"It's easy to come up with fictional cruelties, and especially with perverse cruelties towards women, then it just turns into pornography," creator Bruce Miller said at a TCA conference.
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But Whiteside never expected the small cruelties from other people.
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Why end the practice altogether when the cruelties can be eliminated?
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They are good at pointing to Trump's cruelties, especially toward immigrants.
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O takes these cruelties and perverts them for her own edification.
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The worst cruelties are those imposed in pursuit of elusive targets.
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Imagining cruelties for women, though, is not the business we're in.
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Especially if those inequities are not built on the cruelties of history.
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We don't ever make up cruelties, because that just seems like pornography.
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After the cruelties of chemo, she was subjected to "debulking" — surgical evisceration.
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And fate's cruelties are relentless; these are sad lives, one and all.
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In the past, Daenerys's cruelties have had a sort of logic to them.
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The accounts of murders and punishments and random cruelties are chilling and unsparing.
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" Pikin the baby gorilla found herself in the middle of one of this "cruelties.
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Others found a rich vein of humor in the parade of obscenities and cruelties.
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It's a book about religion and its tribal cruelties, and it bears bad tidings.
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So when I hear of cruelties like what happened in Florida, I don't get afraid.
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And they'll find that some of the time-honored cruelties of competitions have been dropped.
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Too many are aware of Ramsay's true nature: his various crimes and cruelties to women.
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He positions himself as a respite from the more obvious cruelties inflicted by Serena Joy.
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I do what I can to show cruelties, the subtle and the not so subtle.
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Nobly, naively or both, Elwood thinks it is his duty to resist the rackets and cruelties.
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And if his latest move creates yet new cruelties, those will be on his head, too.
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But botched injections are not the only ways in which we pile cruelties on the condemned.
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Catastrophes are accompanied by life's cruelties: The true love turns out to be the incestuous one.
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The huge protests against him in London proved people are following the cruelties of the Trump administration.
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But one of the banal cruelties of the E.U. is that it has a rule for everything.
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While he wrote deftly of life's cruelties, Mr. Murray also captured the joys of his Australian experience.
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But the puritanical punishments and cruelties ISIS inflicted soon made the group a feared and unwelcome overlord.
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The cruelties of the wars had exposed the simplistic wholesomeness of good and evil middle-class morality.
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What cruelties would I accept, or even defend, if the gods literally decreed it necessary for human survival?
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It hurts my parents to learn, years later, some of the cruelties they thought were unfamiliar to me.
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He produced an eye-opening, five-part account of the daily cruelties visited on everyone in the system.
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We must not repeat the same mistakes, or commit the same cruelties that were done in the past.
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These ordinary cruelties might not make for riveting journalism, but they make for a rich and revealing memoir.
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He's written a complex allegory for the tribal cruelties in Iraq in the wake of the American invasion.
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One of the cruelties of global warming is that it threatens humanity's past as well as its future.
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With their missionary experience, and a fast-growing Latino membership, Mormons are appalled at Trump's anti-immigrant cruelties.
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The book is a major achievement, a compassionate tale about the cruelties of twenty-first-century immigrant life.
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The meat industry is littered with small, cost-of-doing-business cruelties that are invisible to most consumers.
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While I personally disagree (Oberyn's death leads to a more direct comeuppance for Tywin, the show's biggest villain), Game of Thrones was established as a show that, while technically top-tier, existed primarily to inflict cruelties upon its characters and viewers alike, even if those cruelties have never looked better.
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The flow of asylum seekers from Central America has not noticeably abated even during the administration's imposition of cruelties.
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" Mozilla COO Denelle Dixon: "The cruelties Americans are witnessing today at our borders go far beyond disagreements over politics.
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Even as he inflicted grotesque cruelties on her, he explained that what he was doing was just and righteous.
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Joy Williams: It's human beings who are unknowable—who can fathom or explain their cruelties and narcissism and nihilism?
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You witnessed kindnesses and cruelties, you built a world entire based on the happenings in a few square miles.
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One of the cruelties of addiction is the way it strips away individuality, making all addicts' stories the same.
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Susan's world, for instance, comes across as far more artificial than Tony's does, with its cruelties, dust and blood.
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Tinguely's work, while riffing on that of Alexander Calder, is full of dark deviations, destructive redundancies, and repeated cruelties.
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These are neither paintings of the overbearing cruelties of war, nor do they glorify any particular aspect of it.
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She lets the spite and ugly cruelties of Pappy—her father-in-law with KKK affiliations—go unchecked and unremarked.
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But will they still be our favorite, lovable characters if they commit the same cruelties and atrocities as their enemies?
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Styles is untethered to the cruelties of the world, floating into the sky, chasing waterfalls, and sprinting across the ocean.
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Although Sontag, like Benjamin, was never reconciled to the cruelties of capitalist society, she felt betrayed by its looming alternative.
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I approached this as, that the more significant factor here, beyond policy, was buffoonery, psychopathology, random and ad hominem cruelties.
