At the same time random cruelty inflicted by the captors on the captives decreased: such behaviour was now considered inappropriate in an institution which valued trudosposobnost - 'the capacity to work' - above all.

The AIDS body count mounts in "Reg," with random cruelty, yet the show skirts pathos and melodrama.

Patrick Seale, Abu Nidal's biographer, wrote of the attacks that their "random cruelty marked them as typical Abu Nidal operations."

It was a hard place full of random cruelty, a truth that always brought him to question God.

Receding into the mists of history were the bloody millions-dead purges of a Stalin and the random cruelties of a Khrushchev.

Azhrarn's role in the series varies between protagonist and worker of random cruelty.

Mogaba did not need to be reminded that the Year of the Skulls would be an atrocity far huger than any of Soulcatcher's random cruelties.

Ah, the propinquity of cheap life and expensive principles, of religion and banditry, of surprising honour and random cruelty.

If he punishes them, it is usually an act of random cruelty rather than for any real purpose.

No more of the savage random cruelty that kept us all so scared.