Sentence examples for not cruelly from inspiring English sources

"You cry," Doris said, not cruelly.

Not cruelly, but just the way she laughed at so many things.

She says, "I want to shake him," as if he'd shoplifted a shirt, not cruelly beaten a man to death and then essentially crucified him.

"But how would they know who you are?" His mother laughed at him, not cruelly but in the way of a mother who loves her child no matter how silly, how mistaken, how annoying he is.

In the lead opinion for the Court, Roberts said that the evidence in the case showed that lethal injection was not "cruelly inhumane" and thus not a violation of the Eighth Amendment.

In just the same way we ought not cruelly and gratuitously to maltreat animals but we need not think that it follows from this that animals are right-holders.

He figures that the bus, when it comes, won't cruelly pass him by if he stands in the road and waves.

By shading the Kurds' image in the minds of ordinary Westerners, the hope is that the world won't cruelly turn its back on them as it has done in the past and might even begin to sympathize with Kurdish ambitions for their own state.

Mary's grandmother, known as Mommo, is not the cruelly selfish and manipulative creature that dominates "Leenane," but she is equally maddening and enraging.

We try to remember not how cruelly she was taken from us, but how unbelieveably lucky we were to have her in our lives for so long".

Mary's grandmother, known as Mommo, is not the cruelly selfish and manipulative creature that Mr. McDonagh made of his central character's mother, but she is equally maddening and enraging.