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And that remaining bit of Gregor had to pay for all his cruelties, which included killing a man for snoring.
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So policymakers are therefore obliged to choose tolerable cruelties over the intolerable one that we're witnessing in action right now.
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One of the particular cruelties of a cancer of the tongue is its capacity to deprive a person of speech.
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Is it any surprise that human beings capable of such cruelties would in turn exhibit this kind of malice on Facebook?
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Under the aegis of art, they stage scenarios, all too realistic, that make visible the quiet cruelties of the political process.
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Today you can see a production of "One Brief Shining Moment / Deliberate Cruelties," which explores the life of a child actor.
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Does being a tourist here mean that one is contributing to the cruelties heaped upon the Rohingya and other ethnic groups?
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The journey touches on some heavy subjects: sexual abuse, neglect (particularly by Scrooge's father, played by Johnny Harris) and other cruelties.
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The statistical story of American gun violence is less about "active shooters" and "sheepdogs" than about impulses and cruelties of fate.
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But one of the cruelties of drug pricing is that the burden falls most heavily on those least able to pay it.
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But all his novels, Mr. Kertesz acknowledged, were inspired either directly or indirectly by the insanities and cruelties of the concentration camps.
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But while the book is as funny as it is insightful, Wright doesn't sugarcoat the sometimes unthinkable cruelties her subjects carried out.
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Ho Chi Minh, often romanticized as an amiable nationalist, was in fact a merciless despot who inflicted "systemic cruelties" on his people.
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Yet Forna's finely structured novel powerfully succeeds on a more intimate scale as its humane characters try to navigate scorching everyday cruelties.
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And her struggles are an eloquent reminder that even without outright tragedy, childhood is filled with challenges, cruelties and opportunities for courage.
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Her life was never far from the blatant cruelties of American slavery: constant sexual abuse, poor living conditions, abrupt and devastating familial separation.
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Where their Black Mirror predecessors surrendered to the basest cruelties their future tech encourages, these characters rise above it, choosing their better natures.
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When enraged Southerners demanded the return of their "absconded" property, the cruelties and indignities of slavery were revealed to Northerners as never before.
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His perplexity echoed the alarming state of denial he often displayed when questioned about the gut-wrenching cruelties committed by Bosnian Serb forces.
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A century ago, you could buy a living lizard lapel pin, one of a wide variety of domestic cruelties once inflicted on reptiles.
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Burke may have protested against the cruelties of slavery and imperial domination, but there have been plenty of conservatives who defended these practices.
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On the album, most songs are preoccupied with taking a stand against the casual cruelties of the music business — Simpson is the warrior.
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Trying to cut contributions to a beloved private organization is bad optics and a testimony to the petty cruelties of the Trump administration.
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And maybe, without overlooking or forgetting about Wharton's blind spots, we'd be able to appreciate the riches she had to offer — her aphoristic wit; her astonishingly well-wrought sentences; her subtle sense of how moral strength and weakness coexist in each of us; her criticisms of the cruelties of her historical moment, which are not unlike the cruelties of ours.
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"It was just something I could do," he said of his measure, which prohibited long periods of isolation in cages and other mental cruelties.
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For Mr Cantú, this wall is broken down when an undocumented friend is detained by the Border Patrol and subjected to its casual cruelties.
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But to live as an artist in the world is to experience the truth of its cruelties and uglinesses, its illusions and self-deceptions.
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Astrid vividly recounts the sadism of her father, who, among other cruelties, demanded that his children finish every bit of food on their plates.
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Shooting in Poland and Germany in knife-edged black and white, the cinematographer, Florian Ballhaus, adds uncomfortable visual heat to Herold's ice-cold cruelties.
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President Trump rained cruelties on immigrants and asylum seekers and now wants hundreds of millions of dollars to address the humanitarian crisis he caused.
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For Sansa, like Dany, has been forged by the cruelties that men do, and has survived because of a belief in herself and her name.
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What I experienced would be minor in comparison with the cruelties that could be inflicted by someone willing to exploit the internet without moral limits.
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The most harrowing scenes in this series — degradations and cruelties both physical and psychological — are blunt reminders of why race-based hatred remains so entrenched.
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But we should harness that rightful outrage and oppose all violations of women's bodies -- including those extreme misogynist cruelties done in the name of "life."
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When it's finished, we turn back to the place where horror is still alive, mutating, unstyled and hideously, sadistically inventive in its cruelties: the news.
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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.
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Whichever Democrat ends up challenging Mr. Trump for the presidency would be right to call for fundamental change from the cruelties of the current administration.
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As a Jewish man whose family escaped Nazi Germany, he learned about the cruelties of racism through his family's stories of fleeing discrimination, he said.
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What follows is no surprise to viewers familiar with this frequently adapted Greek play: an unrelenting parade of dishonesties and cruelties followed, gruesomely, by blood.
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For we live in a time when language has been weaponized for high crimes and petty cruelties, while neutralized when it should state the obvious.
