Example sentences for: cruelly

How can you use “cruelly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Late in Stanley Kubrick's final film, Eyes Wide Shut , there's a harsh bit of piano music by the Hungarian-born composer György Ligeti: one high note plinking over and over, first slow, then hard and fast and cruelly untranscendent.

  • Rauch naively (or cruelly) and sanctimoniously skewers Reich for doing exactly what is expected of him.

  • Dole's rhetorical talents were so pitied that when Clinton spokesman Mike McCurry tried to raise expectations for Dole's performance, he was accused of cruelly mocking the senator.

  • In that light, boycotting Texaco products would be cruelly ironic.

  • Variations can be found in Bonnie and Clyde (1967), The Parallax View (1974), Reds (1981), and Bugsy (1991), but the real precursor to Bulworth is Heaven Can Wait (1978), in which the soul of a young buck enters the body of a square old white guy, who wins over skeptics and then is cruelly cut down.


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