Water is a good servant, but it is a cruel master.    From LearnThat.org.  [John Bullein.]

Whoever assigned eight A.M. for Molecular Biology 201 gave new meaning to the term cruel and unusual punishment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The God Hater] Reference

The term cruel includes the concept of intent - an intention to inflict pain and/or suffering.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolution Weekend to focus on environment - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

'Now that's what I call a cruel question!' cried Mike humorously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Demos] Reference

They say civilians are also targets in what they call cruel attacks.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 13, 2001] Reference

You must not stop loving them at all because they do what you call cruel things.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tattine] Reference

During the continuance of this paroxysm Agrippina bitterly reproached her son for what she termed his cruel ingratitude.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nero Makers of History Series] Reference

Some would call it cruel — fair or unfair, right or wrong.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of Eight Belles prompts questions] Reference

Still, there was a certain cruel logic in his pronouncements.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colonel Cross of the Gurkhas] Reference

Dutch are averse, considering the terms cruel and unjust, as they evidently are.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1] Reference

Yes, reason itself deified and prodigal in cruel acts of cunning, according to Hegel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Octavio Paz - Nobel Lecture] Reference

It's just plain cruel to start the teasers this early blog comments powered by Disqus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lost Teaser: “January 2009 - Destiny Calls” | /Film] Reference

The rebels were defeated, many of them being taken prisoner and put to death in cruel ways.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Island Story: A History of England for Boys and Girls] Reference

Local politicians are calling for an end to the study, which they call cruel and unjustified.    From Wordnik.com.  [Assistance Placebos: City Denying Half Homeless Aid For Study] Reference

I had to accustom myself so that I could help my child learn that the world is a vain cruel place.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Pox On Me | Her Bad Mother] Reference

To label any of these processes cruel is to impose particularly silly 21st-century human prejudices.    From Wordnik.com.  [David E.] Reference

The fairy story was just plain cruel, and had no place in the benevolent-in-the-end universe of Dr. Who.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tube Bits For 08/27/07] Reference

"You have a great expression in English: 'cruel but fair,'" he says by way of describing his character on the show.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Percussionist as Melodist] Reference

Peter, whom we call the cruel, and whom the Spaniards, with more reason, call the lover of justice, was then at Seville.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 339, November 8, 1828] Reference

She disconcerted him with what vain men call a cruel snub.    From Wordnik.com.  [Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise] Reference

"It was what I might call a cruel twist of fate for both those teams," said.    From Wordnik.com.  [www2.timesdispatch.com - News] Reference

Freydis is described as a cruel, hard-hearted, enterprising woman, “mindful only of gain.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology] Reference

Jews are described as cruel, corrupt, cowardly and deceitful, and they are called the killers of prophets.    From Wordnik.com.  [TimesWatch Headlines] Reference

Navonne, that square upon which Domitian had his circus, and which recalls the cruel pageantries of imperial Rome.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

He recalled the cruel answer, "Nothing doing," that she had indorsed on the stage-door letter he sent her long ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [We Can't Have Everything] Reference