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Beyond chronicling the cruelties and pressures of high school's caste system (certainly pretty well-worn territory), "13 Reasons" unwraps a series of escalating incidents and consequences.
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It captures the symbiosis of the two figures—the mutual cruelties of wayward offspring and remiss parent—and an eternal truth about neglect and its sequel.
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Buried in DNA, the researchers found the marks of slavery's cruelties, including further evidence that white slave owners routinely fathered children with women held as slaves.
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But this strategy fails to take into account the complex cruelties of colonialism and the predatory nature of the regimes that have developed in its place.
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Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot.
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Rick sees his son's unbothered preparations as not inspiring but devastating, a sign that he has insufficiently shielded Carl from the cruelties of their new world.
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"Wooden Clogs," populated by real-life farmers and agricultural laborers rather than actors, has been accused of taking a nostalgic view of the cruelties of feudalism.
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Roem, a Democrat, let his cruelties roll off her, went back to knocking on doors, defined her common ground with fellow Virginians and planted herself there.
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Our movie critics loved "Mudbound," about the daily cruelties of post-World War II Mississippi, and "Wonder," about a boy who is inspirational in his differences.
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In this account Trumpism, with its tariffs and walls and family-separating cruelties, is simply a rejection of the politics of liberty, an anti-libertarian moment.
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Some were guarded at first, then spoke of crimes or cruelties that the grown-ups in their lives had brought upon them or made them do.
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Martina Stephany, director of the Farm Animals and Nutrition department at Four Paws, said that the overturned ship highlighted the cruelties of the animal transportation business.
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If anything, Spero knew the course of empire, and she would recognize the moment when its outward-facing cruelties turn into a cruel joke on itself.
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"These cruelties and brutalities they're teaching are all against the teachings of Islam," he says when asked about the actions of ISIS, Boko Haram, and al Shabaab.
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Eleanor & Park is a romance novel about two misfits who become friends, fall in love, and endure the cruelties of the world: abusive parents, poverty, and bullying.
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Or better yet, look to the shockingly well-preserved site for another movie, Space Jam, an internet time capsule that has famously defied the cruelties of time.
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The birthplace of a national scandal, Posto da Torre is also a stage where the cruelties of Brazil's economic crisis and political paralysis are on full display.
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Disheartened by the progress of his career, Conrad allows himself to become involved with an animal-rights activist who wants to expose the cruelties of his research.
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Between warnings of livestock's contributions to climate change and environmental degradation and increasing public awareness of the cruelties of factory farming, meatless tech is on the rise.
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The time in our lives we were so happy to leave behind — the time cruelties were experienced with an especial intensity — we are living all over again.
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He's a character who reaches deep into the psyche: we may not forgive him his cruelties, but we find it hard to question his right to rule.
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It's very easy to slip into a version of violent pornography when you're just coming up with cruelties, and we certainly don't want to fall down that road.
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And here, Scott, his doctor Bob and the put-upon lesbian couple eventually form a little pod of affection in a town that can wound through tiny cruelties.
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Mattie Johnson, Anthony's grandmother, moved to Los Angeles in 1964 — a year before the Watts riots — hoping to escape the cruelties of segregation and racism in Birmingham, Ala.
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Over four gruesome years, ISIS swallowed up large areas of Iraq and Syria, taking control of oil fields and using beheadings, rapes and other cruelties to terrorize populations.
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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.
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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.
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Building a complex world that's still rife with the cruelties of the real one we all inhabit, Jemisin's book serves as an engrossing warning sign for our future.
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As our reviewer, Melanie Finn, put it, "Forna's finely structured novel powerfully succeeds on a more intimate scale as its humane characters try to navigate scorching everyday cruelties."
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"Far from attacking Muslims, I understand -- as perhaps you do not -- that Muslims themselves are the prime victims of the oppressive cruelties of Islamism, especially Muslim women," Dawkins continued.
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Among the cruelties of popular political history is that almost everyone below the level of President winds up being forgotten, and one-term Presidents are usually remembered as failures.
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The movie's version of the event continues with Crawford inflicting further cruelties in a state of theatrical, self-dramatizing possession—emphasized by her Kabuki-like mask of cold cream.
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During our conversation, we raised the instance of The Walking Dead's Clementine having to say goodbye to Lee, the one friend who had protected her from the world's cruelties.
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Here, Mr. Trump deserves much of the credit: So far, the reaction against his authoritarian impulses, assault on truth and cruelties great and petty has revealed abiding American strengths.
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The monumental impact of his survivors' strength, who delivered excruciating testimonies and withstood the cruelties of the courtroom and the public with no promise of fairness, can't be overstated.
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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.
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Be generous That said, even if you avoid mass oppression and strife, even the "best" autocrats trigger countless low-grade petty cruelties that ruin double handfuls of lives every day.
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Smith's poetry is about the shared human search—for justice, for remembrance, for national identity, or for the perfect Bowie song—amidst the cruelties of history and life's unforgiving absurdities.
