As a child I used to hear of his cruelty.

In fact we are looking at the cruelty of history.

The cruelty of children comes as news to no one.

He seemed to have a cruelty far beyond his years.

What about those who look at the cruelty in the world and say, where is God today?

It was only now she began to understand her cruelty.

In the end, there is cruelty and death alone over the land.

The stories about his cruelty have also been made up.

No, the real cruelty in this case is to her man.

That I, who have done so many good things, should know such cruelty!

Yet they were given no food, and what is that if not cruelty?

He had left this too long and now it seemed a kind of cruelty.

He says she has paid the price for her cruelty.

The stories were about his cruelty to the people he killed.

If so, there are more serious issues involved here than cruelty.

"I thought your second husband had some money," he said, with a little too much cruelty.

This cruelty is all to do with looks and style.

Their cruelty has not even been the base result of fear.

I could see the purpose in him, and the cruelty.

It would be cruelty, he said, for her to continue living in such pain.

To give an empty hope to the rest was little better than cruelty.

Perhaps it was part of his cruelty to keep her waiting this way.

No one had ever been mean to her, but she knew about cruelty and hurt.

"If more people were like me, there might not be such cruelty and violence in the world."

In other words, the cruelty was then taken for granted.