Grant Shapps

The reality is that it would be wiser and even kinder for politicians to be responsible about what they claim the NHS will do, because the pain of having raised expectations for parents who are desperate to start a family, only to see those hopes crushed, is more cruel than having said nothing at all.

British Politician

Anthony Hopkins

My father wasn't a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher - one of those Victorians, hard as iron - but my dad was tough enough.

Welsh Actor

Alicia Keys

What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind. Too often, our world is divisive and cruel where it needs to be uniting and loving.

American Musician

Ben Carson

I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.

American Scientist

J. Robert Oppenheimer

My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

American Physicist

George Santayana

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

Spanish Philosopher

Gaspar Noe

I like laughing about cruel things because life is cruel.

Argentinian Director

Danny DeVito

I'll tell you one thing, it's a cruel, cruel world.

American Actor

Carolyn Chute

American Writer

Virgil van Dijk

Dutch Athlete

Consider if the pain caused is intentional or just a side effect to understand 'cruel' in context.

Intention Matters

'Cruel' often describes actions that are seen as extreme in their unkindness or harshness.

Severity of Action

'Cruel' can refer to both physical pain or emotional and psychological suffering.

Not Always Physical

Using 'cruel' can imply that someone finds pleasure in others' pain, showing a lack of empathy.

Emotional Indicator

'Cruel' is a stronger term than 'mean' and carries more severe negative judgment.

Goes Beyond Mean

Use 'cruel' when expressing disdain for someone's pleasure in causing suffering.

Expressing Contempt

Describe a situation as 'cruel' when the suffering seems unnecessary and unjust.

Unjust Suffering

Cruelty can be due to chance or circumstance, not always a deliberate choice.

Not Always Intentional

Use 'cruel' to talk about hardships caused by life or nature, not just people.

Impersonal Forces

 They were also breaching up out of the water and tail slapping on the Steller sea lion, and this went on for for a good while. You can see that it was an instructional process. They were using the Steller sea lion as a teaching aid, and that was pretty uncomfortable to watch. It would appear to us to be incredibly cruel,

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 Others can affect entire nations, such as cycles of corrupt government or climate change. But the cruel irony of welfare traps in particular is that they stem from the very policies designed to battle poverty. Most societies throughout history employed some strategies to help people in poverty meet basic needs.

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 Once I saw that we were not the ultimate arbiters of divine truth but flawed human beings, I couldn't pretend otherwise. I couldn't justify our actions -- especially our cruel practice of protesting funerals and celebrating human tragedy. These shifts in my perspective

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 the closest we've come but uh being a tyrant is obviously obviously a problem because tyrants are tyrannical thank you that's the best fight I've ever made in my life and they're literally cruel and oppressive by definition um and like I said you know because of our

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 can be tricky but we do our best sadly not all foxes can be released over the years secret world has rescued foxes that have been cruelly kept as pets unfortunately these animals would never survive in the wild as they have become so accustomed to

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 we love in order to quench our physical and psychological desires. Humans are designed to procreate, but without the ecstasy of passionate love, sex is unsatisfying. Our fear of the cold, cruel world tempts us to build hard shells

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 be really beneficial for the leopard seals in getting better at catching harder to catch prey such as gentoo penguins so what appears to be kind of bad natured cruel behavior on the part of the leopard seal may be really important

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 some people think that's inhumane to catch an animal in a trap it's really no more cruel for an animal to die in a trap than it is to be crushed in the jaws of a wolf or died over a period of a month of starvation that is life in

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 and, of course, my heartbreak; listen to my sometimes catty, sometimes churlish, sometimes silly self being cruel, unforgiving, uncouth; listen, deeply, deeply ashamed, to the worst version of myself,

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