Sentence examples for senseless cruelty from inspiring English sources

Nor did he allow senseless cruelty.

It is impossible to lie to ourselves by justifying senseless cruelty on political grounds.

Though senseless cruelty often pervades the stories, they are lightened by a belief that joy and happiness must exist somewhere, if only in the imagination.

His would-be killer's reply — "What about entertainment?" — carries beyond the screen, where the voyeuristic masses are implicated in the gruesome spectacle of senseless cruelty.

The former nods to the titular playwright's absurdism, ironizing the speaker's quixotic pursuit of meaning in a world of senseless cruelty; the latter draws an unsettling connection between pain and poetry, musing, "If the happiness lasts, / it is the smoothness.

As George Anton's bewildered Titus goes from a quick-tempered veteran in army fatigues to a chef feigning madness by covering his head in flour, Laing makes use of every table top and gangway to enact this tale of senseless cruelty.

This species has already demeaned itself by its history and the senseless cruelties that continue to be perpetrated by some of its members.

"We recall the centenary of that tragic event, that immense and senseless slaughter whose cruelty your forebears had to endure.

Inhumane and senseless acts of cruelty are inflicted upon girls all around the world.

As the reports from the tragic school shooting in Newton, Conn., poured in, I listened non-stop and like others, tried to make sense of a senseless act of cruelty and horror.

And also, more disturbingly, to repress the darker implications of the story, as if the presence of cruelty and senseless death might be too much for anyone to handle.