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Rick Perlstein’s “Reaganland” offers a majestic backstory to this meanness, in both that word’s senses: the pettiness and the cruelness of Trump’s petty cruelty.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 8, 2020

There is a cruelness to how fate treats those who put their lives on the line for their country.

From Washington Times Nov. 27, 2019

It doesn’t invalidate the role of government in offering a form of protection against the vagaries of the free market and the cruelness of fate.

From The Guardian Mar. 31, 2017

If Miller is about the fundamental cruelness of mandatory life sentences for minors, it’s a substantive ruling.

From Slate Oct. 1, 2015

If there were such cruelness in the world, then it might indeed be true that Sass had taken me to this place of widows just to get rid of me.

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan




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