| 单词 | cruelty |
| 例句 | The cruelty of it—the bizarreness of being forced to look happy about handling creatures who could kill you as soon as look at you—was one thing she wouldn't miss about working here. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The ban on phone calls was, then, purely punitive, just as the pepper-spraying of the child-man had been born of a combination of opportunity, cruelty, ambivalence, and sport. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z There was so much in that word: strength, resilience, luck, along with the shadow of whatever crime or cruelty had been survived. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Then there was the ragged bark of the newspaper editor, a tone that coupled wisdom with an unlimited capacity for cruelty. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “Mr. Scoresby, that is the way this world works. And if you want to put an end to cruelty and injustice, you must take me farther on. I have a job to do.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Saying that one does not care about race is offered as an exculpatory virtue, when in fact it can be a form of cruelty. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z To have been granted so tiny a taste of the nectar of her mouth, and so brief a brush with the velvet of her lips was unspeakable cruelty. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Word of his cruelty spread throughout the region, provoking jealous admiration among the men of his class. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The destruction of humanity they wrought in that quest was not, and is not, seen for what it was: absolute greed and cruelty. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Her lips closed and straightened and her wide-set eyes narrowed with cruelty. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z This could not have arisen from anything other than his inhuman cruelty, which, along with his many other virtues, made him always venerable and terrifying in the eyes of his soldiers. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Little Walder had become Lord Ramsay’s best boy and grew more like him every day, but the smaller Frey was made of different stuff and seldom took part in his cousin’s games and cruelties. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Insensate cruelty to those you can whip, and groveling submission to those you can’t. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Their was the demented cruelty of egocentric children, and somehow this made their insensate beastliness much more heartbreaking. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Charles recalled too clearly the cruelty of his Efik captors, taunting him and his father, telling them that the white men had sharp teeth and purchased slaves to eat them soulless. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Capturing images suddenly seems to her an act of cruelty. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z There was real fear mixed up in his love, and the precipitate from the mixing of these two is cruelty. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z We see all the beauty, and cruelty, and sadness, and love. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z We used every cruelty we could think of on Mr. Fenchel. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It was inevitable that she should accept any inconsistency and cruelty from her deity as all good worshippers do from theirs. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z I must admit that cruelty and force exerted against weakness turn me sick with rage, but this would be equally true in the treatment of any weak by any strong. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Las Casas, a conquistador who repented of his actions and became a priest, spent the second half of his long fife opposing European cruelty in the Americas. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The king's own fool, the pie-faced simpleton called Moon Boy, danced about on stilts, all in motley, making mock of everyone with such deft cruelty that Sansa wondered if he was simple after all. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The cruelty of racial prejudice was so often accompanied by absurdity, a tangle of arbitrary rules and distinctions that subverted the shared interests of people who had been taught to see themselves as irreconcilably different. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Because he never underestimates the cruelty of those we face. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z With insults and threats they led her in to Colonel Garcia, whom she could recognize blindfolded by his habitual cruelty, even before he opened his mouth. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They wanted him to exercise such qualities on the people, so that they might double their salary and give vent to their avarice and cruelty. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z He thinks of little cruelties, small slights, minor snubs. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He entertained it, his voice unctuous with pleasure and cruelty. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z We were also used to roughness and cruelty. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z He poked fun at those who fled the city, at the power of opium to banish pain, and at the cruelty and indifference of those outside the city. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z As she walked, she tried but couldn’t comprehend the incredible cruelty of the men who had done this. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “It said,” my father says, “that Marcus’s violence and cruelty toward his son is the reason his son chose Dauntless instead of Abnegation.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too will end, that peace and tranquility will return once more. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z She began to hate them for this disloyalty and their cruelty to each other. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the spotlight the Littleton, Colorado, killings has put on the fact that for so many individualistic, intelligent, and vulnerable kids, high school is a Hellmouth of exclusion, cruelty, loneliness, inverted values, and rage. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z To this was added even his own army, for while besieging Aquileia and finding the capture difficult, disgusted by his cruelty and fearing him less, seeing that Maximinus had many enemies, the soldiers murdered him. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z In short, such a scene of misery, distress, and cruelty, my eyes never beheld; for which the authors, one may reasonably conclude, never can make atonement in this world. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z She was quiet for a moment, and he said with deliberate cruelty, “No man will look at you, defaced as you are.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z I was so raw from repeated exposure to cruelty that now even the most minor abrasions left a mark. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z At the very top of the agenda: freedom from abuse, humiliation, and cruelty. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The jeering, hate-filled sound reminded Will of the merciless cruelty of children in a playground, but there were no teachers here to regulate things, no one to appeal to, nowhere to hide. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Avoiding the infirmary didn't mean escaping the net of cruelty Amon Goeth cast over the camp. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Nor should we forget the cruelty to animals who are used just so that we can satisfy our human desire for knowledge. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z And there are other images too, but they move faster, so I get only impressions of blood and bone and death and cruelty, empty faces, soulless eyes, terrified eyes. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z The staggering cruelty of the human race seemed to sink into her blood and bones. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Lancelot began to shudder, not at the knight but at the cruelty in himself. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z To make them realize that while we’re vulnerable to the Capitol’s cruelties, they are as well. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z I have known him to cut and slash the women’s heads so horribly, that even master would be enraged at his cruelty, and would threaten to whip him if he did not mind himself. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z It amazes me that there are so many different words to pray with, and so many people praying, but there is still so much misery and cruelty in the world. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z She thought of Cal’s eyes with their look of sluggish and fulfilled cruelty, peering at her as he slowly closed the door. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z We are probably a long, long way from a world without cruelty. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z That kind of cruelty was the norm in Jamaica. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z He went to inconceivable extremes of cruelty to put down the rebellion of his own officers, who resisted and called for victory, and he finally relied on enemy forces to make them submit. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z It was the most gratuitous sort of cruelty. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z It’s a shock to everyone when he says, the Battle of Kinsale in sixteen nought one was the saddest moment in Irish history, a close battle with cruelty and atrocities on both sides. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Usually cruelty inspired Ruth May no end, and I was just desperate to help her get her spirits back. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “I had longed to enter the world of men. Now I see it filled with sorrow, with cruelty and treachery, with those who would destroy all around them.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z And even as I was struggling to escape their cruelty, I was at the same time more terrified by the sound of the angry crowd in the distance. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Moreover, terrible stories were leaking out from Pinchfield about the cruelties that Frederick practised upon his animals. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Her hair seemed to be turning gray, a cruelty upon cruelty; there were too many clocks running. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “Then we shall all be destroyed, and cruelty will reign forever.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Hollow-eyed women and children, the casualties of a million cruelties, ran after Pennsy’s engines as they sped past. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z I used to think that cruelty required malice, but that is not true. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Two more Grievers broke from the pack and swarmed over Alby, piling on top of each other, snapping and cutting at the boy, as if they wanted to rub it in, show their vicious cruelty. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z His mother was slight and delicate and not made for field labor, she was too kind to endure the plantation’s battery of cruelties. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Board of Education decision by enrolling at an all-white high school in Arkansas, enduring many months of cruelty and abuse in the name of a higher principle. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I could tolerate any form of cruelty better than kindness. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “It’s a sorrowful thing, that kind of cruelty,” says Mr. Woodwell. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z To answer her, I write poems about the cruelty of mothers. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z Kate, as she had always, drove in the smart but senseless knife of her cruelty. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Her mind was all in a maze because of the cruelty of the command; and, indeed, it was of no use to start a task so manifestly impossible. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “I knew he was insolent, but never suspected such cruelty! Lock him in a shed, I say. For the sake of the fairies. Lock him up tight.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z But Ophie already realized what it likely was, and was moving toward the window, the cousins and their petty cruelties forgotten for the moment. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z The boy and his sister were angered at the cruelty of the boys. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z But the song was a work song Cora knew from the cotton rows, drawing her back to the Randall cruelties and making her heart thud. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I am dismayed by myself, by my cruelty and indifference, my lack of kindness. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Consequently we were not royal but snobbish, not aristocratic but class-conscious; we believed authority was cruelty to our inferiors, and education was being at school. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Yes, down the line, through poverty, hunger, wandering, cruelty, fear, and trembling, to death. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Those cruelties are badly used that, although few at the outset, increase with the passing of time instead of disappearing. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z In all fairness, I must add that this is the only ex-ample of deliberate cruelty I encountered on any of the city buses of New Orleans. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She was a forceful, engaging woman whom I first met when I was studying at Wits, and her death revealed the extent of the state’s cruelty in combating our struggle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z However, at ten years old, Kim knows he has to endure their cruelty to help feed his family. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Nothing left for the world to show you but the latest incarnations of cruelty. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Harry could hardly believe that Dumbledore would not have intervened if such cruelty was happening inside his own house, and yet there was undoubtedly something odd about the story. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Though it took enormous courage and virtue to risk your life in order to protect society, such selflessness also contained, at least from the vantage point of your loved ones, a hint of cruelty. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The so-called outcasts who sat alone had been sitting alone for so many years that it wasn’t so much cruelty as habit. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z I believe that this depends on whether cruelty be badly or well used. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z She remembered the cruelty of the 1986 season, her husband’s first, when Odessa was going through the worst economic crisis in its history. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I learned more about the cruelty of Jalazone life from the infectious diseases my brothers brought home. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z And right in the middle of her thought, Cal’s dark face hung in the air in front of her and his lips were smiling with cruelty. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He refused to submit to cruelty and tyranny. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Cesare Borgia was considered cruel; nonetheless, this cruelty of his brought order to the Romagna, united it, and restored it to peace and loyalty. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z I’d write about the cruelty of the parents who wouldn't let their children play with her. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z I laugh, and he covers his heart as though stung by cruelty. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Their cruelty had no limit—they preferred to kill their slaves rather than fear them. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The optimists were jubilant: “Well? What did we tell you? You wouldn’t believe us. 'T here they are, your Germans. What do you say now? Where is their famous cruelty?” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z At the time I believed Mrs. Moss had picked this song because she knew it meant something to me and this was another one of her cruelties. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z “Sadness can become cruelty. Remember that, ketzele. We do not know what happened to them in Germany. We should pity those women.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too—in a net of good and evil. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Look how she now prays to God to send someone to redeem her from these barbaric cruelties and insults. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, his vicious cruelty and inhumanity, along with numerous wicked deeds, do not permit us to honour him among the most excellent of men. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Just like its name, the place masked a whole lot of cruelty under a thin veneer of kindness. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z He had shown himself a monster of cruelty; he delighted in inflicting suffering. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z She had heard stories about the cruelties of slavery from the older black people around Martinsburg, West Virginia. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Ron ran to pick up Hedwig, who was causing such a scene that there was a lot of muttering about cruelty to animals from the surrounding crowd. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z “Learning Girl, I apologize for my son’s cruelty to you.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Shan glanced at Ifemelu and smiled and in that smile was the possibility of great cruelty. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z But he loves sea animals so much that I can understand how seeing the boys’ cruelty, after getting that letter from his mom, was like lighting the fuse on a firecracker. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z She faced the small tyrant, heir to Skathis in cruelty at least, if not in gift. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z But for his color—that extraordinary blue—there was nothing extraordinary about him besides the cruelty in his face. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z They spoke of the history of Village, how each of them there had fled poverty and cruelty and been welcomed at this new place that had taken them in. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z “Think back. Remember what he did, in his ignorance, in his greed and his cruelty.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z They knew his ignorance, his cruelty, his avarice, his appetites, his sins. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z The cruelty of children comes as news to no one. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Jody was not moved by an impulse of cruelty; he was bored with the long hot afternoon. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z We kids felt relieved when she directed her cruelty at someone else because it meant we were safe—at least for a while. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z One thing I do know was that I could not understand the morbid cruelty and satanic impulses that drove people to kill others. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “I told you he was horrible,” Roza said, only recognizing the cruelty of her words as she said them. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The grin may be fake, but in his eyes there’s nothing but confidence and the belief that his cruelty is justified. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Or a rigid figure, a woman with a cat’s head suggesting inflexible, inhuman cruelty. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Their illnesses may or may not have been exacerbated by social cruelty and alienation, they may or may not have been affected by access to violent imagery and/or lethal weaponry. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He felt in his heart cruelty and cowardice, the things which made him brave and kind. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z For one moment I glimpsed howling, sweating, red-and-white faces, distorted into hideous masks of hatred and cruelty, a sea of demon heads that bobbed restlessly outside our store. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z And the casual cruelty of this new world in which he had no say grew a hard clot of fear inside him. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He longed, nearly, for death, which was all that could release him from the cruelty of his chains. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Other than to show this girl that cruelty will not stop when you enter high school, I had no idea how this exercise was supposed to help anyone. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z She did not like to think of with what hardness of heart, what calculated weeping, what deceit, what cruelty she now went into battle with her aunt for her freedom. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Loki would say something, something cutting and clever and hurtful, but his life will have gone, and all his brilliance, and all his cruelty, and he will say nothing, not ever again. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z No one built weapons of cruelty like the Mud Men. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Its preferred prey is humans, which Magizoologists speculate is the result of the cruelty with which Phineas Fletcher was known to treat the unfortunate creatures in his power. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Truly, he has come by his cruelty honestly in Balekin’s care. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Her mother, for all their similarities, had possessed a majesty she didn’t, and a cruelty, too. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “Could any one fathom the cruelty beneath that fair exterior?” murmured Robert. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z There was the hint of cosmic cruelty that I felt when I saw the curved timbers of a wooden shack that had been warped in the summer sun. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Jack had meant to leave him in doubt, as an assertion of power; but Piggy by advertising his omission made more cruelty necessary. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Worse—sold south, with its fearsome legends of cruelty and abomination. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “It is impossible to found a civilization on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I mean the insidious, demoralizing fear of betrayal, of treachery, of cruelty, of being silenced. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z You saw the cruelty in Nergal's work; each plague dog suffered. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Rue's death has forced me to confront my own fury against the cruelty, the injustice they inflict upon us. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Of all the types of princes, the new prince cannot escape the reputation for cruelty, since new states are full of dangers. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Did this mean if I told May about T. Ray’s mounds of grits, his dozens of small cruelties, about my killing my mother—that hearing it, she would feel everything I did? The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Men and women read it, talked about it, cried over the death of Little Eva and of Uncle Tom, shuddered at the cruelty of Simon Legree. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z This community belonged to Poland, and the Polish nobles, who were Catholics, treated the Cossacks who lived there with cruelty and contempt. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z “I think I was positively creative in terms of my mental cruelty.” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And I felt in this a cosmic injustice, a profound cruelty, which infused an abiding, irrepressible desire to unshackle my body and achieve the velocity of escape. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z A simple life, away from the cruelty of men. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z This nation shouldn’t exist, if there is any justice in the world, for its foundations are murder, theft, and cruelty. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z She admired him for his cruelty; she loved to see the terror he spread abroad. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z My anger at how other students treated me now; how they pretended their original cruelty had never happened. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z The redness was up in her brain and her fear was gone and in its place was cruelty without caution. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z In those days a compliment to one was a compliment to the other, and cruelty to one was a challenge to the other. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z His manner changed and he said more harshly: “And you consider yourself morally superior to us, with our lies and our cruelty?” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Sissy was shocked when she heard this story of starvation and cruelty. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z A military junta had filled the vacuum of power, and the corruption and cruelty were as bad as ever. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Francie liked school in spite of all the meanness, cruelty, and unhappiness. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, the Yanomamo are relative newcomers to their homeland, many of them moving there only in the seventeenth century as they fled European diseases and cruelty further south. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Maybe it’s similar to the way, while watching our favorite soap opera, the Doctorita sobbed over the cruelty of Isaura’s enslavement while failing to see that she herself had enslaved me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Catherine is one of only four women in the class of ’31 and her cruelty knows no bounds. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z As a result, the entire world was moved by disgust at the baseness of his blood and by the hatred caused by fear of his cruelty. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Reminding me that there are no limits to his cruelty. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z She was prepared—his eyes brightened when he was on the verge of a cruelty. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “You will. You are too fond of your little cruelties. All of you.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Why don’t they see the cruelty they are causing? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z For all his selfishness and cruelty, Kaz was still the boy who had saved her. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Each of us was talented in his own way, and we both hated twelve-year-old males, a demographic group second to none in terms of cruelty. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z In taking the boat, most of the canoes, and some of the weapons from his famished troops, Orellana had displayed, Gonzalo said, “the greatest cruelty that ever faithless men have shown.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The cruelty smarts; my chest aches for him. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z A child cannot, thank Heaven, know how vast and how merciless is the nature of power, with what unbelievable cruelty people treat each other. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Showing one another our best and worst, revealing ourselves—even our cruelty and crimes—as if that fence had created a circle of trust. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z On green fields of battle as old warriors, surrounded by friends, fighting for their homes, fighting cruelty. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z It’s not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand, that motivates them. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z As the bomb explodes, it sends accusations of injustice and barbarism and cruelty flying out in every direction. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z I answer, a day that reveals to him more than all other days of the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z And with the cruelty of the world as an excuse for breaking his promise to Ryan, he used his sharp claws to climb the boot lining. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z “He remembered,” she read on in a loud, clear voice, “and he was determined to be avenged—avenged upon those who were the cause of all this misfortune, whose cruelty poisoned the whole world.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z He looked grim and tired, for his eyes were burning, there was an air of such impersonal cruelty about him that despite myself I shivered. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew it was wrong when the muck left my hand — it was folly and cruelty. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z But he did not need this offensive symbol to prove his cruelty. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Heavy with the cruelty of such an act. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Chas was a friendless jerk who navigated the seas of high school with his rudder fixed on a steady course of intimidation and cruelty. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I thought it would be Sass’s final cruelty to me, to make me be like her. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z I know it’s nothing to you now, but I was from a place—America— where cruelty toward humans who loved as their deepest instincts instructed was a kind of law. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z Reading her secrets and polite small cruelties of her heart, I believe she enjoyed taking the dumb grass by surprise, in her poem. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z An elderly veteran of the provincial forces in the late war recounted the peremptory cruelties and unmerited debaucheries of his officers in the King’s Army, sparing no cruel details of the lash and noose. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Parent-condoned sibling cruelty was a rare gift, and not to be wasted. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z But beauty can make people forgive a thousand cruelties. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modem life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z We are speaking of the collective white man’s cruelties, and evils, and greeds, that have seen him act like a devil toward the non-white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Awful stories about starving Belgians and cruelties of war. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z In the realm of power, Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty—necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Such areas were usually invisible to the press, and the government used their inaccessibility to veil the cruelty of the state’s actions. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was terrifying, almost unbelievable, the casualness of the cruelty. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was absolutely necessary that cruelty be used, because Billy wouldn’t do anything to save himself. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d like to walk away, too, but she grips my hand so tightly I would have to pry off her fingers, and I don’t have the strength for that kind of cruelty. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z They were a motley collection; a mixture of the weak seeking protection, the ambitious seeking some shared glory, and the thuggish gravitating toward a leader who could show them more refined forms of cruelty. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z I think were all shaken—not only at the cruelty of what we witnessed, but at the everydayness of it. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Ogres weren’t dangerous only because of their size and their cruelty. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z But I was blinded and had no use for reason, desiring only to take revenge on Cristiana for her cruelties to me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z There were wide currents full of meaning flowing fast around her; the Gobblers and their cruelty, their fear of Dust, the city in the Aurora, her father in Svalbard, her mother....And where was she? The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The effect of such an education was that he had grown up without any of the useful accomplishments for living—without malice, vanity, suspicion, cruelty, and the commoner forms of selfishness. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The cruelty is often more active and direct. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z As she grew older, Ammu learned to live with this cold, calculating cruelty. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The cruelty of it was a knife to her soul. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Only sugar—the sweetness we all crave—could drive people to be so cruel, and to combat all forms of cruelty. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z He showed me things I had never seen, cruelties and horrors all committed in the name of the Authority, all designed to destroy the joys and the truthfulness of life. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Violence for violence’s sake, cruelty for cruelty’s sake. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He needed to be sure that people feared his cruelty more than they craved freedom. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z It was said that he would not stop growing, and that if a butcher’s cruelty had not put an end to his existence, he would have reached the size of a camel. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z You see the cruelty required to produce eggs that can be sold for seventy-nine cents a dozen. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I thought about this many times after I became a teacher, and I told myself I’d never be that person who encourages or allows that kind of cruelty, for any reason.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z It’s Max, who appointed Eric to Dauntless leadership at Jeanine’s demand, who implemented policies of cruelty and brutality in Dauntless initiation. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z “How devastating. How delightful. Chic cruelty never goes out of style.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z It was more as if she had brought them up— perhaps through indifference or through laziness or even through some kind of possessive cruelty—with an imperfect sense of right and wrong. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z He saw the lack of respect white people accorded black people; the exclusiveness of white society; the injustices, mistreatments, and cruelties shown to blacks. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z You had only to look at Bolton to know that he had more cruelty in his pinky toe than all the Freys combined. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z After the cruelty at the Mosses’ and the boisterousness of the shelter, I relished the serene environment. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Even if animals can’t suffer like human beings, there is no excuse for the cruelty that goes on in our factory farms and feedlots. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Under the inmates’ surface bluster, their cruelty and selfishness, was almost always something ineffably sad. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Later he would regret his cruelty; it wasn’t even true that she had two boyfriends, he knew that. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z This wasn't the same Prince Brat who'd run away the night before, bored with his own meanness and haughtiness and cruelty. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z ‘All of us are drawn here, sustained not only by Gaia’s power but also by our strongest desires. Eurymachus’s greed. Antinous’s cruelty.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Like cruelty was currency, and the meaner you were, the richer you were. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The French writer Emile Zola, for example, thought that the Industrial Age had brought to working people untold misery and cruelty. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The cruelty of fate is that I must travel with the people I hate when the people I love are dead behind me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Their kindness hurt almost like cruelty, because there had been no kindness for Izio. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Ekon focused on a singular word, felt it etch itself into his psyche letter by letter with the cruelty of a dagger’s tip. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z In addition to war and crime and cruelty, we have to worry about environmental problems—about pollution, the growing hole in the ozone layer, the greenhouse effect, and global warming. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z His voice had an undertone of cruelty and greed, even while he was expressing his pleasure. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z I have often heard it said that cowardice is the mother of cruelty, and I have found by experience that malicious and inhuman animosity and fierceness are usually accompanied by weakness. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps in spite of all orders the cruelty of the orcs had mastered them, and they were tormenting Frodo, or even savagely hacking him to pieces. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Reflecting on it now, I’m not sure the injury changed him that much, but I convinced myself that it had, and that any cruelty on his part was entirely new. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Yes, Mitchell says looking back, “there were problems,” but he remembers them stemming from marital strife and tension between Kathie and his dad, not any cruelty on the part of his father. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Most of all, I wanted an apology for his cruelty. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z In the first two weeks of April 1893 the weather was gorgeous, but other cruelties abounded. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z There is no end to the audacity of human cruelty, and no political boundaries contain its gluttony. Exhibition Review: An Unseen Evil Still Ensnaring Countless Souls 2010-10-08T22:54:00Z Eight years ago in The Magdalene Sisters, his second movie as writer-director, took up the cudgels against the repressive cruelty of a Catholic institution for girls in the Ireland of the 1960s. Neds ? review 2011-01-23T00:05:53Z All that started to change in middle school, where social currency is made and spent and where cruelty and fear become daily facts of life. How Does a Novelist Write About a School Shooting? 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z Police found her there and charged Lashon Johnson with misdemeanor animal cruelty. Family abandons dog; strangers abuse it 2011-12-12T05:11:00Z Many of his greatest works, like “Ali: Fear Eats the Soul” and “The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant,” test their characters’ capacities for love and cruelty. Ready for Drama (and Meta-Drama)? Start With These Two Masters. 