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An old poster depicting cruelty, including selling slaves in Algiers, execution, burning, and other cruelties. Cruelty is the intentional infliction of suffering or the inaction towards another's suffering when a clear remedy is readily available. [1] Sadism can also be related to this form of action or concept.
Illustration for John Milton's Paradise Lost by Gustave Doré (1866). The spiritual descent of Lucifer into Satan, one of the most famous examples of hubris.. Hubris (/ ˈ h juː b r ɪ s /; from Ancient Greek ὕβρις (húbris) 'pride, insolence, outrage'), or less frequently hybris (/ ˈ h aɪ b r ɪ s /), [1] describes a personality quality of extreme or excessive pride [2] or dangerous ...
The term awe stems from the Old English word ege, meaning "terror, dread, awe," which may have arisen from the Greek word áchos, meaning "pain." [9] The word awesome originated from the word awe in the late 16th century, to mean "filled with awe." [10] The word awful also originated from the word awe, to replace the Old English word egeful ...
Ẓulm (ظلم, Ẓulm) is the Arabic word used interchangeably for cruelty or unjust acts of exploitation, oppression, and wrongdoing, whereby a person either deprives others of their rights or does not fulfill his obligations towards them.
As a child, he had inherent difficulties in making long-lasting relationships. He latched onto one or two kids who became his friends. He found comforts in those friendships if those friendships were reciprocated. As is true with many kids, there were often times of indifference or cruelty, which indeed had real impacts.
Humiliation is the abasement of pride, which creates mortification or leads to a state of being humbled or reduced to lowliness or submission.It is an emotion felt by a person whose social status, either by force or willingly, has just decreased. [1]
Cruelty, pleasure in inflicting suffering or inaction towards another's suffering Cruelty (1959 film) , a film from the Soviet Union Cruelty (2016 film) , a film from Iceland
The introduction to Zora Neale Hurston's, Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick, dated October 22, 2019, was written by Genevieve West. West makes the case that Hurston was ahead of her time in her critiques of race, gender, class, and art, and that she used romance to explore these topics. [3]