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Example sentences for: cruel

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The ruling came out of a 1997 lawsuit filed by condemned inmate Leo Alexander Jones, who argued that the electric chair was cruel and unusual punishment.
I am not a cold or cruel person (and I am actually a cat lover), but I think the owner's wishes about managing the health of the cat should have been heeded.
2) While seeking to limit U.N. access to Saddam Hussein's 63 palaces, Iraq paraded nearly 100 coffins containing what it said were corpses of children killed by cruel U.N. sanctions.
Cruel, dim, and out of touch with American life-no, not the evil bastards who killed Charles Schulz-the U. S. Supreme Court, at least that's how they look to quiz participants.
Some critics are fascinated by the new possibilities opened up by this license and call the film "one of the more original movies of the year" (David Denby, New York ). Others are uneasy about the intimate, sad, and somewhat mocking portraits that emerge of these deeply flawed and lonely individuals and call the film "depressing and undeniably cruel" (Anita Gates, the New York Times ). (Read Slate 's David Edelstein on Barker's quest for "larger dramatic truths."