She'd just reached the Oracle when a different voice came from it, a cold voice, full of cruel indifference.

One was a cruel indifference to the working poor that led, despite all the talk about the social "safety net," to rising levels of poverty.

Together with their addiction to killing birds, they have inherited from their ancestors a cruel indifference to the fate of any animal, even that of a much-loved pet.

When the whole miserable business was accomplished, I was just like a trapped animal inside a cage, held captive by immovable bars of obstinate silence and cruel indifference.

Silence fell again, more or less; birds sang with cruel indifference, and insects burrowed and bit.

Despite the upbeat ending of "The Perfect Storm," what lingers is a sense of the cruel indifference of nature.

She saw him; the profile of darkness smiled an invitation... The cruel indifference of her smile... She beckoned.

Some goddess had punished him for his cruel indifference to Echo and other nymphs who had loved him.

That one shrieking moment unmasked the cruel indifference of my universe.

Sometimes, in the years to follow, despite his cruel indifference, she'd caught that same look in his eyes when he thought she wasn't watching.