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z The Boo reappeared as The Bear in “The Lords of Discipline,” a twisty tale of loyalty, subterfuge, racial tension and cruelty centered on 10 undergraduates at the fictional Carolina Military Institute. Pat Conroy, Author of ‘The Prince of Tides’ and ‘The Great Santini,’ Dies at 70 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z His movement was a reaction to the cruelties of industrialization, theirs to the hypercapitalism that is ravaging the planet for profit. All-American socialism, from Eugene Debs to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z McTeer delivers one of the play's most famous lines, explaining why "cruelty," as opposed to "betrayal," is her favorite word: "I always think that has a nobler ring to it." Janet McTeer and Dominic West of stage-to-cinema 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses' revival talk cruelty 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z Save yourself from her cruelty, poor boundaries and breathtaking self-absorption. She knows about colleges because she’s an MBA (Mother with Bad Attitude) 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z The Academy Awards for the movies of 1988 were awash in bluntness, cruelty and acerbity. Uncouth, Cranky and Rude: Movies in 1988 Were a Far Cry From Today 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z It's universal and timeless, i.e. sibling rivalry, mother-daughter jealousies, father indifference and cruelty and family dysfunction, maybe more today than ever. V.C. Andrews felt she had "prophetic powers": Longtime ghostwriter on "Flowers in the Attic" author 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z Yet one of the story’s only endearing romances, Missandei and Grey Worm, is destined to remain unsullied, so to speak, thanks to past cruelties. On 'Game of Thrones,' an Awkward Dinner and a Stony Encounter 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z When society is confronted with people they don’t understand, it often reacts with intolerance or cruelty. WATCH: “When you’ve met one person with autism, you’ve met one person” 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z She captures natural behavior, whether she observes care or cruelty. ‘In My Blood It Runs’ Review: ‘I Want to Be an Aborigine’ 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z The comedy of cruelty is rarely funnier or more brutal than when it comes from Armando Iannucci, a virtuoso of political evisceration. Review: The Slapstick Horror of ‘The Death of Stalin’ 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z The atrocities we have seen in Aleppo this week serve as a stark reminder of why people are fleeing; that they should have to risk their lives trying to reach sanctuary is an unnecessary cruelty. Guardian and Observer readers raise over £500,000 for child refugees 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z Over the years Bausch has shown us the world through a set of eyes that twinkled knowingly, all the while exploring elements that make up the human experience: beauty, awkwardness, cruelty, lunacy, humor and despair. Dance Review: Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch Performs at BAM 2012-10-20T02:40:07Z Still, is it possible to write about unimaginable cruelty with the infantine levity of a jigsaw puzzle? The Absolute Originality of Georges Perec 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z When, after some misunderstandings and mutual cruelty, the men reunite in London, they wander the streets of Bloomsbury seeking "darkness and rain". Laurence Scott: rereading Maurice by EM Forster 2013-07-05T10:00:01Z But I think the hog factories described in “Wastelands” and the similar CAFOs in other states are forms of systematic animal cruelty. When Thousands of Hogs Are Your Neighbors 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z She is reading a book about the 1990s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which opened a nation's story-telling floodgates by hearing testimony about apartheid-era cruelty. South African musical creates a 1950s fantasy 2013-01-11T13:01:05Z Their ensuing attempts to build lives separate of one another, many of them failed, clarify the unique terms of a relationship that thrives on dysfunction and recreational cruelty. Casablanca to Starship Troopers: the movie breakups that hit our writers hardest 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z But to ask the authors of these documents to explain what they meant by Web 2.0 was to risk accusations of mental cruelty, for they generally knew not whereof they spoke. The death of Web 2.0 is nigh 2011-08-06T23:06:05Z But cruelty can also be furtive and insidious. New Books Update Our Thinking About Cruelty 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z They can remind us of the most dramatic, heroic moments of our lives, and of every small indignity and cruelty that has happened since. Sheryl Crow’s tumor damage control 2012-06-06T15:40:00Z Much looser in construction than last week's Viktor, created a decade earlier, Nur Du also tilts at more obvious targets, such as the cult of youth and the cruelties of the film industry. Zoi Dimitriou Company; Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch – review 2012-06-16T23:05:44Z And inherent in phrases like “ban men” and “male tears” are cruelty and violence. Sorry, Feminists: Misandry Isn't Funny 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z “It wasn’t out of cruelty. They just had nowhere to put all these pups.” Island tourists swoon over stray puppies. Many bring one home. 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z After losing his job and getting some really bad medical news, Frank decides to seek violent retribution against the evil, stupidity and cruelty he sees streaming out of the TV every day. Maggie Gyllenhaal on sexual liberation 2012-05-18T13:50:00Z He treats them with a mixture of solicitude and detachment that reveals its cruelty by degrees. Review: Bored, Beautiful Terrorists With a Taste for Luxury Brands 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z There is no bluster, only quiet cruelty and duplicity. Gerardo Naranjo?s ?Miss Bala? Reflects Mexican Drug War 2012-01-15T04:27:18Z Sakach is the society’s senior law enforcement specialist for the animal rescue team and Goodwin serves the advocacy side as the director of animal cruelty policy. Baby chimpanzee killed by adult at L. A. Zoo 2012-06-27T13:33:00Z Michael Haneke's film about an aging Parisian couple and the intersection of tenderness and cruelty is devastating in both its story and execution. AP critics pick the year's best movies 2012-12-14T21:29:02Z This dark, funny novel displays its author’s mastery of scrupulous psychological detail and ear for the ways love inverts itself into cruelty. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z Marisa's eyes filled with tears as soon as she realized I was broaching the topic, and she reproached me for my cruelty, for wanting to return to that painful thing. The Survivor by S?nia Hern?ndez, translated by Samantha Schnee 2011-04-01T11:27:00Z “Despite the shocking cruelty depicted in this book, Moore also infuses the pages with great humanity — humanity capable of great horror and even greater beauty,” our reviewer, Ijeoma Oluo, writes. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z Could it be frustration at the road not taken that inspired the strange fits of cruelty toward his eldest son? ‘The Lion’ Is Back, at Lynn Redgrave Theater 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z The film is also a powerful indictment of neoliberalism and gangster capitalism, and a culture of cruelty that is causing great harm around the world. "Joker": A harsh indictment of neoliberalism and gangster capitalism 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z It makes you really see the full extent of the cruelty of the gaze. Singer Jenny Hval: 'I'm so cruel' 2013-04-18T05:00:01Z Wilson and his nephew were indicted in November on 46 counts of animal cruelty. Man featured on ‘Tiger King’ charged with animal cruelty 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z The cynical way in which Stalin had switched sides had come as no surprise to Orwell, who was by then accustomed to the dishonesty and cruelty of the Soviet regime. Where's Lenin? 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z One — the exoticism and sophistication of cruelty, the dark circus that the whole endeavor was. Q&A with J.M. Sidorova, Seattle author of ‘The Age of Ice’ 2013-08-09T21:33:45Z The Audible series that he wrote emphasizes Holmes’s narcissism and his cruelty, the terrible toll that his need to be right exacts. The Shape-Shifting Sherlock Holmes, Now Playing the Villain 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z The depiction of cruelty is all the more nuanced for being told through the prism of the female characters. Was There a Murder on the Mayflower? 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z Yizhar's offence is therefore double – first to imply that the Jews are perpetrating against the Palestinians the cruelties of their own history, and that the nation is invoking divine sanction in order to do so. Reareading: Jacqueline Rose on Khirbet Khizeh 2011-03-12T00:06:57Z “She worships the Church, not God, and she worships fascism,” says a priest who attempts to explain the mother-in-law’s cruelty to Marian. ‘There Your Heart Lies,’ by Mary Gordon, plunges into the Spanish Civil War 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z In this haunting version, rewritten in the third person and set in North Carolina around World War I, both the brother’s cruelty and Doodle’s moral and emotional triumph over it are much more explicit. ‘The Scarlet Ibis’ Blends Opera With Puppetry 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z It deals with corruption and cruelty, the pain of mothers separated from their children and an unquenchable spirit of goodness. The Orphan of Zhao – review 2012-11-09T01:02:50Z The Brontes were superlatively good at exploring the darkest recesses of the human heart and showing the violence and cruelty within Victorian society, as was Thomas Hardy. If you like books like these: dark teen reads 2012-05-31T10:17:09Z But it is also blunt in its language and its depiction of the cruelties of slavery, the kind of historical realism that is being erased from educational curriculums in some schools and libraries today. James de Jongh, Who Put Stories of Slavery Onstage, Dies at 80 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z But his work often takes him to Paris, that city of fashion and cruelty. Losing the Fight Against ‘Dad Bod’ 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z But Golding was also in touch with his darkest impulses, especially his own sublimated bent toward cruelty. Books of The Times: ?William Golding,? the Lighter Side, by John Carey 2010-07-06T23:03:00Z As tadpoles morph into frogs, and fears are conquered, “The Girl” delivers a satisfying, sun-dappled fable about the kindness of strangers and the cruelty of peers. | 'The Girl': A Summer-of-Awakening Fable 2010-09-17T06:06:00Z The movie is managed with Tarantino's superb provocation and audacity, with a whiplash of cruelty and swagger of scorn. Django Unchained – first look review 2012-12-12T13:06:56Z He acknowledges their mutual bitterness, his father’s grave shortcomings and cruelty, his frustrations. The Most Memorable TV Episodes of 2018 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z And her struggles are an eloquent reminder that even without outright tragedy, childhood is filled with challenges, cruelties and opportunities for courage. When the Going Gets Tough, These Kids Find Their Way 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z In the first installment of this series, about the culture of cruelty built into the American theater, I noted that change, even to achieve universally admired goals, is never free. When Paying Dues Doesn’t Pay the Rent, How Does the Theater Survive? 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z The story ends with a twist, perhaps a predictable one in Lee’s hands; Victoria dumps Yung-duk in a moment of sudden cruelty, only to realize later that the true UFO might be herself. Don Lee’s Long War on Asian American Stereotypes 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z Only she understands the reason for her cruelty; the author chooses not to let the reader in on it. Two women's lives dangerously collide in Harriet Lane's 'Her' 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z Yet he knows well why he’s landed in this place — moral cowardice and private cruelty. ‘No Exit’: Ready for your close-up 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z And the running gag of Guerrero threatening and sometimes torturing helpless people caters to the action film audience's tendency to get off on bullying cruelty. "Human Target": How Fox's stellar action show went horribly wrong 2011-02-02T15:03:00Z The only dissenting voices at the premiere came from animal rights activists, who held up posters saying "Middle Earth unexpected cruelty" and "3 horses died for this film". The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey overcomes setbacks for premiere 2012-11-28T20:06:36Z But now it is clear to see that the ingredient needed to make the magic work, to bring forth dragons, was Daenerys's will to power and cruelty. "Game of Thrones": Don't be shocked by Daenerys — her King's Landing turn was very much earned 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z There are faults in the progressive movement, but cruelty isn't one of them. Bobcat Goldthwait: 'I'm not going to make a film with Justin Bieber' 2012-07-05T19:30:01Z Plus, she added, beyond the cruelty and welfare challenges related to the donkey trade, “we’ve got some really severe livelihood issues here that we are concerned about.” Why a media executive left his career to help maligned donkeys and save them from slaughter 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Revision: The cruelty is the point and it cuts deep—as close to the bone as it's ever been. In the name of the movement: Black Lives Matter Plaza, Breonna Taylor and the long road to justice 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z Not only is he unfazed by the cruelty of cyber culture, he's grabbed it by the horns and ridden it to fame, fortune and a movie deal. Passion and fame in the digital age: Watching 'Sex With Strangers' at the Geffen 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z Yunior doesn’t understand his brother’s violence, his brother’s unwillingness to forgive, his brother’s naked cruelty. A cheater’s guide to everything 2012-09-10T19:49:00Z What stays with you most powerfully, though, is her ability to pack experiences of cruelty and heartbreak into evenings of lyrical dynamism. Perspective | A critic taken with Lithgow’s ‘Stories by Heart’ lists 10 other favorite solo shows 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z And those rules are really good, but they also lose something, some property of unpredictability, some cruelty to the audience, that is the real uniqueness of Game of Thrones. Game of Thrones despises you. And that’s why you love it 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z Together with Thompson and Negga, Hall hauntingly brings to life characters forced to exist in that “not entirely friendly” space, with its cruelties, appearances, ambiguities and hard, merciless truths. ‘Passing’ Review: Black Skin, White Masks 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z This civility, though, serves as both screen and scaffolding for the cruelty that is the society’s organizing principle. ‘Peterloo’ Review: Political Violence of the Past Mirrors the Present 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z The movie hints that the bullying Sue Ann experiences has a history, entrenched in the cruelty of desirability politics. Octavia Spencer’s Horror Movie, “Ma,” Is a Misfire Fit for the Moment 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z “I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.” I hate the Fourth of July 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z And, more generally, the show is about the cruelty of history. The Cruel Irony of “The Americans” 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z The cruelty of the life Ms Yanagihara describes is trumped only by the tenacity with which she searches for an answer. Friend in need 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Black Emperor, “monumental” holds a mirror up to capitalism and sees cruelty and discontent. Review: Setting a Squadron of Joyless Worker Drones to Music 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z Through the eyes of a character with uncommon access and compassion, Sadeqa Johnson’s novel “The Yellow Wife” evokes a vision of one woman’s tenacious survival of antebellum cruelty and objectification. Review | Sadeqa Johnson’s ‘Yellow Wife’ chronicles one tenacious enslaved woman’s survival in the antebellum South 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z Mr Zombie unleashes malevolent mayhem here, as a cursed LP draws Mrs Zombie into a netherworld of ancient satanic cruelty, rendered with inventively terrifying imagery. This week's new films 2013-04-27T05:00:15Z Warwick Thornton Australian director Warwick Thornton has crafted a superb movie – Old Testament cinema, with an almost biblical starkness in its cruelty and mysterious beauty. Prowling panthers, paranormal spies and vengeful ice-skaters: must-see movies of 2018 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z The Red Queen’s unmitigated cruelty, the many eye gougings and the horror-movie-like sight of graying human heads bobbing in a moat prevented me from being fully immersed in the film’s gorgeous wizardry. Arts: Taking a ?Little Mermaid? to Dark New Depths 2010-03-20T00:33:00Z As he revealed the stark details of her cruelty, his eyes welled up. Why do some men coerce sex? | Don Greif 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z The movie, which centered on a Belgian woman tormented by her memories of wartime indifference and cruelty, opened in the United States as “High Street.” Elliot Tiber, gay rights activist who helped make Woodstock possible, dies at 81 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z And ever since “Desperate Housewives” became a hit, ABC has tried to corner the mean girl market with ever bolder versions of woman’s cruelty to woman, most recently with the soapy drama “Revenge.” The TV Watch: Kristin Chenoweth and Annie Potts in ABC?s ?GCB? 2012-03-01T23:09:54Z Now, there’s also enormous cruelty and tragedy and stupidity and pain. Barack Obama and Bryan Cranston on the Roles of a Lifetime 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z Is there ever cruelty in your work now? She Painted With the Hairy Who. Now She’s Going Big, at 79. 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Still, consuming plants at a minimum means that we aren't contributing to cruelty to/deaths of animals. Vegan Ice Cream Enters a Golden Age 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z Zoos are trying to wean themselves away from certain cruelties we didn’t understand in the past. How to travel and be kind to animals 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Simmons' arrest record includes charges of: animal cruelty, reckless driving, drug possession, weapons charges and probation violations. Rapper DMX arrested on marijuana charge in South Carolina 2013-08-21T21:24:25Z The song itself is a breathtaking display of cerebral cruelty. How Pusha T’s “The Story of Adidon” Viciously Undercuts Drake’s Celebrity 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z This gives him license to be thoughtless and mean whenever he wants, and his repeated, unprovoked cruelty to Florence may be, for some viewers, impossible to forgive. Movie Review | 'Greenberg': Ben Stiller as a Slacker in Noah Baumbach?s Work 2010-03-18T21:46:00Z Anna and Terzo, high on their own urbane self-regard, simply refuse to let her go, insisting on every treatment possible regardless of medical advice or cruelty. Scrolling While the World Burns 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z The terrible things Young saw in war disturb him, the random death, the gore, the unthinking cruelty, but not so much as the person he became during those four years. Claiming the Title of United States Marine 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z Trickledown cruelty is the first object lesson in the cutthroat world of Ms. Headland’s play. Theater Review: ?Assistance,? by Leslye Headland, Revolves Around Absent Boss 2012-02-29T00:09:35Z It’s a fable about refugees and immigrant discrimination written to reflect the crises and cruelties of our times. "Carnival Row": Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne's fairy tale is fractured by competing narratives 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z Contempt for humanity’s cruelty and selfishness flows through “Thrust.” In ‘Thrust,’ Talking Animals and Others Take Aim at Humanity’s Cruelty 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z We are conditioned to like animals and decry animal cruelty, and yet we are also brought up in a culture that revels in the bacon sandwich, the Sunday roast, fish and chips. Why do people hate vegans? 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z It just leads to greater and greater hypocrisy, cynicism and cruelty, and a lot of people have to pay a price in their own lives. Fintan O'Toole on Ireland's transformation — and the reverse version now underway in America 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z A graver turn-off of a show like this, though, is what it says about our culture’s willingness to accept so-called acts of comedy as a suitable vehicle for cruelty. The perils of "dangerous" comedy, or what makes a notorious warlord laugh? 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z Soon after, the series shows us another act of amazing invented cruelty. How Not to Adapt “Anne of Green Gables” 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z Underneath the whole book, without ever being stated outright, is a strong treatise against animal cruelty. ‘The Merman’ review: A magical fish story that’s this big 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z People lie in “The Passionate Thief”: Sometimes they lie for love, as the conductor’s wife appears to do, and occasionally they lie out of cruelty. ‘The Passionate Thief,’ From 1960, Has Been Restored 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Garfielding – Posting photos on the Internet of lasagna eating and engaging in puppy cruelty. Owling is the new planking, and other made-up trends 2011-07-12T21:13:00Z How does this staggering act of cruelty fit with what we’ve seen so far? Liam Cunningham on Sunday's Sad 'Game of Thrones' Moment 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z But in Ryan Quinn’s fitfully magical production of “The Tempest” at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, the cruelty that lurks in him is abundantly on display. Review: ‘The Tempest’ Starkly Amplifies Prospero’s Evolution 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z We have all been silent for too long about common acts of sexual cruelty, for fear of making things uncomfortable, for ruining the atmosphere, for coming over as prudish or illiberal. Dating after #metoo: he secretly took off his condom during sex – it's a thing 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z As Mrs. Turner mows her yard, she waves to her neighbors, to the teenage girls, oblivious to their cruelty: “All she’s done is live her life.” The Radical Ordinariness of Carol Shields’s Literary World 2020-08-15T04:00:00Z In its defense, M*A*S*H has more to say than those films, and there doesn’t appear to be the same intention of cruelty. M*A*S*H at 50: the Robert Altman comedy that revels in cruel misogyny 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z But such real-world shaming is par for the course with “Game of Thrones,” a hot-take magnet for its occasionally stunning moments of violence, cruelty and, most controversial, scenes of sexual violence. Lena Headey, Cersei in ‘Game of Thrones,’ Has Her Own Power Moves 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z Their bodies are made prevalent in food by their cheapness and disposability and concern for beef's environmental footprint has only led to increased consumption of chicken, "but there's no cruelty footprint that's higher." “Under the Henfluence” urges us to see hens as complex beings 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z It had to do with his father’s cruelty, and the fragile, frightening nature of his ego, big as the Hindenburg and every bit as flammable. Review: In ‘My Father, the Pornographer,’ Chris Offutt Opens Up 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z A Change.org petition charged that “the exhibit will feature several distinct instances of unmistakable cruelty against animals in the name of art” — and has garnered more than 800,000 signatures. After Guggenheim removes animal-related pieces from 'Art and China,' what's left? More questions 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z The material in general — ghost towns, corporate cruelty, the centuries-old relationship between humans and a species almost magical in its abilities — is fabulous. Pigeons: Nuisance Animals, or Expert Accomplices in Diamond Smuggling? 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z They progress from images of lovely, artless innocence, by way of alluring beauty, to stormy, mazelike furor, to designing, vengeful cruelty. Dance Review: Alexei Ratmansky?s ?Nutcracker? at BAM - Review 2011-12-15T23:14:49Z Any cruelty in his choices was his fault, not yours. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: He was her first love, she was his second guess 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z A prolific author often compared to Anton Chekhov and known for his limpid French prose, Mr. Makine used the pen name since 2001 to write novels about the world’s cruelty and human quest for transcendence. ArtsBeat: Who is Gabriel Osmonde? A French Literary Mystery is Solved 2011-04-01T17:40:04Z Let the murderous winds of our infinite cruelty tear the skin from your bones, for we are naught but gods! Damn you, Netflix! Why won't you let me kill Bear Grylls? 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z A prominent avatar of what’s sometimes called the New French Extremity, he has specialized in immersive spectacles of shock, cruelty and disorientation. ‘Vortex’ Review: A Split Screen and a Shared Fate 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z If its themes of vengeance, power, lust, duplicity and cruelty went too far, his aspirations for his novel's legacy reached further still. The enduring seduction of “Dangerous Liaisons” on stage, film and now TV 2022-11-06T04:00:00Z It is one of the most brutal renderings of the tiny cruelties in a toxic female friendship I have ever seen depicted. Life Advice From a Dead Grandmother Who’s Returned as a Bird 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z A slightly thornier issue is the humour derived from this cruelty. Why Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri should win the 2018 best picture Oscar 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z He takes on bullfighting, human cruelty and bad relationships. Review: Morrissey gets political on new album 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z It is the first of several acts of cruelty to animals. Movie Review: ‘The Hangover Part III,’ With Bradley Cooper and Ed Helms 2013-05-22T22:02:42Z In contrast, the subsequent two seasons have routinely missed the mark, depicting adolescence as a time of cloying sweetness and unbearable cruelty. 13 Reasons Why: what the controversial drama gets wrong 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z I Can See Through You routes the emotional cruelty of the Cat's Eyes album via a bad acid trip, taunting: "No one remembers your name, no one tries." The Horrors: Skying - review 2011-07-07T14:29:01Z The Murder of Olly’s Parents Season 4 An underrated moment of cruelty that is still reverberating at Castle Black. 'Game of Thrones': 9 Especially Gut-Wrenching Moments 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z Perhaps Grindr has become particularly fertile ground for cruelty because it allows anonymity in a way that other dating apps do not. How gay men justify their racism on Grindr 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z The images are not easy to forget, nevertheless they are testimony to the great strength of human creativity even in the midst of appalling suffering and cruelty. Art and suffering unite in Geneva 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z Engage when he’s kind, disengage completely when he uses or defends cruelty. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: How to tell Dad that you want to dispense with the unpleasantries 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z The extras on both re-releases include interviews in which the films’ respective directors awkwardly address the animal cruelty. Chicken decapitation and battered cats: Hollywood’s history of animal cruelty 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z The kooky plot twist epitomizes the way dark themes — deceit, suspicion, prejudice, cruelty — transmute into joyous humor in these entremeses, which weave gracefully into what seems a mythically deep bucolic celebration. Rollicking one-act plays at the Kennedy Center’s Iberian Suite festival 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z What is perhaps hardest to imagine, for those of us who did not experience Eastern Bloc Communism firsthand, is the way its cruelty and absurdity were woven into the fabric of everyday life. ‘Burning Bush,’ an Agnieszka Holland Film on Communism 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z There’s cruelty in Theon, and there’s decency, but there’s not enough Theon inside him to decide which is his true nature and to get mastery of himself. Game of Thrones Watch: I Capture the Castle 2012-05-07T10:10:45Z In an era of just lies, and lack of truth, and hatred, and bigotry, and cruelty to immigrants, and in just so much bullying — despite Melania's best efforts — it feels good to marinate in love. The real-life “Modern Love” author whose love life Amazon dramatized speaks out 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z Much more convincing than Mike Figgis’s 1999 screen adaptation, starring Saffron Burrows, it is a grueling slog through a hell of torment, cruelty and suffering. ‘Miss Julie’ Stars Jessica Chastain and Colin Farrell 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Many of them reveal Saul as a man given to unthinking cruelty and willed blindness, the “man in pieces” exposed in Jennifer’s first solo show. Review | In ‘The Man Who Saw Everything,’ Deborah Levy questions our notions of reality 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z In past ages, when families were large and child mortality high, people could more easily laugh at the scenes of slapstick cruelty, not least to relieve the pain of knowing kids died all the time. Punch and Judy moves with the times to pull in crowds 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z Such cruelty was intended to send a message to all those, secular or religious, who would threaten the state. ‘The Year of Lear’ review: How politics shaped Shakespeare’s masterworks 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z “There’s a temptation to paint characters a single color, but humans don’t work that way. Hitler couldn’t bear cruelty to animals, as bizarre as that is,” he says. Why 'The Night Manager' Is Even Better Than Bond 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z She imagined a creature spawned by scientific abomination, yet innately innocent; cruelty, abuse and abandonment transforming a childlike purity into rage and retribution. For Years, a Literary Villain Made Joe Ide Wary of Nurses 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z A troubled past, revealed intermittently, tells of Faye’s former self, Matilda, subjected to cruelty at the hands of her father, a volatile man who left his family in ruins. In ‘The Golden Cage,’ a Kept Woman Grabs the Keys to the Kingdom 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z "This is the police department's job -- to handle criminal complaints -- and now we're just expanding it to animal cruelty and animal abuse," she said. ASPCA closes storied enforcement unit in NYC 2014-01-06T14:36:45Z This lesson in working-class Catholic masculinity was achieved through a series of viciously petty acts of cruelty, such as the burning of a favourite teddy bear, that continue to haunt Burnside's dreams decades later. John Burnside: a life in writing 2011-08-26T21:54:01Z I came to this negative conclusion about the Internet, and human cruelty, after spending 21 hours recently over four days noodling around on a site called FamilySearch.org, which is operated by the Mormon Church. Weingarten: The lame name game “Fifty Shades” would be boring without the sex, but without the money the story—one of trauma, narcissism, emptiness, cruelty, and family pathology—would be completely unrecognizable. The Sad, Shiny Surfaces of the “Fifty Shades” Movies 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z But in 1968, he revised his book after concluding that casual TV violence begets increased cruelty in both children and adults. Bang: The troubled legacy of toy guns 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z While the film showed the capricious cruelty of the men, it also demonstrated the humanity of the victims, he said. ‘Terror at the Mall’ on HBO Documents an Attack in Kenya 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z There is a level of cruelty most people will put up with, but only so much. A laughing matter: Comedians Steve Punt and Shappi Khorsandi debate whether comedy is too cruel 2011-01-22T08:31:01Z Many Americans don't connect the image of Queen Elizabeth to either the many inhumane cruelties committed by her ancestors, who built the family's wealth on the slave trade, marking their captives by branding their skin. "Last Week Tonight" slams the monarchy in a way that may change how we see "The Crown" 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z The ASA cleared the ad of accusations it encouraged animal cruelty after ruling that the cat was "clearly and deliberately shown to be unharmed". Ofcom investigates Keith Lemon TV show over puppy prize 2012-06-11T14:34:37Z Along the way she holds forth on animal cruelty, astrology and her love of the English poet William Blake. Review: In This Eco-Thriller, the Animals May Be Having Their Revenge 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z In “One from the Heart,” Francis Ford Coppola tips his hand about the trickery behind realism and the intimate cruelty on which a major production runs. These So-Called Bad Movies Prove the Urgency of Film Criticism 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z But it is irritating to be hammered by such black-and-white righteousness, even if — or, perhaps, especially if — you agree with Ms. Holzer’s crusade against government-sponsored cruelty. Art In Review: JENNY HOLZER: ?Endgame? 2012-03-15T21:44:07Z "We want an end to all cruelty against women and children," Firooz chants. First female rapper debuts in Afghanistan 2012-10-09T12:17:09Z Although cockfighting is banned in many countries on grounds of animal cruelty, it is a lucrative business in Thailand as well as a popular pastime. Cockfighters reap Year of Rooster bonus in Thailand 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z Cenerentola, now Ramiro's bride, proclaims from the throne to the Baron and his daughters that her revenge for their cruelty is to be forgiveness. Glyndebourne 2012 - La Cenerentola synopsis 2012-06-18T13:49:33Z The movie’s dialogue is sparse and underexplicit, except when it comes to words of cruelty, hatred, and recrimination. Angelina Jolie Pitt’s “By the Sea” Is Personal and Daring 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z As a crucial part of the intended audience for ISIS’ cruelty, we’re meant only to be frightened and outraged. ISIS: Making sense of the spectacular brutality and viral engagement fueling the new state of terror 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z Loznitsa paints sprawling tableaus of cruelty, corruption, vulgarity and lies through a series of intimate vignettes. ‘Donbass’ Review: War in Ukraine, the Prequel 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z Now, as never before, sex — the act, its politics, its outcomes, its cruelties, its joys — mattered. How choice won 2012-09-22T17:45:00Z Have there been unscrupulous critter shows and circus cruelty in the past? Navy Pier shuts down white tigers 2012-01-25T03:52:00Z So much cruelty, so much noise, rehearsed and repeated until it satisfies the man-child in the director's chair. All that bloody mayhem and we're still supposed to take Django Unchained seriously? 2013-01-25T17:00:01Z So instead we get vibrant human beings racked by conscience or wedded to cruelty for the hell of it. Ill Manors just wants a little respect for our gangsters 2012-06-06T11:07:56Z The explanation for the prophecy reveals that it speaks "of the cruelty of man". Was Leonardo da Vinci a prophet? 2011-03-25T16:41:49Z The website of Atlanta’s Vampire Alliance even features a chapter on animal welfare, advising against unnecessary cruelty if choosing non-human blood. Interview with a real-life vampire: why drinking blood isn't like in Hollywood 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z “I am profoundly moved by its lyric beauty and horrified by its cruelty and suffering.” Louis Stettner, Who Photographed the Everyday New York and Paris, Dies at 93 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z I thought that, in my lifetime, power would move toward freedom, away from cruelty. How a Woman Becomes a Lake 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z Some critics across the centuries have tarred it as one of Shakespeare's worst plays, given its crudity and the cruelty of the action. Seattle troupe mounts a spooky, lean, all-women 'Titus' 2012-09-13T20:30:07Z Moyn also shows how talk of “peace” and “humanity” was so often limited to a trans-Atlantic conversation “among white people,” while counterinsurgencies and colonial wars against racialized others were conducted with unbridled cruelty. The Dangers of Making War Less Dangerous 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z Stevenson’s long exposure to the inequities and cruelty of the criminal justice system also has made him quietly and intellectually uncompromising. Review | A powerful memorial in Montgomery remembers the victims of lynching 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z In The Hateful Eight, the violence, if occasionally entertaining, is never sorrowful or cathartic or complex in any way, and before long its casual cruelty becomes a kind of blandness. Review: Quentin Tarantino's Hateful Eight Revels in Snow, Not So Much in People 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z Was his tale about his father's incredible cruelty true? Justified's season finale showed why this series is criminally under-rated 2012-06-21T13:28:47Z During the grizzly episode, players are allowed to pick their own instruments of cruelty, which includes sledgehammers and electric cables, as they’re instructed by an FBI agent to torture a suspected terrorist. Grand Theft Auto V Slams into Controversy with Gratuitous Torture Scene 2013-09-19T08:13:46Z Without undue optimism or overt sentimentality, he discovers a measure of hope amid the cruelty and misfortune. ‘Broker’ Review: It Takes a Village to Sell a Child 2022-12-25T05:00:00Z Lowell’s script is certainly poetic, and its questions concerning cruelty and civilized life are ripe for inquiry. | 'Benito Cereno': ?Benito Cereno? From Horizon Theater Rep - Review 2011-10-04T21:55:39Z Francis-Sharma imagines her grandmother’s challenging marriage and the confusion, cruelty and kindness she likely encountered in the United States. In ‘ ’Til the Well Runs Dry,’ a tale turns on a West Indian woman’s secrets The added cruelty is that Cathy has died of asbestosis, the criminal plague of the shipyards. Waterline by Ross Raisin ? review 2011-07-13T09:05:02Z They remember her as a woman of contradictory impulses: she was uncompromising yet playful, endlessly curious yet intensely private, and, despite being a caretaker, could be aloof to the point of callousness, even cruelty. Vivian Maier and the Problem of Difficult Women 2014-05-10T04:00:00Z These include the death of her father and the hostility of her mother, played by Ally Sheedy with terrific, charismatic cruelty. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z The date seems to operate as a locus or vanishing point for humankind's capacity for cruelty, but beyond that its precise meaning is occluded. Summer voyages: 2666 by Roberto Bolaño 2013-07-29T12:59:01Z First staged in 1996, the play is a typically potent mix of comedy and cruelty from the writer-director of the violent, witty movies "In Bruges" and "Seven Psychopaths." Daniel Radcliffe returns to London stage 2013-03-11T10:06:11Z Both slim, polyphonic novels stare down violence and vulnerability, cruelty and confusion. Han Kang’s ‘Human Acts’ explores the long shadow of a South Korean massacre 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z I was just as shocked to see the extent of cruelty. How Working With Martin Scorsese Is Like a Religious Experience 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Like its protagonist, sensitively and shrewdly played by Lakeith Stanfield, the film is soft-spoken and thoughtful, with sweet, lyrical touches that alleviate some of the grimness without blunting the cruelty and injustice of what happened. Review: In ‘Crown Heights,’ Justice Delayed and Denied 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z It’s mock cruelty, but it’s also a good question. Review | ‘Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee’ has finally run out of gas — but is that Seinfeld’s fault? 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z “In the course of the 16 months, he saw some hideous cruelty and he was able to stay objective,” Ms. Newkirk said. In Film and Music, the Galkin Brothers Are on Their Own Together 2010-07-14T20:09:00Z The comedy of cruelty has its payoffs when it’s played with the kind of corrosive elan exhibited on the Woolly stage. Review | Taylor Mac’s play ‘Hir’ shows an America that’s groping in the dark for its moral identity 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z “Diana’s record is a relentless hammering home of how we ignore a huge body of people who are living through the results of human cruelty and insanity.” She Was Deeply Moved by Refugees’ Stories. So She Told Them in Song. 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z Capital and corporal punishment have been eliminated in much of the world, and slavery has been abolished: people have lost their thirst for cruelty. The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker – review 2012-11-19T07:02:01Z Tasmania in the 1820s, as depicted in “The Nightingale,” is a ladder of cruelty. ‘The Nightingale’ Review: A Song of Violence and Vengeance 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z I will never forget the terrible swimming trunks we wore, the nylon abominations in a paisley pattern that still summon for me the stylistic cruelty of the 1970s. | Float, Memory 2014-05-06T13:00:33Z For example, the religion forbids animal cruelty, including confinement. Sustainable halal meat is making inroads in Muslim communities 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z For a moment the cruelty of death is forgotten, and for a moment our distance from the soulful intensity of Bergman’s film is collapsed. | 'Cries and Whispers': ?Cries and Whispers? at BAM - Review 2011-10-26T21:27:23Z It is, in the end, a deeply moral play suggesting that state-sanctioned torture and cruelty exist but are inexorably undermined by their disregard of the natural laws. The Hothouse – review 2013-05-09T23:06:09Z Animals were both revered and treated with terrible cruelty. Ernest Hemingway: The man behind the cultivated image of hyper-masculinity 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Mr. Koch confines his story to one fraught restaurant meal, where malice, cruelty, craziness and a deeply European malaise are very much on the menu. Books of The Times: ‘The Dinner’ by Herman Koch 2013-02-06T22:50:22Z She grew up in communist Bulgaria and remembers that system’s arbitrary cruelty, which finds echoes today in the mistreatment of refugees and migrants. Mapping history 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z For all Scrooge’s personal renewal, the story has glimpsed depths of misery and cruelty that can’t simply be erased by one man’s reclamation. Bah, humbug! The many faces of Scrooge 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z Ultimately, these images remind us of the cruelty embedded in the striving for perfection, aesthetic or otherwise. ‘White on White’ Review: Problematic Images 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z The show specializes in the easiest forms of scripted cruelty and snark. Perspective | I would have ignored ‘Insatiable,’ but your outrage made it seem interesting. (It wasn’t.) 