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In a cruel twist, the Ravens are horrible on defense, typically Baltimore’s strong suit, and not just because they had to replace five injured defensive starters with rookies last week.

Biden once supported the death penalty, but he came to see it as needlessly cruel, as well as impossible to administer fairly.

After that fall, each bout of sickness or medical procedure causes a cruel chain reaction, like a diabolical Rube Goldberg machine.

The United States had been kind and cruel to his farming family.

As a collective they are cruel, taunting and beating the hostages, denying them food for the slightest infraction.