The trouble was increased by a strain of sheer cruelty which occurred even in the most tender-hearted.

Harassment of people with disabilities takes different forms, but it can sometimes be a matter of sheer cruelty.

It was sheer cruelty to include him in the fate that was gathering out of the night for her.

For the sake of the labourers; it would be sheer cruelty to afflict them with excessive leisure.

I also learned that children could rival Malcolm for sheer malicious cruelty.

Cassandra did not think that her aunt had taken the material she had loved and made it her own out of sheer cruelty.

It had been sheer cruelty to bring her on this voyage, he reflected again.

Not only for her loss, which was enormous, but for the sheer cruelty of the act.

Ethics are always a subjective thing, but the sheer cruelty exhibited toward the Indian people seems hard to deny.

Dismiss the sheer cruelty of what he had done to her as though it were nothing?