Learning to Cry The fight began with a simple but cruel taunt.

It was a cruel if unintentional taunt.

The cruel taunt was more than hunger and cold and nakedness.

All those cruel taunts, and the way he kept trying to frighten Ryan under the guise of "making the boy tough."

Italian families with enemies began finding axes and chisels dropped in their yards, more like cruel taunts than actual threats.

He said they won't have to endure cruel taunts from other children.

But the children's peers have no such qualms: fat children are still subject to cruel taunts.

There was a cruel taunt in his voice that cut her to the quick.

The stations of the cross are essentially familiar: the cruel taunts from the neighborhood boys, the disapproving relatives, the denial.

Alvarro's hoarse voice came as a cruel taunt.