They must have seemed a cruel mockery to prisoners at the time, but from this vantage point they seem to speak of natural renewal.

The ice woman responded with a sway of body that said hips were moving in cruel mockery beneath her clothing.

No false trail here; just a cruel mockery of what might have been.

But Jack's cruel mockery of that idea and the boys' terror defeat Simon.

Her childhood had been a cruel mockery, and her marriage an absolute sham.

The four days' journey promised in Aptos seemed a cruel mockery.

Despite the cruel mockery of situation, he was regal.

Such a search would have seemed superfluous and vile, a cruel mockery of men so close to death.

His glance, charged with cruel mockery, took in every line of her pallid face.

It was a gallows scene, a cruel mockery of her youth and unfulfilled potential.