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He wore a timeless look of peace, confidence, and benevolence, but the Adar sensed a hardness of necessary cruelty hiding beneath the surface.
Die Züge brachten zeitlosen Frieden, Zuversicht und Wohlwollen zum Ausdruck, aber hinter dieser Fassade spürte der Adar die Härte von notwendiger Grausamkeit.
Anderson, Kevin / Hidden EmpireAnderson, Kevin / Das Imperium
Das Imperium
Anderson, Kevin
© 2002 by WordFire Inc.
© 2003 der deutschen Ausgabe und der Übersetzung by Ullstein Heyne List GmbH & Co. KG
Hidden Empire
Anderson, Kevin
© 2002 by WordFire, Inc.
The situation has been made still worse by TV programmes showing the cruelty of animal transport with animals being seen to be treated in a very rough manner.
Die Situation spitzte sich noch zu durch im Fernsehen gezeigte brutale Tiertransporte, auf denen die Tiere grob mißhandelt wurden.
© Europäische Union, 1998-2010
© European Union, 1998-2010
In his madness he piles cruelty upon cruelty.
In seiner Verrücktheit begeht er eine Grausamkeit nach der anderen.
Forsyth, Frederick / The fist of godForsyth, Frederick / Die Faust Gottes
Die Faust Gottes
Forsyth, Frederick
© 1994 by Transworld Publisher Ltd., London
© 1994 by C. Bertelsmann Verlag, München
The fist of god
Forsyth, Frederick
© 1995 by Bantam Books
They saw that Alexander was so terribly in earnest that it would be cruelty to keep him on tenter-hooks any longer. So Marzell at once began his part of the tale, as follows:
Alexanders Betragen kam den Freunden ganz wunderlich vor, doch merkten sie wohl, daß sie den tief Verwundeten nicht mehr reizen dürften, Marzell fing daher den gewünschten Roman ohne weiteres in folgender Art an.
Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor A. / The Serapion BrethrenHoffmann, Ernst Theodor A. / Die Serapions-Brueder
Die Serapions-Brueder
Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor A.
© des Textkorpus 1963 Winkler, Munchen
The Serapion Brethren
Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor A.
And there was no shortage of appropriate Nietzschean recommendations advocating what he called "holy cruelty":
Darüber hinaus mangelte es nicht an Empfehlungen Nietzsches zu der von ihm so genannten »Hei-lige(n) Grausamkeit«.
Aschheim, Steven E / The Nietzsche Legacy in Germany, 1890-1990Aschheim, Steven E / Nietzsche und die Deutschen
Nietzsche und die Deutschen
Aschheim, Steven E
© 1992 by The Regents of the University of California
© 2000 J. B. Metzlersche Verlagsbuchhandlung und Carl Ernst Poeschel Verlag GmbH in Stuttgart
The Nietzsche Legacy in Germany, 1890-1990
Aschheim, Steven E
© 1992 by The Regents of the University of California

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society for the prevention of cruelty to animals
Tierschutzverein
mental cruelty
seelische Grausamkeit
celebrated sexual cruelty
verherrlichte sexuelle Grausamkeit
Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
britischer Tierschutzverein

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cruelty

noun
SingularPlural
Common casecrueltycruelties
Possessive casecruelty'scruelties'