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z Sex, immigration, death and Donald Trump are other sidebars, along with animal cruelty and drug addiction. Review | Zadie Smith’s debut short-story collection is a dazzling experiment in form and genre 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z In 2008 in Arizona he pleaded guilty to charges of theft, drug possession and animal cruelty. Judge Gives DMX a Year in Prison and a Chance to Be Heard, Musically 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z Artists who ritually engage with cruelty see that engagement as a form of truthfulness — a way to be frank; a way to honor the reader, not to bludgeon her. ‘Cat Person’ and Other Tales of Discomfort in a Debut Collection 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z The industry tries to keep the cruelty hidden, but suffering and death are central to fur. Letters: Letters 2010-03-18T02:12:00Z Having fed on Gotham’s violence and cruelty for years, he now finds that the diet may not agree with him. ‘The Batman’ Review: Who’ll Stop the Wayne? 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z Iowa took measures this year to reduce animal cruelty, with its House of Representatives passing HF737, a bill that would raise the penalties for such abuse. Will 2020 mark the rise of a vegan voting bloc? 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z “I have passed through the husk, the mask of cruelty, ruthlessness, callousness, in Ted.” Sylvia Plath’s Letters Reveal a Writer Split in Two 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z And Lucy’s interrogation of the Doctor and torture of Mr Huffle is a thing of exquisite cruelty. Doctor Who Christmas special 2016: The Return of Doctor Mysterio 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z I hate cruelty, and I’m slightly nonconformist, unsurprisingly. Experience: I grew up in a cemetery 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z “The future is very dark,” he concludes, lamenting the cruelty and intransigence that he sees as the legacies of more than four decades of occupation. Movie Review: ‘The Gatekeepers,’ Documentary by Israeli Director Dror Moreh 2012-11-25T23:01:09Z Gettinger informed Cummings that he did not need to hear more about the cruelty of the guerrilla forces. The diplomat and the killer: Death squads, dirty war and the untold story of H. Carl Gettinger 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z Trump and his movement's lies, cruelty, disregard for facts, and assault on America's political norms and rules are disorienting. Novelist Jonathan Lethem: "There is no allegory crude enough" to capture Trump's America 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z Those comical bunnies were once imported to feed starving North Koreans, while the lobster is now a symbol of civilised cruelty. This week's new exhibitions 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z Did they weaponize their grief, finding some solace in cruelty and humiliation? Solving the Riddle of Metallica 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Meaning surfaces slowly here in details, flashes of cruelty, glimmers of apathy and a mounting sense of helplessness. Review: The Architecture of Grief and Dread in ‘Foxtrot’ 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z As I walked from the Great Hall back to the train station, the “Winchester Cathedral” earworm played on, with its accusatory refrain about the cathedral tower’s cruelty. A London day trip to Winchester, England’s former royal capital 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z As the film makes clear, Callahan was a complicated guy, a sensitive soul prone to jags of neediness or even cruelty. Gus Van Sant: 'Whatever scene we're filming, we make it as hard as we can' 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z To help readers understand why we dress the way we do, Ford chronicles the fashion crimes of various eras, illustrating the rigidity and cruelty of social norms as enforced through sartorial laws. We Wore What? Centuries of Global Fashion as a System of Power 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z While admittedly gratuitous in its depiction of sexual violence and real, inexcusable, animal cruelty, it would be short-sighted and too easy to dismiss this film as exploitation horror. From John Carpenter to Slipknot's Clown: what scares the masters of horror? 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z This woman’s cruelty may have sparked your loathing and self-doubt, but it’s been sustained for the past five years by the furnace of your inner life. I Lost a Boyfriend. Then I Lost a Friend. Now I’m Angry. 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z The cruelty shown by the German army to Jewish women and children is one of Soldaten's most harrowing themes. Soldatenby Sönke Neitzel and Harald Welzer – review 2013-01-25T20:00:04Z "And he loves that. He's deliberately cruel and enjoys the sexual charge of cruelty." Janet McTeer and Dominic West of stage-to-cinema 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses' revival talk cruelty 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z It also prevented us with cruelty of being picked on. ‘I Feel Pretty’ and the Rise of Beauty-Standard Denialism 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z Along with memory, another of Ogawa’s preoccupations is the human capacity for cruelty. Yoko Ogawa Conjures Spirits in Hiding: ‘I Just Peeked Into Their World and Took Notes’ 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z The cruelty of the caste system that saved many first-class passengers while allowing most of the souls in steerage to drown. A sweeping 'Titanic in Concert' at 5th Avenue 2012-04-14T18:21:04Z In both films, it is the sheer abundance of banal, thoughtless cruelty that jolts, and “Disclosure” is careful to note how cruelty multiplies when transgender people are also black. ‘Disclosure’ Review: A Transgender Lens on Film and TV History 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z This means that living in a non-autistic house, even one inhabited by Scandinavians, would be not just impossible, but a cruelty. Floods, fires and a very reggae Christmas: how autism touched my family 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Child and Family Services and the Lucas and Change were arrested on two counts of attempted second-degree cruelty to children, which carries a maximum 10-year prison sentence. Judging the Couple who Locked Their Kids In a Car to Go Wine Tasting 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z The loss of innocence is always accompanied by pain, separation and cruelty. Azar Nafisi: “Over the years I have often thought of Alice as my ideal reader” 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z The overall tone of cruelty is difficult to overcome. Review | In HBO’s ‘Succession,’ a family so cruel you’ll be sorry you ever met them 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Some were nice people, as far as he could tell; others, he felt sure, would be taking Trump’s anti-immigrant invective as license for new cruelties. A Janitor’s Collection of Things Confiscated from Migrants in the Desert 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z Thank you for your cruelty as well as your kindness, because the one plus the other is the essence of truthfulness. Farewell Alice Munro, and thanks for everything 2013-07-05T06:00:04Z Hamid exempts no one from the cruelty that shadows contemporary life. A Novel About Refugees That Feels Instantly Canonical 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z American Humane said the “respected animal cruelty expert” viewed additional footage and spoke to people present before drawing the conclusion that the video “mischaracterised the events on set”. A Dog's Purpose abuse video falsified, claims American Humane Association 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z Chris tried to explain that what his stepsister had witnessed wasn’t cruelty, it was fear. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 7: This Place is Dangerous 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z We steer clear of hurry, stress, fear and all its attendant reactions: cruelty, isolation and control. Nighttime Picture Books to Put Children to Bed — and Their Fears to Rest 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z The cruelty in the worlds Flattery draws makes the tender moments in her stories all the more affecting. The Macabre, the Sinister, the Absurd: Story Time Just Got Weirder 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z With the fluid cruelty of an exacting kung-fu master, the legend exhorts the boy to shape up and develop knowledge of self. Four Shows at the Center of a Golden Age of Hip-Hop Television 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z They describe the kind of cruelty that alienates and isolates, gliding along the rails of obliviousness, or hidden by feelings of shame. New Books Update Our Thinking About Cruelty 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z When cultured liver cells receive excess sugar, they begin to produce more lipids and get fattier and fattier, mimicking the texture of foie gras while eliminating the need for waterfowl cruelty. Mouth-watering flavor is harder to engineer than we hoped 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z Instead, their anti-heroines respond to what author Harriet Lane calls "the tiny little cruelties and apparently benign interactions that we so easily inflict on each other." Beyond "girl gone mad melodrama" — reframing female anger in psychological thrillers 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z Lurking in the bearbaiting plot, too, is a lesson about the cruelty of man’s dominion over nature. Suspending Disbelief in a Savage ‘Endgame’ 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z “This painting is of an unspeakable cruelty which is representative of the times in which we live, times of wantonness,” said the 49-year-old. Banksy's subversive art draws tourists and locals in Paris 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z Two-Lane Blacktop flopped on its first release, while 1974's Cockfighter is still banned in the UK owing to its scenes of animal cruelty. King of the road movie: Monte Hellman on his new film 2010-09-16T21:29:00Z Avoiding cruelty tends to pay off, especially at our most vulnerable time. A few extra pounds and the weight of the world 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z That invisible cruelty makes the tenderness and good humor of this movie all the more precious, and almost unbearable. ‘Hit the Road’ Review: Wheels Within Wheels 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z The officials of the Motherland are not subtle creations, but caricatures representing oppression or cruelty or greed. Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner – review 2012-12-28T22:55:01Z This bricolage surprisingly coheres by the novel’s end into an authentic expression of a mind striving to comprehend the inexplicable cruelties of the universe and humanity’s most proper response. Review | Eugene Lim’s ‘Search History’ is a pulpish adventure interwoven with meditative moments 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z There are no clear property claims around cruelty or despair, or our ability to ensure situations almost too terrible to believe; such experiences, Homes insists, are lands we all visit. Flawed, Fragile, Hungry Human Bodies: A.M. Homes’s Stories Get Under the Skin 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z In no book is this more apparent than in “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” where Twain mingles nostalgia for the putative innocence of an antebellum boyhood with memories of violence, cruelty and reflexive racism. ‘Mark Twain’s America’ and ‘Huck Finn’s America’ 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z Throughout the years of the show, occasional moments of sweetness between the foursome have been overshadowed by arguments and cruelties. 'You're a bad friend!': Girls dared to show the toxic side of female friendships 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z His cruelty, selfishness and shortsightedness are somehow inseparable from his loyalty, his steadfastness and his existential courage. Review: Beneath the Bombast, ‘Fences’ Has an Aching Poetry 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z This cruelty binds Trump and his supporters—especially conservative white evangelical Christians—into a community that celebrates Trump’s mockery of others and the punitive actions he takes against various people and groups. White evangelical Christians need Jesus — not Donald Trump — if their movement is going to survive 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z Everywhere lurked actors, directors and producers willing to use O’Dell, sometimes with shocking cruelty. Review | Anne Enright is the real star of her brilliant new novel ‘Actress’ 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z Mr. Jones added that after discovering this, he filed the animal cruelty charges on Tuesday. Tyler Goodson of ‘S-Town’ Accused of Killing Brother’s Dog 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z Over this suffocating uniformity, the tree looms like a totem of spiritual rebellion, its spreading branches as threatening to the social order as Inga’s unfettered cruelty. Review: An Icelandic Suburb Hides Deep Dysfunction ‘Under the Tree’ 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z This is no cracker-barrel caricature but a shaded portrait of someone who, for all his vulgarity and cruelty, compels admiration. Review: Sienna Miller Coaxes New Life From an Old ‘Cat’ 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z I was 11 years old when "The Biggest Loser" debuted; looking back on it now, the premise of the entire show is seeped in casual cruelty. I don't believe in cheat days anymore, but sometimes I still miss them 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z Art has more important things to do: preserving its autonomy, preserving the danger of the experience, preserving the history embodied in the canon, and helping us understand our own ugliness, weakness and cruelty. A challenge for the arts: Stop sanitizing and show the great works as they were created There’s only so much blunt cruelty a viewer can endure. Review | ‘Righteous Gemstones’ misses a golden opportunity to satirize evangelical piety 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z “In London, ‘Equus’ caused a sensation because it displayed cruelty to horses,” the Daily Telegraph quoted him as saying, “in New York, because it allegedly displayed cruelty to psychiatrists.” Peter Shaffer, acclaimed British playwright of ‘Equus’ and ‘Amadeus,’ dies at 90 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z According to McNeal, most people just don't understand the extent of the policing, punishment and cruelty athletes — and especially Black women athletes — face. Treated as a "criminal mastermind”: Black Olympic athlete’s abortion derails her career 2021-07-17T04:00:00Z The soft light never lets you forget that these little corporals are just kids, even at the height of their adolescent cruelty. ‘Selah and the Spades’ Review: This Isn’t Your Average Teen Drama 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z This is for a piece he and his brother Jake are working on: a new version of Hell, their giant sculpture full of toy soldiers, many dressed as Nazis, inflicting unspeakable cruelties on each other. Dinos Chapman's debut album: here comes the Luftbobler! 2013-02-19T18:24:32Z In image after image, beauty is countered by cruelty; utopianism by power grabs. Art Review: The Met?s New Islamic Galleries - Review 2011-10-27T23:27:21Z Though an artistic genius, Picasso was deeply flawed in his human relations, wilfully sowing discord among his family to the point of cruelty. The Picasso mystery 2010-12-04T00:06:00Z The tameness of its endless lab scenes and academic shoptalk is more than offset by Maya cruelty that both the ancient codex and the story’s latter-day Indiana Jones-ing reveal. Books of The Times: ‘12.21,’ a Novel by Dustin Thomason 2012-08-23T22:20:36Z By the novel’s end, the verdict the lovers reach on the cruelties they’ve endured and inflicted is sobering: “Everything bad gets shot at in America . . . and everything good too.” A young Irishman falls into the horrors of the American Civil War 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z In her Newbery Medal-winning “Hello, Universe,” she puts her finger on why children choose to accept the cruelties of not-so-good friends: “Bad friends were better than no friends,” the deaf Valencia explains. Erin Entrada Kelly Draws (Literally) From Her Life in a New Illustrated Middle Grade Series 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z America was that house, burning with cruelty in its self-destructive Jim Crow racism, both blatant and unacknowledged. Noah Purifoy's smoldering work of art, 'Watts Riot,' is a powerful reminder on the 50th anniversary 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Stevens captures how the Republican Party spent decades cultivating grievances that it didn’t plan to do anything about, while Miller captures the consequent emotional valence, with its “unseriousness and cruelty.” ‘Why We Did It’ Is a Dark Ride on the ‘Republican Road to Hell’ 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z People making last-minute decisions to raise chickens may not know what they’re getting into, which results in cruelty. America Stress-Bought All the Baby Chickens 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z “If America’s war leadership often flaunted its inhumanity, that of North Vietnam matched it cruelty for cruelty,” Hastings contends. The Disaster That Was the Vietnam War 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z The weirdness overload has almost seemed staged to distract from other American realities: migrant detention centers, corporate land grabs, climate catastrophe and the cruelties of poverty and racism. The Wild, Anti-Authoritarian Art of Peter Saul 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z A villain often compared to Christopher Marlowe’s Barabas in the extravagant delight he takes in his deeds, Aaron is the real architect of the sanguinary cruelties visited upon Titus’s family. | 'Titus Andronicus': ?Titus Andronicus? at Public Lab - Review 2011-12-14T03:01:00Z “It’s a certain amount of useful cruelty involved,” he said with a chuckle, before correcting himself. At the Met Opera, a Note So High, It’s Never Been Sung Before 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z So it was a mixed history of heroism and incredible homophobic cruelty. “Am I being punished for being gay?” 2012-06-05T16:37:00Z Of course, not everyone turns to faith during times of difficulty, but my hope for those who do is that they're able to find a practice that is not steeped in cruelty, judgment and fear. My night in Judgement House, the church play about hell that made me a teenage born-again zealot 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z The ingenuity of Orellana’s inventions often hovers between playfulness and cruelty. To Express the Sound of a Country’s Soul, He Invented New Instruments 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z She's humiliated, which turns to cruelty and revenge, until finally she redeems herself, with generosity. Nathalie Baye: 'Happiness is doing a job you love' 2011-08-04T21:20:01Z It now accounts for the cruelty of this world. Perspective | Every Michael Jackson song sounds different today 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z This pandemic is nothing like the unsurpassed horror of the Holocaust, which was the result of targeted human cruelty rather than viral illness. Perspective | Don’t wave away frivolous pleasures. Those are also ‘essential’ in hard times. 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z She didn’t read the abridged versions of these books, but rather the original full-length novels, which were packed with sorrow and violence and cruelty and danger. How Libraries Saved Cheryl Strayed 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z But she isn’t entirely wrong about the ways of the human species, which is to replace one form of organized cruelty with another. ‘Happy as Lazzaro’ Review: This Modern Fairy Tale Is an Instant Classic 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z Let’s not forget that God the Father treats His “daughters” with wanton cruelty. Oh God! The lord’s my sex guru: Pious perverts, quasi-incestuous misogyny and the twisted world of religious sexual repression 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z The grand jury this week indicted Lydia Price on nine counts of abuse and neglect by a caregiver and two counts of aggravated cruelty to animals. Mom indicted in child endangerment case 2011-10-07T17:14:00Z He was the impish scourge of bourgeois sensibilities, a gleeful chronicler of so much human cruelty. Lars von Trier on filmmaking and fear: ‘Sometimes, alcohol is the only thing that will help’ 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Ms. Winocour deftly evokes primal terrors of captivity and cruelty, and also the erotic fascination that lingers around such fears. Movie Review: ‘Augustine,’ by Alice Winocour, Featuring Soko 2013-05-16T21:08:34Z The most popular show in the land has swapped downright cruelty for playground bullying. The X Factor 2010-09-25T05:45:00Z “Trying to break someone’s denial through medical logic is cruelty,” she said. This Life: Finding the Words (or Not) to Say Goodbye 2012-12-28T16:31:40Z Without something powerful in your history together to keep you there, or without a game-changing explanation, like a personality change due to illness, I can’t see overcoming his cruelty. Perspective | His turn-on is . . . you checking the air in your bicycle tires? 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” combined the camaraderie of “Cheers” and the antisocial cruelty of “Seinfeld,” and added abject grotesqueness into the mix. “BoJack Horseman” and the Comedy of Despair 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z We follow her as she descends into a world of violence and cruelty that exists in the midst of her everyday reality. ‘La Civil’ Review: A Mother’s Desperation 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z For Marvin he’s taking that reticence further, trying to find his cruelty, his petulance, his spite. This Broadway Season, Christian Borle Is Taking the Lead(s) 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z "First Kill" may dwell in ableism but at least not intentional animal cruelty. "Orphan: First Kill" horror homages, from the ribbon around the neck to that knowing bird 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z Likewise, Rachel’s casual and consistent cruelty doesn’t end up making her into a more interesting character. The end of UnREAL: why it's time to say goodbye to TV's darkest comedy 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z It’s a book about religion and its tribal cruelties, and it bears bad tidings. Review: ‘Selection Day’ Presents India as Seen Through the Wickets 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z Soyinka’s other books, plays and poems on the 1966-1970 crisis equally draw on the Holocaust as a way to comment on cruelty. Nigerian writers compare genocide of Igbos to the Holocaust 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z To have your life dictated by something you are not even allowed to name is a special kind of cruelty. Why black people discriminate among ourselves: the toxic legacy of colorism 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z Deliberately exaggerating every cruelty, she shows how slights are magnified when you’re young or otherwise vulnerable. Review: ‘Pin Cushion’ Is an Original Tale of Bullying and Mental Illness 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Cruel Slaughter You can’t talk about slaughterhouses without talking about cruelty. 6 reasons to fear the pork you eat 2013-06-10T19:00:00Z She never, not even once, got past the dedication: “To Elizabeth Taylor, who thinks she does, but knows nothing about the cruelties of love.” Douglas Stuart on Growing Up Queer Before the Internet 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z Many of them confront American racism, past and present, with an unsparing eye for its cruelties and contradictions. The Essential Spike Lee 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z Headlines don’t end animal cruelty or cure cancer, or, in the case of Miley, increase public sensitivity to say, breastfeeding mothers. Surprise, PETA! Sex doesn’t sell 2013-12-20T15:54:00Z What you lack, I think, is not character, or skills, but a sufficiently withering assessment of the cruelty of the system. I’m stuck living at home! 2012-12-12T01:00:00Z His face was strong, not rugged, and with no trace of cruelty or guile. A man in full 2014-04-16T04:00:00Z The politics are inseparable from the passions; Oshima dramatizes the conjoined societal pathologies of political and erotic repression while also staging thrillingly choreographed displays of the warriors’ martial artistry, the sublimity of their cruelty. “John Wick: Chapter 2” Is Just a Trailer for Chapter 3 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z One of the film's most moving sequences records the feelings about this cruelty all these years later. Sarah Polley: 'Stories are our way of coping, of creating shape out of mess' 2013-06-22T23:05:32Z I wanted to center on the sister relationship, which is different from romantic relationships, which we usually see, because there is a real cruelty that can exist between sisters. "Polite Society" filmmaker on combining Bollywood, martial arts and "angry women being rageful" 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z And so much of today’s cruelty is born of an economic divide that gives the better-off license to “go there” in a culture that rewards oh no you didn’t! brashness. What happened to Dave Chappelle: The cruelty of "Sticks & Stones" is a sign of the times 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Industrially produced eggs seemed an obvious first target, he said, because of their many inefficiencies: food-safety scares, animal cruelty, high production costs. Why One Company Invested $30 Million to Grow a Vegan Egg 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z After reading “All Summer In A Day,” the reader knows with utter clarity, how basic is the tendency toward cruelty, and that childhood is neither pure nor innocent. Ray Bradbury, American optimist 2012-06-06T17:45:00Z On the one hand, there may be some cruelty, but there is also some tenderness. Todd Solondz’s comedy of despair: “I am always trying to navigate a line that is not too far, and not too soft” 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z This gentleness is a welcome relief — narratively, emotionally — from the canned barbarism of many prison movies, with their exploitative jolts, their shanks, cruelties and grim, casual sexual violence. ‘Great Freedom’ Review: Unbroken 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Even mainstream magazines are publishing huge stories about undercover work and animal cruelty. One photographer’s mission to change the way we look at animals 2013-12-28T21:00:00Z Loving Daenerys as a savior figure required ignoring a whole bunch of signs of her unchecked ego and her cruelty. "Game of Thrones": Don't be shocked by Daenerys — her King's Landing turn was very much earned 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z Holbein aimed at an accuracy that includes mortality, and fatigue, and in many cases, it seems also pettiness, cruelty and evil. Review | The first major Hans Holbein exhibition in the U.S. shows us the sobering reality of raw power 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z It’s only later, in the dark, that we realise she has gathered this, not from our fumbled attempts at explaining the cruelty of nature, but from Raymond Briggs. How do I explain death of our cat to my two-year-old? | Eva Wiseman 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z “The problem was, legislation doesn’t raise money,” said Bob Baker, who worked with the A.S.P.C.A.’s animal cruelty unit, investigating puppy mills. Angst at the A.S.P.C.A. 2013-06-28T20:48:27Z "I'm horrified that people found prejudice and cruelty in my book," she wrote in an article on UnHerd. Why sensitivity readers matter – and should be paid properly 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z This is McCarthy and Scott having infectious fun with humanity’s dark side, including two bravura murder scenes notable for their cruelty and creativity. Stream These Five Cormac McCarthy Film Adaptations 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z Though her books can feature murders, Ms. French’s interest, she said, lies not in “blood and gore and cruelty” but in something more interesting to her: the motivations and repercussions of murder. Tana French Finds Her Niche in Dark Themes 2012-08-26T21:37:24Z Marino appeared in Kortright town court Wednesday on cruelty charges stemming from an investigation by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. NY hospice owner Oprah praised can't have animals 2012-11-08T21:03:08Z The horses, unsurprisingly, have the worse end of the bargain, and the cruelty to which some of them are subjected can be shocking to witness. New Directors/New Films Festival Opens With Bold Strokes 2014-03-18T21:30:55Z The second essay of Nietzsche’s Genealogy argues that – and this is a crude summary – guilt arose in human beings as a consequence of the internalisation of cruelty. Who was Nietzsche? 2012-10-01T11:45:00Z But there was no deprivation or cruelty, and there were a lot of books, and Ms. Strout’s imagination ran free. The Author Elizabeth Strout on ‘Lucy Barton’ and How Her Characters Come Into Being 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z Ms. Dunham knows this, and there’s nothing that I love more about “Girls” than its insistence on Hannah’s slurping and blabbing, her inconsideration and periodic cruelty, her neediness and narcissism. 6 Ways ‘Girls’ Changed Television. Or Didn’t. 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z He has the right edge and energy, the razor-sharp mind, but also the lack of social skills and impatience that appears to border on cruelty. TV Review: Sherlock and Orchestra United 2010-07-26T05:45:00Z Lorca's is a Spain of aching poverty, cruelty, but also magnificence. Sketches of Spain by Federico García Lorca – review 2013-04-28T11:00:03Z After her death, Brown was treated with the special cruelty that our culture reserves for women who do not know when to desist from trying to be desirable. Was She a Feminist? The Complicated Legacy of Helen Gurley Brown. 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Amleth inhabits a world whose operating principle is cruelty, and Eggers’s accomplishment lies in his fastidious, fanatical rendering of that world, down to its bed linens and cooking utensils. ‘The Northman’ Review: Danish Premodern 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z What was to be done in the face of cruelty, poverty and injustice? she wanted to know. Rewind TV: Call the Midwife; Louie; Howard Goodall's Story of Music – review 2013-01-26T22:45:01Z Ms. Dumezweni imbues the character with a moral force and measured dignity that provides a moving corrective to the king’s cruelty. | 'The Winter's Tale': The Cool Ferocity of a King Inflamed by Jealousy 2011-07-24T22:32:50Z She was shocked by the cruelty from adults – some clearly parents. Little Mix's Jesy Nelson on surviving the trolls: 'People were saying horrific things' 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z Notoriously press-shy filmmaker Terrence Malick was named best director for his epic family drama "The Tree of Life," starring Brad Pitt as a domineering father who mixes tenderness and cruelty in raising his sons. Clooney's 'Descendants' leads LA critics awards 2011-12-11T23:22:15Z Serwer argues that Trump and his supporters thrive on cruelty against those “outsiders” who, in their eyes, “deserve it.” White evangelical Christians need Jesus — not Donald Trump — if their movement is going to survive 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z Sometimes horror provides the most relevant and searing indictment on the cruelty of the real world. 13 can't-miss TV shows coming in August: What stands out in a hot and crowded month 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z “I think it’s as important to document kindness, civility and generosity of spirit as it is to show cruelty, banality and indifference,” said Wiseman in his speech. After 56 years, 200 films and innumerable injuries, Jackie Chan wins an Oscar 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z His innate sweetness in the face of such mad-dog cruelty is more of a mystery, one we’ll look forward to puzzling out in his next adventure. The Scene of the Crime: Four Mysteries in Ominous Locales 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Polk’s case made national headlines as an embodiment of the cruelty of America’s foreclosure epidemic, which riddled Akron with empty homes and eviction notices, and the scourge of predatory lending. 'A failure of our system': inside a damning take on the Great Recession 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z Our reviewer, Melanie Finn, says that this finely structured novel powerfully succeeds on an intimate scale as its humane characters try to navigate everyday cruelties. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z It was that history of blood, cruelty and denial emblazoned atop a star car such that no amount of revisionist history and nostalgia could conceal. Lonnae O’Neal: I’m a black woman. I loved Luke Duke. It’s complicated. 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Suffice it to say that cruelty and bullying are Ms. Moriarty’s overriding subjects here, and that she used books about domestic violence for research. In ‘Big Little Lies,’ Liane Moriarty Finds New Complications 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z But I’ve understood that all victims become abusers, in some direction, and his extraordinary cruelty is what I remember from our youth and it’s what I see now. I overheard chilling abuse 2012-06-29T00:00:00Z “That fashion statement can be achieved with other materials that don’t require systematic cruelty to animals.” Retailers Cool to Ban on Fur Sales in West Hollywood 2011-11-30T20:30:55Z Haneke has become virtually the founding father of an icily detached ordeal cinema, a pitiless vivisection of the west’s conceit, hypocrisy and cruelty. From Hidden to In the Mood for Love: why the 2000s are my favourite film decade | Peter Bradshaw 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z There’s overt cruelty, shunning someone like an excommunicated Amish, and the kind of mind games that would make Machiavelli cringe. Interview With My Bully: The bully who asked me out 2012-05-22T00:00:00Z It’s kind of a profound look into the cruelty of the human psyche. ArtsBeat: Alex Gibney on ?Catching Hell? 2011-04-27T18:21:21Z Accounts of global warming tend to leave those who aren’t apathetic paralyzed and depressed, and tales of animal cruelty and extinction can be too harrowing to bear. ‘Racing Extinction’ and ‘This Changes Everything’: How Films Market a Harrowing Message 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z Multiply that cruelty several times over, and you get a pretty good idea of his the-devil-made-me-do-it role as a priest taunting and demoralizing a younger cleric in the intriguing but curiously hollow "The Rite." 'The Rite': Anthony Hopkins is an actor possessed in this cheesy thriller 2011-01-27T22:44:12Z In nearly every novel, a young man or woman is victim or witness during a crime and is often searching for a real parent who is guilty of abandonment, deception and cruelty to a child. 'Letters' inscribes a grand love affair with words between Macdonald and Welty 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z The camera is usually stationary, observing characters from a tactful distance as they sigh, grumble, complain and treat one another with cruelty, weary civility and occasional tenderness. Review: ‘A Pigeon Sat on a Branch,’ Roy Andersson’s Rumination on Life 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z Friendships between girls, particularly, can involve a possessiveness and – as well as a deep, complicit intimacy – a shared language, often of subtle rebellion, and a competitiveness that can manifest itself in cruelty. 'A language of secrets': how My Brilliant Friend revolutionised female friendship on TV 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z It is that cruelty that sets this year apart. 'I've never seen tent rage like it!' How Bake Off lost its way 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z "There is a real cruelty that can exist between sisters. You know exactly the things to say to hurt your sister." "Polite Society" filmmaker on combining Bollywood, martial arts and "angry women being rageful" 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z It is as much his father’s tale as his own, and though it is unsparing in its depiction of Jaime’s cruelty, vanity and cowardice, it is also profoundly forgiving. ‘The Dance of Reality,’ Jodorowsky’s Comeback Film 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Mills publicly accused McCartney of cruelty and sought a massive $250 million divorce settlement, but the judge sided with McCartney, calling her claims exorbitant. Media anticipate Paul McCartney to wed in London 2011-10-09T11:19:12Z And yet amid the season-long march of cruelty, one night stands alone it its gladiatorial ruthlessness: The spectacle of public shaming known as the “Women Tell All.” TV’s cruelest night: “The Bachelor” enjoys the ruthless public shaming of its “Women Tell All” event a little too much 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z In 2019, when cruelty is the headliner, the country’s most successful stadium comic is killing it at every stop with unfettered screeds about immigrants, slapping political rivals with nicknames like Pocahontas. What happened to Dave Chappelle: The cruelty of "Sticks & Stones" is a sign of the times 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Mr. Ferris ushers Paul into the book on a caustic wave of cruelty that’s as damaging to the dentist as it is to his patients. Joshua Ferris’s ‘To Rise Again at a Decent Hour’ 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z Georges is a human being who absorbs, and then inflicts, a kind of cruelty that vampires cannot imagine. Pick of the week: Robert Pattinson plays a real monster 2012-06-08T00:00:00Z Few of them seem to lack a scene of animal cruelty. Werner Herzog, a movie-making genius of performance art 2010-10-21T14:35:00Z He rescued stray dogs, and tattooed a tribute to one of his dogs, Boomer, across the whole of his back, but also pleaded guilty to animal cruelty charges. DMX, a Profound Vessel for Pain 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z The Doctor is someone who sees the big picture, and has seen how the human race is — he loves the human race, because he sees its cruelty, but also astonishing kindness and heroism. Peter Capaldi Prepares for His Final Season of ‘Doctor Who’ 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z On the one hand, I’m impressed at how the show depicted the cruelty of life by killing off a main character through what is essentially a dumb accident. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2 Finale: All Thumbs 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z I loved it: a dark and intense school story in which the cruelty and bullying of children is given a hideous resonance in the setting of 1980s Zimbabwe. Who should win the Costa? 2011-01-25T16:23:35Z “It’s astonishing how much audiences love Logan’s cruelty,” he says. Succession’s Brian Cox: ‘I was touched up by Princess Margaret’ 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z It is a strange and beautiful little book, which retains the poetry and cruelty of its source, while subtly excavating our abiding attraction to ruthless fairy tales. Review: ‘The Robber Bridegroom’ Is Heavy on the Twang 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z The Humane Methods of Slaughter Act of 1958 was passed to prevent excessive cruelty to animals and requires that they be made insensitive to pain before being “shackled, hoisted, thrown, cast or cut.” 6 reasons to fear the pork you eat 2013-06-10T19:00:00Z Grant is “desperate,” not determined; Sherman displays “his characteristic overbearing cruelty”; Federal prisons are “Lincoln’s dungeons.” ‘Vicksburg’ Review: The Falling Tide of Gray 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z In a recent interview Ms. Anderson emphasized that she did not want readers to begin recoiling in horror from mahogany antiques, despite the material’s origins in cruelty. Antiques: Mahogany’s History in Slavery in the Caribbean 2012-08-23T22:00:55Z In his review for The New York Times, A. O. Scott wrote that the film “casts a fierce, revisionist eye on the past, finding the cruelty and prejudice that lie beneath the pageantry.” Lost Culture on Found Film 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z Flanagan won the prestigious Booker Prize in 2014 for “The Narrow Road to the Deep North,” an extraordinary novel about Australian POWs during World War II that is unsparing in its considerations of human cruelty. Review | In ‘The Living Sea of Waking Dreams,’ last-ditch medical interventions are their own horror story 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z History's statement said nothing about factual accuracy or animal cruelty. Bloodthirsty wildlife documentaries lack reality and ethics 2013-05-17T14:32:28Z They are students of human cruelty and champions of the resistance to it. Review: The Hard Road of Decency in ‘The Unknown Girl’ 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z No one captures the beauty, the cruelty and immensity of the desert and its tribes as brilliantly as Lawrence. Sue Arnold's audiobook choice - review 2012-10-05T21:55:10Z Where we’ve seen it since: The Internet loves to point out the irony of Rose’s promise through cynical memes that play on the inherent cruelty of her impossible choice. Analysis | After 20 years, these 8 ‘Titanic’ moments still won’t die. Unlike Jack. 