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Example sentences for: cruel

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It’s an amazing oasis, a bastion of civilization in a climate as cruel as any on Earth.
His voice on the page is a rummy baritone, fat and resonant but capable of a cruel exactitude, as when he describes a girlfriend's melting love for him.
There's more musical invention in a song like "Trailways Bus" than in the entire score of the much ballyhooed Ragtime . It's nothing to do with rock vs. showtunes, only with the cruel truth that most contemporary Broadway music isn't very good: not popular music, not serious music, but existing in some grisly limbo in between.
If it's the latter, then his comedy seemed just a notch less cruel than the Elephant Man.
Movie --Cruel Intentions ;