Time can be cruel toward even the most enduring of human creations.
Jazz pianist Cyrus Chestnut and pop icon Elvis Presley aren't a likely pairing: Chestnut is one of the top pianists of a generation born many years after songs like "Love Me Tender, " "Hound Dog" and "Don't Be Cruel" made Presley the king of rock 'n' roll.
Running the phone against only the Galaxy S III sounds like it would be a cruel and unusual punishment, and of course that superphone wins on every count -- but the 1.6GHz Medfield phone still copes admirably.
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Lewis, who never anticipated feeling intense romantic love, finds this twist of fate inconceivably cruel: the great experience of his life turns out to be a case of too much, too late.
Instead of forcing us to replicate long swipe gestures using a mouse (which would be cruel to all concerned), Microsoft is putting forward these little key combos as the primary means of navigation on traditional desktop PCs that don't have touchscreens.
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They rejected that the Amish's placement in different prisons is cruel and unusual and said moving him would be a waste of taxpayer money.
The Hound is crude but sympathetic, a dog of war to be sure, but not so cruel or merciless as his brother or the king.
For the most part, these scenes appear to be staged, but they are no less cruel or brutal than any of the other videos so far discussed.
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It would also be cruel to run brain scans on someone who was possibly facing the moment of death.
Anti-death penalty activists say lethal injections - introduced in Florida and other states as a replacement for the electric chair and other methods of execution - are just as cruel and should not be considered a more humane substitute.
At first, treatment of those who admitted they had the disease could be rudimentary and cruel.
The problem is, and always has been, that the very nature of synergies is that they are cruel entities that appear to be easy pickings but really are much more challenging to recognize, much less capitalize upon.
And while a rejuvenated Bristol are breathing the rarefied air of the Premiership, Evans could be rattling round a half-empty Stoop, a fallen squire cursing the cruel realities of the modern game.
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"It depends on who comments are being levelled at - to a class of children, where there will be a distribution of body sizes, it is important to know being overweight can lead to diabetes, but it is more of a psychological issue than a health issue - and children can be extremely cruel, " he says.
He goes through the painful process of de-idealizing his parents, discovering that his father could be arrogant and cruel and that even his protector, Dumbledore, had a shameful past.
"If we can find a better solution to paying for care, one day we might be able to replace the cruel "dementia taxes" we have at the moment and build a system meeting all of a person's needs - mental, physical, social - rooted in NHS values, " he added.
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