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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.
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But for now, and for many scientists, the research in epigenetics falls well short of demonstrating that past human cruelties affect our physiology today, in any predictable or consistent way.
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Though she was hardly the first person in America to succumb to the cruelties of its private insurance system, she was the first whose death Potter had to answer for.
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The cruelties inside the police state, often reported by defectors, led to news reports speculating that the North Korean leader may have had his uncle torn apart by ravenous dogs.
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The brutality he witnessed in the Caribbean—a plantation manager taking a machete to the shoulder of a rebellious worker—left him with a lasting revulsion toward the cruelties of imperialism.
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The New York Times, which had a correspondent in Beijing, reported the widespread fervor of the colonized, the "barbarous cruelties" of the colonial authorities and the simmering tensions across the peninsula.
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That vision, every bit as merciless as the cruelties catalogued in de Sade's fictions, isolates the human against vast, encumbering space — helpless subjects evaporating at the whim of an indifferent Creator.
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In this work, which has been revised after previous versions unveiled at festivals in 2016, Ms. Bullock probes the cruelties and constraints that molded Baker and continue to afflict black artists.
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What if 100m or more people marched around the world in protest at what it is we now see: the ineptitude, selfishness, the cruelties and the threats to our collective well-being?
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In moments that are shot from his point of view, June has a tendency to become a beautiful object on whose body cruelties are enacted, and her suffering becomes elegant and erotic.
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The reader can't help noting that this must have been a hard act for Nadja to follow: Fat-shaming and other mother-daughter cruelties look small next to the horrors of genocide.
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But those same rural communities, clinging to their own languages and cultures, still sting with resentment against the Sandinista government over wartime cruelties that were supposed to have been resolved decades ago.
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She described a nation in the grip of a dark remorse for freeing black Americans from slavery, and condemned white Americans for cruelties that violated their own commitment to the democratic project.
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The sequence is exquisitely outlined in the HBO series "The Night Of," which looked at the undoing of an innocent man as he awaited trial amid the baroque cruelties of Rikers Island.
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"Looking upon that cruelty, in that concentration camp, I thought immediately of the cruelties of today, which are similar: not as concentrated as in that place, but everywhere in the world," he said.
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For some, the NCAA tournament is a time of jubilee: all basketball everything for two weeks, with 64 teams fighting each other and the cruelties of chance for a shot at the championship.
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Mr Hoock, a German-born historian, is dispassionate as he records cruelties not only by the British, but also by the Americans who fought on opposing sides as Loyalists and as pro-independence Patriots.
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Whether that's because of logistics, finances, the cruelties of fate, or the ascension of an incompetent racist nightmare tearing your family into factions, your best friends, Marvel and Coca-Cola, would like to help.
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It's hard to believe I used to wander around this city, subway map in hand, completely unaware that people were using sleek little rectangles to absolutely bludgeon each other with subtle but pointed cruelties.
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Dozens of bodies were extracted from rivers and lakes in the vicinity, but East German propaganda generally covered up the story, just as it concealed the Soviet cruelties which pushed many to self-annihilation.
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Her third novel, " Americanah ," which would win the National Book Critics Circle Award, would be larger still, describing the disorientation, release, and cruelties experienced by young Nigerians abroad, and their outsiders' dissection of America.
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They were still owned by a sucking black hole of a man, of course, and subject to his tossed-off cruelties and imbecilic whims; it was not in Brand's power to fire the boss.
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Keep the infrastructure promises and drop the birther forays; pursue E-Verify but forgo the child-separating cruelties; be tough on China but stop vilifying black athletes; embrace nationalism but stiff-arm Confederate nostalgia.
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It was 2017 and the violence that had defined the city during her childhood on the Upper West Side had long since given way to the quieter cruelties born of greed rather than desperation.
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One of the best things about this premiere is the way it redraws the battle lines to make this a show more about the meaningful movements of armies, rather than the petty cruelties of individuals.
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It would be great if that were the point — a commentary on modern TV and what keeps us watching — but TWD is carrying on as if it's gifting something honest instead of doling out cruelties.
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I argued in mid-December that Democrats should drop all talk of bipartisanship until Republicans reached out first—especially since Trump hadn't repudiated the racism, sexism, xenophobia, and other assorted cruelties of his presidential campaign.
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To have a mainstream film even begin to address these pressures and cruelties seems big, when most movies just show perfectly thin, attractive and very wealthy people as if anyone else were abnormal or nonexistent.
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It is a response to the cruelties of the "rational" world, a world where, as CAConrad recounts it, in 1998 the poet's boyfriend was bound, gagged, tortured, raped, doused in gasoline and set on fire.
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I thought we might start with an unexpected source of Democratic anxiety: Hispanic voters, who despite all of Donald Trump's border cruelties don't appear to be turning against Republicans to the degree that liberals expected.
