Sentences with phrase «cruel hoax»
The phrase "cruel hoax" refers to a dishonest trick or deception that intentionally causes harm, often by playing with someone's feelings or expectations. Full definition
One group of archaeologists, led by Anthony Harding, president of the European Association of Archaeologists and a professor at the University of Exeter, wrote an open letter to the Bosnian government denouncing the pyramids as a «cruel hoax on an unsuspecting public.»
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It's a very cruel hoax at a time self published writers are working so hard to make themselves look professional.
Morally, then, we can no longer ignore the troublesome issues about the redistribution of wealth; plans for improvement without accompanying demands for social and political reform are a cruel hoax.
The greatest irony, something that to us could only appear as a cruel hoax, was the international conference on the refugee problem held at Evian, France, in July 1938.
Can employee loyalty be anything more than a cruel hoax, if the «good corporation» is dead?
This is not a cruel hoax or a special one - time offer.
If it's not a cruel hoax, then it is the product of almost total incompetence.
Their cruel hoax goes too far though, leading to consequences that no one — other than the audience — can predict.
But an official of the National Education Association, the nation's largest teachers» union, called vouchers, a major instrument for promoting choice, «a cruel hoax on America's schoolchildren and their parents.»
Van Roekel's predecessor, Reg Weaver, called NCLB a «cruel hoax» and spearheaded a lawsuit designed to gut the law's annual testing and accountability provisions.
Conservative groups attacked the idea as a liberal effort and an abuse of federal power; activists on the left were concerned about the national testing that was being proposed with the standards, saying tests would be a «cruel hoax» for poor and minority students who needed better opportunities to learn, not tests they were likely to fail.
I think he would change his mind and abandon the cruel hoax that these children can wait for change.
The New York Times Editorial Board, for example, writes that «the bill is a cruel hoax that would help the wealthiest Americans at the expense of the poorest.»
Hounded by the press, under investigation by the police, attacked by both her angry ex-husband and a vindictive business rival, Zan, wracked by fear and pain and sustained only by her belief, which nobody else shares, that Matthew is still alive, sets out to discover who is behind this cruel hoax.
«Doom» certainly isn't the first thing that pops into my mind when looking at these shots, so I'm hopeful this is nothing but a cruel hoax.
Or it could just be a cruel hoax by a semi-skillful Photoshop owner.
The wait may be finally over — after constant rumours and cruel hoaxes we may be finally about to catch our first glimpse of Fallout...
It was a cruel hoax and someone needs to be accountable.
The police dismiss the call as a cruel hoax.
Hesburgh said of lawyers during the dedication of the Notre Dame Law School library, «compassion without competence would be a cruel hoax upon those they serve.»