wanton cruelty

Anything was possible, but Robilard didn't have a reputation for wanton cruelty.

How it feels to be hurt by wanton cruelty.

Perhaps scarring him with such evidence of wanton cruelty.

- it is plain that he took no pleasure in wanton cruelty.

The second hurtful aspect of this case is the absolute and wanton cruelty involved.

"We have all been sickened by the acts of wanton cruelty over the past months," said Akma.

The rule of life was ruthlessness, but there is more wanton cruelty today than ever we dreamed of.

It seemed an image to provoke violence-to beckon to the most wanton cruelty in a male heart.

Of course, to complain about this wanton cruelty might actually earn the director more viewers and more dollars.

The sheer brutality, the wanton cruelty overwhelmed even Marit.

The King refuses to kill his friend, whom he admires and likes, objecting to such wanton cruelty.

Even now, a week after the nine were charged, the authorities are still trying to determine what if anything besides wanton cruelty prompted such an attack.

'O, I never can forgive the wanton cruelty of Uncle!'

Forgrin's jaw tightened at the wanton cruelty of Ferahgo, but he obeyed.

Stern, just, and inflexible, as he was when Tribune, his fault was never that of wanton cruelty.

At any rate, these guerrillas kept up in their trees and showed not only courage but wanton cruelty and barbarity.

Jeslek had always been devious and self-centered, but he appeared to be developing a streak of almost wanton cruelty.

The senselessness and wanton cruelty of slaying this inoffensive little man bewildered the tribune.

In 1822, the courts in New York ruled that wanton cruelty to animals was a misdemeanor at common law.

Contrarily, a supercriminal who dealt in such calculating methods could resort to wanton cruelty, if it would better serve a purpose.

What wanton cruelty!

Do not think yourself excused by any weakness, any natural defect of understanding on her side, in the wanton cruelty so evident on yours.

He plays the madman most, when he treats Ophelia with so much rudeness, which seems to be useless and wanton cruelty.

"Killing Officer Tinbane," Sebastian said, "was a dreadful act of wanton cruelty.

In 1809 Erskine "introduced into the Lords a Bill for the prevention of malicious and wanton cruelty to animals".