Where others had seen cruelty, she had seen only passion.
He had seen war and cruelty, death and dismemberment.
Today we see cruelty, indifference, self-interest and self-delusion in such arguments.
A moment's reflection would have helped him to see the folly, cruelty, and hypocrisy of trying to force someone to acknowledge this.
He later wrote: "I saw here cruelty on a scale no living being has ever seen or expects to see".
They've seen horrible human cruelty and degradation, but they don't have time or the money for therapy.
Nobody could look at this picture and fail to see cruelty.
Resisting that claim, we may ask: Seeing cruelty, suffering and death - shouldn't a person be depressed?
To see such cruelty still thriving in this modern age is an affront to allhonourable men.
Here he saw the "grim misery and cruelty of the Franco regime".