5 sentences with 'cruelty'
Example sentences and phrases with the word cruelty and other words derived from it.
• « Rome achieved remarkable things, but it did so through appalling cruelty and staggering levels of violence. »
• « According to biographers, Caligula quickly gained a reputation for cruelty and megalomania, enjoying executions (or simple assassinations) as forms of entertainment and spending vast sums on spectacles of power. »
• « Almost all philosophers claimed that the legitimacy of a monarch was based on his rule coinciding with the prosperity of the nation and the absence of cruelty and injustice in the laws of the land. The implication was that the people have the right to judge the monarch in terms of his competence and rationality. »
• « It is not possible to say that he lived in a sarcophagus and came out at night in search of blood, but because of his cruelty he seems to be the real Count Dracula who was revived 450 years later thanks to Bram Stoker's novel. »
• « English writers and others seized on the idea of Spanish cruelty to support their own colonisation projects. By demonising the Spanish, they justified their own efforts as more humane. »