theater of cruelty
Example Sentences
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They are everyday people who have fallen on the wrong side of the “friends and enemies” distinction that animates Trumpism and its theater of cruelty.
From Salon
They are everyday people who have fallen on the wrong side of the “friends and enemies” distinction that animates Trumpism and its theater of cruelty.
From Salon
Noem is a key player in the theater of cruelty, but she is not the only one, and the unparalleled star is of course President Trump.
From Los Angeles Times
The words seemed to echo from a shadowy past, where justice was twisted into a theater of cruelty, where the gallows were strung with piano wire on meat hooks.
From Salon
In the 1930s, an entire movement — the Theater of Cruelty — was formulated, in the words of its founder, Antonin Artaud, to “subvert thought and logic and to shock the spectator into seeing the baseness of his world.”
From New York Times
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