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It's the individual human beings who have been failed by the system, and the often already-poor families who are devastated even further by loved ones caught up in the cruelties of a vast enterprise.
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To fund huge tax cuts for businesses, the bill also includes a number of careless cruelties aimed at the families of Americans with chronic illnesses and disabilities, children in cash strapped schools, and even orphans.
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I'm targeting a sort of person who thinks believing in religion has never really been an option and who isn't particularly interested in attacking religion, declaring it stupid, seeing its errors and flaws and cruelties.
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Museums are repositories of paintings and sculptures of people who committed unbelievable cruelties in earlier days (how many slaves died building the tombs of the pharaohs whose likenesses we admire at the Metropolitan Museum of Art)?
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After space pirates capture the passenger ship Craig is traveling on, he is sold into slavery on a planet called Kossar, a human colony run by seven oligarchs who delight in performing cruelties on their captives.
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The life that Ms. Field reveals over the course of "In Pieces" is one that has been darkened by abuses and cruelties that are frustratingly commonplace for women, both inside and out of the entertainment industry.
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I'm firmly in Sansa's camp in this spat, and she is correct that for all of the horrors Arya has endured, she can't grasp the sort of cruelties that have been inflicted upon her older sister.
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The comedy and cruelties are nicely balanced, too, with an especially piquant contrast between Geraint Wyn Davies's Sir Toby Belch — the best and funniest Shakespeare roué I've encountered — and the scarily dour Malvolio of Rod Beattie.
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At a time when the treatment of women in Hollywood is under scrutiny, all this is an effective reminder that the cruelties of show business are not a recent phenomenon so much as a founding principle.
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Other writers have used magic realism as a way, if not to make sense of the cruelties inflicted by the powerful on the powerless, at least to assert the possibility of a triumph of good over evil.
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This year, each team has been cut down from six players to five, and that's just how it's going to be (until the teams are inevitably cut down even more by the cruelties of fate and HBO).
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" In terms of where the industry stands against animal cruelty, Blue acknowledges that while strides are being made, there's still much more work to be done: "People are becoming more aware of the cruelties the animals endure.
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While Ms. Santos's world has been deeply shaken by her husband's sudden death, there is a larger universe that is battered each day by man's inhumanity to man, with lives upended because of the cruelties needlessly inflicted.
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There is no reasonable mechanism for comparing barbarities, but among all of the cruelties of this past month one in particular beggars belief: that among the separated children at our southern border are toddlers and even infants.
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Although Christianity as I understand it doesn't smile on the florid lying, womanizing, hypersexual vocabulary and assorted cruelties that have been prominent threads in Donald Trump's life, Moore and many other evangelical Christians spared Trump their censure.
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The embrace of folk-based supernatural principles also fit nicely with the revulsion Hearn felt toward institutional religion, having experienced the hypocritical pieties of his great-aunt's household and the cruelties of his Roman Catholic boarding school.
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We remember how black men like Sean Bell, Kalief Browder and Eric Garner died at the hands of the police or by the cruelties of the corrections system, and we want this sort of injustice to end.
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In liberal democracies, we need to be especially wary of this crisis being exploited for authoritarian ends — especially by authoritarian demagogues in positions of power who use the language of border protection to justify their worst cruelties.
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In the past few years, states have passed laws restricting some of the worst cruelties of factory farming, and courts have overturned laws banning undercover investigations on factory farms and limiting sales of plant-based meat alternatives.
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But they outnumber Democrats on the way out because, generally speaking, they assume that Republicans will remain in the House minority and they're exhausted by the tandem experiences of powerlessness and answering for Trump's chaos and cruelties.
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It's an act of generosity on Toews' part to imagine her father's point of view and revisit his casual cruelties and to forgive them, and to honor him, and to attempt to understand the world through his eyes.
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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.
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She is an attorney and joined the HSUS in 1992 as a legal investigator and was instrumental in bringing cruelties such as horse slaughter and the killing of dogs and cats for their fur in China to light.
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The distinctions were unclear in an arc that both revealed the inner-workings of the Sanctuary and kept viewers as off-balance as poor Carl, who was repelled and enraged by Negan's cruelties but tantalized by his power.
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But if the brave women of Sidibe's short seem doomed to have to fight the same cruelties and prejudices perpetrated against Black bodies for centuries, their fearless honesty also echoes the hope that things might finally start to change.
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Once there, he is subjected to a series of humiliations, cruelties, and outright abuse, inflicted in the name of help, until he turns back to his parents and insists that he is not the one who needs to change.
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Perhaps this is because, as a queer man living through the devastating 1980s AIDS crisis, Brown witnessed many of the failures and intentional cruelties of the systems of US governance that are only now being recognized by mainstream society.
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In order to end a war, or get a dictator to yield power to democrats, it's often necessary to negotiate with murderous leaders who will demand their own amnesty — blotting out their own past cruelties to assure future peace.
