Sentence examples for excessively cruel from inspiring English sources
Whatever Scott's weaknesses, he didn't deserve the public flogging, and for a young, successful African-American head coach, the implications were excessively cruel.
A Chechen prosecutor, Viktor Dakhnov, told the Interfax news service that he now has evidence that the soldiers were goaded into their "excessively cruel acts" by unnamed local residents.
But the fact of gavage is the same for both, the final product extremely similar, so it seems to me a neat piece of casuistry to deem foie gras ethically sound – or "not excessively cruel" in Fearnley-Whittingstall's phrase – as long as it's "free-range".
Their decision to reject the seal clubbing app reflects the opinion held by the majority of people around the world – that bludgeoning baby seals with clubs and hooking them through the eyes with hakapiks before they've even had their first solid meal is excessively cruel.
En route to Nojpetén, Delgado believed that the soldiers' treatment of the Maya was excessively cruel, and he left the expedition to make his own way to Nojpetén with eighty Christianised Maya from Tipuj in Belize.
Mars Attacks! takes this convention and grossly overstates it: a bevy of stars are obliterated by martians in excessively cruel ways, calling our attention to the notion of poetic death itself.
"So not excessively excessive.
If she is a doll — Orso amuses himself by thinking — she is a slightly battered one, dragged around by the legs, left out in the rain, undressed with the cruel energy of an excessively loving little mistress.
Everyone excessively tidy, excessively generous.
