Life is not as cruel as you And the crueler you consider life, the crueler you'll be.
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The short month has been crueler in years following elections.
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The way people grow crueler or kinder as you do.
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The actual metamorphoses of aging are crueler than even Kafka's.
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It would've meant going back to a crueler, harsher time.
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Kanghua's approach was obviously crueler and intended to humiliate his target.
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Because, there is no one Camille is crueler to than herself.
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And the crueler he became, the more I craved his love.
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Alas, the real world of 2019 is much crueler than that.
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But charging adolescents as adults makes the state crueler, not safer.
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It just so happens that certain kitchens are crueler mistresses than others.
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The wider the class divide between us, the crueler men often became.
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Although that might sound cruel, it's hardly any crueler than nature itself.
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But the online conversation has soured since then, and blowback can be crueler.
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Trump decided he preferred to exercise his discretion to take a crueler approach.
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It grew sophisticated, crueler, but also at times illuminating and at others cryptic.
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Brent is crueler than his American cousin, less self-aware, and just as awkward.
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But sunshine can be crueler than the dark, because there is nowhere to hide.
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The process of moving and killing these animals is crueler than you might imagine.
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You might remember them from your school days, but today's critters may be even crueler.
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Sarah's game plan: I wouldn't say that I'm smarter than Ross, but I am infinitely crueler.
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As critics became crueler and Kate got older, she reached more and more for her mother.
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It appears they like the much crueler amendment that waives both EHBs and preexisting condition protections.
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GOP leaders have reached the cusp of passing a health care bill paradoxically: by making it crueler.
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Darwin's survival of the fittest governs inside a tumor, selecting for a crueler version of the disease.
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The Asylum Reform and Border Protection Act would make a harsh and rights-violating system even crueler.
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Many pension plans across the country, both public and private, are headed to a similar or crueler fate.
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But instead of inspiring some goofy but harmless memes, Hathaway's ambition gave rise to something much crueler: Hathahate.
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A cruel time in a crueler month where a week goes by with nary a game in sight.
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Struggling with losing control of her reign after senior year, Selah becomes crueler to those closest to her.
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I'm not sure this is any crueler than what we've seen on The Bachelor or 90 Day Fiance.
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She justifiably spends a lot of time on the crueler forms of compulsion, which recur distressingly often in history.
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The problem was not one of faulty implementation; Jackson's own actions made the process of removal bloodier and crueler.
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Photo: APOther extermination techniques have been rejected because they've been deemed unsafe, inefficient, unproven, or even crueler than brain bashing.
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Many, many years ago, in a crueler world, hoaxes and pranks that were pulled had a much more sinister nature.
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But Game of Thrones has done a good job this season of pulling back from some of its crueler tendencies.
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Both strive to debunk the James Bond spy narrative by showing its darker, crueler, and emotionally and physically damaging underbelly.
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The unusual timing of this tap has the MMA community and a few of the crueler fighters questioning Northcutt's heart.
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Mother Nature is known to be cruel, but humans are most certainly crueler — perhaps even when we don't mean to be.
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"Come that time, they will complete their incomplete dreams and they will be crueler than in the past," Ms. Jami said.
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To be friends requires equality, and to tell yourself otherwise is an even crueler lie than simply treating the "other" as subhuman.
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Even though Anon-IB has only been offline for two years, the sites sharing NCP online have gotten considerably crueler, said Bowden.
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School 2017 This Korean drama series is about an extremely competitive, soul-crushing South Korean high school that's probably crueler than yours.
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It was that day that I realized that McDonald's might be the greatest place of refuge from the crueler realities of adulthood.
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Technology and apps have made rejection less personal but also, at times, crueler, banishing people into the ether without explanation or apology.
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David Brooks's Tuesday column for The New York Times is titled "Donald Trump's Sad, Lonely Life," and it only gets crueler from there.
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And for all of his bluster in The Force Awakens, Ren's going to come back crueler and angrier than ever in Episode VIII.
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There have been few periods in history crueler to women than the rule of the Taliban, which governed Afghanistan from 21 to 29.
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Their bill has a mandate, just a crueler one that waits to get u until u sign up for insurance after a gap.
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Conditions right now are dirtier, more dangerous, and significantly crueler than they ever were at Ellis Island -- most pointedly so where children are concerned.
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With the world lately feeling so completely out of whack, it seemed an even crueler blow to also lose Bill Cunningham this past weekend.
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Trouble is, people like Marta are already demonized by bigger and crueler buffoons than the Thrombeys — and there's no fortune waiting to save them.
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"I was different, and no one is crueler than a pack of humans faced with someone who is different," Rhimes said in her keynote speech.
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I think some of my drawings could be compared to the fairy tales of a darker and crueler kind, that still manage to entertain their readers.
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It was a tale as old as time: New girl enters school and soon realizes that teenagers are cruel — and teenaged girls can be even crueler.
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It's also important to understand that it's a much uglier and crueler environment that it was pre-Roe, and that's true in our country writ large.
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They may even qualify as animal cruelty (but no crueler, it should be said, than what's suffered daily by hundreds of millions of factory-farmed animals).
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She opens herself up to him, yet he leaves, and her flirtation with the next guitarist is tougher, crueler; this time, she's the one to go.
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In particular, the almost complete absence of the religious right was felt at the earlier convention, which was angrier and maybe even crueler because of it.
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On the other hand, the premise of this question — that literature can be edifying, and temper the crueler impulses of power — I wonder if that's even true.
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Climate change brings stifling summers, worse flooding from storms, rising sea levels, crueler droughts and ever-longer allergy seasons, among a slew of other extreme weather effects.
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Torture-porn masquerading as drama Bryan Bishop: It's been easy to look the other way while The Walking Dead has indulged in its crueler, more vulgar tendencies.
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Roger Anderson decided that telemarketers deserved a crueler fate, so he programmed an artificially intelligent bot that keeps them on the line for as long as possible.
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Ending it on a note of near-total uncertainty, with virtually none of its major story lines resolved for either good or ill, is somehow even crueler.
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Whenever characters dare to open themselves up to another person on the show, they're punished not by their confidante, but by crueler forces in the universe itself.
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But "The Office" — a drabby workplace sitcom that debuted in 503 and was adapted from Ricky Gervais's crueler British mockumentary series — has become Netflix's most-watched show.
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Yet even as the emotional stakes turn crueler, the tenderness in Beanpole's unspoken yearning, as well as flashes of beauty and dark comedy, keep brutality in check.
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To be mad at Sicario 2 simply for existing in a world where the country that produced it has turned even crueler is choosing the wrong target.
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But in every way that mattered he made those changes worse, our culture coarser and crueler and more sterile than liberalism or feminism or freedom of speech required.
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It has been a hot and mean summer in Letcher County, with a rash of coal mine bankruptcies and layoffs even crueler than the ones that came before.
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We can't protect these abused children by allowing the president to use them as hostages to negotiate further escalation and build an even crueler, more powerful, more repressive machine.
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Under Daniel's guidance, Luke starts to break out of his antisocial shell, but when Luke resists Daniel's crueler suggestions, the film transforms in surreal, gory fashion, as does Daniel.
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Turning a likable and sympathetic character into an antagonist who must be defeated is a much crueler twist, and one that's fit for the creator of the Red Wedding.
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"I'm sorry," I called after her, crossing the street to get away because it would have been crueler to tell her that I would never be able to love her.
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It's just an excuse for people to do what they were doing already but more—the gears shifting, the speed increasing, as the whole world becomes colder, crueler, and worse.
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"And most of all we don't deserve a President who goes out of his way to make life in America harder, crueler, pettier," Biden told supporters at a rally on Wednesday.
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As Senate Republicans drag out this healthcare debate, each proposal they envision crueler than the one before it, they're forcing families like mine onto a new emotional roller coaster of uncertainty.
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So as much as I would also enjoy devoting my silver years to long, "John Wick"-ian episodes of bloodthirsty revenge, there are crueler and yet more productive things we can do.
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His tweets against immigrants may be cruel, but his actions are crueler, particularly the pattern of tearing children away from their refugee parents at the border and sending them to foster care.
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I'm just not convinced the Purge series, no matter how woke it gets, is aware of what it's really doing when it piles so much of our present into its alternate, crueler universe.
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But if we want to avoid the crueler policies from popping up again during future crises, the research suggests that tearing down racial boundaries will need to be a part of the solution.
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To detractors, Churchill's views on the superiority of white people, his refusal to distribute wheat to starving people in India in 1943 and disparaging remarks about Mahatma Gandhi are evidence of a crueler statesman.
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These people are able to say a lot crueler of things because it's such a dehumanized way of speaking … a lot of things affected how I looked at myself and my idea of self-worth.
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Whereas comics have in the past told shocking jokes because they delighted in saying the unsayable or just wanted to lighten grief with humor, Shaffir seems to be aiming for something different, more nihilistic, crueler.
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Rumors around the potential changes were far crueler than what was actually proposed by the Department of Homeland Security in September, which increased the number of ways a visa or green card could be denied.
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Sansa is less violent about it, but her form of punishment would actually be crueler — she would cast them out of their ancestral homes and strip them of their lands just as winter has come.
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As climate change brings more stifling summers, worse flooding from storms and rising sea level, crueler droughts and ever-longer allergy seasons, what Americans consider a nice place to live may shift, along with Americans themselves.
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For the record, while both wins were equally unfair, and exactly as unfair and exactly as inevitable as every game that the Warriors have played against every other team this year, the first one was crueler.