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About one month into his stay, he witnessed a night of gruesome rioting in which Jews were kicked, bloodied and spat on, leaving him to provide one of the earliest accounts of Nazi cruelties in the American news media.
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But we can, and should, think about the Trump era in a different way—we should understand that cruelties and catastrophes that appear senseless have been made possible by long-standing conditions and factors which have accrued over time.
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FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK FOR MORE FOX LIFESTYLE NEWS "We don&apost attack butchers, we carry out investigations by putting hidden cameras in slaughterhouses and documenting things like baby chicks being ground up and other cruelties," Brigitte Gothiere of L214 said.
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After a much loved first season and a near-universally panned second, HBO's "two cops, sitting in a cop car, two feet apart because the space between them is occupied by the unfathomable cruelties of man" show True Detective is back.
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For example, one of the cruelties of rape is having your right to your own body stripped away; someone else takes control over your most intimate choices, and makes what should be voluntary and pleasurable into something violating and violent.
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Considering the injustice and cruelties inflicted by autocratic governments, and how corruptible human nature can be, the problem-solving our system does make possible, the fitful progress it produces, and the liberty and justice it preserves, is a magnificent achievement.
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But a modern incarnation does not impress advocates for people with mental disabilities, who want the very idea dead and buried, along with transorbital lobotomy, insulin-shock therapy and other cruelties visited on people with mental disorders in times past.
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Whether it descends through John Locke or Voltaire, the liberal order has often tended to define itself against the Catholic Church, and in the European context to answer ancien-régime cruelties with anti-Catholic persecutions, expropriations and terrors all its own.
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But you also find a lot of smaller cruelties: in Nickel and Dimed, you talk about restaurant managers who scream at employees who stand still for a minute, or in Bait and Switch, would-be bosses who humiliate job seekers.
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My way of remembering the cruelties of the past was to help found the Japanese American National Museum, as well as to turn my family's experience into a Broadway show, "Allegiance," in the hope that more will heed the warning.
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"It's like we think rudeness and cruelty are the same thing as being smart, without noticing that we direct these cruelties more at women than men, more at women of color than white women, more at sexual minorities than straight folk," she said.
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As an ACLU attorney working to defend Manning's right to treatment for gender dysphoria, Chase Strangio has been instrumental over the past several years in both promoting awareness of the cruelties Manning has experienced and helping her to secure her legal rights.
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In Suetonius, we find Tiberius in retreat on the island of Capri, where he spends his days pursuing live-action pornography and indulging in paranoid fantasies and terrible cruelties, including having the skin of a man's face scraped off with a fish.
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Now because Trump is hated and because he's added extra cruelties, the persistence of that problem — the kids living in converted Walmarts or passed off to relatives or foster families and unaccounted for thereafter — has suddenly become a source of outrage for liberals.
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They've been jeered at in person and online, partly for supposedly glorifying an era famous for its racism, sexism, and colonialism—a stereotype they argue is unfair, and it is certainly true that our time has plenty of its own outrageous cruelties.
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Genevieve is entering the embarrassments and cruelties of puberty, while Matilda is autistic — she's high-functioning, but her trouble reading social cues levels up the difficulty of suddenly becoming the not-quite-a-father to a girl on the brink of adulthood.
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The sudden loss of a child or spouse, perhaps foremost among life's cruelties, sets off "an overflow of stress hormones, and the heart can't take it," said Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum, director of women's heart health at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York.
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It is that role that informs a Pashto poem by Abdul Bari Jahani, who is now Afghanistan's minister of information and culture, which reads in part: Helmand, I ask you in the language of the heart: Do you recall the cruelties of your time?
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To be sure, certain cruelties were perpetrated upon Janet by her precious "Jacqueline": Though she could have used the fortune she inherited from Onassis to preserve the family's ownership of Hammersmith Farm, the glorious Auchincloss estate at Newport, Jackie instead allowed it to be sold.
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From Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg to Jeff Bezos and Rupert Murdoch, billionaires are the captains of an economy whose cruelties have given this year its populist verve, the boogeypeople for some candidates, the bankrollers of others, and the owners of the platforms of persuasion.
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Atwood famously said that she didn't write anything in The Handmaid's Tale that didn't actually happen to women at some point in human history and this fellow beloved Canadian writer's latest novel is another grim reminder of the cruelties women have had to endure.
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"Super Sad True Love Story" looks like an unlikely love story, starring 39-year-old Lenny Abramov, who seems ill at ease in his time, preferring books and paper journals to computers, and Eunice Park, who is jaded by the cruelties of the world.
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Mr. Arpaio made his name by mistreating Latino immigrants and petty criminals, whom he imprisoned in a "Tent City" where temperatures reached 120 degrees and Mr. Arpaio devised a menu of cruelties ranging from making them wear pink underwear to serving them miserable food.
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"Dream" is a song about the cruelties of aging—the way time robs us of our heroes and burdens us with regrets—and if you've been a fan of LCD Soundsystem since the group's 2002 inception, you can likely relate to its theme of middle-aged malaise.
