| When hunting was banned, there was much insincere, scientifically discredited waffle about cruelty to animals. |
| It is tempting to criticize the trial by ordeal, wager of law and judicial combat for their apparent irrationality and cruelty. |
| Those of us who have spent many years in animal welfare work have often come to see the worst of animal cruelty, abuse and neglect. |
| When not hypercritical, women often deny that there's any truth to female intra-gender cruelties. |
| She is a tightly fitted mask of compulsive politeness pulled over both great grief and corrosive, unhealed cruelties. |
| If we are not restrained by conventions, traditions or rules we are all capable of grotesque cruelties. |