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By 1985, in one of the crueler ironies of the century, gay men had learned that the liberation of the libido, the casting-off of eons-old shame, had exposed them to an implacable, hitherto unknown virus.
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As Matt Yglesias wrote: An order intended to be cruel seems like it's being implemented in a manner that is actually crueler than intended simply because the president of the United States and his senior staff are careless.
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Again, racism was always a part of it, but as it becomes mainstream and commercialized around 1840, and especially after the Civil War, blackface becomes much crueler, much more about mockery, much meaner and uglier and more hateful.
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This worship infects "blue" as well as "red" regions: Michael Bloomberg benefited from it when he won three terms as mayor of New York City, a place full of poverty that got crueler and more unequal under his watch.
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Editorial A year after transgender Americans secured the right to defend their nation as equals in the military service, President Trump, in one of his crueler series of tweets, declared on Wednesday that he was banishing them from serving.
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The narrative of Ivanka as a moderating influence on her father's crueler impulses suffered another setback last Thursday, when the president announced, over her objections, that United States would pull out of the Paris accord, a major climate change agreement.
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Imagining him as a dictator, a sadistic bully along the lines of Biff Tannen in Back to the Future Part II, leads us to think of him in terms of how his personality might make America a crueler, coarser place.
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Because that permission has been granted, "Playtest" looks like another relatively lighthearted episode at first, which makes it all the more unsettling when it gets darker and crueler, leading to one of the most cynical endings in the show's history.
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William, who brought Dolores in from Westworld to play the piano (a cruel joke to play on the woman he once loved, and an even crueler jab at his wife), suggests that the solution to Delos' problem is currently being worked on.
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As a consequence, one of the most vivid examples of the importance of a kind and sensible health insurance system has been cordoned off from the active, urgent debate in Congress over whether the health insurance system should be crueler and more irrational.
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Duplass seems to have concluded that a similarly complete look at Shapiro's record reveals he isn't exactly the person he presents himself to be when speaking to mainstream audiences — a thoughtful #NeverTrump conservative — but in fact is someone far cruder and crueler.
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In both Black Panther and the X-Men films, the heroes — Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart / James McAvoy) and T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman) — have to confront enemies that are dark mirrors of themselves, the people they might have been, had life just been a bit crueler.
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To whom is the beginning of fall crueler: the kid who has to fill their backpack with heavy books and freshly sharpened pencils and haul ass to another first day of school, or the adult whose life is pretty much the same, just colder?
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It was a crueler, more broken game that respected players' time less, left critical bugs and more severe combat imbalances in place for far longer, and fumbled its first big expansion by changing too much and rushing it out the door just a few months after launch.
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He's coming back crueler in Episode VIII Ren's petty, vain, and thoughtless, but he can also stop blaster bolts in mid-air and drag people around by the throat with his mind, giving his aggression a regular out that's unchecked in the violence of the First Order.
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Caught in a marital tangle far crueler than the 20th-century woes of Charles and Diana, Sophia Dorothea was never able to see England, where her son would one day ascend the throne as George II. Before George I became king there, he took a mistress.
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In those crueler times, hurling cats from a great height on what came to be known as "Cats Wednesday" was apparently seen in Ypres as both a practical solution and a source of gruesome entertainment — the more so because popular superstitions linked cats to witchcraft and the devil.
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The Russian winter is "not a season of the year like other seasons, not merely a longer, darker, crueler span of time than that which annually slows the countries of northern Europe and America," my father, George Feifer—a journalist who spent decades chronicling Soviet society—wrote in the 1980s.
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To follow the doings of Donald Trump even briefly is to be constantly bombarded with a stream of indignities, breaches of protocol, reality-warping lies, and extended middle fingers, ranging from the petty (his staff photoshopping him to look thinner) to the outrageous (brazen efforts to make our cruel health care system even crueler).
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And as cruel as it seems to many Americans to deport people they think of as blameless children, it's arguably crueler to take official government recognition and security away from someone who hasn't done anything to provoke the revocation, and who handed all of her personal information over to the government in order to receive protection.
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House GOP source says exec order is supposed to have exemption for ppl in transitSeems clear rollout allowed much confusion among agencies Consequently, an order intended to be cruel seems like it's being implemented in a manner that is actually crueler than intended simply because the president of the United States and his senior staff are careless.
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" The poems' mashing together of tormented syntax and overwrought emotionalism with strict formality in the handling of the sonnet form (which, wisely, Skoggard has not tried to emulate) has led to results that are often rebarbative, sometimes ridiculous: "But for my lips slow to confess a master / Waited who should better mark them / The hand which hesitates itself to give / / To friend is by him seized a crueler guide / So that the heart which loved in secret / Must now be spilled for all to see in rhymes.
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