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Year after year he has witnessed the cruelties inflicted by fishing gear that most of us will never see: lines tightly cinched around flippers, fins and bodies, cutting through blubber, muscle and even bone; rope pulled through their mouths, fouling their baleen so they can't easily eat.
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On Monday morning, Doug Schifter, a livery driver in his early 60s, killed himself with a shotgun in front of City Hall in Lower Manhattan, having written a lengthy Facebook post several hours earlier laying out the structural cruelties that had left him in such dire circumstance.
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That journalism was also constructed for an era during which, as Charles Krauthammer used to say, American politics and governance were played between the 40-yard lines of bipartisan consensus on free markets, light regulation, a relatively open immigration policy whose cruelties went largely undiscussed, and hawkish foreign policy.
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When I watch the news now, the cruelties that members of my community are subject to around the world, the war being waged against the LGBTQ community in this country, I think about Patrick and Mike, and the men who came together to hold them and protect them.
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Over the course of 30 years in animal protection, I have encountered my share of terrible cruelties, but acts of intentional torture -- crushing, burning, drowning, suffocating and impaling animals -- are the most harrowing, the ones that trouble the most and the ones that endure the longest in my memory.
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In the novel's second half, a girl, known only as The Child, whose mother adds to the schoolyard cruelties by beating her and leaving her unfed, begins to pay menacing visits to Yujoo's writerly alter ego, demanding to know why she was forced to inhabit such a macabre story.
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All of it—the rank reactive cowardice posturing as toughness, the sophistries and cynicism that excuse a constellation of self-serving cruelties great and small, the weakness for any comforting lie over every troubling truth—will still be here when Trump is, once again, a face in the crowd.
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Millions of people see the cruelties of the Trump administration — its detention of migrant children in camps, the Muslim ban, the plan to define transgender people out of existence by executive fiat, the president's description of Charlottesville neo-Nazis as "very fine people"— and want to do something.
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On my desk is a bleak stack of books examining torture and harassment, the playlists of Iraq War soldiers and interrogators, musical tactics in American crime-prevention efforts, sonic cruelties inflicted in the Holocaust and other genocides, the musical preferences of Al Qaeda militants and neo-Nazi skinheads.
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Our future historians will write about the Trump campaign and the nativist anger it unleashed with the same sense of hurt that African-Americans feel when they look back on the cruelties of Jim Crow, and that Asian-Americans experience as they contemplate the injustice of the Chinese Exclusion Act.
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Politics touches the lives of most Americans most clearly as pain—determining the cruelties that some people have to suffer and others do not, setting the variously occluded or intentionally dammed channels of recourse that are, but mostly are not, available as a result of various voluntary austerities and institutional cynicisms.
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"Over the course of 30 years in animal protection, I have encountered terrible animal cruelties, but acts of intentional torture are the most disturbing because they demonstrate how some people treat the most vulnerable in our society" Sara Amundson, president of the Humane Society Legislative Fund, said in a statement.
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She also said the pageant's executive director, Julia Morley, had given her permission to attend the premiere of a feature film, "The Bleeding Edge," that stars Ms. Lin and seeks to dramatize the cruelties of what human rights advocates describe as Chinese government-run programs that harvest the organs of prisoners.
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Maybe putting up with all that celebrity for so long, living through its cruelties and its inconstancies and its hypocrisies, was the price Rousey had to pay to get to where she is now: that rarefied place where she doesn't have to do anything she doesn't want to, a truly liberated soul.
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Baltimore also fell prey to one of the thousands of cruelties that comprise the sport of football when Ravens linebacker C.J. Mosley intercepted Kirk Cousins and, while attempting to extend the ball for a touchdown on the return, fumbled it into the end zone and out of bounds, where it was ruled a touchback.
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This thrilling, disturbing, and twisted story of one woman's murder goes way beyond a 'whodunnit' — it taps into a long-dormant scandal of rampant sexual abuse by the clergy, the long-term affects of suppressed memory, the skewed hierarchy of the Catholic Church, and the cruelties of being a woman in a patriarchal society.
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But on Thursday evening, the fatal cruelties inflicted upon Mr. Callaway — long obscured by time, fear, professional malfeasance and a reluctance to investigate the sins of the past — were acknowledged in this city of 270,248 people when LaGrange's police chief, Louis M. Dekmar, who is white, issued a rare apology for a Southern lynching.
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During a press conference at the Pearson International Airport in Toronto captured by The Guardian, Boyle revealed that among the many cruelties they suffered was the rape of his wife and the murder of their infant daughter born in captivity, who he said was slain in retaliation for his refusal to accept an offer from the family's abductors.
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During a press conference at the Pearson International Airport in Toronto captured by The Guardian, Boyle revealed that among the many cruelties they suffered was the rape of his wife and the murder of their infant daughter born in captivity, who he said was slain in retaliation for his refusal to accept an offer from the family's abductors.
