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Trade bible Variety called it a "lacerating portrait," while Deadline said the "damning" film had "thrashed" Musk as "petty, narcissistic, megalomaniacal, cruel."

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

The cruel joke is that there are only two types of bike racers: Those who have broken their collarbone, and those who are about to.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

Hey, the American public can be crude and cruel.

From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026

Several of Seifert's sixes were struck with such force that spectators in the second tier were cowering for safety, though it felt cruel that Allen's spectacular boundary effort went in the book as a drop.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

Mrs. Dimblewit’s voice was steeped in cruel sarcasm.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega

I recognize, of course, that life isn’t fair and that many families are grappling with circumstances far crueler than ours.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 22, 2025

Seven years later, the group has returned with sharper tools and a crueler edge, armed with a transformed legal and cultural landscape.

From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2025

Accepting mass culling or reverting to even crueler farming practices is not a solution.

From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2025

And then the even crueler twist: The threatened bolts of lightning, the thunder, rain and pea-sized hailstones never reached Pasadena.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2023

The knight was a powerful man, yet Dany understood in that moment that the maegi was stronger, and crueler, and infinitely more dangerous.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

After his electoral defeat in 1912, Candice Millard writes in “The River of Doubt,” Roosevelt “sought to purge his disappointment by throwing himself headlong against the cruelest trials that nature could offer him.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

But at the same time, even under the cruelest dictatorships, it has still managed to produce fine literature.

From Barron's ● May 21, 2026

Some Wall Street analysts are insisting that April — contrary to its label as the cruelest month — is actually one of the better months for the U.S. stock market.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 1, 2026

But here’s the cruelest irony: There has been plenty of innovation in media.

From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2026

Whether even a heroic level of leadership stood any chance was uncertain because—and here was the cruelest irony—the effort to make the Revolution truly complete seemed diametrically opposed to remaining a united nation.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis