with telling a distraught family about the death of a loved one.

Although Hall displays an acute sensitivity to teen-age turmoil, his film is flawed by the overwrought Ben, who needs only to lay eyes on his son to denounce the boy's black friend, order him into women's underwear or cruelly tear pages from the copy of Virginia Woolf's "Room of One's Own" that Tim has taken from Tracy's house.

A passage in De Virginitate reads: So, against the dread beast of pride and against these sevenfold brutes of poisonous vices, which strive cruelly to tear apart with their rabid teeth and virulent fangs all who are unarmed, despoiled of the cuirass of virginity and stripped of the shield of chastity, the virgins of Christ and the young champions of the church must fight with muscle and strength.

The social contract has been "torn up" by this government cruelly and callously, she says.

We have seen how traditionally integrated societies were torn apart and how their land is cruelly partitioned [by international borders which in the Somali case run] the entire length of the existing boundaries…cut across the traditional pastures of our own nomadic population (Hoskyns 1969, p. 32).

He was on course to compete at the Barcelona Olympics, only to be cruelly denied when he tore his hamstring on his home track in Rotherham six weeks before the Games.

This is not to say you cannot criticize other women, but understand the difference between criticizing constructively and tearing down cruelly.

For this he was punished cruelly: chained to a cliff and condemned to have eagles tear out his liver every day for all eternity.

I had all the things that cause a tear in the depressive personality: no money, no lover, a dead-end job cruelly draining my youth.

And though soccer is a sport in which the tearing of flesh and breaking of bone are accepted occupational hazards, the fallout this time appears cruelly excessive.