cruel blow

It was a cruel blow to the five men who had struggled to be first.

To lose total victory now, when he was so close, would be a cruel blow.

To be prevented from seeing her and his children after all these years was a cruel blow.

The physician said that you had received a cruel blow.

Yet with their very first attack, the visitors struck a cruel blow.

He came upon Seal from behind and struck him a cruel blow on the side of the face.

It was a cruel blow: he had a loaded gun.

For a culture that prizes visibility, it was a cruel blow.

I feared that you were dead, from the effect of so many cruel blows."

Yet she had struck the slave by far the cruelest blow.

And last year was the cruelest blow of all for New York.

His verdict is a cruel blow to the self-esteem of American journalism.

A cruel blow to us all, but even cruder to you, I'm sure.

The shock of her husband's death had been a cruel blow to her.

This had been a cruel blow, but it wouldn't stop her from ensuring that justice was done.

That they didn't was a cruel blow to them.

It would have been the cruellest blow of his long and illustrious career.

He'd almost caught up with them when the fates dealt him a cruel blow.

Nevertheless, his love for them survived these cruel blows.

As he begins to appeal for clemency, the final cruel blow sounds.

W3 I know, it has been a cruel blow.

Black comedy about the cruel blows of fate suffered by a professional loser.

And that is when Mother Nature deals him the cruelest blow of all.

"The cruel blow was in loving Cato, who refused to be loved."

But as an eager eater, I would find it a cruel blow not to be able to eat meat.