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z There is never a “time and place” for cruelty. Should I Stay Silent During One Child’s Populist Taunt of Another? 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z In the index, “Robbins, cruelty of” gets its own entry. Is It Finally Twilight for the Theater’s Sacred Monsters? 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z In an interview last year, Mr. Sun and Ms. Peng defended “Dogs That Cannot Touch Each Other” and dismissed claims of animal cruelty. Guggenheim Exhibit With Video of Dogs Trying to Fight Stirs Criticism 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z Her troubles are deeper than plain old patriarchy, though, and derive also from Nazism, and the ways in which fascism transforms from public to private menace, a postwar spectre of cruelty and destruction. Ingeborg Bachmann’s “Malina” Is the Truest Portrait of Female Consciousness Since Sappho 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z The BP oil spill, the Chicago parking meter fiasco, animal cruelty. Artists and non-artists collaborate on Rogers Park project 2011-07-01T17:08:00Z Not one to rally the troupe, Derek seems to believe that the way to get the best out of his dancers is through cruelty and fear. TV review: Agony & Ecstasy: A Year With English National Ballet; Caroline Quentin: A Passage Through India; Horizon: Predators in Your Backyard 2011-03-08T22:05:01Z On the other hand, they deploy barbaric cruelty in order to defend that superiority. Was There a Murder on the Mayflower? 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z Austen makes buffoons of her characters, but she never dabbles in cruelty. "Emma." is the candy-coated "Clueless" remake we deserve 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z “This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.” John Berger, Provocative Art Critic, Dies at 90 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z In the course of trying to re-establish the broadest meaning of the abstract geometry that has fascinated so many 20th-century artists, Hopkins makes us consider that ritual, worship, cruelty and superstition have always been inseparable.” Budd Hopkins, Abstract Artist and U.F.O. Author, Dies at 80 2011-08-25T03:59:54Z Foster casts a clear eye on this cruelty, but the film also revels in the rollicking nature of the men’s venture. ‘American Pain’ Review: When the Pills and the Money Kept On Flowing 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z Time slips away amid small cruelties, brutal assaults and a harrowing passage in which the soldiers use the women as shields during a raid on a Muslim enclave. | 'In the Land of Blood and Honey': Angelina Jolie?s ?In the Land of Blood and Honey? - Review 2011-12-22T23:54:23Z Laugh at buffoonery, yes, and cry over cruelty as well. The uneasy farce of "Jojo Rabbit": Is there ever a good time for "wacky Nazi" satire? 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z Here is the dragon of a teacher who lurks somewhere in every student’s academic history, and whose cruelty and exactitude are inseparable personality traits. Books of The Times: Will Perilous Trek to Amazon Reveal Heart of Darkness? 2011-06-01T22:30:03Z Finally, some people opt for plant-based foods because they abhor animal cruelty or want to help decrease their environmental impact, especially with respect to greenhouse gas emissions and water use. Perspective | Is it really possible that plant-based foods such as the Impossible Whopper are healthful? 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z Susan devours the book; she not only recognizes her ex's talent but also the cruelty of her abandonment. 32 of the year's best books 2011-12-07T23:43:04Z As a filmmaker, McQueen has made a specialty of unflinching attention to real-world cruelty, testing our endurance in the service of moral enlightenment. ‘Widows’ Review: Viola Davis Commands the Screen in a Somber Heist Film 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z The Massacre of the Innocents is linked to the suppression of student protests in 1968, while musical similarities identify Joseph's suspicions over Mary's pregnancy and Herod's cruelty as comparable patterns of male insecurity and aggression. El Ni?o 2010-08-16T08:45:00Z He's still a drinker, but less lovable and more detached: there's even a black comic moment of cruelty where Rooster brutally boots a Native American child off a front porch. True Grit ? review 2011-02-10T14:59:01Z As Sycorax witnesses the African diaspora’s centuries, the characters begin to show, rather than just tell, the accumulated burden of historical cruelty. Bring on the ‘Stormy Weather’: In Series does Shakespeare by way of Billie Holiday 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z In China, by contrast, the revolution appeared to be successful, but the full dimensions of its cruelty were not yet visible to the few visitors, like Mr. Salles’s mother, who were allowed into the country. Review: ‘In the Intense Now’ Revisits the Drama of 1968 in France and Beyond 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z Staggering between corny conventionality and zesty, upbeat weirdness, “Don’t Worry” never fully acknowledges the cruelty and selfishness required to sustain a longtime habit. Review: Joaquin Phoenix Treks the Long Road to Sobriety in ‘Don’t Worry’ 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z “Shame on you Guggenheim for prompting heinous animal cruelty under the guise of ‘art.’” Guggenheim Exhibit With Video of Dogs Trying to Fight Stirs Criticism 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Oldroyd and the screenwriter, Alice Birch, weave Leskov’s tale into a barbed feminist fable of class, cruelty and sexual power that feels absolutely true to its period and uncannily attuned to the present moment. From Brooklyn to South Africa, 8 Filmmakers to Watch 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z The villain is Dong Zhuo, a tyrannical warlord known for his cruelty. Guo Wenjing’s ‘Feng Yi Te’ Mixes East and West 2012-07-20T17:11:45Z Like the films of Jordan Peele or Bong Joon Ho, Clipping uses speculative fiction to reflect the cruelty of contemporary reality. 2020 Is Chaotic. Clipping’s New Horror-Rap Album Captures It. 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z There are bullies whose actions persist into adulthood, but there are also bullies who lead wonderful, productive lives and outgrow their childish cruelties. Beyond the wedgies: How we oversimplify schoolyard bullying 2014-05-03T21:30:00Z At what point does cruelty become cruelty for cruelty’s sake? 'Game of Thrones' Recap: Dragon Dance 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z Someone who lures with charm and then switches to cruelty is an abuser. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: As sisters clash over emotional support, Mom needs to step away 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z The sensitive young David Copperfield finds refuge from the cruelty of his stepfather in his late father’s collection of classics, from Robinson Crusoe to Don Quixote. Why to Read Dickens Now (Or Watch Him on TV) 2012-01-26T19:39:00Z His suffering and exploitation at the hands of a succession of slave owners is unflinchingly detailed in a film that lays bare the cruelty and barbarity of this heinous institution. Toronto 2013: Reporter's diary 2013-09-09T07:46:10Z But it wasn’t luck—it was my parents’ constant efforts to shelter me from the cruelties of racism. A Visit to Montgomery’s Legacy Museum 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z Topics: down, winter coats, down coats, goose down, geese, Animals, Animal cruelty, north face, allied feather & down, , , Your down coat could be the product of cruelty 2013-12-15T21:00:00Z One criticism lobbed at the film was that it was a white empowerment tale propped up by cruelties inflicted on black bodies. When Rape Onscreen Is Directed by a Woman 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z Last week Stephen Colbert delivered a powerful takedown of attorney general Jeff Sessions for attempting to justify such cruelty with scripture from the Bible, but Monday night, he tried a different route. Colbert condemns Trump: Migrant family separation “another scoop from your chum bucket of cruel... 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z The show argues that this antipathy remained in later centuries, spurred by fearsome accounts of Spanish cruelties that were later characterized as a “Black Legend” — a slur on the Spanish record. Exhibition Review: Looking South, Not East, Into New York?s Past 2010-09-16T22:55:00Z Are Dr. Cawley’s methods, which he claims are a humane advance over the cruelty and superstition of the past, really a form of madness in their own right? Movie Review | 'Shutter Island': All at Sea, Surrounded by Red Herrings 2010-02-18T15:49:00Z It was Terry’s capacity for cruelty that appealed to Mr. Gyllenhaal most of all. Jake Gyllenhaal Makes New York Stage Debut 2012-08-23T12:00:00Z Jones — who wrote, directed and stars in the film — doesn’t treat the tensions between exploitation and empowerment, personal agency and systemic cruelties, as binaries. ‘Sell/Buy/Date’ Review: The Topic of Sex Work, From All Sides 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z Public aversion to acknowledging violence in the home was so intense for so long that the anti-animal cruelty movement preceded the anti-domestic violence movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Home: America’s most dangerous place 2013-04-18T15:23:00Z Vick, who has been out of prison for three years now, regularly volunteers with the Humane Society, speaking out on animal cruelty and lobbying for tougher laws against animal-fighting spectators. Michael Vick, dog owner 2012-10-12T19:47:00Z This circus can't even get a license anymore in its own home town because of cruelty. Elephant moves debris after Missouri tornado 2011-05-31T21:32:00Z He had grasped the cruelty of our birth and shoved it in our faces. 'Robert Hughes was our Dante,' says his friend Peter Carey 2012-08-07T16:45:25Z Less encouraging is how many sketches turn on mental deficiency, physical cruelty and/or the aging -- though that makes its own comment on the current media climate. Media glut, the 'Bachelor,' Yelp get the Groundlings treatment 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z Is Julia’s new sense of vulnerability a reaction to “the slowing,” or a response to the hormonal convulsions of adolescence and the small cruelties of her schoolmates? Books of The Times: ‘The Age of Miracles,’ by Karen Thompson Walker 2012-06-18T19:58:11Z Another occurs at the end, in which the cruelty demanded by power is taken too much to heart by one of its recipients. Review: ‘Henry IV,’ Donmar Warehouse’s All-Female Version 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z For all its tossed-off flash, “Superfly” goes beyond the mere intricacy of its audacious plotting to suggest the cruelty, the horror, and the deceit at the heart of the American body politic. “Superfly,” Reviewed: A Classic Remade for a Gun-Mad Age 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Perhaps the most obvious way her parents have influenced her is in her thinking about animal cruelty. What Drives Stella McCartney 2012-02-22T11:58:00Z But even by its own standards of staggering cruelty, Sunday’s episode set a new … high? 'Game of Thrones': 9 Especially Gut-Wrenching Moments 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z With news of Brooks's death, the phrase "The cruelty is the point" comes to mind. In the name of the movement: Black Lives Matter Plaza, Breonna Taylor and the long road to justice 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z There was a lot of cruelty involved in Ireland's self-image as the most Catholic nation on earth and all that. Fintan O'Toole on Ireland's transformation — and the reverse version now underway in America 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Cynthia, when her research is interrupted, responds with haughty weariness or outright cruelty to Evelyn’s timid attempts at kindness. ‘The Duke of Burgundy’ Is an Erotic Hothouse Flower 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z It’s a grim metaphor for the exploitation and suffering of working people, and can be seen as a forerunner of our obsession with reality TV and social-media cruelty. Jane Fonda's 10 best films – ranked! 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z Yet Bug’s aunt’s homophobic comments about him are more shocking for their casual cruelty. A Different Kind of California Dreaming 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z Lynch’s body of work implies that the cruelty of such people isn’t really what we should fear most. David Lynch’s chillingly prescient vision of modern America 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z Brands affirms the justice behind Brown’s actions, no matter how zealous, when measured against the cruelty of slavery. John Brown and Abraham Lincoln: A Study in Contrasts 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z Short sentences detonate into scenes of shocking cruelty. Reintroducing Natalia Ginzburg, One of the Great Italian Writers of the 20th Century 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z If the play, with all its cattiness and cruelty, at times feels like “Mean Girls Goes to Camp,” it’s not always clear where the meanness is coming from. Review: A ‘Seagull’ Airlifted to a World of Soy Milk and Prada Sneakers 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z The cruelty was all self-inflicted, on actors and on the whole woeful production. Rewind TV: Mad Men; Thatcher coverage; Off Their Rockers – review 2013-04-13T21:45:01Z The cruelties of India's caste system and the insularity of China's imperial court are more gently treated than British imperialism, but their consequences are also acknowledged. Amitav Ghosh sails into the Opium War with trilogy finale 'Flood of Fire' 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z A picture emerges of a young woman who wants nothing more than to conjure a home in that impossible space between hyper-visibility and invisibility, to forever forestall the cruelties of being known and thus categorized. Women Seeking Intimacy Through Food, Mathematics and Rhythm 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z In real life, as in the film, the tabloid media can’t wait to describe the home of every perfect couple as a lurid crime scene, haunted by cruelty, infidelity, and wickedness. What “Gone Girl” Is Really About 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z In 1992, she went to trial herself, for kidnapping and emotional cruelty of the children she was claiming to help. What’s on TV This Week: ‘The Princess’ and ‘Password’ 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z Her girlhood takes place in the 1980s, but its constraints and cruelties have a 17th-century vibe. ‘Very Cold People’ Makes Something Beautiful Out of a Painful Childhood 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z On Earth, billions of domestic animals threaten natural biodiversity, contribute to climate change and suffer from needless animal cruelty. Could we feed a city on Mars? 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z “Parents should firmly stop children’s war play or any other kind of play that degenerates into deliberate cruelty or meanness,” he wrote. Bang: The troubled legacy of toy guns 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z The indulgences, of course, did not compensate for the cruelties of captivity. Antiques: The Everyday Lives of American Slaves 2011-01-06T22:27:39Z Reminiscent at times of Michael Ondaatje’s novel “Anil’s Ghost,” whose protagonist, like Attila, sifts through the aftermath of war, “Happiness” is a meditation on grand themes: Love and death, man and nature, cruelty and mercy. Review | ‘Happiness’: An exquisite novel about how chance and love connect us 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z I suspect that one of the most insidious forms of his cruelty is in encouraging, without ever really advancing, the possibility of a complete narrative. Clare Sestanovich on Desire and the Dangers of Metaphor 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z This elaborate multigenerational family story is filled with ascents and descents, growing up and growing old, kindness and cruelty. Review: Kate Atkinson’s ‘A God in Ruins’ Offers Lives Skipping Among Eras 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Writing in The Times, A. O. Scott called the film “a tour de force of meticulous cruelty, a comic melodrama that elicits laughter and empathy and then replaces those responses with squirming discomfort.” What’s on TV Friday: Kate del Castillo in ‘Ingobernable’ and Lady Gaga on ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z The race scene itself is a terrific Two Lane Blacktop nail-biter, a bravura black comic nightmare of horses and cars and high-speed desperation and cruelty. Cannes 2013: The Selfish Giant – review 2013-05-17T08:30:01Z The real horror of this novel is not the ghostly Melmoth at all, but the cruelty we human beings enact upon one another. A Dark Cavalcade of New Horror Fiction 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z She talks eloquently about how "judgmental" our culture is, deploring its casual cruelty – especially online. Anne-Marie Duff: 'I wondered if I should lie about my background' 2013-05-19T05:00:03Z After reading “All Summer in a Day,” the reader knows with utter clarity, how basic is the tendency toward cruelty, and that childhood is neither pure nor innocent. Ray Bradbury: The man who made sci-fi respectable 2012-06-06T20:30:00Z "Saga" is an especially wonderful antidote to the cruelty and meanness of America and the world today. Comics author Brian K. Vaughan on his global hit "Saga" and making art in troubled times 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z Harris’ father is now charged with felony murder and second-degree child cruelty. Would you take a “hot car challenge”? 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z In a year in which the boundaries of cruelty and indifference stretched and expanded, there was also, among a certain set, a quieting or refocussing. Our Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2019 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z And in a shocking moment when Yuko kisses Koji in front of her bewildered husband, there is the unveiling of a profound cruelty. Sex, Death and More Sex: Three Books of Fiction by Acclaimed Japanese Writers 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Is cancer, likewise, a metaphor for the incurable cruelty of being young? Teen fiction and the shadow of cancer 2013-01-26T10:00:01Z It captures the vulnerability, curiosity, occasional cruelty and unvarnished potential of a person on the brink of adolescence. Why ‘Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret’ Still Matters 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z The cruelty of children – and teenagers, especially – is common enough in our newsfeeds and our television screens. “Punk,” “bitch,” “dumbass,” “slut”: bullying almost killed me, but leaving school saved my life 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z Though “What Strange Paradise” celebrates a few radical acts of compassion, it does so only by placing those moments of moral courage against a vast ocean of cruelty. Review | ‘What Strange Paradise’ is a visceral account of a refugee’s desperation 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z Earlier, he blustered over objections to his cruelty; now his lines and syllables shorten and he’s left silent and simple, undone by regret, “content to look on” and “content to hear.” Encounters with Shakespeare 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z His performance as Rasputia, an abusive spouse who is obese, was criticized for its mockery of a fat person, though the portrayal emphasized, painfully, the character’s cruelty and indifference. Why Is Eddie Murphy in Cinematic Exile? 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z She catches cruelty and inexplicable desire, what she has called “the dirt within,” as well as any writer we have. Mary Gaitskill Looks Unhappiness Straight in the Eye 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z Scenes depicted homeless men performing seemingly dangerous stunts and acts of cruelty and violence for the camera. From Homelessness to Donald Trump, This Art Group Takes on All 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z Or maybe his confinement is just the latest in a lifetime of Dalia’s cruelties. ‘Nocturna’ Review: A Dark Night of the Soul 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z Neither a nature documentary nor a political lecture, “All That Breathes” is a subtle, haunting reflection on the meaning of humanity — on the breathtaking kindness and heartbreaking cruelty that define our wounded, intrepid, predatory species. ‘All That Breathes’ Review: Hope Is the Thing With Feathers 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z Increasingly, and notwithstanding the unconscionable cruelty sometimes inflicted on smaller cetaceans by fishermen, whales are receiving more practical and effective protection than ever before. The Sea Inside by Philip Hoare – review 2013-05-30T06:30:01Z But there’s a mountain of evidence that bad architecture contributes to a climate of cruelty, shame and alienation. After Rikers Island Closes, What Will Jail Look Like? 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z Cancer, animal cruelty, feminism: So why can’t I quit using makeup? Cancer, animal cruelty, feminism: So why can’t I quit using makeup? 2014-01-04T23:00:00Z Cheerfully naïve, unsuspecting of the world’s cruelty, she views herself as an educator, fostering understanding. Review: ‘The Chinese Lady’ Casts a Long Look at Hate 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z I marvel at her creativity and her cruelty and how much she loves me.” No Shrinking Violets: A Short Story Collection From Roxane Gay 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z The only other role on Mr. Cumberbatch’s bucket list, he has said, was Hamlet — a character who shares Patrick’s brilliance, arrogance, wit, cruelty, self-destructiveness and, in his reading, not dissimilar daddy issues. Benedict Cumberbatch Just Crossed the Last Role Off His Bucket List 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z It's not hard to imagine what Larsson would think about the smoldering embers of his stark investigation into the cruelties that men inflict upon women. Does 'The Girl in the Spider's Web' hurt the legacy of Stieg Larsson's Lisbeth Salander? 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z The principal exception is Matthew Pauli’s sinister Cardinal, who exudes a still-waters-run-deep cruelty and competence, even when he is gazing at allies and underlings with stony eyes. ‘Duchess of Malfi’ at Capital Fringe: A brisk tale of revenge Vast numbers of children’s books these days are somehow “timely” and “relevant,” taking on issues like discrimination or animal cruelty. The “Goosebumps” Conundrum: What Makes a Children’s Book Good? 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z Kapur weaves together memoir, history and ethnography to tell a story of the desire for utopia and the cruelties committed in its name. Revisiting a Utopian City With Fondness and Fury 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z Five days later all the animal cruelty charges were dropped. The dark world of animal “crush” films 2014-04-18T19:36:00Z The movie shows the animal cruelty that went into the making of Buñuel’s documentary both in animated form and in clips from the original movie. ‘Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles’ Review: Animating a Surrealist 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z In placing man in charge of beast, Del Amo’s intent is not, perhaps, to draw a comparison but to draw a distinction between violence and cruelty: Cruelty is distinctly a human forte. New French Fiction: From Farm to Table, With Feasting in Between 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z There is “cruelty” in the killing of children — whether by American drones or by local militants, who bomb a government hospital. ‘The Shadow of the Crescent Moon,’ by Fatima Bhutto 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z I see it as a book of horror photographs: little flashes of violence and cruelty. Playground Pain and Pleasure 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z The foreign fighters are entirely different, known for their excessive cruelty and pettiness. Don’t fall for ISIS’ trap: A French national pleads for tolerance 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z The cruelty can be hard to watch — and at times it seems like more than Ellis could possibly endure — but there is also tenderness, camaraderie and humor. ‘The Inspection’ Review: Boot Camp, a Love Story 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z But in this troubling play the love matches bring grief in their wake, just as the pursuit of justice — ostensibly a righteous mission — also proves an act of inhuman cruelty. | 'The Merchant of Venice': What Price a Pound of Flesh? 2011-03-04T23:52:29Z In both cases it is a cruelty that binds a community; it laughs and rejoices, unburdened by expressions of guilt. New Books Update Our Thinking About Cruelty 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z These products aren't completely free of animal inputs, since cell cultures, hormones and some other inputs originate from animal samples, but growing meat without livestock would largely sidestep the immense cruelty of factory farming. Could we all be buying lab-grown meat soon? 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z He describes Kurt Vonnegut’s view of the universe as “basically atrocious, a vast sea of cruelty and indifference” — the legacy of witnessing the firebombing of Dresden firsthand during World War II. Books of The Times: ?Higher Gossip? by John Updike - Review 2011-11-28T22:39:39Z All instances of anything approximating love or tenderness arrive in hock to cruelty. Stories That Double as a Field Guide to Women’s Desires and Miseries 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z But he is careful not to tip over too far into cruelty, he said, or at least mainly to kick people when they’re up. ‘Forbidden Broadway: Alive & Kicking!’: Shaping a Spoof 2012-08-26T21:36:54Z They already know the cruelty of misinformation, the pain born of rumors, and the living nightmare of make-believe. Gurbaksh Chahal has lost his job. His girlfriend has lost more 2014-05-06T22:57:00Z On the flip side, one of the cruelties of time is that it often thins our herd of friends. Social Q’s: Social Q’s - Don’t Ask for a Gift Back 2012-09-21T01:22:37Z Yet this cynical, near-future crime thriller, with its Hunger Games morality and Mad Max aesthetic, is too busy glamorizing cruelty to allow its central relationship to resonate. ‘Mondocane’ Review: Fractured Friendship, Fractured World 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z Keith Wilson, owner of Wilson’s Wild Animal Park in Winchester, Virginia, was indicted by the same grand jury on charges of wildlife trafficking, conspiracy, animal cruelty and violating the Endangered Species Act. Man featured on ‘Tiger King’ charged with animal cruelty 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z He says he looked in awe at the monuments: “Then it dawned on me how they were achieved. Through cruelty. Through wickedness and slavery.” War photographer McCullin's retrospective shows 'appalling things'... 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z As a veterinarian, it gave me a chance to shine a light on the cruelty of such a blood sport. James Rollins: By the Book 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z For many, his portrayal of the character - an outwardly affable and highly articulate individual capable of chilling cruelty and ruthlessness - was the highlight of Tarantino's revisionist World War Two saga. Waltz: From Nazi Basterd to Zero hero 2014-03-14T06:33:14Z It is a dictatorship, and dissent is dealt with with utmost force and cruelty. A Conductor on Why He Stayed in Russia After the Invasion Began 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z A district attorney's spokeswoman says a prosecutor rejected filing a misdemeanor cruelty to a child charge Wednesday. Prosecutors reject case against Michael Madsen 2012-03-15T21:11:19Z It’s key to preventing many forms of cruelty. Perspective | 5 ways to teach our children empathy in these challenging times 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z “Toni Erdmann” sets its critical sights not only on the odd folkways of the executive class, but also on German arrogance within the European Union and the casual cruelty of international capitalism. Review: In ‘Toni Erdmann,’ Dad’s a Prankster Trying to Jolt His Conformist Daughter 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Those children suffered cruelty of an astounding magnitude, far worse than Strout originally conveyed. Elizabeth Strout’s Lovely New Novel Is a Requiem for Small-Town Pain 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z Ms. Dumas made her name through art of a certain cruelty. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z Like Dark Souls, it punishes the greedy for launching one too many attacks when they should be evading, but in spite of a bracing difficulty level, it stops well short of that game's smiling cruelty. This week's new games 2012-08-17T23:05:30Z There are no animal protection laws in China and this results in the worst animal abuse and cruelty on the planet. Morrissey to receive apology from NME 2012-06-12T18:51:41Z There is no subtle message, perhaps no message at all, in its horrific cruelty. Immolation of Jordanian pilot aims to drag us back to barbarism 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z What defines him, though, are a pair of arresting pale blue eyes that tend to bulge maniacally on “Game of Thrones,” alight with the delight that comes from some cruelty or another. Ramsay Bolton of ‘Game of Thrones’ Is the Most Hated Man on TV 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z But Dahl's absurdist depiction of human cruelty and greed is edgy, too. Fox pop: English Touring Opera gives Roald Dahl back to the kids 2011-02-17T22:26:00Z I couldn’t face the true cost of my diet – the unimaginable cruelty, suffering and loss of life simply so I could enjoy a hamburger. A New Year resolution that's good for you and the planet: stop eating meat 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z Simultaneously charismatic and repellent, with an appetite for wine, women and song and a prodigious belief in his own greatness, Carlos is a mock-Shakespearean blend of cruelty, genius and vulgarity much as Tony is. "Carlos": International terror, Sopranos-style 2010-10-15T00:01:00Z Few bands luxuriate in cruelty and coldness as extravagantly as the Whigs. Lollapalooza Day 1: Black Sabbath, Black Keys and Passion Pit's black thoughts 2012-08-04T06:11:00Z Carter was kind and thoughtful, often championing emerging writers, but also capable of incredible cruelty and ugliness. An overdue biography of Angela Carter 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Jane Fonda gnawed her knuckles raw watching it, while South Koreans, Germans and others found it chimed with their own experiences of state-sponsored cruelty. Sovremennik and the gates of hell 2011-01-04T21:31:00Z This comment arose not from your stepmother’s inherent cruelty, but from her insecurity and weakness. I Have a Real-Life Wicked Stepmother. How Do I Handle Her? 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z He offers us snapshots of individual cruelties that, for all the suggestion of larger forces at work, don't add up to a social critique. Wastwater - review 2011-04-05T23:30:12Z Animal rights activists denounced the works as "distinct instances of unmistakable cruelty against animals in the name of art." Guggenheim Museum Cuts 3 Works After Animal Rights Protests 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z The Phantom is actually a family, with the purple long johns and mission to fight "piracy, greed, cruelty and injustice" passed on from father to son. Comics: 'The Phantom' is all over the place 2012-01-17T14:55:11Z Jolie doesn’t exploit the cruelty for shock value; her approach is cinematically fastidious. Review: Angelina Jolie's 'Unbroken' Is Grand, But Not Quite Enthralling 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z Ruth Harrison's 1964 book Animal Machines was among the first to reveal the cruelty of modern poultry production. How free-range eggs became the norm in supermarkets — and sold customers a lie 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z How do people coexist if loyalty to the tribe justifies cruelty done to others? ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7, Episode 6: Hey Look, Another New Group! 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z It's a book of singular cruelty and shocking misanthropy. Looking back at the Lost Booker: Muriel Spark 2010-05-13T14:52:00Z “He was also inconsiderate of her own ambition to the point of cruelty.” Ann Birstein, Memoirist and Novelist, Dies at 89 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z Like most in this post-apocalyptic landscape, they’ve occasionally lost sight of their humanity and have at times engaged in outright cruelty, most starkly when they infiltrated a Savior outpost and killed everyone they found. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7, Episode 4: Negan Takes Over 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z For a second, it feels like Lucious, even in his bullish, mercurial cruelty, is the only one in the family being totally honest. ‘Empire’ Season 2, Episode 13: Of Family Secrets 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z The appalling cruelty of the killers and their links to the film and music industries abruptly ended the city’s Age of Aquarius. Behind the bloodshed: the chilling untold stories about Charles Manson 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z Once absolute, his power was starting to slip between his fingers, and he reacted with supreme cruelty. From Bran Stark to Boris Johnson: TV heroes and villains of 2019 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z Even when he didn’t have a proper punchline handy, his pressurized timbre allowed him to do two kinds of work, shouting back at life’s cruelty while still joking his way through it. Perspective | Young Dolph’s heaviest rhymes made this lethal world feel lighter 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z But Eleven is still adjusting to a world where she isn't a lab rat with superpowers, and her new schoolmates are brutes who shove her around with "Carrie" levels of cruelty. How "Stranger Things 4" transforms Max into a dream warrior worthy of Wes Craven 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z Its violence is appropriately harsh, given the determination to illustrate the full cruelty of American slavery. Critic’s Notebook: At Telluride Festival, a Redford Solo and Other Previews 2013-09-02T21:37:32Z Fahnestock, with terrible cruelty, says he will forgive and marry her, but that she must never tell a soul. Once Upon a Secret: My Hidden Affair with JFK by Mimi Alford ? review 2012-02-10T11:00:02Z And now she is determined to teach it to us, her readers, who are sentenced to more than 300 pages of despair, cruelty and illness. Review | If you like despair — and ‘Orange Is the New Black’ — you’ll love ‘The Mars Room’ 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z It’s more than just a chemical high; it’s a kind of moral victory over the cruelties and compromises of the square world. Review: In ‘Animals,’ a Couple in Love With Heroin 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z That work tells us a larger story, of the remorseless world of ballet, its history and traditions, cruelties and beauties. Dance Review: Snapshots of One Dancer?s Life Give a Glimpse Into an Art Form 2010-09-19T22:09:00Z Certainly, I oppose intentional cruelty, even if it’s verbal. Civilities: Do I introduce my child as my transgender son or daughter? She appears to resent “Lolita” for depicting cruelty with charm, allusive style, and psychological acuity—for being beautiful, when its subject matter is not. The Salacious Non-Mystery of “The Real Lolita” 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z Lakshman finds the cub near his village in the mountains and saves it from the cruelty of the local children, only to inflict a further cruelty of his own. A Novel That Echoes Naipaul, Exploring the Limits of Freedom 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z And I’m impressed that you were able to forgive her for her ill-informed cruelty. Here’s a New One: Mom, Please Pry 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z He seems both to exult and to be trapped in its rules, its cruelties. David Foster Wallace’s Perfect Game 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Former slaves used the quill to depict the terror of the middle passage and the cruelty of the sociopathic master. 7 thrilling books by Black authors you need to read now 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z The book vividly highlights Casement's efforts to expose the cruelties of colonialism and the brutalities committed by private European-controlled armies against indigenous people. Your books of the year 2012-12-28T22:55:18Z Irina is charming and silly, imperious and intelligent, tough to the point of cruelty and also exquisitely sensitive. Review: In ‘The Seagull,’ a Great Play, a Great Cast and Yet ... 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z Protesters with fake spears protruding from their backs took to the streets on Friday to highlight what they see as animal cruelty. Pamplona starts annual bull-running festival with a bang 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z Or on the cruelty of opponents, the signs of visceral, personal hatred? What Borgen's prime minister tells us about Julia Gillard 2013-06-13T01:16:44Z The movie’s story and its backstory converge, rendering the cruelty that went into its production palpable in the viewing. “Marnie” Is the Cure for Hitchcock Mania 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z Scottoline assuredly recounts the cruelty they suffer as the Nazis mistreat and taunt them. Review | Lisa Scottoline’s latest novel, ‘Eternal,’ is not a thriller but is thrilling nonetheless 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z Three years ago, it managed to free three of these elephants from a life of cruelty at a Chiang Mai tourist attraction and walked them 100km home to their ancestral forests. Thailand’s elephants say goodbye to the circus – and a life of cruelty 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z But the spectre Splice evokes for me – more than eugenics, playing God or cruelty to human-animal hybrids – is that of cosmetic surgery. Anne Billson 2010-07-15T20:59:00Z But despite the shocking cruelty depicted in this book, Moore also infuses the pages with great humanity — humanity capable of great horror and even greater beauty. Black, Gay and Becoming Visible 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z In spare and exacting prose, Doshi documents the petty cruelties and helpless dependency of a primal relationship in disarray. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z “She catches cruelty and inexplicable desire, what she has called ‘the dirt within,’ as well as any writer we have.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z But also I’m incredibly curious about what the heck leads someone like Lydia to be the amalgam of cruelty and charity that she has become. ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ showrunner explains how the Hulu series went beyond the book in Season 2 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z But when you are 27, like Ralston was, you tend not to think about that cruelty unless you have to. What Danny Boyle did next 2010-12-05T00:04:00Z I am mad at myself for being so naive and exposing my daughter to their cruelty during a time of hardship. Perspective | Miss Manners: Calling a grown sibling ‘mean’ won’t help the situation 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z Simmons' arrest record also includes charges of: animal cruelty, reckless driving, drug possession, weapons charges and probation violations. Rapper DMX arrested on driving charges at South Carolina airport 2013-11-05T09:19:07Z Elder confesses that his father, now dead, used to beat him to teach him the cruelty of the world. Review: ‘From Afar,’ a Tale of Desire and Repression in Venezuela 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z So without any awareness . . . cruelty just oozes out of her. "Barry" star Sarah Goldberg loves playing her unlikable role: "Make her a monster. I'm all for it" 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z “I didn’t think so,” shot back Edna, who then scolded the audience for the cruelty of their laughter. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Confessions of a Critic With No Fringe on Top 2010-12-29T22:26:45Z Faber and Faber, Ridley's publishers, refused to publish the text on account of "its gratuitous violence and cruelty to children". Folly of banning Moonfleece 2010-03-30T15:20:00Z For Thomas, these cruelties are a lifelong hurt. Clarence Thomas’s Radical Vision of Race 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z The only common denominators are poverty, treachery, misery, cruelty, betrayal and death. ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6, Episode 1: Picking Up the Jagged Pieces 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z Finally, Sybil Burton gave in, claiming cruelty and that her husband was "in the constant company of another woman," which Newsweek called "the throwaway line of the decade". Elizabeth Taylor obituary 2011-03-23T14:01:48Z The phrase itself—the certainty and the cruelty of it—is what got Williams to open his notebook. We Can’t Quit You, Hank Williams 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z Where reality judges lapse easily into cruelty, the sense that the mentor here cares deeply for these people is palpable. RuPaul's Drag Race: from camp curio to the very best reality show there is 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z Thunder still rumbles, swords still clack noisily, and men still shout in defiance at the unbearable cruelties of the gods. Theater Review: ‘King Lear,’ With Michael Pennington, Opens in Brooklyn 2014-03-28T02:00:01Z It’s heartbreaking to see how, again and again, that cruelty warps Laymon’s relationship with his mother as she resorts to violence to keep her son in line. When Excellence Is a Survival Strategy 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z Pathological means there’s a physical or mental origin for behavior, and after writing two books about slavery and institutional racism, I understand that human beings are wired for cruelty. Colson Whitehead on Human Cruelty 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Ferris can be very funny, though often the novel’s humor pushes the edge of cruelty. Review | Joshua Ferris pokes wicked fun at the suburban patriarch in ‘A Calling for Charlie Barnes’ 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z “Thirty Girls” sketches the landscape with impressionist strokes and then burrows in to view the cruelties people can visit on one other and themselves. Susan Minot’s ‘Thirty Girls’: surviving suffering in Uganda 2014-03-26T19:50:24Z In the first case of its kind in New Hanover County, Michael Ray Hinson was charged Wednesday with three counts of misdemeanor animal cruelty to a fish, and one count of abandonment of an animal. Man who abandoned pet fish facing animal cruelty charges 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Howard’s dodging some toughs who work for a mystery man whom he owes big; the men are scary, bruisers with cruelty etched in their faces and no trace of the usual movie manicuring. ‘Uncut Gems’ Review: Adam Sandler’s Punch-Drunk Hustle 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z The two spent a lot of time talking about Thranduil’s elegance and inherent cruelty, which she tried to enhance with sharp, jagged headdresses and jewelry. Clothes and Character: 'Theory,' 'Selma' and 'Hobbit' 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z And “My Brilliant Friend” is a story about survival in silence and the cruelties visited upon the poor, especially girls growing up in poverty in a post-World War II Italy. Smart Watch: “My Brilliant Friend” and “Escape at Dannemora” mark the start of awards (ba... 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z Finney then invoked the memory of those who longed to read or write but were forbidden, and were oppressed by the cruelties of slavery. Galley Girl: Poet Nikky Finney Dazzles the National Book Awards 2011-11-25T18:50:55Z Said autocrat loves cruelty, mind games and thrives on worship. Can we exit this dystopian train already? Alas, "Snowpiercer" & apocalyptic fare keep chugging along 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z We need someone sympathetic, but capable of cruelty – someone who starts with our sympathy and loses it of his own volition. Casting the news: Craigslust for artificial life ? the synthetic bacterium story 2010-05-21T11:15:00Z It requires only a slight remove to view the coldness and cruelty of this demand, a demand far too many working parents face. “My infant died. He should have been with me”: The horror too nightmarish to comprehend 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z Instead there is a moving reflection on the life of Karl Kraus, the Viennese writer who saw the horrors of the 20th century before anyone else, and satirised the dying Habsburg empire with brilliant cruelty. Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the 20th Century by Eric Hobsbawm – review 2013-03-31T08:00:06Z Interviewers are told, over and over, that he hates clubs, unions, causes, demonstrations, processions and recreational drugs, but most of all cruelty or brutality of any sort. Review | Nabokov unplugged: A new collection of his essays delivers unvarnished opinions 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z Johnson was charged with failure to comply with an animal owner's duties and cruelty to animals, both of which are misdemeanors. Family abandons dog; strangers abuse it 2011-12-12T05:11:00Z Total obliteration happens on an intimate scale, and the all-encompassing, metaphysical nature of the drama leaves room for gentleness as well as operatic cruelty. | 'Melancholia': Lars von Trier?s ?Melancholia? - Review 2011-11-10T13:00:00Z The company has always been vegan and cruelty free, with most of its products costing around $5 — important values to Gen Z-ers — but it wasn’t publicized enough. What It Means to Be a Gen Z Beauty Brand Today 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z Several museums have found ways to emphasize inspirational narratives, rather than risk leaving children in despair at the human capacity for cruelty and bigotry. In Museums About Horrors, Children Learn of the Heroes 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z As season cappers go it doesn’t rate as highly as others; it lacked the pyrotechnic cruelty of “The Winds of Winter” and the balance of tragedy and awe of “The Children.” “Game of Thrones” recap: “The Dragon and the Wolf” is a satisfying end to an uneven season 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z But when does cruelty as a dramatic focal point in itself turn excessive, or at least cease to be compelling? ‘A Little Life’ Review: A Collage of Unrelenting Torment 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z For cruelty to animals For being too expensive For being too radical For hinting at bestiality 8. Quiz: Banned books 2010-09-27T07:31:00Z And I have come to believe that fear is a cruelty to those who are feared. Confessions of a reluctant gentrifier 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z The other perceived cruelty to which Heti alludes is emotional: “I never saw any sentiment in his eyes.” Sheila Heti gets sex wrong 2012-09-28T23:30:00Z There's a quote that I love that honesty without compassion is just cruelty. Tobias Menzies on playing Prince Philip: "I didn't feel I was ever going to get a call from him" 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z There’s nothing preachy here, just the strange joy and anxiety of firmly resisting cruelty. Review | ‘Small Things Like These’ reads like a Christmas classic 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z Have you always found the play to be too devastating to endure, its serial acts of cruelty too relentless to witness? | 'King Lear' : The Old, Inexorable Story of a King?s Disintegration 2011-07-17T21:53:11Z The opening shot — an extended bit of cinematic bravura that takes in the pageantry and cruelty of a Louisiana plantation — seems to locate the action in the midst of the Civil War. ‘Antebellum’ Review: Look Away, Dixie Land 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z On the album, most songs are preoccupied with taking a stand against the casual cruelties of the music business — Simpson is the warrior. Sturgill Simpson Leaves His Old Sound (and the Spotlight) in the Rear View 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z This chapter isn’t altogether credible, and Marion’s naïveté is more narratively expedient than persuasive, but her raw desires and vulnerability are a relief from the movie’s free-ranging cruelties, petty and otherwise. ‘Only the Animals’ Review: A Missing Woman, a Cruel World 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Berger creates a macabre household and shows how its bizarre conventions and institutionalised cruelty camouflage her own exotic tastes. Blancanieves – review 2013-07-11T20:31:00Z And yet this is a dark book, in which loyalty and kindness are outdone by exploitation and cruelty. Probing the Murder of a Pakistani Internet Sensation 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z Notions of Southern gallantry were often at odds with the small-minded cruelties of racial inequality. Lonnae O’Neal: How I felt when the Confederate flag finally came down 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z But in our modern age, inhumane treatment more typically implies something gratuitous, in excess of whatever a situation demands — punishment that’s cruel and unusual, cruelty as grounds for divorce. New Books Update Our Thinking About Cruelty 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z The cruelty of his jabs plants early doubt about whether you should even be smiling, all while Mr. Perry slyly pumps the laughs. ‘Listen Up Philip,’ With Jason Schwartzman 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Exploring cruelty is what Mr. Crouch is after in his latest riff on a Shakespearean character, the manservant Malvolio from “Twelfth Night.” Tim Crouch on ‘I, Malvolio,’ His One-Man Show at the Duke 2013-01-12T01:36:17Z The movie is about a great many different things, including the colors and textures of this world, its tenderness and cruelty. ‘Lingui, the Sacred Bonds’ Review: Love, Ferocious and Limitless 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z Like Frazier, Flannery O'Connor used foreshadowing and a sense of place to explore her characters' lives and limitations, including their ignorance and propensity for cruelty. 'Nightwoods' evokes a sense of (a scary) place 2011-11-02T21:12:03Z She warily tolerates her father’s cruelty until he is weakened by a stroke, but even then, he tries to exert his iron authority. Review: ‘Sunset Song’ Shows a Woman’s True Grit 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z This is a story about the triumph of the human spirit over bigotry, intolerance and cruelty, and at the center of “The Book of Harlan” is the restorative force that is music. Bernice L. McFadden’s ‘The Book of Harlan’ is simply miraculous 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z "Blackfish," the groundbreaking documentary that unveiled the cruelty of animal-based theme parks like SeaWorld is also leaving the platform at the end of the month. Anna Kendrick in space! Idris Elba on a horse! Here's what new on Netflix in April 2021-04-03T04:00:00Z The world was full of lots of miserable things, injustice, cruelty, ugliness and Germans just across the border, and life couldn’t be lived entirely on the surface. Phillips Collection’s Neo-Impressionism exhibit captures movement’s escapist mood The opera, titled “The Child Dreams,” retains Mr. Levin’s archetypal 20th-century story of the cruelty and displacement of war, illustrated through a violently abused family of refugees. Movie Review: ‘Gottfried Helnwein and the Dreaming Child’ 2012-11-22T23:04:04Z Dawn reminds Brandon of one of his signal acts of cruelty in middle school; his answer, whether true or not, gets to the pitiless heart of the matter: “Funny how none of that stuff sticks.” Todd Solondz’s Exquisite, Imperfect “Wiener-Dog” 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z There’s a core instability to the relationships in his work, heightened by his refusal to buff out the pettiness and casual cruelty. ‘Marriage Story’: Noah Baumbach’s First Feel-Good Movie 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z But to quibble over the degree of cruelty we tolerate is to acknowledge that cruelty is now standard practice. After Senate’s report on CIA interrogation tactics, it’s time to see who we really are 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z During your time there you were subjected to constant, often astonishing cruelty by the US soldiers – beatings, sleep deprivation, forced nudity. Ahmed Errachidi: 'We shared one thing in Guantánamo Bay – pain' 2013-03-30T20:00:01Z Hurtle is accused of great cruelty, as well as achieving moments of astonishing beauty; so too was White. The Lost Man Booker prize 2010-04-01T07:00:00Z Come baaaaaaaack!!!!! – wasn't sufficient confirmation of the cruelty of the gods. Iceland volcano: those celeb travel disasters in full 2010-04-23T07:55:00Z My hope is that fiction, more than nonfiction, will allow people to drop their guard, stop judging others as a way of protecting themselves against the unfathomable cruelties of fate. Motherlode Blog: How Parenting Changed One Writer 2011-09-01T17:04:51Z “Other times, we’ll work with authorities to shut down cruelty situations and bring the turkeys here.” This farm offers turkey cuddling. No, really. 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z Reference to the Holocaust in Achebe’s poem provides a way to meditate on the ironic condition of human cruelty. Nigerian writers compare genocide of Igbos to the Holocaust 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z But, Espinosa wants you to realize, the deadliest class in Sweden is the uppermost, though their cruelty is expressed in whispers and jokes. Easy Money: From Stockholm With Drugs 2012-07-12T16:41:58Z Florida has largely escaped the opprobrium heaped on the other states of the old Confederacy, but it’s to the Sunshine State that King returns with a story of mind-boggling racism and cruelty. How a Racist Sheriff Railroaded a Disabled Teenager and Got Off 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z But essentially this author took her material from the deceptions, desolation and cruelty of humankind. Dame Beryl Bainbridge obituary 2010-07-02T12:46:00Z Yet for all its smallness, it remains one of the most disturbing plays ever written, as if Potter were examining the seed of human cruelty through a microscope. Blue Remembered Hills - review 2013-05-02T14:05:36Z Photograph: Tristram Kenton There is something curiously disquieting about a show that piles on the charm as it tells us about a man who hounds his unfaithful wife with his mental cruelty. The Suit – review 2012-05-24T13:27:17Z After the storms of cruelty, how wondrous and strange that a mere touch of the hand can startle us with its beauty and simplicity, its tenderness and truth. Theater Review: Tracy Letts in ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ 2012-10-14T21:52:14Z But social media offered more cruelty instead of kindness: https://twitter.com/SportsOnIine/status/666116259252060161 https://twitter.com/mma_gifs_/status/665936206279110657 A deluge of photoshopped pictures, GIFs and Vines of the knockout burst forth from the Internet’s viral colon. Ronda Rousey’s fall from grace: From America’s brash sweetheart to punch line in only one knockout 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, the machinery of colonialism, in which he’s a mere cog, wreaks its relentless cruelty and blindly faces the contempt and resistance of the indigenous population. What to Stream Over Labor Day Weekend: Catch Up on Four of the Year’s Best Films 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z Billed as worm's-eye-views of warfare from the German standpoint, the books contain some crude humour and a great deal more cruelty and brutality – they are war comics without the pictures, devoured especially by teenage boys. Sven Hassel obituary 2012-10-02T16:06:04Z It banks on your cruelty, which might be interesting if the movie acknowledged its meanness and didn’t smother it in the requisite late-act sentimental blather about friendship, family and so on. ‘Good Boys’ Review: The Cruel Comedy of Lost Innocence 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z Determined to create a better life for herself and her children in spite of Malcolm's cruelties, she worked hard to bring some semblance of vitality and color into the home. "Flowers in the Attic: The Origin" part 1 ending explained: Olivia’s plan 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z Can cruelty be the solution to every crisis? Pinter's Hothouse will never cool down 2013-05-09T10:45:25Z The new film “The Keeping Room” opens with a quotation from Civil War Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, who declares, “War is cruelty ... the crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.” Toronto Film Festival: 'Keeping Room' a window into women, Civil War 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z This cruelty doesn’t exist in isolation, as becomes obvious when the father of one of the other accused rapists contacts Mija and sweeps her off to an afternoon meeting at a restaurant. | 'Poetry': Consider an Apple, Consider the World 2011-02-10T22:31:06Z However, cruelty issues continue to be exposed and if anything, implementing draconian laws that muzzle freedom of speech in this way will only, eventually, fuel public outcry and curiosity. One photographer’s mission to change the way we look at animals 2013-12-28T21:00:00Z Instead Republicans have rallied around Donald Trump even as he undermines American democracy, engages in a coordinated campaign of cruelty, and likely coordinated with a foreign power to steal the 2016 presidential election. Cut Trump supporters off: The horror of migrant kids taken from parents demands personal action 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z In the midst of rampant and unpredictable cruelty, it is the kindness of individuals to one another that gets anyone through. In Northern Ireland During the Troubles, a Secret Romance 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z Well, by all means, bring on the optimism: As intolerance and outright cruelty have become dominant chords in our culture, the message of seeing the good in life is a welcome tonic. Perspective | ‘Mary Poppins Returns’ has lively dancing, and Lin-Manuel Miranda raps. But is that enough? 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z Film-makers who adapt Dickens have other problems: they are scared off by the cruelty of his imagination, its pleasure in derangement and deformity. The classics revisited 2011-08-20T23:04:02Z Daniels eventually returns to the light of day, eager to share the lessons he learned underground, but is greeted with indifference and cruelty. Decades After His Death, Richard Wright Has a New Book Out 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z The rise of plant-based burgers is undoubtedly alleviating some of the carbon emissions and animal cruelty at the heart of the meat industry. Big Chicken wants in on the plant-based meat options and that's a good thing 2019-06-29T04:00:00Z What I don’t like is cruelty and uninformed unkindness. Sarah Jessica Parker on 'Divorce' and 'Sex and the City' 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z Or did I understand that underneath her cruelty was a rare bond? Interview With My Bully: The bully who asked me out 2012-05-22T00:00:00Z “But the visual cruelty of the wall is really striking.” The Trump Presidency Is History. They’re Writing the First Draft. 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z That cruelty is rendered most intimately in “Testimonies,” in which the accounts of named women are arrayed in past-tense fragments. A Debut Poet Confronts the Sexual Violence of an Earlier Generation 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z The subject of the stories is the cruelty of men and women to each other, but the subject of the whole evening is the way people will themselves on by telling stories about their lives. One Thousand and One Nights; The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle; South Pacific; Me, Myself and Miss Gibbs ? review 2011-08-27T23:06:19Z The list of the Trump administration’s various forms of cruelty is seemingly endless. White evangelical Christians need Jesus — not Donald Trump — if their movement is going to survive 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z Deprivation and cruelty, but also the production of art, as we learn from “Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration,” a stirring 44-artist show at the reopened MoMA PS1. Making Art When ‘Lockdown’ Means Prison 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z Campos is interested in Arvin’s world or, specifically, its cruelties, but he demonstrates no real curiosity about it or its inhabitants. ‘The Devil All the Time’ Review: Down-Home Livin’ and Dyin’ 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z I will calmly say, "It's so heartbreaking to see otherwise good people taken in by a culture of cruelty. I've always thought of you as a kind and decent person until Trump's influence." Salon’s reader comments of the week: “I’m not ashamed to be disturbed by bigotry” 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z Where some futurists might see the potential for immortality or richly augmented brains, “Black Mirror” sees the opportunity for people to commit their usual cruelty and selfishness, creatively and in perpetuity. Free Your Mind? ‘Black Mirror’ Isn’t Too Hopeful 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z Few documentaries look so unflinchingly yet so compassionately at the cruelty of relentless medical ordeals. Stream These Three Great Documentaries 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z “Sex deprivation,” he admits, “had made me desperate, half-blind, and irrationally prone to fantasy, isolation, and cruelty.” Sex and the middle-aged man 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z Sissy Spacek is the bullied teen with telekinetic powers in this parable of bullying and misogyny, which is also a brilliant satire of high school, particularly the prom as a theatre of cruelty and anxiety. The scariest horror films ever – ranked! 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z What ensues is a plunge into ever deeper, darker layers of Will’s personal history, with the slow revelation of cruelties and perversions. How to survive a summer at gay conversion camp 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z “There’s a risk that his story becomes a tonic to the cruelty of slavery.” The Enslaved Artist Whose Pottery Was an Act of Resistance 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z And also, more disturbingly, to repress the darker implications of the story, as if the presence of cruelty and senseless death might be too much for anyone to handle. Movie Review: ‘Life of Pi,’ Directed by Ang Lee 2012-11-20T17:49:12Z May, who founded the "Save Me Trust" in 2009 to lobby governments on wildlife policy, said he opposes cruelty against all animals, including Britain's fox hunt and Spain's bullfights. Queen guitarist Brian May protests Japanese dolphin hunts 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z The Church has all but ruined itself in Ireland with its legacy of harsh judgmental cruelty and the systematic abuse of Irish women. A Conservative Catholic Begs the Pope: Lead Us Not Into Temptation 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z But Margot is correct in perceiving a very subtle cruelty in what Quin does; her awareness of and anger about this cruelty grow with time and repetition. Mary Gaitskill on the Power of Fiction for Examining #MeToo 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z So the nun is ahead of her time, and ahead of her Church, in recognizing the cruelty of this tradition. This Week in Fiction: Alice McDermott 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z This explains the apparent paradox that much of the music heard in “The Routes of Slavery” is joyful, life-affirming, despite the context of cruelty and inhumanity. ‘The Routes of Slavery’ traces a musical journey of resilience in the face of inhumanity 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Her dishonesty shuts her off from the world and transforms into cruelty. | 'The Zero Hour': Madeleine George?s Hitler Youth at Walkerspace 2010-07-07T21:11:00Z Katharine faced a double cruelty in that she was pursued by the state for the best part of the year and then was unable to call those responsible to account. Keira Knightley to star in ‘forgotten’ story of Iraq war whistleblower 2018-02-17T05:00:00Z The north meant aggression, the gothic, the "sadically mad cruelties of the Northern Middle Ages" and the "Northern tortures of ennui and indigestion". Ford Madox Ford's affair with Provence 2010-08-20T23:00:00Z Nothing I wanted for my palate would justify that level of cruelty and abuse.” Hankering for cheese? Still stuck on steak? Time for a little vegan support. 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z They hoisted signs that accused the mushers of cruelty. Alaska's Iditarod race starts with smiles, barks and protests 2018-03-03T05:00:00Z The novel builds to a prank on Lorenzo, the filmmaker, but it’s a throwaway piece of theatrical cruelty. Sex, Drugs and Marxism in ‘Class’ 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z His movie blasts the hypocrisy, evasiveness and cruelty of the men in charge. Cry freedom for Jafar Panahi 2010-12-21T11:15:46Z It unspools like a roll of film — raw, visceral and propulsive, rich with sensory detail and unsparing in its depictions of cruelty. A Former Soldier Tells His Grandson: ‘I Wasn’t a Nazi.’ 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z Carmichael’s target on Aug. 14 was Fort Deposit, a Klan bastion and a town that treated its black population with special cruelty. “Something happened to me in Selma”: 50 years ago, a young white seminary student risked everything for the call of civil rights 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z The racial cruelties and injustices described through a white child’s eyes don’t readily provide for a 2018 audience a vivid account of how Lee’s black characters think and feel, and that gave Sorkin an opening. Aaron Sorkin and Jeff Daniels made ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ their mission 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z The Atlantic crossing from Africa – the feared Middle Passage – foreshadowed the greater cruelties of the plantations in the British Caribbean, as Africans were herded on to slave ships and branded with irons. Sugar in the Blood: A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire by Andrea Stuart – review 2012-07-20T21:54:01Z They illustrate either the consequences of creative hubris or the cruelty of a media herd eager to punish originality and aspiration. Cross-Cuts: Reconsidering Box Office Bombs Years After the Fact 2013-08-23T12:44:45Z She's calling them not on their cruelty, but on their apathy. Playing a teen rock critic "scared the crap out" of Beanie Feldstein in "How to Build a Girl" 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z After ELF tries to expose animal cruelty at a huge hog farm in North Carolina, bullets fly and Flynn vanishes, whereupon Thorn grimly sets out to find him in unknown, perilous territory. Crime fiction: ‘The Big Finish,’ by James W. Hall Recent Times reports about secret American drone strikes that “repeatedly” killed innocent civilians brings to mind what the philosopher Judith Shklar once called the “pure, unalloyed cruelty” of the protected attacking the helpless. New Books Update Our Thinking About Cruelty 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z Icy doesn’t begin to describe the chill that sets in when this caricature of a cold English aristocrat appears in any scene, her eyes glinting with cruelty. | 'Cat Run': Snipping Off Appendages and Other Comic Ploys 2011-03-31T22:33:16Z “I had thought that one could consider certain conduct reprehensible — murder, for example, or polygamy, or cruelty to animals — and could exhibit even ‘animus’ toward such conduct. Now is not the time to publicly flog Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z Albia, as befits her British origins, strongly objects to this display of animal cruelty, and takes practical steps to combat it. The Ides of April by Lindsey Davis – review 2013-05-09T08:01:01Z As we’ve all seen here, they can just as easily represent stuntedness, inertia, confusion, misguidedness, selfishness, cruelty, fear, denial … have I missed any? Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Can relationships grow if not headed toward cohabiting, marriage, kids? 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z “What makes ‘The Beauty of Dusk’ far more remarkable than one man’s triumph over life’s cruelties is how Bruni persevered,” Min Jin Lee writes in her review. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z His rebellion, though ultimately futile, disrupts the old order and fully exposes its cruelty. How Luchino Visconti Made History Sing 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z I normally have little patience for vegetarians, feeling that being carnivorous is just the way of the world, but this kind of organized cruelty adds considerable logic and moral force to their arguments. Animal Welfare at Risk in Experiments for Meat Industry 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z The pandemic let him talk about collective suffering without broaching the subject of his predecessor’s combativeness, cruelty and incompetence. Perspective | As Trump slips out of town, Biden repurposes old symbols for new life 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z And the nearest we approach to it – in scepticism, in play, and yes, in cruelty – is the novel. Howard Jacobson on taking comic novels seriously 2010-10-08T23:07:00Z Surely, Swift wouldn’t have bothered to poke fun at cruelty, incompetence and hypocrisy unless he believed, on some level, that such scalding exposure could awaken a better nature. Perspective | Ghosthunters, grabbers and grifters: What would Jonathan Swift say of our times? 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z The cruelty of life is certainly terra firma for Mr. Eno, but the intimate unkindness of kith and kin seems to come less naturally to him. Theater Review: In Will Eno’s ‘The Open House,’ Dysfunctional Dynamics 2014-03-04T03:00:03Z Its handling of time, its elliptical wisdom, and its occasional chest-tightening cruelties are masterful; every paragraph is quietly, carefully good. James Salter: the forgotten hero of American literature 2013-05-11T13:30:01Z The Survivor Rated R. Violence and cruelty in the concentration-camp scenes. ‘The Survivor’ Review: Clenched Fists 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z It will fill you with despair and rage and terrible shame at the infinite ingenuity of human cruelty. 'The Druggist of Auschwitz': at the core of a man without conscience 2011-04-22T21:20:31Z He recounts his upbringing, in Paris, by parents whose distress at his dwarfism edged into cruelty; in the storehouse of his memories lies the rosebud of his mother’s withheld love. “My Dinner with Hervé” Is a Testament to Peter Dinklage’s Charisma 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z With exquisite cruelty, the organisers drop A Gentle Creature right near the end of the festival, as a little treat for the exhausted punters. Cannes 2017 – the best of week two 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z But readers be warned: Spitz doesn’t hold back in describing the band’s antics, its displays of ego and cruelty that today’s audiences might find less than acceptable. Review | Was Led Zeppelin the best or the worst of rock-and-roll? A new book will help you decide. 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z Ascribing political beliefs to personal histories is a notoriously suspect activity; remedies for cruelty and inequality can require no more than an alert morality. India's bold, brilliant daughter 2011-01-29T00:06:38Z His victory, after all, means that his monstrous nephew remains in power, his cruelty vindicated. Game of Thrones Watch: Smoke on the Water, Fire in the Sky 2012-05-28T15:20:17Z Leaving aside the self-reference and winks at the audience, the director instead tells this highly metafictional story in a dozen docu-realistic vignettes, revealing the alienation of urban life and the cruelty of men. 9 Great Godard Films to Stream Now 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z The documentary, directed by Linda Goldstein Knowlton, is a heartbreaking reminder of the cruelty of these separations, showing that reunification is often only the beginning of a long journey for the families torn apart. ‘Split at the Root’ Review: A Powerful Lens on Immigrant Families Split Apart 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z He is small and vulnerable, but also smart and resourceful, and even as he is exposed to horrifying cruelty, he is also a hero on an adventure. Review: ‘Lion’ Brings Tears for a Lost Boy, Wiped Dry by Google 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z Resisting ascendant cruelty, the films suggest, is first a problem of imagination: You have to believe in the seemingly impossible. An Alternative America Hits Home in ‘The Man in the High Castle’ 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z We are not talking about murder arising from knife crime, gang warfare, lynching bankers or crimes of cruelty and passion – this is the process of what America calls law. Injustice: Life and Death in the Courtrooms of America – review 2012-07-07T23:05:09Z He would bounce back — I knew he would be okay — but even as a small child I didn’t like that kind of cruelty.” Paul Weitz wrote ‘Grandma’ for an audience of one: Lily Tomlin 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z It is not fundamentally democratic or kind; it is bound up with cruelty, transgression and the desire for subjugation and humiliation. Books of The Times: Alain de Botton on Sex, and Philippa Perry on Sanity 2013-01-03T22:53:59Z Mr Brooke-Hitching employs a useful taxonomy, noting that games tended to fall from favour because of their cruelty, danger or ridiculousness. When fun was cruel 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z They wouldn’t listen to any argument about cruelty to animals or the manner in which he kept them. PETA founder: Animals need ‘somebody to stick up for them. No matter if it’s uncomfortable.’ 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z Tapping into the longevity of these voices allows Yoon a retrospective vantage from which to examine the “cruelty special to our species,” a phrase that appears midway, in “Bell Theory,” and detonates the book’s title. A Debut Poet Confronts the Sexual Violence of an Earlier Generation 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z The irony of Sabato's life is that while he did much to bring light to the cruelties of the Dirty War, his own writings were dark and brooding portrayals of worlds of secrets and madness. Argentine writer Sabato dies, 99 2011-04-30T17:27:36Z He shows how tech-world shibboleths like “dropping out,” “disruption,” “genius” and “failure” help shore up an industry built on privilege, machismo and even cruelty. ‘What Tech Calls Thinking’ Might Really Be Something Else 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z A visitor named Roger from Silver Spring, Md., described the boat as “a combination of ingenuity and cruelty” because of the price smugglers charged. Border Patrol Museum visitors want to talk current events. The staff doesn’t. 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Irresistibly tuneful, they also slyly illuminate the play’s investigations into love, cruelty and, above all, the mutable nature of self. Review: In a Blissful Musical ‘Twelfth Night’ in Central Park, Song Is Empathy 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z His manic episodes, his genius, his cruelty, his “infatuations” — Curtis clearly dislikes him, and her matter-of-fact account cannot access whatever it was that connected the pair, besides the daughter they shared. The Critic Elizabeth Hardwick Was Very Tough on Biographies. Now Here’s One of Her. 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z The sublime cruelty of the scene is as noble and refined as it is quietly terrifying. Amber Heard and the Artistic Problem with Contractual Nudity 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z This is also a “Roots” that has clearly been to the movies, knowing full well it can hardly match the cruelties of “12 Years a Slave” or the cathartic fantasies of “Django Unchained.” History’s engaging new ‘Roots’ is faithful to the original and woke to the present 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z The rescuers at the puppy mill, like the animal advocates in “Shelter Me,” seem somewhat overwhelmed by the cruelty they witness and the scope of the pet overpopulation problem. Critic’s Notebook: Dogs on TV, Beyond the Whispering 2012-05-29T18:19:29Z BoJack doesn't have to answer for any of that or the other failures and cruelties not listed here. In a fitting series finale, "BoJack Horseman" finds out what it truly means to be canceled 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z The cruelty and tragedy of the Dragos lies in their denial of this fact. ‘Creed II’ Review: A Poignant Boxing Movie Blends Old and New 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z There is a way back for her, for all of us, even after such cruelty. Readers recommend: songs about mistakes ? the results 2010-12-09T23:02:00Z All three have moments of cruelty and unexpected tenderness. Review: ‘Paradise,’ a Holocaust Drama in Black and White 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z She is unable to apologize for her cruelty. Roseanne Conner Has Become a Trump Supporter. Just Like Her Creator. 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z As a result, she becomes the victim of a particularly nasty kind of cruelty when she is forced to become a servant to the very people who once so admired her. Book doctor: Are children's books darker than they used to be? 2013-06-24T16:30:35Z It illuminates a lost and not very pleasant person – selfish, self-absorbed, lacking in empathy, capable of cruelty and the kind of judgment that led to the bullying she herself suffered. Harley Loco by Rayya Elias – review 2013-06-14T09:00:11Z The depravity, high-handedness, and cruelty of an authentically sophisticated nobility, both as a ruling class and as a model of refinement and character, is tragedy—Don Giovanni’s, his fiefdom’s, and all Europe’s. The Revelations of “Don Giovanni” at the Met 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z In the case of Brás Cubas, however, blindness is never presented as foolishness or a kind of innocence but as a method of cruelty particular to his caste, the white elite of Rio de Janeiro. A Playful Masterpiece That Expanded the Novel’s Possibilities 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z Leonardo DiCaprio plays frontiersman Hugh Glass, who suffers a mauling at the meaty paws of an angry mama bear, only to learn that the cruelty of man is much colder. Review: There's Lots of Suffering in The Revenant, But Bear With It 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z There will be time enough to explain the cruelties of history later, I figure. Riff: How to Read a Racist Book to Your Kids 2012-06-16T04:00:05Z Though this review was widely pilloried for its excessive cruelty, Ms. McCarthy did not immediately respond to it. Melissa McCarthy Goes Over the Top 2013-06-13T12:00:01Z It took a while for Alexis to let down her guard, and she faced the cruelty of anonymous middle-school gossip on social media networks. This Life: The doorbell rang, and a stepdad had to face secrets and tragedy 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z "We are a region plagued by… cruelty, ambition, meanness and greed." Bolívar by Marie Arana – review 2013-06-15T15:00:01Z I hope the owner gets charged with cruelty too! How many pets can we save? 2013-04-18T01:30:00Z The irrational cruelty of the boys’ experiences seemingly defies narrative and, as with other stories of survival, it requires the highest realms of artistry to give them form. “Rockaway,” Reviewed: A Queens Boy’s Stark and Moving Tale of Surviving Domestic Violence 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Rebel fighters tell her stories of torture and shocking cruelty. 'Burmese Lessons: A True Love Story': an intimate witness to rebellion in Burma 2010-06-02T22:41:00Z But it was fleeting relief from the pall of disease, hunger, death and unthinkable cruelty they endured there as Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Haunting Holocaust memories kept alive in ‘Brundibár’ 2014-03-21T03:52:18Z From the start there’s an undertow of cruelty to the teenagers’ high jinks as they learn what they can do, as when they levitate a stuffed animal to frighten a child. Movie Review: Dane DeHaan in ?Chronicle,? Directed by Josh Trank 2012-02-03T00:02:16Z But too often it shoots past cringe comedy into straight-up cruelty without relief or enough redeeming laughs, becoming a “No Exit” experience of watching the terrible be terrible to the terrible. Review: ‘Camping’ Is a Long, Uncomfortable Trip 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z Hollywood’s long history of animal cruelty Topics: Luck, , When HBO’s “Luck” was canceled after a third horse died during production, it was natural to ask what was going on. Animal penises’ amazing evolution 2012-06-12T15:40:00Z But the cruelty of this aspect of the novel’s structure is countered by the astonishing tenderness of other sections. Review | In ‘Dear Edward,’ the world’s most famous orphan finds something to live for 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z But really, in this moment, the cruelty of teens to teens is far from the most atrocious thing in the land. Memorial Day’s lessons in amnesia 2012-05-24T15:04:00Z But they were, in fact, just that, only without the kick of cruelty that Gervais always provided and which left such a bitter aftertaste. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's Golden Globes glory 2013-01-14T10:07:14Z In so doing, they are sharing a moral message about the universal condition of human cruelty. Nigerian writers compare genocide of Igbos to the Holocaust 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z How best to discourage young people from this kind of thoughtless cruelty? Review: ‘Don’t Hang Up’ Has a Menace on the Line 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Some of the documentaries chronicling cruelty can be hard to watch. 3 Film Festivals Brimming With Animal Magnetism 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z Related: Joshua Oppenheimer: why I returned to Indonesia’s killing fields The film’s central figure is Adi Rukun, a man whose brother was captured and killed with unimaginable cruelty for being a suspected subversive. The 50 best films of 2015 in the US – No 6: The Look of Silence 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z She didn't say those things to me to be cruel — her cruelties had an altogether different tenor. My mom finally made her choice, after a lifetime colored by the one she wasn't allowed 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z But, at its best, an admirably short, 80-minute evening generates a pleasurable suspense and conveys Dahl's peculiar fascination with human cruelty. Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales - review 2011-01-25T00:52:54Z It’s hard to expect cruelty from somebody who recites “The King’s Breakfast” to you. This Week in Fiction: Lara Vapnyar on Living According to Leonard Cohen Lyrics 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z She writes long, anonymous letters to the police station, in which she describes the earth-spanning system of cruelty and violence that manifests in what we unthinkingly do. What We’re Reading This Summer 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z Ridgard's evocation of landscape, of farming, its seasons, cruelties and epiphanies, is striking, though the plot veers too much towards Cold Comfort Farm. First novels: Catherine Taylor's choice – reviews 2012-08-24T21:55:02Z Writing about nature’s cruelty, Mr. Pacheco said of migrating fish, “Out of a thousand, 10 will reach the sea.” José Emilio Pacheco, Mexican Author, Dies at 74 2014-01-28T04:40:46Z Of course, this being Sweden, the cruelty is mild. Preteen Angst, Swedish Style 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z Few novelists have conveyed so viscerally the incomprehensible cruelty to which victims of white supremacists were subjected for so long. Greg Iles concludes his spectacular Natchez Burning trilogy 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z There are of course many that are visibly bothered by acknowledging this past, and acknowledging that cruelty. Princeton Digs Deep Into Its Fraught Racial History 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z It’s one of the pleasures of reading him, that for all the callowness, or cruelty, of his characters, he never extends his judgments onto us. Roald Dahl’s Twisted, Overlooked Stories for Adults 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z A black man, Lafala, loses his legs as a result of his white captors’ cruelty, then, in a striking allegory for reparations, receives a compensatory windfall. A Book So Far Ahead of Its Time, It Took 87 Years to Find a Publisher 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z That stuff doesn’t roll right off me the way it does for some people, and there’s such a culture of cruelty with it that I just couldn’t handle it. How Janeane Garofalo Knew 'Wet Hot American Summer' Was a Cult Hit 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Front page recognition for a depraved consciousness that creates and supports unimaginable animal cruelty and ecological destruction. Angie Mar’s Menu: Red Meat and Respect 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z Our moviegoing bubbles may be as distinct as our political ones, but they’re more porous, favoring compassion one minute, cruelty the next. Meryl Streep, Donald Trump and the now-familiar battle of the bubbles 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z Who made it possible, necessary and apparently easy for those security guards to “just do our jobs”? Who made complicity in cruelty part of the daily function of the place? Perspective | What did the men with Donald Trump do when he spoke of ‘shithole countries’? 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z It's a tale of cruelty, heartbreak and worldly indifference in which the Tramp, for all his good intentions, is personally implicated, and perhaps doomed by his original sins: that stolen money and that baby's sandwich. "The Circus": Chaplin's little-known masterpiece 2010-07-14T01:01:00Z Evans, Scalia huffed, “I had thought that one could consider certain conduct reprehensible — murder, for example, or polygamy, or cruelty to animals — and could exhibit even ‘animus’ toward such conduct.” Scalia’s still obsessed with sodomy 2012-12-11T16:19:00Z “I love his use of cruelty,” Lee said, arguing that in his art “there’s no excuse, there’s no wrapping.” For Mire Lee, Rising Art Star, It All Comes Down to Guts 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z In online comments beneath the article, patients accused the authors of “ignorance, bigotry, and outright cruelty”, while their ideas were denounced as “appalling”, “sick and warped” and “batshit crazy”. ‘It was like being buried alive’: battle to recover from chronic fatigue syndrome 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z A dark, windswept tale of passion, fury and cruelty among two generations of a family on the Yorkshire moors, "Wuthering Heights," published in 1847, was Brontë's only novel. 'Wuthering Heights' gets a gritty new film adaptation 2012-05-30T22:30:07Z When Animals Dream” is a beguiling parable of cruelty and the resistance to it. Review: In ‘When Animals Dream’ a Teenager’s Secret Is a Revelation Even to Her 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z As well as "new adventures", Briggs says there is a more serious purpose to the works, and wants to expose the cruelty of the illegal pet trade, promoting Tarzan as "an icon of conservation". Tarzan returns: from Edwardian swinger to hunky ecowarrior 2012-07-14T23:06:48Z “Unfortunately, there is still cruelty, but hopefully more awareness,” Andersen said. Solving the World’s Problems at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z One of the best things about contemporary digital wizardry is that wild animals no longer need to be subjected to human cruelty and nonsense in the name of cinema. ‘Beast’ Review: More Bore Than Roar 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z Frightening images of a child in a Mr T balaclava and other random acts of cruelty. Internet picks of the week 2011-01-29T00:06:13Z When Douglas studied have the background of serial killers, he found that they often exhibited three behaviors — bed-wetting beyond a normal age, cruelty to small animals and fire-starting — while young. 7 Things We Learned About Serial Killers From the Book Netflix’s Mindhunter Is Based On 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z Don’t expect an easy watch: In his review for The Times, Mark Bowden called the book “a kind of concordance of cruelty.” What’s on TV Friday: ‘Hillary’ and ‘Spenser Confidential’ 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z He enjoys his cruelty, gleefully brandishing thumbscrews and ordering henchmen around while selling lines such as, "The centuries that divide me shall be undone!" with dramatic desperation. City of Death: Doctor Who classic episode #10 2013-07-11T13:16:11Z Freed from all the imitation and parody, it's both a breathtaking technical exercise and a wrenching glimpse of human suffering set against the cruelty of history. How "Battleship Potemkin" reshaped Hollywood 2011-01-12T01:32:00Z "So I hope the audience won't be put off by the cruel side of the picture but rather they will remember the cruelty of war," he said. 'Yasukuni' director says 2007 film timelier than ever 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z However, Ann Dowd summoned stern cruelty as Aunt Lydia in The Handmaid’s Tale, and it would be no great surprise nor disservice if she walked away with it. Golden Globes 2018: who will win – and who should win – the TV categories 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z It’s becoming clearer all the time what the show was always about: unresolved and barely mitigated cruelty, injustice and hate. Perspective | TV viewers want the world — and the George Floyd story — to make sense. Good luck with that. 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z Philip’s wild willfullness and voracious impulse gratification are, in themselves, an awesome poetry of cruelty—one that’s matched by the coolly crushing mechanisms of the world at large, of life itself. The Actor as Intellectual Artist in “Listen Up Philip” 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z I’ve never seen a ballerina mingle beauty and cruelty so well. Ballerina thrills as both Odette and Odile 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Of almost novella-length, these chronicle futile last stands, vicious cruelty, inflexible loyalty, casual betrayal. Review | Robert E. Howard became famous for creating Conan. But that warrior was only the beginning. 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z In fact, their relationship could be nailed in a single idea, the cruelty and seriousness of which Ade doesn’t bother to consider: he makes her blow up. A Stilted Vision of a Declining Europe in “Toni Erdmann” 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z Are his impulses merely a reflection of the cruelty of those around him? Review | ‘You’ returns with more stalking and murder. But maybe it’s time to break it off? 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z History is built from momentous acts of wisdom, courage and cruelty, sure, but also from simple human error. ‘House of the Dragon,’ Season 1, Episode 2: A Happy Announcement 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z There’s racism, greed, foul language, dirt everywhere, unrepentant violence, cruelty and lots of people wearing fur pelts. All hail Will Smith and Tom Hardy, Hollywood's bad accent kings 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z It’s the sort of razor-sharp cruelty that teenagers are exceedingly good at. ‘Insecure’ Series Premiere: Single Black Woman 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z He fashions a firsthand account of what Ms. Goodall learned about the chimps’ capacity for toolmaking, nurturing and cruelty, and what they taught her when she became a parent herself. Review: ‘Jane’ Is an Absorbing Trip Into the Wild With Jane Goodall 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z Audiences underestimated her cruelty because she's a pretty young woman who has some genuinely decent impulses at times. "Game of Thrones": Don't be shocked by Daenerys — her King's Landing turn was very much earned 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z The line between wit and cruelty is always a fine one, and that’s especially true in “Class.” On the Touchy Subject of Class in America 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z In this sense, Corbyn’s charge that some people “don’t understand English irony” participates in a ratcheting up of cruelty in the name of humor. The English Fetishization of Irony 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Wagner is, like most satirists, a savage moralist, and he marvels at the callous cruelty of his carefully groomed creatures. Review: David Cronenberg Dissects Hollywood in ‘Maps to the Stars’ 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Mengiste ventures into the minds of these two men, with their confusions of cruelty and self-pity, their musings about masculinity and representation. Maaza Mengiste Sings a Modern Song of War 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z The viewer knows Kendall is lying because his soul is compromised thanks in part to his father’s cruelty. Watch "Succession" to understand why media companies reward the worst people 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z He shows the contrast between the growing and modernizing city and the citizenry left to struggle desperately in its shadows—and the personal abuses and cruelties that poverty and despair incite. “The Burial of Kojo,” Reviewed: A Boldly Lyrical Portrait of a Young Ghanaian Girl 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Quite apart from the cruelty of this devil-take-the-hindmost approach to health care, what’s really stunning is how profoundly foolish it is. Our great healthcare denial 2012-06-17T12:00:00Z But he feels more like an avatar of a bleak and ruthless world than a conscious individual who has internalized that world’s cruelty. Review: All the World’s a Grave in the Druid ‘Richard III’ 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z There is less protection offered to cruel and offensive humor, even as the definitions of what constitutes cruelty and offense are subject to vigorous and often uncivil debate. Adjusting to a World That Won’t Laugh With You 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z In a single line about the “heaped-up dead,” they raised the specter of the Holocaust as a reminder that it’s a short step from private cruelty to political violence. Critic’s Notebook: George Benjamin’s ‘Written on Skin’ Caps Tanglewood Festival 2013-08-13T21:39:43Z One of Lemmons’s achievements is to show that their freedom, rather than mitigating the horrors of chattel slavery, emphasizes its cruelty and also its moral dishonesty. ‘Harriet’ Review: Becoming Moses 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z Nineteenth-century Ireland was racked by poverty and famine, conditions exacerbated by the cruelties of English rule. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z In both is a prescient exposé of the cruelty of paradigms, the constrictions of the Muslim woman liberation tale and the often maddening centrality of the veil within it. The Woman Whose Hair Frightens Iran 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z He would love despite the cruelty he had been given. Bill Cunningham Was So Alive 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z Icy doesn't begin to describe the chill that sets in when this caricature of a cold English aristocrat appears in any scene, her eyes glinting with cruelty. 'Cat Run' snips off appendages and other comic ploys 2011-04-02T00:09:36Z Last time around, Mr. Spacey’s character carried the cruelty of Buddy Ackerman, his movie producer in “Swimming With Sharks,” to demonic extremes. ‘Horrible Bosses 2,’ With Jason Bateman and Jason Sudeikis 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z Too often wealthy titans who crush little businesses, mistreat their employees and nearly destroy the planet do so not out of obliviousness or misplaced good intentions but from greed and cruelty. Iron Man: The secret bad guy of the MCU? 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z Their yearning for social and economic mobility is poignant, but also leads at times to cruelty, corruption and apathy. Short Story Collections for an Ever-Changing World 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z “Her voice, laconic, flip, with an edge of cruelty, is always entertaining, and in the medieval setting of Lapvona, she’s able to indulge her interest in the grotesque.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z It's a kind of cruelty only the South would devise. "Bama Rush" reminded me of my own desperate need to belong 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z More often, humor and cruelty are crushed into a fine blend. Review: The Stories of Joy Williams: Short, but Seldom Sweet 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z In effect, that moment asks, How do we reconcile our capacities for high-minded idealism on the one hand, and our impulses for cruelty, disorder and destruction on the other? Review: Mike Kelley Uncorks Superman’s Kandor City in a Bottle 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z But it was also to witness at first hand the inescapable cruelty of his condition: physically locked-in, his mind remains free to roam. Tony Nicklinson: 'I have a fear of living like this when I am old and frail' 2012-06-23T21:04:49Z “I marvel at her creativity and her cruelty,” one character says of another in the story “Baby Arm,” “and how much she loves me.” Roxane Gay’s powerful new story collection, ‘Difficult Women’ 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z He is either unaware or preternaturally forgiving of their uncharitable comments, of the small cruelties they commit just because they can. My streaming gem: why you should watch Happy as Lazzaro 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z Nevertheless this is one of the most intelligent performances of the role in sound, revealing layers of calculation and cruelty beneath the woman's surface sensuality. Monteverdi: The Coronation of Poppea 2010-06-10T21:35:00Z And the bursts of physical cruelty are all the more shocking because they are so off-handed. 2 Seattle shows offer different takes on people's nastier sides 2012-06-14T20:50:05Z Dickens’ character was a cocktail of empathy and cruelty that would test any biographer’s mettle. Charles Dickens: An Author of Demonic Energy 2011-10-19T10:00:49Z Nor did all the staging’s violence and cruelty produce a tremor of outrage. In Salzburg, New Lives for Two Scandalous Plays 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z Despite the rib-tickling levity, though, this comedy of manners is also a serious novel about class cruelty on and off the battlefield. A novel to cure your ‘Downton Abbey’ withdrawal: ‘The Summer Before the War’ 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z Rather than unearth the deep cruelties of European history, Sleigh leaves the confusions of 21st-century America to visit some of the world’s hot zones: Kurdistan, Mogadishu, rural Lebanon, Nairobi. A Traveler to Troubled Lands, Called to Bear Witness 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z Redford, who is currently on probation for an animal cruelty case in Lee County, has been named as a co-defendant but has not been taken into custody. The dark world of animal “crush” films 2014-04-18T19:36:00Z So, while parts of the piece suggest danger, confinement and cruelty, others suggest flight, delicacy and buoyancy. Review | This 93-year-old artist has been taking on racism and sexism for decades — and is finally getting her due 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z He writes of his time with the agency, where he witnessed casual cruelty toward migrants. New in Paperback: ‘Force of Nature,’ ‘Feel Free’ 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z I was particularly struck by Burgess's literary ingenuity; at times, it seemed he was able to construct comedy from the worst forms of human cruelty and depravity. Commonwealth writers' Commonwealth writers 2013-05-28T12:08:06Z Harambe’s fatal encounter, caught on tape, has raised the specter of animal cruelty over images of human-animal alliances that were previously widely consumed as inoffensive delights. 2 TV Shows, 4 Books and 7 Viral Videos for Your Long Weekend 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z In a way, the occasionally lugubrious undertones and casual cruelties suit the setting, but the tragic heft Mr. Martinez seems to be pushing for doesn’t materialize. ‘Viktor’ Stars Gérard Depardieu and Elizabeth Hurley 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z Perhaps he truly is today’s Archie, making one last cynical grab at relevance, with a group of familiar friends who’ve been similarly rewritten to accommodate cruelties and savviness of the Internet age. ‘Riverdale’ isn’t about the same old Archie. (For starters, he’s having sex with Ms. Grundy.) 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z “It has normalized and sanitized nastiness and cruelty in a way that I just never thought I would see,” he said, shortly after that Montana rally. Perspective | The connection between hateful rhetoric and terrorizing acts is glaringly obvious, but some refuse to see it 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z This new policy "is using cruelty as a deterrent," he said. Stephen Colbert rips into Jeff Sessions for separating immigrant families 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Breckinridge, by contrast, didn’t seem to have the sociopathic cruelty or cunning required to destroy Pollard. Revelations and Reckonings in a Sex Scandal From Long Before #MeToo 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z Sung to a child, it’s a candid bedtime ballad about surviving the cruelty of the world. Review | Did Chance the Rapper get boring? Or did we just get bored? 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z But in accepting her position as outsider, outcast and, ultimately, martyr, she exposes the hypocrisy, petty cruelty, indifference and lack of charity in a whole society. Beyond the Hills – review 2013-03-17T00:05:37Z Christians have built on a simple linguistic misunderstanding a toxic "replacement" theology that has spawned ignorance among Christians about their own identity, and shameful cruelty against Jews. New light on Christianity's Jewish roots 2011-04-05T15:06:50Z Tedeschi and the backup vocalists gave soulful rendition, dripping with tears, as they sang of ecological destruction, and the prevalence of political cruelty. The inspiring poetics of Tedeschi Trucks Band 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z Vlad was notorious for his cruelty, impaling Turks and thieves on wooden stakes, but he was no vampire and vampires are not part of Romanian superstition, which includes the belief that garlic wards off evil. Two to get comfy coffin for overnight stay in Dracula's castle 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z He perpetuated acts of cruelty, sometimes selling enslaved people and forcibly relocating them away from their families as punishment. 25 things you might not know about Thomas Jefferson 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z In any case, she’s indisputably right about one point: Bullying and teenage cruelty are human rights abuses that need to be higher on our agenda. Op-Ed Columnist: Born to Not Get Bullied 2012-03-01T04:18:08Z Still, in this, the brightest of the five acts, there are reminders of the cruelties lurking outside. Steve McQueen unveils an anthology of racism and resistance 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z The plays were freighted with sadness, cruelty and regret – but made sparkling and joyous by Walsh's heartstopping verbal acrobatics and often ludicrous wit. Enda Walsh: 'I only operate properly in my imagination' 2010-08-10T21:00:00Z She stars as Celie, a young Black woman in the midcentury rural South who must cope with racism, cruelty, sexism and worse, yet manages to find her true self, and the joy within. Stream These 7 Movies and Shows Before They Leave Netflix This Month 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Green’s celestial falsetto lifted off in the direction of that silky kingdom come, high above the cruelty of the world. What does it mean when the Weeknd hits a high note? 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z From there, the audience is pulled back and forth between sympathy for Luce and suspicion that he may be hiding a penchant for cruelty and deceit. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Luce’ and ‘The Notebook’ 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z Jimmy cannot bear the thought that he alone feels the heavy weight of life’s aimless cruelty and the injustice of the starkly stratified British social system. Theater Review: ?Look Back in Anger,? Starring Matthew Rhys 2012-02-03T03:03:00Z You’ve got to wince at the sustained cruelty the man — who says he has diabetes, sores all over his body, is on disability and believes he has depression — is in for. Karen Klein: YouTube’s most evil bullying video 2012-06-21T15:45:00Z Survival is clearly a theme, not only when times are tough, but also in the face of the apparently random cruelty of the world. I Didn't Always Live Here – review 2013-04-02T13:45:17Z Forrest Gump,” “Cast Away” and the “Back to the Future” movies are stories of optimists battling the cruelty of history and the indifference of the universe. Review: ‘The Walk,’ High-Wire Bravado at World Trade Center 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z It found evidence of irresponsible tour operators and cruelty being inflicted on wild animals used to provide photo opportunities for tourists that pay for the experience. 'Wild animal selfies': charity condemns trend following Amazon investigation 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z The world Ms. Konar depicts is straight out of Hieronymus Bosch — a place of torture, cruelty and anguish, where death is everywhere and the sky is literally red with fire and ash. ‘Mischling,’ a Holocaust Tale of Twin Sisters in Mengele’s Grip 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z “Does CF stand for cruelty free?” a customer asked. Restaurant Review: Superiority Burger in the East Village 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z For them, graphic images of racist animus and cruelty were as crucial to nonviolent protest as billy clubs and fire hoses were to segregationists. Perspective | The brutal video of George Floyd’s death can galvanize a nation. If we stop scrolling. 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z During the war, German soldiers took troves of photographs — perhaps hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions — some of which memorialized, indeed celebrated, their cruelties, tortures and crimes. When Genocide Is Caught on Film 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z “It’s a cesspool of homophobia and racism and cruelty,” she said. Will leaving Twitter make life better for these outspoken liberals? 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z Whether the focus is on Christians or Muslims, political treachery and physical cruelty are the order of the day. Review: Wael Shawky, ‘Cabaret Crusades’ at MoMA PS1 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z There’s plenty of cruelty depicted in these pages — physical and emotional abuse, family separations — but the moments of human kindness and hope keep the story afloat. 13 New Books to Watch For in January 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z The laughter of the audience bordered on outright cruelty. When will Bollywood offer a realistic portrayal of relationships? 2010-09-01T10:49:00Z He also says Sands gave him the most important acting note he ever received, showing him how to mine the cruelty of the character of the Vicomte de Valmont in the 1988 film Dangerous Liaisons. Homage to Harold Pinter 2011-08-07T20:31:01Z Yola has empathy for her birds—she recognizes nature’s beauty as well as its cruelty, which is the reason I have fallen in love with some of these images. How to Capture a Bird 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z It regularly presents newly commissioned works reflecting on Holocaust-related issues with enduring relevance — and celebrating the power of resistance to institutional persecution, injustice and cruelty. A new opera, commissioned by a Seattle group, brings to life the works of a Jewish Hungarian poet who died in the Holocaust 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z Moral indifference is an easy path, and it leads to other, graver sins, including cruelty and dishonesty. Review: The Hard Road of Decency in ‘The Unknown Girl’ 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Animal cruelty is everywhere - dead animals abound - and even horses are beheaded. Everything that's wrong with humanity': readers on troubling TV shows, from GoT to Buffy 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z She opens the audience’s eyes to the cruelty of racism. 'Invisible no longer': women in film on the female directors the Oscars must celebrate 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z But what if a community’s identity is intertwined with the incomprehensible cruelties of human bondage? The Pillars of African American History: Ibi Zoboi’s Kwanzaa Picture Book 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z In “The Porpoise,” such impersonal aesthetic cruelty is the province of women. In Mark Haddon’s “The Porpoise,” Storytelling Is an Instrument of Violence and Solace 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z “I only know that it is mixed, that you cannot separate good from bad, that wisdom, courage and benevolence exist alongside knavery, greed and stupidity; heroism and fortitude alongside vainglory, cruelty and corruption.” Barbara W. Tuchman, Folly and the Stream of History 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z The rest of his themes are all there: family, memory and its deceptions, childhood, and the casual acts of cruelty we inflict on one another. Lost in translation: when film-makers hit the language barrier 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z It is about ambition and cruelty and intense relationships that get into strange areas. David Cronenberg: “Hollywood hasn’t fed me very much. Biting their hand would be gratuitous” 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z They don’t have much else in common, but I think there’s a certain cruelty to both Kline and Koons, in how they market their one-dimensionality with odes to the common man. Josh Kline’s Survival Art for 21st-Century America 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Drink, and relationship problems buried deep, mean cruelty rises quickly to the surface, although comedy is never far away. Polanski film cheered for wit, Winslet's vomit 2011-09-01T13:02:09Z Is it Boyle's cruelty that disgusts people, or his straying from the list of acceptable victims? Comedy gold: Frankie Boyle – Live 2012-08-23T15:38:32Z Rather, this uncannily atmospheric movie immerses us in a childhood world where choices between cruelty and kindness, empathy and hostility must be learned and negotiated. ‘The Innocents’ Review: Head Games 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z By exiling her from her country, Ms. Feldstein writes, “white South African authorities created a more effective symbol of apartheid’s cruelty than she could have done herself.” Books of The Times: ‘How It Feels to Be Free’ Salutes Black Female Entertainers 2014-01-15T21:27:33Z It's never too late to start a new tradition and replace cruelty with kindness by choosing an animal-friendly feast. Turkey: The One Essential Guest 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z Hysteria, paranoia and erratic behavior among female characters in these movies are shown to be a product of male manipulation and cruelty. Netflix's "The Guilty" isn't as progressive and critical of cops as it pretends to be 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z The statement’s appeal to family loyalty, to closing ranks, underscores what is implicit throughout this memoir: the tantalizing possibility that Jobs’s cruelties also manifested his love. “Small Fry,” Reviewed: Lisa Brennan-Jobs’s Mesmerizing, Discomfiting Memoir 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z He’s clearly given a lot of thought to this strain of detective-gangster fiction, to its cruelty, extremity, pessimism and flashes of nihilism. ‘Dragged Across Concrete’ Review: The Evil That Men Do (Repeatedly) 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z It’s a story of secrets and lies—of the silences and the deceptions, the cruelty and the shame, that even the great romances of a lifetime can’t avoid. “Win It All” and the Mighty Gambles of Joe Swanberg’s Moviemaking 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z It took another 10 days for me to completely break up with him — via text, email and messenger — until he had resisted and persisted to the point that he finally earned my cruelty. For 13 Days, I Believed Him 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z Indeed, Ben might look like an “alien,” but, in his taste for meanness and cruelty, he is precociously worldly. Doris Lessing’s “The Fifth Child” and the Spectre of the Ambivalent Mother 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z Price, 49, is free on $10,000 bail on charges alleging neglect of a disabled child, animal cruelty and animal hoarding. Cops made 6 visits to home where boy died 2011-09-30T17:07:00Z But, says Banderas: “We’re not doing a glorification of Pablo Picasso. We’re doing a reflection of everything that happened in his life. You will see it. The cruelty – sometimes – his behaviour with women.” Antonio Banderas: ‘I don’t want to live my life like I’m already dead’ 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z But the bludgeoning he delivers is Olympian in power and cruelty, fitting for a man who believes himself to be a god. In the "Succession" season 3 finale, sibling unity arrives too late to save the Roy kids from Daddy 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z Instead she was baptised at the age of 41, and sought divorce on the grounds of cruelty. Dinah Sheridan 2012-11-25T19:52:38Z It’s no spoiler to say that in “The Stars Are Fire,” stoicism, kindness and courage win the day over bitterness and cruelty. ‘The Stars Are Fire,’ by Anita Shreve, ignites history 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z Inevitably Mama discovers that, in trying to shield the girls from further cruelty and appease both government troops and rebel militia, she jeopardises both their lives and her own profiteering livelihood. Review 2010-04-22T23:18:00Z I wondered what the world would look like if that guy would face real consequences for his casual cruelty. Giving "Insatiable" a chance: Fat people can have revenge fantasies, too 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z Indeed, it is a modern trope: the loving family man who perpetrates acts of cruelty because he is just following orders. Perspective | Strong woman confronts unjust ruler — opera tells, and retells, the story 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z The show, praised as an intoxicating female perspective on obsession, cruelty and power with an overlay of dark comedy, earned two Emmy nominations for best drama series and was a boon for its stars. ‘Killing Eve’ deadly cat-and-mouse game enters last season 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z Most frequently, she criticizes India’s fondness for big dams, and its cruelty to the people displaced by them. The Prescient Anger of Arundhati Roy 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z "He never went to work but when he was cool and sober … his courage and presence of mind never failed him … his address was genteel, and his behaviour void of all cruelty and insolence". John Mullan's 10 of the best: highwaymen 2012-05-18T21:54:02Z “We want maximum food and maximum profit with minimum husbandry, and that will always mean cruelty.” Lawmakers Aim to Protect Farm Animals in U.S. Research 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z And so Moth's mother sells her into servitude to a wealthy woman who treats Moth with cruelty. 'The Virgin Cure': hard times for innocents in late 1800s Manhattan 2012-07-03T21:03:08Z With the real world's cruelties growing untenable and its people in power not yet satiated by how much they wield, one wonders when someone, anyone who feels the brunt of it, will do the same. "Good, honest folks": 20 years later, controversial "Dogville" has become frightening prophecy 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z He’s playing another patriarch in this film, of course, the kind who rules small worlds with cruelty. Movie Review | 'A Prophet': Learning to Read, Murder, Survive 2010-02-25T23:22:00Z There, nothing is as it seems, and a whirlwind of drama, intrigue and cruelty both casual and irreparable emerges. The Season’s Standout Crossover Y.A. Novels 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z You might argue that Shakespeare used plots that were just as extreme in their depiction of vice and cruelty. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Amoral Clarity 2011-07-18T15:23:00Z “I chose the title for its musicality, but for me it’s a film about the cruelty of creation, which is undemocratic,” he said. Oliver Laxe?s Morocco Film ?You All Are Captains? 2011-10-16T04:10:13Z The culprits were boys down the block, she told me in an interview on Wednesday in which she spoke — a bit reluctantly — about the repeated cruelty of peers during her teenage years. Op-Ed Columnist: Born to Not Get Bullied 2012-03-01T04:18:08Z And Colin Burrow looks at a new work on the man whose name has become a synonym for political cruelty and calculation, Niccolò Machiavelli, Philip Bobbitt’s The Garments of Court and Palace. Your weekend reading: hoaxes and imitations, and a 12ft tall Mr Darcy 2013-07-14T00:50:17Z “This year we saw a frightening display of how toxic masculinity turns into cruelty towards women and children,” Hall said. At Oscars, Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill target of joke 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z She saw him hit her mother once – this was the row that prompted their separation – and was troubled by his pleasure in trivial acts of cruelty. Julie Myerson: a life in writing 2013-03-22T17:17:00Z Edgy as cats, “they’d always walked the line between teasing and cruelty.” The Concealed Weapons of ‘Kiss Me Someone’ 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z Grimmer is their assumption, challenged by the stranger, that everyone gets the same operating instructions, and that cruelty is OK if you can find a line of text that tells you so. Review: When a Stranger Knocks at the Airlock 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z Mason and Pack were later charged with shoplifting, robbery and cruelty to animals, per WKYT, with an added charge of wanton endangerment for Mason. Pet store thief throws guinea pig out of fleeing car, but 'Lucky' suffered no injuries 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z This 1,400-acre facility about an hour outside Dallas houses more than 800 domestic and exotic animals rescued from cruelty and neglect. After you binge-watch ‘Tiger King,’ make plans to see a real tiger sanctuary 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z Central to “Così” is its cruelty, the starkness with which it exposes the tenuousness of romantic attachments — and, by extension, attachments altogether. 22 Musicals, Plays, Concerts, Dances and Festivals You Can’t Miss This Spring 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z It instructed me to see the world as it is, with all its corruption and cruelty, and believe it’s worth fighting for anyway, even dying for. John McCain: By the Book 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z The shocking cruelty of involving her daughter in this scheme, driving a wedge between her and everyone else in her life, was never clear to Malabar. Review | ‘Wild Game’ is an eloquent — and lurid — tale of a mother-daughter bond gone awry 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z They seized a freedom in exploring extremities, cruelty, plain nastiness. Jean Stafford’s Novels Frankly Survey the Kingdom of Childhood 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z The story’s message is unambiguous: The cruelty we inflict on others harms not just our victims, but also ourselves, because we are all more intimately interconnected than we realize. Slavery’s Repercussions Unspool in a Dark Southern Tale 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z In a powerful statement — part explanation, part public charge — Colbert underscored that the onus of this cruelty is on us all. Stephen Colbert rips into Jeff Sessions for separating immigrant families 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z It’s not fair to your daughter to keep subjecting her to such ignorance and cruelty. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Listen to the little birdie that tells you to let people empty their own nests 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z His concerns seem to lie elsewhere, reserving his fire in between songs for the royals and their cruelty to animals. Morrissey ? review 2011-08-13T23:05:48Z And in most productions, the Antrobuses are white, but here they are Black, which lends that choice particular resonance, twisting the knife of human cruelty. ‘The Skin of Our Teeth’ Review: A Party for the End of the World 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z He said that he and Sakach are the good guys, that the justifications cockers often offer for their activities – tradition, culture, pride – are empty platitudes used to mask blatant animal cruelty. Baby chimpanzee killed by adult at L. A. Zoo 2012-06-27T13:33:00Z It can also lead to despair and cruelty, drug addiction and violence. “It was like an overdose of porn”: Chris Offutt reflects on writing about his family’s big secret, after his father’s death 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z Jealousy is a mental illness, the mother of all human failings, cruelty, hatred, misanthropy, the closing of your soul, selfishness, stinginess. ‘The Case of Lisandra P.’: A cerebral mystery set in Buenos Aires 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z Albee learned cruelty at home—one could call his domestic dramas the living room of cruelty—and he wrote most exquisitely about how cruelty can, for some, make a home. Postscript: Edward Albee, 1928-2016 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z Delia taunts Earl with the pointless cruelty of the chronically stupid. ‘Donnybrook’ Review: Fighting for Survival in the Heartland 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Like those of David Lynch, his exact contemporary, Spielberg’s films veer wildly between kitsch and cruelty. What Steven Spielberg's science fiction tells us about America 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z The vision of heroism that these directors present bleaches the past of its presumptions and prejudices, cruelties and pettiness, but also of its genuine humanity, courage, and tragedy. The Beauty of Sam Mendes’s “1917” Comes at a Cost 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z It’s a chamber piece about the poisonous relationship between an ingenue and an older woman who is pushed to suicide by her younger lover’s cruelty. Juliette Binoche reconnects with a favorite director for ‘Sils Maria’ 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Each episode with her dials her cruelty up and her emotional thermometer down, and with her weight troubles, the show now simply seems to be out-and-out punishing her. Mad Men Character Study: Sympathy for Betty 2012-05-16T17:47:07Z “It is a different kind of cruelty,” she said. The Widow of a Nobel-Winning Chinese Dissident Rebuilds Her Career as an Artist 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z In making sense of human cruelty, these films should seek to say something more than simply recalling newsreels, lest docudramas become ghoulish spectacles of suffering. Real-life terror: is it exploitative to use human suffering for cinematic thrills? 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z It was mostly about needless cruelty, proving that not only democracy dies at this level of darkness; so do TV shows. Review | What’s left to say about the end of ‘House of Cards,’ besides good riddance? 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Even in their anger and their harshness, their cruelty and their affection, their hatefulness and longing, there’s something appealing about these characters. Set in Uganda, This Coming-of-Age Story Contains Universal Themes 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z It’s like they don’t believe he’ll return and would rather rely on their own cruelty than a stranger’s kindness. The Walking Dead: season six, episode six – Always Accountable 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z There’s the same idiocy and, sometimes, cruelty beneath the fawning and posturing. ‘Barococo’ Review: Fop Till You Drop 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z They’ve called for court intervention, a petition or anything that might save B. Smith from what, to them, looks at best like cruelty and at worst, predation. Lifestyle guru B. Smith has Alzheimer’s. Her husband has a girlfriend. Her fans aren’t having it. 