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If we are asking other nations to stop this cruelty—and we are—we should make our own formal commitment to stamp out this practice wherever it might exist in the U.S. It's also true that if we are asking other nations to consider cruelties that result from their food systems, we should do the same.
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What makes Schweblin so startling as a writer, however, what makes her rare and important, is that she is impelled not by mere talent or ambition but by vision, and that vision emerges from intense concern with the world, with the hidden cruelties in our relationships with all that is vulnerable — children, rivers, language, one another.
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After more than a year of candidate Trump, Americans are almost desensitized to each new failing exhumed from his past—the losing schemes and cheapskate cruelties, the discrimination and misogyny—much as they are to the daily indecencies of the present: the malice toward a grieving mother, the hidden tax records, the birther fiction and other lies.
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Yes. And while this will certainly take a few minutes away from a news cycle of North Korean nukes, horrific natural disasters and a growing list of Trump cruelties and blunders, there isn't really a better time: In a few months we'll be gearing up for the midterm elections, and after that, our insane election cycles will have us in presidential-campaigning mode.
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But it is also a reminder of our eternal, collective search for someplace we can call our own, for the place we imagine when we shut our eyes — a yearning that takes on special meaning in our current age of refugees, who endure one of the great cruelties of the human experience: being forced to forsake their land for another.
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I also don't mind the "Can you hold that?" mad-dash people (it's hell working in an office); the "Can you believe I ordered a caramel macchiato and he gave me a Frappuccino?" people (life's cruelties spare no one); or even the old-dog people, since they are generally carrying their tragic, cloudy-eyed mutts, opening up some floor space for the rest of us.
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By this point the cruelties of the slave existence have been compounded with disgusting ironies: George's chief value to his owner, who is also his father, is his skill at training game cocks, and the old man (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) regards George with the satisfied air of a man pleased with his property – both George and the fowl – and a vague touch of paternal pride.
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But Americans learn about their own cruelties differently than Germans do, writes Megan Carpentier for the Baffler: In America, we learn that Hitler and the Nazis committed the Holocaust; in Germany, German children learn that they all participated in it, because the Germans came to believe that acknowledging their collective culpability as individuals was the only way to prevent it from ever happening again.
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In exactly the same way, it seems to me today that the foreign policy establishment is so invested in the old, pre-populist way of doing things – the elitist world order that gave us untrammeled and unfair globalization – that they cannot see its flaws, instinctively reject any criticism of it, and fight to preserve it despite the manifest cruelties it has imposed on working people in the Western world.
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In the note, she points out that A.A.'s insistence on universal abstinence—not just from the problem drug but from all drugs—has interfered with medication-assisted treatments like buprenorphine for opiate addiction, and serves to justify various cruelties of the drug war: the court-ordered drug testing that often lands illicit-drug users in prison, the obstruction of needle-exchange programs, the unavailability of Narcan for first responders.
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" The president this week continued his crusade of cruelties against women and minorities, this time targeting Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York by essentially calling her a whore in a tweet: "Lightweight Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a total flunky for Chuck Schumer and someone who would come to my office 'begging' for campaign contributions not so long ago (and would do anything for them), is now in the ring fighting against Trump.
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Instead, let the grandiosity of it all just wash over you; let the wine and the pouting be your armor against the cruelties of the world; let Olivia's jacket wardrobe be your North Star as you search for a better way to live; let Mellie's wigs inspire you to be who you dreamed you'd be; let Cyrus's vocal affectations remind you that anyone who would treat you badly doesn't deserve your love.
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There are a few chapters of the film that touch on doomsday anxieties and depression at the cruelties of humanity — a story about the unspeakable cruelty of online mobs, discussion of the possibility of a solar flare destroying all human communication systems, a look at the threats of cyber warfare and the inherent insecurity of the network — but they're presented not as cautions against a networked world so much as the grave realities of it.
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Thanks to their previous careers (Weir went to the Olympics twice, Lipinski won gold when she was 15), they understand the countless hours and sacrifices made by the skaters, as well as the particular cruelties of a sport that demands so much but gives so little, particularly when it isn't an Olympic year, that quadrennial occasion when we get drunk enough on jingoism to resume our torrid love affair with sports usually shunted aside for the Big Four.
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In the first, the last 21 months proceeded in exactly the same fashion — with the strongest economy since the 1990s, full employment almost nigh, ISIS defeated, no new overseas wars or major terrorist attacks — except that Donald Trump let his staffers dictate his Twitter feed, avoided the press except to tout good economic news, eschewed cruelties and insults and weird behavior around Vladimir Putin, and found a way to make his White House a no-drama zone.
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Mr. Obama's long view of history and the optimism (combined with a stirring reminder of the hard work required by democracy) that he articulated in his farewell speech last week are part of a hard-won faith, grounded in his reading, in his knowledge of history (and its unexpected zigs and zags), and his embrace of artists like Shakespeare who saw the human situation entire: its follies, cruelties and mad blunders, but also its resilience, decencies and acts of grace.
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