"cruel" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The figures, though, are a cruel parody.
- The likeliest intent of the Roman soldiers was a cruel parody of the civic crown worn by the emperor.
- Surely this is just a test, a cruel parody of independence lasting only until she comes home empty-handed, when Whilky might feel justified in tightening her leash.
- For these two were emotionally fixated on that monster, bonded to it by sentiments which were the cruellest parody of love and of family attachment.
- White social engineers made such a cruel parody of ethnicity in order to reinforce apartheid that to talk of such things now sounds vaguely reactionary.
- The play provoked bitter controversy, especially from people who saw its central character, a ruthless politician, as a cruel parody of Australia's deputy prime minister, Peter Costello.
- This was not the elderly sorcerer but some cruel parody.
- One has collapsed into itself, a cruel parody of a smile, and yellow foam peeks out from the gashes in the fabric of its arms.
- It is clear early on that it would not take a lot of doctoring to turn this piece into a comic, if cruel, parody of itself and the genre.
- Their faces were like the grotesque masks of street carnivals, their clothes the cruel parodies of stamping clowns.
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