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z Lowell wrote with extraordinary grace and invention about his bouts of mania, his hospital stays, and the ramifications of his manic cruelty and affairs on his friends and loved ones. How much did Robert Lowell's manic-depression affect his poetry? A new biography tries to find the answer 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z It’s a unique, if common, cruelty to transplant a child who is just putting down roots. One Novel. Three Generations. All of Life’s Challenges and Joys. 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z Then there was the deadliness of observation without cruelty, funny because the different items “fit.” Review: ‘The Complete Stories,’ by Flannery O’Connor 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Wolfe’s cruelty to her is magnified by the crudity of these types, and I finished the book nauseous not only about college but about Parnassus, too. Perspective | How Tom Wolfe’s ‘I Am Charlotte Simmons’ sounded the death knell for New Journalism 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z At times a fairly vulgar Nietzschean, he insisted that the substrate of our common reality, however we might suppress it, was cruelty. Richard Rorty’s Philosophical Argument for National Pride 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z A second series of paintings, derived from vintage photographs taken in psychiatric institutions, addresses human fears and cruelty. 3 don’t-miss art exhibitions in Seattle, April edition 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z Altan introduces us to the fellow human beings he meets in a prison where flowers are forbidden but casual cruelty flourishes among the guards, functionaries and doctors who follow their orders with indifference. Review | As Turkish writer Ahmet Altan is rearrested, his prison memoir is as urgent as ever 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z There’s a comfy naturalism to everything, to the suburban blah and the gossipy chatter and the easy cruelty. Review: ‘Mrs. Fletcher’ Tracks an Empty-Nester’s Sexual Awakening 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z In terms of the theme that I began with: it was cruelty. “I Don’t Think Character Exists Anymore”: A Conversation with Rachel Cusk 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z Galloway's first volume of memoir, This Is Not About Me, was published in 2008 and contained innumerable moments of cruelty. All Made Up by Janice Galloway ? review 2011-08-12T09:00:01Z When the Japanese Empire surrendered in August 1945, it accepted the Allied demand that “stern justice shall be meted out to all war criminals, including those who have visited cruelties upon our prisoners.” Trying the Japanese for War Crimes 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z Lady Darby is holding on by a thread to her position on the fringes of 19th-century London society, due in part to her late husband’s cruelty. It’s binge-reading season. Here are the genre-bending romance series to fuel your addiction. 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z Some Japanese don't want to eat dolphin meat, and are stunned to see the cruelty of the hunt. 'The Cove' director fights Japan scientist lawsuit 2010-12-08T13:16:00Z It's a path paved in cruelty and complicity, one that even the most vindicating of outcomes could not undo. From Harvey Weinstein to the new #MeToo movies, true justice still remains in the realm of fantasy 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, over at the Vampire King's house, Bill is enjoying a lovely blood bisque, after the citrus flavored "cruelty free" blood drink. "True Blood" recap: What happens to wounded children 2010-06-21T13:10:00Z The Senate sponsors include Cory Booker, a New Jersey Democrat who wrote on Twitter last month that the article in The Times “speaks to a level of cruelty to animals that is unacceptable.” Lawmakers Aim to Protect Farm Animals in U.S. Research 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z “The Elephant Protection Act furthers this administration’s efforts to fight animal cruelty, and create a stronger, more humane New York.” Governor Cuomo Outlaws Use of Elephants for Entertainment 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z He weighs the promise of life against the meanness, cruelty and tragedy that await us all. Review | If you feel intimidated by Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ‘My Struggle,’ try ‘Spring’ 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z “It’s as important to document kindness, civility and generosity of spirit as it is cruelty, banality and indifference,” he said. Frederick Wiseman on the life of American institutions 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z The committee chairwoman, Sylviane Gold, said in the statement announcing the award, “The play appropriates both the comedy and cruelty of professional wrestling in order to explore the complex dance America does with its minorities.” ArtsBeat: Times's Outstanding Playwright Award Goes to Kristoffer Diaz 2011-06-21T17:48:22Z There are standing ovations and there is cruelty. Fast Times at Citywide Academy for the Performing Arts 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z The essence of low-budget filmmaking and a landmark of film noir, Ulmer’s brisk, grimy contemplation of the anonymity of the American road and the cruelties of fate seems tailor-made for beat-up prints and cheap DVDs. 3 Film Series to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z As with so many entries in the encyclopedia of Nazi atrocities, the depravity of that act and our inability to fathom such cruelty threaten to eclipse the individuality of the victims. ‘The Book of Aron,’ by Jim Shepard, is a masterpiece 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z That aversion to cruelty has stayed with him; the worst you could say about his work is that it's whimsical or excessively kooky at times, but it never wants for compassion. How Michel Gondry became cinema's most versatile director 2010-12-09T22:30:00Z “The Bullfighter Dies” protests animal cruelty, but reduces down to slogans and a kind of Irish bar-band rock. Morrissey Releases ‘World Peace Is None of Your Business’ 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z It's laughable to accuse someone of "playing the victim card", when coming forward as a victim means public ridicule, humiliation and cruelty. How Vanessa Feltz's bravery exposed our shameful culture of victim-blaming 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z It seems to take a principled stand against animal cruelty while also featuring an action sequence in which a live tiger has been plonked on to the bonnet of a speeding truck. James Bond and the Leprechauns: the weird world of Disney+ 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z A Texas man was arrested Friday, accused of animal cruelty just days after he allegedly abandoned a husky along a roadside near El Paso, authorities said. Husky abandoned on Texas roadside in viral video is rescued, adopted; suspect facing animal cruelty charges 2021-07-25T04:00:00Z What we don’t need is the kind of cruelty that this Administration has engaged in. The Democratic Presidential Candidate Eager to Challenge Trump on Immigration 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z The cruelty of this development — was nature itself mocking us? — set the teeth on edge. Cook’s Illustrated’s Christopher Kimball Believes Cooking Is Ultraserious Business 2012-10-14T16:30:31Z But with its second run, it became something much bigger, a breathtakingly sleek meditation on cruelty, corruption and how not to dispose of your super-duper top-secret business documents. The 50 best TV shows of 2019: No 1 – Succession 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z These works offer a rebuke to those who may not resort to violence themselves, but who enable cruelty through apathy, indifference and amnesia. Die and do 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z What is more – for comedy is always accruing cruelties – her very sadness works against her as Oblonsky's cheerfulness works for him. Howard Jacobson on taking comic novels seriously 2010-10-08T23:07:00Z There are unmistakable gothic elements in Ewa’s tale, which is to some extent a lurid fable of wronged innocence, irrational cruelty and wild coincidence set in a landscape of betrayal, brutality and corruption. ‘The Immigrant,’ With Joaquin Phoenix and Marion Cotillard 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z “His letters to her were full of casual cruelties,” Ms. Harrod writes. Antiques: Michael Cardew, British Ceramist, Is Subject of a Biography 2012-12-21T05:27:15Z There was concentrated smugness in that expression, tinged with a pugilist’s cruelty. Jon Stewart is right: How long will the media play Trump’s game? 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z “It was fascinating to learn about the raw cruelty of this age,” Mr. Vuillermoz said. Cloying Royals Scheme for Greater Glory 2010-05-19T13:38:00Z His story unspools like a roll of film, rich with sensory detail and unsparing in its depictions of cruelty. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z But you may also feel that you have been prematurely and disingenuously comforted, and that a dimension of cosmic cruelty, or just of genuine human grief, has been discreetly pushed aside. | ?Restless': ?Restless? With Mia Wasikowska - Review 2011-09-15T23:00:10Z The cruelty of these taunts — and others too obscene to quote here — hinted at the savagery of Till's killing. Revisiting Emmett Till tragedy, in jazz 2011-03-28T23:50:00Z I think it's tremendously moving when you see those clips, and you see how much cruelty there is in the media. “Whitney” director on Houston’s untold story: “Whitney had been abused, and it took a hug... 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z No scripted version of Congress can help us deal with the complicity of the one backing this administration's mindless cruelty. Forget civility: On “The Good Fight,” “Luke Cage” and “Dietland,” resistance means go... 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z "We showed how it is the petty things, like when the Japanese issued three sanitary towels to the whole camp, that demoralise, not the enormous cruelties." Anne Valery obituary 2013-05-16T15:36:43Z Audiences are quicker to see cruelty in the way Carson ribbed McMahon. Does the Job of Talk-Show Sidekick Even Make Sense Anymore? 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z Wiring up citizens to explosives and having them read text messages to Sherlock takes a spectacular brand of cruelty, and each of the crimes the detective had to solve was more ingenious than the last. Sherlock finale 2010-08-08T21:30:00Z Each season also confirms our suspicion that the commodification of romance leads not to true love, but to cruelty and violence. The return of UnReal: can the new season restore the show to former glory? 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z People who alternate cruelty with charm fuel hope that things will finally stay charming. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Just say no to gifts from relative’s abuser 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z There are historical concentration camps, that have become museums to that cruelty. Princeton Digs Deep Into Its Fraught Racial History 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger. 'Where Wild Things Are' author Maurice Sendak dies 2012-05-08T13:08:48Z Of the film’s intense cruelty, particularly to women, he said: “Yes, but the whole thing is kind of ironical”. Stomach-turning slasher marks Von Trier's uncompromising Cannes... 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z Daily, we absorb news reports, disturbing images and personal stories of cruelty, selfishness and heartbreaking human and economic losses. Perspective | Ask yourself: What are you grateful for? 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z The result is a novel marked by acts of cruelty but not, ultimately, overwhelmed by them. Review | ‘The Revisioners’ reminds us of slavery’s long reach, through the generations 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z In luscious prose, Thorp explores the nameless queen’s untold story, one that — in keeping with the spirit of Shakespeare’s original — is rife with cruelty, betrayal and passion. You Know About King Lear. A New Novel Tells His Banished Queen’s Tale. 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z With a jewel like this one, he's magnificent... watching Craig and Weisz - an offstage husband and wife - explore the unique capacity of a married couple for mutual cruelty adds another fascinating layer. Press views: Weisz and Craig in Betrayal 2013-11-04T11:37:56Z "They mercilessly attack misery and cruelty, and eventually they win." L.A.'s punk rock lion, Henry Rollins: 'This is the most amazing century to be alive in' 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z That doesn’t mean we can’t object to specific instances of rudeness or cruelty. Let’s Double Date. But Maybe Your Wife Could Stay Home? 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z Nothing overtly supernatural, it was simply the poet’s callous selfishness and psychological cruelty to those around him, especially the adoring Claire and the youthful Polidori. Review: ‘The Poet and the Vampyre: The Curse of Byron,’ by Andrew McConnell Stott Instead our daily diet of failure is delivered through every media outlet, our excesses and cruelties writ large to capture the popular imagination. I’m American and devastated. Why did we vote for Trump? | Mariella Frostrup 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z Joaquin Phoenix dedicated an entire Oscars speech to its supposed cruelty. The Milk Situation 2020-03-14T04:00:00Z He also again displayed his penchant for mercurial cruelty, braining the messenger who brought shaming news of the king’s aid in the failing Stepstones war effort. ‘House of the Dragon,’ Season 1, Episode 3: Two Targaryen Hunts 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z They and many of the supporting characters are complex and compelling — neither all good nor all bad, capable of both cruelty and kindness, vengeance and remorse. Perspective | What’s the greatest book about politics? Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich and others weigh in. 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Puccini, something of a musical magpie, and not exactly progressive, nevertheless had his finger on the pulse of the 20th century to an astonishing degree – sentimentality, cruelty, hedonistic abandon, alienation. The Rest is Noise festival: what's your favourite piece of 20th-century music? 2012-11-29T20:00:02Z Temple members, who don’t believe in Satan except as a potent symbol of rebellion against cruelty and tyranny, requested that they too be allowed to conduct prayers after games. The greatest trick the satanists ever pulled: They may be truer to the words of Jesus than most Christians 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z Similarly, the cruelty and misogyny is really just--well I am just over it already. ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 4: Truth and Consequences 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z The actors show cruelty, in ways subtle and crude, to one another also. Theater Review: ‘Ganesh Versus the Third Reich,’ at Under the Radar 2013-01-10T22:16:35Z Americans make no such effort to be reminded of the cruelty of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. Princeton Digs Deep Into Its Fraught Racial History 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z This shift spawns a borderlands odyssey that blends noir and magical realism, meditations on religiosity and human cruelty, and social commentary on guns, the drug trade and resurgent racism. Gabino Iglesias, a Writer of Noir, Explores the Texas Underworld 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z White writes of childhood very well in Happy Valley; its unanswerable bewilderment and its unthinking cruelties. Happy Valley by Patrick White – review 2012-12-19T08:00:06Z It's all about reassuring conservative Christians that all this religious oppression and cruelty is justified. What the Ruby Franke story says about the Christian right 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z Beneath every cruelty is some hidden weakness; beneath every judgment some hidden shame. How Do I Write About My Life Without Alienating Everyone in It? 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z Mr. McMurtry adapted the screenplay from his novel about a cattle drive from Texas to Montana, and his West is a place of raw beauty but also cruelty and sudden, ghastly death. Texas TV: From the Sublime to the Ridiculous 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z Now that the trial is over, we’ll find new things to be ambiguous about, new venues where indeterminacy can serve as an alibi for the same old cruelty, and for its newer iterations. The Actual Malice of the Johnny Depp Trial 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z Now she has dementia, her victims have had to come to terms with the fact that she will never be brought to account fully for her bizarre and unusual cruelty. Growing up with The Family: inside Anne Hamilton-Byrne’s sinister cult 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z Faced with the general cruelty of Donald Trump's regime, the American people have largely surrendered. Eve Ensler on Donald Trump, rape culture and the "unreckoned history" of America 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z Her Meereen aides argue that the slave masters–the same ones who crucified children on the road–only understand cruelty. Game of Thrones Watch: Making a List, Checking It Twice 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z And our tribe turns out to be a savage one: the countryside harbours forgotten cruelties, with the old ways untouched by modernity and marked by half-remembered rituals. Cults, human sacrifice and pagan sex: how folk horror is flowering again in Brexit Britain 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z You will want to emphasize to them the links between animal cruelty and other criminal behavior. Her fiancé beat up the dog 2013-05-08T00:00:00Z It was a desperate, needy kiss that carried with it the cruelty of isolation and abandonment. The Man in Xinjiang: A Frightening Experience in Rural China 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z Simon Callow's fine Sir Toby is also a genuine rural blueblood whose highest praise for Maria is that "she is a beagle, true bred", yet who is also capable of insensate cruelty. Twelfth Night - review 2011-01-19T00:40:00Z You could call this desire — to really have that awareness, to be as open as possible, all the time, to beauty and cruelty and stupid human fallibility and unexpected grace — the George Saunders Experiment. George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You’ll Read This Year 2013-01-06T19:57:18Z But it’s not as if aspiring autocrats declare when it’s time for autocracy; instead they resort to their crude repertoire, inciting bigotry, agitating for “law and order” and subjecting immigrants to gratuitous cruelty. In ‘Surviving Autocracy,’ Masha Gessen Tells Us to Face the Facts 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z At first, Maria is thankful for Rocky’s over-the-top generosity, but is soon disheartened by her friend’s casual cruelty and racism. You need to read this: 5 hot new fiction books coming in August 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z And there is worse to come, in a different way, from the less fervent but more arrogant cruelty of American soldiers. ‘I witnessed the birth of Isis’: how one film-maker captured the horror of Iraq 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z Their focus is the important achievement of black self-taught artists of the American South, born of extreme deprivation and social cruelty, raw talent and fragments of lost African cultures. At the Met, a Riveting Testament to Those Once Neglected 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z What emerges is a subtle portrait of a society in the throes of rapid social transformation, still haunted by the cruelties of its feudal past. A. O. Scott’s 25 Best Films of 2012 2012-12-15T00:37:44Z Much is made of the Tharks’ primitive sense of humor, which finds amusement in the suffering of others, and in their cruelty to animals. ?John Carter,? Based on ?Princess of Mars? 2012-03-04T23:25:48Z There’s a class of cruelty that cannot be neatly explained by circumstance, and that is found all too easily outside the confines of a movie theatre. The Twisted Appeal of “Don’t Breathe” 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z But he was also capable of an indelible cruelty that didn’t need 17 years to come bursting out of some dark canal, only a few neat whiskeys. I’m terrified of the cicada onslaught 2013-05-20T23:45:00Z She goes on at length about the cruelty of killing other living creatures for our food. Thanksgiving Deer Hunt? Sounds Like a Great Time to Talk to the Kids About Guns 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z It’s all about him, his desires, his confusion, his cruelty. Review: ‘In the Shadow of Women’ Focuses on the Female Sides of a Triangle 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z It is a well-trodden trail, but the book provides a useful overview of the industry, explaining the incongruous mix of co-operation and cruelty in each link of the supply chain. On the cocaine trail 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Straub’s world is one where trauma — in the form of war, random violence, calculated cruelty and familial dysfunction — dominates the landscape. ‘Interior Darkness’ for those who love horror — and even those who don’t 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z It must get hard to believe your own eyes when your senses are being shocked over and over by cruelty, I said. In ‘Them,’ a Black Family Is Haunted by Real-Life Monsters 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z But he does seek our collusion in his contempt for the world in which he is obliged to move, and for the people with whom the cruelties of circumstance have forced him to interact. Review | In his memoir, Will Self takes his penchant for erratic journeys to the extreme 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z The answer was obvious: He’d react to the loss of human life with heartlessness, cruelty and adherence to his own conviction. In defense of grave dancing: It’s true that Scalia was a human being, but I still refuse to mourn a-holes like him politely 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Anderson tracks the courtship of Reynolds and Alma as a delicate, push-pull affair, each partner severely reactive to the other’s acts of charity or cruelty. How Phantom Thread undresses our ideas about toxic masculinity 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Then he saw a nun’s film depicting the cruelties inflicted by El Salvador’s government on that country’s citizens. Actor Ed Asner, TV’s blustery Lou Grant, dies at 91 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z The neuroticism and cruelty on display in these seven newly translated leave you short of breath but entirely absorbed – or, more accurately, entrapped. Prose by Thomas Bernhard ? review 2011-01-02T00:03:06Z “Dixie,” he told his son, was a word tied to the antebellum South, the cruelties of slavery, the Confederacy and other “traumatic things.” How one pocket of Utah is confronting the word ‘Dixie’ and all of its associations 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z Sorry to pick on book seven again, but this killing seemed unnecessary, bordering on animal cruelty. 9 Other Things J.K. Rowling Got Wrong 2014-02-03T21:09:53Z The cruelty of the regime filled the burial pits to overflowing, and bones began to rise to the surface. Why I went to prison on my holiday 2010-08-22T18:59:00Z The Oscar went to Sebastian Lelio’s glorious A Fantastic Woman, the story of a trans woman whose grief at the death of her partner is compounded by the cruelty and indifference of society. The Shape of Water's Oscars win is the triumph of a real artist and immersive cinema | Peter Bradshaw 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z And what follows, as Joey is taken across the English Channel to the battlefields and trenches of Flanders and France, is a nightmare of cruelty that is not without its own sinister magic. | 'War Horse': ?War Horse,? Directed by Steven Spielberg - Review 2011-12-22T13:00:00Z Ho Chi Minh, often romanticized as an amiable nationalist, was in fact a merciless despot who inflicted “systemic cruelties” on his people. The Disaster That Was the Vietnam War 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z IN the bungling and bellicosity that constitute the back and forth of history, worsened by natural disasters and unprovoked cruelty, humble citizens pay the highest price. Why We Travel 2011-04-01T19:10:47Z Even consensual sex often had the taint of disgust and cruelty. Marlon James’s Moon Witch Tells Her Side of a Haunting Story 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z Once Rocky was inside the box, a pair of examiners in lab coats peppered him with questions of varying degrees of intimacy and cruelty: “What do you like least about your own body?” At Sotheby’s, ASAP Rocky Breaks Out of the Box 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z The sheer cruelty of the case’s multiple murders demands coarse language, at which Guzlowski excels. Buried by Snow or Stuffed in a Suitcase: The Bodies Add Up in Marilyn Stasio’s Latest Crime Column 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z It’s a sport that oscillates between the euphoria and cruelties of life, a sure-thing strike that turns into a 7-10 split. Think there can’t be a jazz-funk fusion superstar in 2020? Then you don’t know Thundercat. 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z He positions himself as a respite from the more obvious cruelties inflicted by Serena Joy. ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Episode 5: A Seduction 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z Shanbhag is an heir to Babel, and this story of a family’s moral unraveling and descent into cruelty after it comes into sudden wealth — capped by a hair-raising ending — already feels like a modern-day classic. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2017 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z More than cruelty and lust for power, the plodding tedium of bureaucracies, which take on a life of their own, are the engines of inquisitions. Books of The Times: ?God?s Jury? by Cullen Murphy - Review 2012-01-18T22:38:44Z In the show’s weakest sketch, she played a shy high-school student who was a target of mean-girl cruelty, avenging herself by punching and slapping Vanessa Bayer. Ronda Rousey on “S.N.L.” 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z The election of Donald Trump, and the casual cruelty of his Presidency thus far, have precipitated a sense of crisis in that world, not least because Trump seems inclined to let the arts rot. Making Art in a Time of Rage 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z Phoenix attended the protest in support of Animal Equality, an international organisation that works with society, governments and companies to try and end cruelty to farmed animals. Joaquin Phoenix urges people to 'go vegan' 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z And none of them look too cheery about it, carrying in their wake a sulphurous whiff of hollow-eyed misery at the cruelty of their fates. Self/Less movie agrees with film history: immortality is a drag 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z Its capacity for cruelty is a perpetual shock to her, even though she herself is a prodigy of violence. Review: ‘Wonder Woman’ Is a Blockbuster That Lets Itself Have Fun 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z According to his daughter, it describes how he witnessed the cruelty of segregation and began to feel conflicted about systematic injustices. Rebirth of Book by Aide to Carter 2013-07-26T21:47:53Z Then maybe they'll notice the fissures and contradictions, the hatefulness and downright cruelty in his version of the world. In the house of alternative facts: How my parents' lies prepared me for post-truth America 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z What should unfold like an unsettling chapter in a long, tragic story — or a tale of cruelty and heroism — feels more like an old TV show. Review: ‘7 Days in Entebbe’ Revisits a Notorious Hijacking 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z In Britain, The Guardian review of “I Claudius,” he said, began, “There should be a society for the prevention of cruelty to actors.” ‘I, Claudius’ Returns in a 35th-Anniversary DVD Set 2012-11-25T01:10:06Z As an old creative industry full of cruelty and moral sense, British journalism once flourished on the imperative that people required the truth in order to survive. Bad press: a new play gives journalists a voice 2012-10-11T09:15:21Z It shows shocking cruelty inflicted on residents, with people being whipped or stoned to death after the Islamists take over, in a film inspired by real events of 2012. Mike Leigh brings Turner's stormy seas to sunny Cannes 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z In the years since, the United States has become more hostile than hospitable to visitors, its borders the sites of vicious, almost gleeful cruelty. When a Sinister Enemy Attacks New York, the City Fights Back 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z “She was really perceptive about other people, and generous and progressive, but when it came to analysing her, her defensive cruelty leapt out.” ‘People just want a bully’ - director Mike Mills on how the US picks its president 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Kingsolver said she knew firsthand Demon’s emotional landscape, particularly the humiliations of being a teenage outlander and the cruelty of your peers. An Appalachian Elegy, Hillbillies Not Included 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z Phair’s “horror stories” — in many cases about failures and cruelties for which she holds herself accountable — are as bracing and refreshing as her greatest songs. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z "American Sniper" captures the mundaneness and cruelty of war, of fleeting firefights and hours spent hunkering in the dust. Did 'American Sniper' miss an important mark? 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z It’s a vision of breathtaking, casual cruelty that inexorably shifts from the personal into an indictment of a soul-sick country. Cannes Rolls Out the Red Carpet (Now With Metal Detectors) 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z It's no surprise who comes out on top, but Bartlett especially stretches the bounds of human cruelty beyond reason through Isobel. Review: Mike Bartlett waves red flag with 'Bull' 2013-05-03T01:53:08Z Her fight to get back, and to understand herself as both-and, neither-nor, Egyptian and American, exposed the arbitrary cruelty, casual racism and occasional kindness of people within the United States immigration system. An Arab-American Poet Asks What It Means to Belong to Two Cultures, or None 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z In a military where war's cruelties often hide in masquerade, Samet bristles at euphemisms such as "limited conflicts" and "low intensity" missions. At West Point, warriors shaped through Plutarch and Shakespeare 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z Galgut’s Morgan is no less disquieted by the episode, but his reaction is that of a man who is tempted by cruelty before turning it away. Why Novelize a Novelist's Life? 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z Accordingly the necessary element of wilful neglect to support a charge of child cruelty could not be proved to the required standard. When Parents and the State Disagree Over a Child's Medical Treatment 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z The shortcomings and unintentional cruelties of the experiment become apparent long before the data are analyzed. Misguided experiment yields absorbing documentary 2011-01-24T04:21:27Z Ayoade is fitfully attentive to the unerring marksmanship of teen cruelty. Submarine: From Teen Angst to Pure Delight 2011-06-03T10:05:00Z But there is something undeniably exhilarating about the film’s honest assessment of the never-ending conflict between decency and cruelty that rages in every nation, neighborhood and heart. Review: In ‘The Insult,’ the Dispute Is Personal. And Political. 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z Annie and Nate take turns lacerating themselves and each other over the wanton cruelty they feel they are inflicting on their adored little girl. | 'Cradle and All' : A Clock Ticking to Incessant Wailing 2011-05-26T02:01:03Z In a lawsuit she filed, she charged Mr. Wagner with “mental cruelties.” New Doubts in Natalie Wood’s Death: ‘I Don’t Think She Got in the Water by Herself’ 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z Still, Serwer argues that there’s a difference between a byproduct and an organizing principle — between cruelty as fallout and cruelty for its own sake. New Books Update Our Thinking About Cruelty 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z Nothing new on the radio this summer quite passes the bar for entry to that group, but there’s still plenty of blues, cruelty and sadness floating around. There is no song of the summer 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Couples will break up and get together and feel fatally uncertain about everything; there will be moments of tenderness and also moments of cruelty and stupidity and pure teenage calculation. "Myth of the American Sleepover": An exquisite teenage dream 2011-07-22T23:30:00Z These tales, with their lessons about how to navigate past a menacing wolf or the cruelty of fate, did offer up heroines full of wile and quick thinking. What About the Heroine’s Journey? 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z In September, the Guggenheim Museum withdrew three pieces from a show on 1990s Chinese art over concerns about animal cruelty. The year the art came down 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z Often drawing inspiration from “The Diary of Anne Frank,” Ogawa’s fiction is celebrated for its exploration of loneliness, claustrophobia and caretaking’s proximity to cruelty. ‘Read Receipts’ On: Two Dystopian Novels Predict the Surveillance State 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z And Lanthimos' predilection for inflicting cruelty on his characters spills over in his latest, The Killing of a Sacred Deer. Colin Farrell Finds Darkness in The Killing of a Sacred Deer 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Without details to say otherwise, I tend to see this also as a sin of immaturity, not cruelty. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: He broke up over text and still wants to be friends. What do you do with this? 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z The film’s subversive commentary on casual cruelty and the misogynistic power dynamics that drive the high school caste system provide an abundance of opportunities for discussion. We need to talk about “13 Reasons Why”: The timeless case for getting into uncomfortable conversations about teen crises as seen on TV…and in movies 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z The original “Gojira” was an allegory of human recklessness, much as the old “King Kong” was a tragedy catalyzed by human cruelty. ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’ Review: Let’s You and Him Fight 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z Movies that, rather than fetishizing self-pity or sentimentalizing domination, illuminate the cruelty, the comedy and the grace of the human condition. Best Movies of 2019 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z In this accomplished staging, the qualities of mercy and cruelty are both strained to their limits. Shylock, revisited, in Theatricum's 'Merchant of Venice' 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z As her mother points out, she has a mean streak, and at times she seems to revel in her own cruelty. Review: In ‘Elle,’ Isabelle Huppert Subverts the Role of Rape Victim 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Filled with crushing facts about animal cruelty yet also overstuffed and overwrought, it’s emotionally and visually tough to watch. Movie Review: Katia Louise’s ‘Saving America’s Horses’ 2012-12-07T02:38:56Z "Oftentimes, people turn to backyard hen keeping because they've heard about the cruelties of egg production and they don't want to be part of that," she says. “Under the Henfluence” urges us to see hens as complex beings 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z Despite the book’s quietness of telling, its currency is the human capacity for cruelty and subjugation, of pretty much everyone by pretty much everyone. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Much to their chagrin, I’m sure, their documentation and description of state sponsored injustice, oppression, and cruelty brought me so far left around the track that I started coming around to the right. My regrettable libertarian romance: I rebounded from my experimental phase, but many don't 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z What can all of us as consumers do so that people who don't have access to healthy foods not based on cruelty can be doing to feed their families? Moby is happily boring now: "I look at the desperation that I had ... I don't glorify the past" 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z The cruelty of the satire—its low opinion of humankind, its willingness to scratch sensitive topics raw—was too much. “Heathers,” Reviewed: The TV Remake of the Classic Teen Comedy Is a Feat of Hostile Farce 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z In “The Squid and the Whale” and “Margot at the Wedding,” something drove him to depict family squabbles with a candor that approached cruelty. Review: Adam Sandler Is a Revelation in ‘The Meyerowitz Stories’ 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z All we know is that it will include enough adult content to qualify for the peta.xxx domain, combined with enough graphic footage of animal cruelty to qualify as vegan activism. Pass notes No 3,332: Peta 2011-08-23T19:30:03Z She poured me into a cab, found my address somewhere in my purse, and sent me home while I cried for my own stupidity and the world’s inherent cruelty. Burritos, big macs and beer: how I binged my way to oblivion in college 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z In the Shadow of the Banyanby Vaddey Ratner Despite the grim circumstances, In the Shadow of the Banyan yokes the beauty of the lush terrain and farmland with haphazard cruelty and violence. In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner – review 2012-09-29T21:55:01Z But do you think that cruelty is specific to the media, or is it a larger social phenomenon? Maggie Gyllenhaal on sexual liberation 2012-05-18T13:50:00Z Brooke excels at depicting unknowable and scarily arbitrary extraterrestrials and a human race crushed by endless cruelty and domination. Science fiction & fantasy roundup – reviews 2012-07-06T21:55:14Z Many of his movies are allegories on the absence of civilised behaviour in the conduct of war, exposing humankind's innate propensity towards violence and cruelty in the absence of a moral and spiritual code. Kaneto Shindo 2012-05-30T16:58:59Z It also asks how eternal recurrence can be changed by love and sacrifice, to thwart what appears to be a persistent cycle of cruelty, oppression and exploitation. Cloud Atlas – review 2013-02-24T00:06:09Z Her only living parent, her “yeyo” is a successful businesswoman who is deeply religious and unyielding, sometimes to the point of cruelty. The Quest for Identity and Independence 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z PETA’s Stephanie Bell says that the “crush” videos are illegal under state and federal laws, and to even the casual reader of the actions involved in them, they’d certainly seem obvious animal cruelty. The dark world of animal “crush” films 2014-04-18T19:36:00Z "There is a conscious cruelty in the way that we are organizing our lives now, where the most vulnerable people are told that their poverty is their own fault," Loach told reporters. Ken Loach, the 79-year-old British director, has had 12 films in competition at the Cannes Film Festival over the years, including his Palme d'Or-winning "The Wind That Shakes the Barley." 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Taylor, the aggrieved, commonly portrays herself as a victim of others’ cruelty. It’s all fake: How the leaked call between Taylor Swift and Kanye West exposes the artifice of celebrity culture 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z He was arrested in 2008 on drug and animal cruelty charges following an overnight raid on his house in Phoenix. Rapper-actor DMX, known for gruff delivery, dead at 50 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z And as those values turn into personal choices — as well-meaning as they might be — we are complicit in the cruelties of the broader food system. Review | Our food shopping habits have human and environmental costs. ‘The Secret Life of Groceries’ adds them up. 