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At times it was difficult to believe how cruel the cancer could be.
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How cruel to think you'd won the title, to have 10 or 20 seconds of utter jubilation, only to discover that it had been an illusion.
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Suddenly he saw clearly how cruel it was.
NEWYORKER: Tenth of December
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He wanted to tell her many things, like how sorry he was to have been cruel to her dog, and how surprised even he was at how well his leg was holding up.
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How could a real human be so cruel?
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"The cowards who attacked Malala and her fellow students have shown time and again how little regard they have for human life and how low they can fall in their cruel ambition to impose their twisted ideology, " he said in a statement.
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He explained that his programme would not be able to stop people making cruel comments, but it could help them learn how to deal with them.
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It was a cruel finish for Black Cats boss Roy Keane, who will wonder how his side left White Hart Lane with nothing after a determined second-half performance.
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To see how the polymerase seeks out the promoter, Dr Bustamante and his colleagues played a cruel trick.
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And then there were those cruel, sudden gaps, the clearings where she stood alone, not knowing how to return.
NEWYORKER: Naima
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'" Even now, as in his movies, Mr. Allen nurses the notion that the certainty of death makes life a cruel joke: "We all know the same truth and our lives consist of how we choose to distort it.
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She has obviously internalized its dictates and knows to be careful about what she says and how she says it, even as the stirrings of her own heart begin to lead her away from the cruel utilitarianism of her world.
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