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z "Fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty," prays Lady Macbeth, and she means business. Grisly shows stalk Seattle stages: 'The Lieutenant of Inishmore,' 'Macbeth,' 'Evil Dead: The Musical' 2010-10-14T23:51:00Z The film does not minimize the violence of slavery, including the sexual violence that was the daily experience of women like Rachel, but it also refrains from turning cruelty into spectacle. Review: Matthew McConaughey Rebels Against Rebels in ‘Free State of Jones’ 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z I’ve never eaten foie gras in my life, and I’d campaigned a decade earlier at the Humane Society of the United States to ban its sale, on animal cruelty grounds, in Chicago. Eat it without the guilt? The story of the world’s first 'clean' foie gras 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z The accounts of murders and punishments and random cruelties are chilling and unsparing. Escaping Slavery in a Hot-Air Balloon 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z The part of the barrel where the cruelty is so deeply mingled with pathology that it’s simultaneously infuriating and incredibly sad. Who says Kate Upton is too fat? 2012-07-10T20:45:00Z Beginning in 1996, in South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission held hearings at which whites and blacks struggled to confront the cruelty inflicted on human beings during apartheid. Memorial for America’s conscience 2012-05-24T20:20:00Z What fascinated and frightened him about "The Crucible" was the way neighbors in this tight-knit Christian community in 17th century Salem are capable of inflicting such cruelty on one another. Meet Ivo van Hove, the most provocatively illuminating theater director right now 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z The theme remains that of a powerful outsider, paranoid about his status and manipulated because of it, rather than the banal cruelties and thoughtless traditions that blight everyday life across India. How Bollywood is starting to deal with India's caste system 2010-12-16T22:30:02Z In May 1897 he writes about the cruelty of imprisoning children under 14, of which there are several hundred in detention centres in Britain today. Letters: Oscar Wilde's vote for prisoners' rights 2011-02-11T00:05:02Z Like Roald Dahl's original novel, it's a testament to the joy of reading and childhood cleverness while offering a wickedly funny portrait of adult cruelty. Tony awards 2013: Matilda and Kinky Boots slug it out 2013-04-30T15:49:52Z A show premised on highlighting its participants’ incompetence could easily veer toward cruelty, but, here, everyone is in on the joke. The Joys of Netflix’s “Nailed It,” the Baking Competition That Celebrates Kitchen Disaster 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z The world Bora and his friends inhabit may be a place of cruelty, inequality and shallow consumerism, but they are determined to find love, joy and meaning in spite of it all. From Brooklyn to South Africa, 8 Filmmakers to Watch 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z But it's not just about cruelty, it's about upsetting delicate eco systems too. TV review: Gordon Ramsay ? Shark Bait; Wild at Heart; Zen 2011-01-17T08:00:02Z She delivers this searching story in a trance of sorrow, still stunned by the cruelty she witnessed and the disaster she precipitated. Review | A daughter searches for her mother’s secrets in Kashmir but finds only more questions 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z Thompson is correct that certain kinds of conspicuous consumption, especially when they suggest snobbery or cruelty, no longer confer status in the sense of “love from the world.” Money Can’t Buy Happiness. It Can’t Even Buy Status, a New Book Says. 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z Explosions, decapitation, torture, unimaginable cruelty, slaughter of innocents and coke-induced psychosis pop up with the reliability of a drug dealer who always comes through. El Chapo: Netflix's gruesome, gripping answer to The Wire 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z But what’s most disturbing about “Freedom” is how Ms. Vardimon’s choreography, mostly repetitive and boring, is energized only by cruelty and violence. Dance Review: Jasmin Vardimon Company Dances at Montclair State 2013-04-21T20:37:31Z A complete set of his 81-piece “Disasters of War” etchings series is here, a relentless catalog of human cruelty and amorality. Review: ‘The Critique of Reason’ Revisits What Romantic Art Means 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z She’s drawn to what’s most unsettling about these fables: their disorienting logic, their blithe cruelty, their subtle encoding of race and gender. Review | Helen Oyeyemi’s ‘Gingerbread’ recipe: Fairy tales with a dash of surrealism 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z Each has its own thematic resonance with “Succession” — the metastasizing hollowness of business; the alienation of believing that actually, many things are more important than family; the nature of affection that sprouts from routine cruelty. Miss ‘Succession’ Already? Here’s What to Watch Next 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z During her later years, living outside Paris, Mitchell attended to her gardens and her dogs and reached out to younger artists and writers, mixing tenderness and even passion with tough love and outright cruelty. Lee Krasner and Joan Mitchell: Abstract Expressionist Lives 2011-07-08T15:56:48Z There is so much cruelty in the world right now, in the United States especially. "Miles Morales: Spider-Man" author Saladin Ahmed: "Politics are central to the story for me" 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z Even the zaniest elements of the story are interspersed with episodes of wincing cruelty. ‘Everybody’s Fool’ by Richard Russo: A wry, bittersweet sequel to ‘Nobody’s Fool’ 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Praised for his meticulous research, Mr. Genovese argued that slave life in the pre-Civil War South was not one of continuous cruelty and degradation. Eugene D. Genovese, Historian of South, Dies at 82 2012-09-30T00:04:16Z The Italian beauty said she was moved to work on the campaign after hearing of the immense cruelty suffered by animals in the fur trade. Clooney ex Elisabetta Canalis gets naked for PETA 2011-09-14T01:09:09Z The man was later charged with animal cruelty and disturbing the peace, a charge that was tacked on for failing to wear a mask, The Independent reported. Warsaw Zoo moves bears after visitor is filmed entering enclosure, wrestling with one while allegedly drunk 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z Traits we were raised to believe were wrong – lying, cruelty, greed – are embraced wholeheartedly by leaders like Donald Trump. I need a hero: finding courage, defiance and joy in the dark days of 2019 | Josephine Tovey 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z Also jazz, sex, cigarettes, New York, 1970s, girls and men, friendships and cruelty, art, and Saint Catherine of Bologna. Internet predators, vicious Amazon reviews, and how Mitt Romney’s smile inspired a novel 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z "Part of the cruelty of what was happening to them was time. Time was being taken away from them." In Cannes' hit 'Loving,' a humble love overpowers racism 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z For a moment, he hangs in the air as he reckons with the sight of the ship’s other half bobbing in the waves nearby, an instant that captures the mindless cruelty of the sea. Review: Chris Pine Rescues The Finest Hours 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z The right is constantly impressing upon us the supposed cruelty and nastiness of cancel culture, their current boogeyman of choice. Kanye West and the smug cruelty of the anti-”cancel culture” movement 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z And the cruelty of the state they represent becomes apparent as they are transformed from guests to occupiers, holding the civilian population hostage. Critic?s Notebook: Bucking Up the British in the Midst of the Fight 2011-05-19T20:42:35Z George W. Bush eventually released 500 of them, sometimes after years of confinement and cruelty. Memorial for America’s conscience 2012-05-24T20:20:00Z They talked through and around these issues — Lucy’s father’s mental illness and cruelty, the shame of being poor, the loneliness — their silences as eloquent as their conversation. Her Name Is Lucy Barton. Their Job Is Ushering Her to the Stage. 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z Early pessimistic philosophers, writing in pre-modern eras of much higher human mortality rates, assiduously investigated the inherent cruelties of existence. Should We Be More Pessimistic? 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z Tension builds as Nina begins to perform secret and senseless cruelties. Mysteries review: Paula Hawkins’s ‘The Girl on the Train” and Harriet Lane’s ‘Her’ 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z And for one who seeks to soothe the pain of coming face-to-face with the worst aspects of human suffering and cruelty, no light is more bright than the Strictly ballroom. My Strictly diary: What right have I to so much fun? 2010-10-25T19:00:00Z Mr. Williams visits him and other inmates in prison, examining the system’s cruelties as well as the steps communities are taking to reduce the incarceration rates of youths. What’s on TV Friday: ‘6 Balloons’ and ‘Troy: Fall of a City’ 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z Float above life’s cruelty, or scratch your way through it. American soul survivors: Maxwell and Mary J. Blige in concert 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z Is Hamlet's cruelty to Ophelia symptomatic of his pent-up fury towards his mother? The remix's the thing: how The Rest Is Silence gave Hamlet a fresh beat 2012-06-18T13:51:55Z And on getting a signature from their parents, when the cruelty of their parents was the “official” reason they fled? ‘The Far Away Brothers’ Breathes Vivid Life Into Immigration Issues 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z All of which would be lovely, had Coughlin not spent the entire movie being cruel And if the denouement didn’t involve further lashings of cruelty. Live by Night: how the gangster film went from top of the world to sleeping with the fishes 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Believe it or not, you can speak out against animal cruelty without being sizeist jerks. PETA’s ridiculous new birth control stunt 2013-12-03T15:45:00Z The average person is just trying to survive under a regime of cruelty as well as distraction that is neoliberalism. As billionaires prep for the apocalyptic "Event," what happens to everyone else? 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z Atkinson manages them deftly, and equips her protagonist with the streak of ruthlessness, and sometimes cruelty, that she needs to cope. In ‘Transcription,’ Kate Atkinson Delivers a Story of Wartime Espionage 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z Myself, I rarely watch Strictly, partly because I admire good dancing more than I enjoy it, partly because I don't much enjoy the cruelty inherent in watching bad dancing. Gordon Brown and Ann Widdecombe ? two possible paths for politicians post-power 2010-12-06T12:25:00Z The event was an unusual partnership between Lady Gaga and Harvard University in trying to address teen cruelty. Op-Ed Columnist: Born to Not Get Bullied 2012-03-01T04:18:08Z Costanzo’s adaptation allows us to observe everyday cruelty with our own eyes, and it retains its power to shock. HBO’s “My Brilliant Friend” Understands Its Source Material, But Its Diligence Feels Misspent 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z When Elisabeth is diagnosed with a mental illness, the full cruelty of the regime reveals itself: She is sterilized and then murdered in the name of genetic hygiene. ‘Never Look Away’ Review: A Lush Adventure in Sex, Politics and Painting 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z Or a perpetrator of slavery, who didn’t use her power to ensure a permanent end to an institution of dehumanizing cruelty? Discovering Joséphine Bonaparte in Martinique, Italy and France 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z “Bitter Lake” proceeds through unnarrated sections that showcase the violent spectacles, subtle ironies, and intimate acts of cruelty from the most recent Afghan war. The Documentary “Bitter Lake” Remixes the BBC 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z “I don’t do this out of cruelty or the fact that I want to be a jerk,” he explained. Moon-landing conspiracy theorists aren’t all the same. Meet some from the Pacific Northwest. 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z Given the cruelty and violence, slavery and infanticide of the time, as well as the subjugation of women, it is remarkable how closely the modern world follows the patterns the Romans set. What a strange lot 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z It’s the great cautionary horror story of high school cruelty. Theater Review: MCC?s ?Carrie? the Musical at the Lucille Lortel 2012-03-02T03:00:01Z The author is more successful capturing Balanchine’s charm, despite his cruelty. New Books by Sadie Jones, Laurent Binet and More 2012-05-30T21:07:15Z The palace is a petri dish aswarm with familiar pathogens of egoism, cruelty and greed. ‘The Favourite’ Review: Scheming for Power in a Kinky Palace Triangle 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z It leaves me wondering how to maintain a sense of empathy, instead of despair, in a nation that seems to be enacting cruelty all around—and not just around abortion. Why I set my Young Adult novel about abortion in the 1990s 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z He’s written a complex allegory for the tribal cruelties in Iraq in the wake of the American invasion. In ‘Frankenstein in Baghdad,’ a Fantastical Manifestation of War’s Cruelties 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z And there are any number of liberals who find cruelty disturbing but also expedient; an ugly thing to be outsourced, to be pushed out of sight while its persistence is tacitly accepted. New Books Update Our Thinking About Cruelty 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z The 39-year-old rapper was released from jail in May after serving a 90-day sentence for felony convictions including cruelty to animals, theft and two drug counts. Rapper DMX ordered to 6 months in Phoenix jail 2010-03-17T00:28:00Z But during the later parts of the novel, when it touches back down in 2011 and shows Tooly the true nature of all the adults she has known, there are scenes of breathtaking cruelty. ‘The Rise and Fall of Great Powers,’ by Tom Rachman 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z The friendship that develops between Ivo and Ahmed is touching and credible, and seems like a small mercy in the midst of cruelty and hatred. Review: ‘Tangerines’ Is a Tale of War and Honor 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z As he did most famously in “The Passion of the Christ,” he once again plunges a man of peace into a charnel house of cruelty, testing the fortitude of protagonist and audience alike. Review: ‘Hacksaw Ridge’ Has Guts and Glory. But Where’s the Gun? 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z But the incessant gallows humor, cruelty and chaos eventually feel like a surrender to total nihilism. What Does It Mean to Live in Ukraine? Filmmakers Offer Their Answers. 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z After all, one of the hallmarks of the Trump administration — along with a penchant for cruelty and an endless font of self-dealing — was the lying. Perspective | ‘A moment of truth’? After years of Trump’s lies, amplified by MAGA media, that proved impossible for most Republicans 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z Woolf’s own cruelties and limitations are also discussed in some detail, particularly her impatience with her mentally disabled half sister, Laura Stephen, her father’s daughter from his first marriage. Beholding Virginia Woolf Through the Women in Her Life 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z The plunge of the windhover onto its prey suggests not simply the Fall of man and nature, but the descent of a redemptive Christ into the abyss of human misery and cruelty. Poem of the week: The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins 2010-04-05T09:00:00Z We often watch them not to be confronted with the cruelty of history, but to be comforted with redemptive tales of resistance, resilience and heroism. ‘Quo Vadis, Aida?’ Review: Life and Death in Srebrenica 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z These are brilliant programmes, some telling stories from much closer to home – one includes an American army deserter – and all full of stubborn courage, braveness, luck and some jaw-dropping cruelty. Promised Land 2010-08-10T23:04:00Z DNA tests eventually prove the father’s claim is false, but the episode leads Alan and his brother to confront their dad about his lifetime of cruelties toward them–after which, they never see him again. Alan Cumming's Life Was No Cabaret 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z His Bill Gates impression is terrible, and the comedy of his ineptness carries a hint of cruelty. Comedy Highlights of 2017 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z "The petty cruelty involved was just ridiculous," Bruce says. 'Circular 14: The Apotheosis of Aristides' honors the Portuguese Oskar Schindler 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z I hope you also give these kids relief from the casual cruelty dad is teaching. Carolyn Hax: Husband’s defense of son’s verbal abuse far from ‘wonderful’ 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z Nor does the cruelty of American racism come as news — certainly not to Johnny, and not in the Graff household either. ‘Armageddon Time’ Review: Hard Lessons About Life in America 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z They hoisted signs that accused the mushers of cruelty. Alaska's Iditarod race starts with smiles, barks and protests 2018-03-03T05:00:00Z This preoccupation with time — how people weather both the cruelty and the comforts of passing years — has long been a part of Tyler’s work. Anne Tyler’s Latest Heroine Quits Cushy Arizona for Quirky Baltimore 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z Yet if he was repelled by its cruelty, he was also fascinated. ‘Mutiny: Works by Géricault’ Review: Equine Passions and Anxieties 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z The husbands were unrepentant – though not, to judge from their discomfort at the questions Ash put to them about the possible cruelty of their actions, wholly oblivious. This World: Stolen Brides, The Normans, Four Sons Versus Four Daughters 2010-08-12T07:00:00Z But it casts a fierce, revisionist eye on the past, finding the cruelty and prejudice that lie beneath the pageantry. Review: ‘Aferim!’ Traverses an Unforgiving Romania in the 1800s 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Rather than a polemic against the cruelty of whale hunting, this deeply immersive documentary tells of a disappearing way of life, a weather-beaten people who are now buffeted by globalisation – and pollution. 'We were trying not to get hit by their tails' – how I filmed the Faroe whale hunt 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z Later seasons of Big Brother became noted for their cruelty, as producers threw opinionated personalities in the house in the hope that the inevitable conflicts would spell ratings gold. 'I forgot who I was': how Big Brother changed my life 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z The cruelty to fathers is obvious, the cruelty to their children is more insidious. Handel and me 2012-11-30T22:55:12Z He clearly aspires to depict the cruelty that is abundant, and often dominant, in American life. Stephen Markley’s “Ohio”: This year’s “Hillbilly Elegy” of fiction 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z He has labeled his Johnson series, begun soon after the president's death and still going, as a narrative of darkness and light, of the basest cruelty and the noblest achievement. Petraeus affair and the role of biographers 2012-11-14T18:16:03Z She was always thin-skinned, she remembers – not the cliché of the depressive comic, though she has certainly struggled with depression, but instead simply unable to screen out the daily cruelties of life. Julia Davis: laughing in the dark 2012-08-10T22:00:36Z When you’re met with consistent hatred, cruelty, ignorance, and a whole lot of just plain stupidity, it’s hard not to want to return the favor. The LGBT community shows how to take on the haters 2014-03-25T14:14:00Z “You are facing a computer rather than a person, so there is no check on cruelty,” she said. Facebook’s Change of Face 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z The Indians who butcher Eli’s family early in the novel behave with a searing degree of gleeful cruelty — matched only by the atrocities committed by soldiers charged with exterminating them. ‘The Son’: the brutal march of time on the plains of Texas 2013-06-06T20:37:35Z Adolescent boys from different homes and possessing different personalities might react to the same cruelty by deciding that they would never achieve the goals they wished to command. Science doesn’t know everything 2013-06-02T18:00:00Z She did not expand on this, nor did she detail how his cruelty manifested itself. Sylvia Plath in New York: 'pain, parties and work' 2013-02-02T14:00:01Z But in this play, true cruelty has another dimension. Kim Davies’s ‘Smoke’ Explores Power and Desire 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z The narrator comes to suspect that the lieutenant’s true goal is neither to stop the spread of disease nor to suppress the Kurdish Workers’ Party, but cruelty for its own sake. Three New Story Collections Make Place a Protagonist 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z And while a friend would be a good repository for that pain, Charlotte overhears her best friend, Bridget, speaking with shocking cruelty about her to other girls at a table in the school library. In a Newbery Medalist’s Latest Novel, Friends Find Solace in Words 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z What was less predictable, perhaps, was the kerfuffle that preceded the event, with anti-animal cruelty activists Peta accusing the production of maltreating its livestock. Close up: Hobbiton and on 2012-11-29T17:29:00Z Consider: this is a show that has consistently broken the conventional rules of television, from quickly killing off its lead character to repeatedly subjecting children to ghastly cruelties. Is He Really Dead? And Where Does 'Game of Thrones' Stand for Season 6? 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z If ever there was a body of work on intimate terms with cruelty and domination, and steeped in a vision of men as cold-blooded and women as cold-hearted, this is it. The dazed brutality at the heart of Roman Polanski's films 2012-12-28T22:55:16Z In addition to animal cruelty charges, the young man was also charged with disturbing the peace for not abiding by the mask requirements of the newly reopened zoo. Warsaw Zoo moves bears after visitor is filmed entering enclosure, wrestling with one while allegedly drunk 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z The undefined, irresponsible idler with no evil intentions—indeed, hardly any intentions at all—moves through the gleamingly photographed city like a human litmus test, revealing sadness, narrow-mindedness, frustration, and petty cruelty at every turn. Movies 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z It's a quietly unforgettable book about innocence and experience, about memory and cruelty – and the cruelty of memory. Bageye at the Wheel by Colin Grant – review 2012-05-25T21:55:10Z And the allegorical tendencies that marred Losey’s later films are held in check: “The Prowler” functions perfectly both as a gripping genre picture and a portrait of a society twisted by cruelty and greed. DVDs: Visions From 1951, Noir and Psychedelic 2011-02-05T03:33:01Z She also touches on the cruelty involved too. Tulisa sting by The Sun lacks any journalistic merit 2013-06-07T09:38:00Z And he includes some shocking instances of depravity and cruelty perpetrated in the New World in the name of crown and Christ. The new book 'The Other Slavery' will make you rethink American history 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Kindness doesn’t make things better for these parents, of course, and cruelty can’t really make their lot any worse. ‘The Missing,’ on Starz: 8-Year Odyssey to Solve a Mystery 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z He knows what she may never grasp: that despite the cruelty that she and her family endure, he and his people suffer more. White Filmmakers Addressing (or Avoiding) Whiteness Onscreen 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z Romanians are back with another bone-dry, pitch-black comedy—this time bearing a particularly cynical view on happiness, the cruelty of families, and the making of inept television commercials. New Directors/New Films Series Sets Lineup 2010-02-25T17:48:00Z Years later, in the Botanist’s junglelike bedroom, Jones channels Cody’s indifference and cruelty. The Power and Hurt of Growing Up Black and Gay 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z By contrast, working with adults on set was heaven, she says: "Merciful, sweet, sweet relief from the cruelty of being at school." Claire Danes's secret diary 2011-04-01T23:03:12Z I think there’s a distinction between exposing cruelty and being cruel. Todd Solondz: I’m Judd Apatow’s dark side 2012-06-06T00:00:00Z Unscrolled, they read, in plain black type, “ugliness or beauty,” “truth or lies,” “courage or fear,” “kindness or cruelty,” “love or ____.” The space for the last word on the last scroll was left blank. “This Is Pleasure” 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z So is “fixing” something that is largely the consequence of someone else's apparent flair for cruelty. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Grudge over the wedding-day seating chart enters Year 8, and counting 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z Opposed to what she sees as the inherent cruelty of the halal process in killing animals, she has made anti-Muslim comments for which she was condemned by French courts and made to pay hefty fines. Brigitte Bardot at 80: still outrageous, outspoken and controversial 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z There is a certain type of comedian, thankfully a tiny minority, who believes that finding the humour in disability requires reliance on stereotypical cruelty. Getting a laugh out of disability 2010-04-28T12:00:00Z We don’t want them to be cruel unless the cruelty is directed at someone who clearly deserves it. When Mothers Bully Back 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z The men and their cruelties fade into the peripheries. In This Novel, the Fate of an Indian Slum Is in the Hands of Its Women 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z In its first 100 pages, in scenes in Bosnia during the war from 1992-95, and 10 years later in London and Thailand, terrible cruelties are visited on a variety of animals. Former journalist David Savill's fiction debut, ‘They are Trying to Break Your Heart', is searing 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z The reader doesn’t just look at Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy, and Snoopy but reads them as musical notes in a silently heard composition of hilarity, cruelty, and occasional melancholy. The Debt That All Cartoonists Owe to “Peanuts” 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z These cruelties and others serve as the evidence against Naritsugu, justifying the ensuing violence that will wash blood away with blood. | '13 Assassins': Swords Drip Red With Revenge 2011-04-28T21:47:36Z “And the fact that it isn’t is a stark reminder of the cruelty of Putin and his regime.” At Eurovision, Ukrainians Find Community Far From Home 2023-05-13T04:00:00Z Lionel is the little guy who sticks his nose where it doesn’t belong and sniffs out the corruption of the big shots — the racism, petty cruelty and sexual depravity underneath the grand conspiracies. ‘Motherless Brooklyn’ Review: Edward Norton Fights the Power Broker 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z It’s bringing to light a cruelty few of us would even want to imagine, expose it and crush it for good. The dark world of animal “crush” films 2014-04-18T19:36:00Z Hollywood has a lot to answer for: what romantic comedy doesn’t teach us that the swiftest route to true love is with someone who treats you with indifference and cruelty? I'm a gay French man looking for love – but app users just want sex 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z This role needed an actress with mystery, and danger, and heat -- somebody who could suggest hidden hunger, opportunism, kinkiness and cruelty; a touch of the film noir heroine, perhaps, or the Hitchcock blonde. Sarah Michelle Gellar flounders in a bland new drama 2011-09-13T15:03:00Z He wrote: “Armstrong demonstrates again and again that the great spasms of cruelty and killing through history have had little or no religious overlay.” The Blame Game: Karen Armstrong Talks About 'Fields of Blood' 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z And HBO’s “Sharp Objects” explores a family’s inheritance of cruelty and violence, following the murders of teenage girls. A wave of recent TV series focus on child deaths. Is it all too morbid — or a sign of our times? 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z For someone like “Seinfeld’s” George, constantly at odds with the cruelty of fate, the universe seemed to nastily avenge itself upon his bald head. Breaking bald 2012-07-24T18:30:00Z This harshly lighted theater of cruelty is the dramatic heart of “Monday Mornings.” Television Review: ‘Do No Harm’ on NBC, and ‘Monday Mornings’ on TNT 2013-01-30T22:51:11Z This show depends on antagonism, but maybe it’s looking for cruelty in the wrong place. Television Review: ?Don?t Trust the B???? in Apartment 23? on ABC 2012-04-10T22:15:25Z At least the boss – played by the excellent Stephen Dillane – was filmed standing with his back to the camera when he uttered that line, presumably to avoid the cruelty of maintaining a straight face. Rewind TV: Hunted; Monroe; Arena: The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour; Best Possible Taste: the Kenny Everett Story; Exposure: the Other Side of Jimmy Savile; Welcome to India – review 2012-10-06T23:05:46Z Imagining cruelties for women, though, is not the business we’re in. 'The Handmaid’s Tale’ Showrunner Bruce Miller on the Season 1 Finale 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z Just the opposite: he presents them as complex individuals who know kindness from cruelty and right from wrong. Read “Guantánamo Diary” 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z But to Leland, the scene, with its thoughtless cruelty, had loomed much larger — something Gurton-Wachter only realized when she read the book. What Does it Mean to be Blind? A Writer Chronicles The Loss of His Vision 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z As Sigourney falls increasingly under Eden’s spell, she may find herself embroiled in an arcane “experiment” of unprecedented cruelty. A compelling experiment in 'Boxes' by Theatre West 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Lower-caste members are dehumanized and stigmatized, kept in their place through cruelty and terror, and forbidden to intermarry with members of the higher castes. What Do America’s Racial Problems Have in Common With India and Nazi Germany? 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z “The intelligence is warm, with a touch of cruelty to keep you alert. Easy to imagine women falling in love with him. His pillow talk is probably an enchantment — funny, obscene, fond.” Perspective | Conversation over video is maddening. So take a lesson from literature’s great dialogue writers. 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z Along the way there’s a little violence, more than a little marital hostility, a flourish of swordplay, and a toddler whose cruelty is met with swift surreal punishment. My children are hooked on Faulkner! 2012-12-03T20:30:00Z The most egregious and vicious exhibition of cruelty and despondency from the CPD involved former commander Jon Burge, who routinely ordered his officers to torture black men in the elicitation of false confessions. The absurd outrage over Jussie Smollett 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z A lifetime of cruelty from his father, Tywin, including a fixed murder trial last season, culminated in crossbow patricide in the Season 4 finale. 'Game of Thrones' Season 5: A Primer 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Seated on some drum thrones, they used the setting to riff on the themes of the movie — creativity, how to fuel artistic genius, the line between criticism and cruelty. 'Whiplash' director, stars march to a friendly beat — off-screen 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z We learn most about these characters in song, and from a furtive glance, a grimace of disgust, a small act of kindness, courage or cruelty. 'Pullman Porter Blues' carries pungent blues and heavy melodrama 2012-10-05T20:06:04Z One of the cruelties of addiction is the way it strips away individuality, making all addicts’ stories the same. ‘Ben Is Back’ Review: A Mother and Son Face the Horrors of Addiction 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z The cruelty of others kept them from the road: “Ever since he was born, our lives, my wife’s, mine, bent around him like a shield.” A Dying Father, His Son and One Last Road Trip 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z And yet revisiting that litany of betrayals and cruelties never fails to stir my spirits. The Icelandic Saga That Keeps Rita Dove Coming Back for More 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z There is the strange cruelty of sitting on my living room couch and watching a funeral on a screen. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: ‘My Madness Will Now Bare Itself’ 2021-05-09T04:00:00Z Set against a harsh, barren landscape, “Xenos” presents a bleak view of humanity, and the hour-long excursion into the darkest corners of cruelty and despair hits you viscerally, often uncomfortably. Review | Akram Khan delivers a powerful indictment of war in ‘Xenos’ at the Kennedy Center 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z Burden's grueling performance art thrummed with humanity's endless enthusiasm for cruelty and pain, which he absorbed into his own body. Chris Burden's 'Ode to Santos Dumont' inspires wonder, delight 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z I was angered by hypocrisy and cruelty; what I did about it was apply a level of scrutiny that left no room for error. My Year of Grief and Cancellation 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z “So little gold existed in Hispaniola that the island turned into a massive killing field. The Arawaks eventually took to mass suicide and infanticide to escape the cruelty of the Spaniards.” Waking from the John Wayne dream: Columbus and Jackson are dead, but America’s war against Indigenous people lives on 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Rather the Widows are this man's tools for violence, expendable weapons to be thrown at any number of dangerous situations, exposed to extreme violence and cruelty, without care. “Black Widow” challenges treatment of women without biological families as disposable 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z This level of injustice and cruelty can manifest itself in people who have suffered a great deal from its same destructiveness too. That Lizzo lawsuit reminds us that even our progressive faves can be a disappointing letdown too 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z Another examines the senseless toll that certain programs are taking on immigrants and asylum seekers prevented from reuniting with their families purely out of spite and cruelty. "Where are the good Americans?": "Immigration Nation" brings systemic exploitation to our TVs 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z Lara was a committed vegetarian from the age of five, preferring not to endorse any sort of cruelty to living things. Lara Jones obituary 2010-04-22T17:21:00Z And so, we’ve gone down this terrible rabbit hole of incarceration, constantly exploring the cold depths of our own cruelty. An innocent man on death row makes me a gift: How hope persists despite the odds 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z In fact, Kudrow believes the uneasy reception the show met when it was first aired came from the discomfort male viewers experienced watching so raw a depiction of male-on-female cruelty. Lisa Kudrow on The Comeback’s groundbreaking satire 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z There are people for whom he was their first or only black friend, who staged an intervention with Talley about his weight but remained silent when he was the object of cruelty. Anna Wintour Is Not the Star of André Leon Talley’s Memoir. He Is. 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z And despite a witty use of miniaturist scale, cruelty and loss run through the work. 24 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Given this filmography, she isn’t necessarily the first person you’d think would produce an informative, emotionally charged documentary about animal cruelty and the people who are trying to stop it. Review: In ‘Love & Bananas,’ Uncovering the Plight of the Asian Elephant 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z There is no hint, at least in the first episode, of horse racing’s negative aspects: drugging, animal cruelty, gambling addiction and so on. Television Review: ‘Horseplayers’ on Esquire Network Follows High Rollers 2014-01-20T22:25:15Z The way he describes the pain and the pleasures of social moments; he is so alive to beauty, and to cruelty. Rachel Kushner: 'I know what it feels like to crash a motorcycle at 140mph' 2013-06-08T23:05:01Z They deserve no respect, and any cruelty or indignity inflicted against them in our cultural messaging is richly deserved. Watching Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" in the Trump era 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Groves conveyed the king’s mix of insecurity and cruelty, and delivered the essential recitative with urgency. Music Review: One Cruel King, by Way of Vivaldi 2011-08-10T22:00:40Z Sexism, racism, anti-Semitism and human cruelty in general are all satirized. "History of the World, Part 1" turns 40, and it's still good to be Mel Brooks 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z He called himself a “truth detector” and “harmless, lovable little fuzz ball” but often trafficked in lies and conspiracies with contempt for his opposition that often veered into cruelty. Rush Limbaugh, ‘voice of American conservatism,’ has died 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z This downward spiral into insecurity and cruelty comes to a head in the last shocking moments of the episode, which is preceded by hints of Nate's true feelings. The many betrayals of "Ted Lasso" 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z Look at Michael Vick, who after imprisonment for his role in a dog-fighting ring, has spent the last few years speaking out about animal cruelty and volunteering with the Humane Society. Mike Tyson’s gross comeback 2012-06-28T12:15:00Z "Though rich in detail, it's a sparely written story, with the narrator's odd small cruelties, laconic humour and surprising tendernesses emerging through a steady, well-paced, unaffected style," said the judges. Dutch gardener reaps Impac prize 2010-06-17T18:30:00Z In the novel, her character has a more bizarre appearance and the book has a dreamy, haunted quality, along with moments of shocking cruelty. Review | Let’s talk about ‘Starship Troopers’ and other science fiction and fantasy novels that wowed us on screen 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z It restored the equilibrium of cruelty in their relationship. The 50 best TV shows of 2019: No 9 – Catastrophe 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z We have a duty to speak out clearly wherever we encounter injustice, cruelty or corruption — be it religious or secular — but we should do so dispassionately, accurately and fairly. The Blame Game: Karen Armstrong Talks About 'Fields of Blood' 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z And while the chill and the beautiful can each help listeners cope with the cruelty of this world, they aren’t the same thing. Perspective | Joshua Abrams and Natural Information Society — beautiful music, ugly times 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z After returning to California, Monroe filed for divorce from the baseball player on grounds of “mental cruelty” following a violent fight at their hotel after the shoot. 'That silly little dress': the story behind Marilyn Monroe's iconic scene 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z SP: Comedy is just a part of the generally raised level of cruelty in the media. A laughing matter: Comedians Steve Punt and Shappi Khorsandi debate whether comedy is too cruel 2011-01-22T08:31:01Z In dialogue of a painful and self-diagnostic frankness, Welles looks at Jake’s fusion of creation and destruction, suffering and cruelty, frustration and wrath. “The Other Side of the Wind,” Reviewed: A Belated Orson Welles Masterpiece 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z “The cruelty is the point” is that story’s headline, and it became a recurring refrain on social media, accompanying the sharing of stories representing new lows in morality. What happened to Dave Chappelle: The cruelty of "Sticks & Stones" is a sign of the times 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z It received 1,805 complaints about animal cruelty and endorsing criminal behaviour. Big Brother tops TV complaints list 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z As for Bond, at one point his superiors discuss his advancing years with such unrelenting cruelty, it's like a roast of Bruce Forsyth. Q: What do Skyfall, The Dark Knight Rises and a hamburger have in common? A: See below 2012-12-09T19:59:01Z The fact that Chad Deity is meant to be a bad wrestler just adds to the cruelty of the system: This is no meritocracy. From a Wrestling Ring to Tiny Boxes: How ‘Chad Deity’ Went Zoom 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z The depiction of the disease’s cruelty is unflinching. Review: ‘It’s a Sin’ Tells the Stories That Were and Could Have Been 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z But we’ve recently been jolted into fresh accountings of its cruelty—like, say, this new rendering of a college football player’s brain bouncing about his cranial cavity after he was slammed to the ground. Lady Gaga’s All-American Super Bowl Halftime Show 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z Several times Mr. Rux repeats a quotation from Einstein describing the act of making art as a blend of “cruelty and assassination.” Review: In ‘The Exalted,’ Puzzling Stories Inspired by a Rich Life Cut Short 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z |
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