Sentences with phrase «cruel joke»

It would have been some sort of cruel joke.

There are so many others who are also divorced and separated and this season is like a big cruel joke to them.

She would be the target of way too many cruel jokes and dads just won't have it.

But no one ever claimed baseball fans of the future would be immune from that especially cruel joke.

Because Mother Nature likes to play cruel jokes on us apparently.

Instead, encourage your child to avoid using nasty words, fake apologies or justifying cruel jokes by adding «just kidding» to the end of the sentence.

-- Because it would be a very cruel joke if you're shitting me.

The assistant Met commissioner was already the subject of cruel jokes after his eight hour review into phone - hacking decided, unsurprisingly, to do nothing.

It was a rather cruel joke, making you watch me put that hideous makeup on for five minutes, but, oh well!

Cruel cruel joke.

After three days of +20 C weather, going back to the low teens (for a high, and much colder in the mornings), seemed like a particularly cruel joke on Mother Nature's part.

This scene, which is usually greeted with a sense of relief by the audience, is «neutralized» by a notoriously cruel joke played on the spectator.

As if Fate was playing some kind of cruel joke on me.

In my short but very intense baking career, I've come to think that whoever coined «Easy as pie,» was making a very cruel joke.

The looming question around Valeant is how many more promising drug developers it can acquire, but the company believes there are plenty of opportunities owing to the human body's endless capacity for developing illnesses, ailments, maladies, and generally decaying, making life appear a cruel joke.

And in what seemed like a cruel joke, a new billboard erected in Culver City, Calif., to announce the Michael Graves home collection featured a teakettle that, viewed from on its side, inexplicably evoked Adolf Hitler, moustache and all, his arm in Nazi salute.

After all, this is the same group of investors — 3G and Buffett — that didn't blink when it closed its operations in Leamington, Ont., rendering the town's «tomato capital of Canada» moniker little more than a cruel joke.

If humans are the result of so - called «intelligent design» then why do we have too little room on our jawbones to accommodate wisdom teeth (unless this alleged «god» intended our teeth to rot out since we're not supposed to have learned science, and therefore that the presence of bacteria plus acids are a bad environment for tooth enamel), and that so many of us are near - sighted, and that women can have FACIAL HAIR (is that a cruel joke?)

IF this mythological heaven DID exist and by some cruel joke, it's full of people like you, I want no part of it.

In a world where no child has been born for thirty years, where the current human generation expects that after their deaths all knowledge, art, and achievement will be lost ¯ well, population control looks like a cruel joke, and pregnancy is no longer a burden inflicted on women but a longed - for miracle.

To many he was the epitome of the synthetic pop star — a money - spinning persona created for the pre-teen female market — and Bieber became the butt of a thousand cruel jokes.

And if the impoverished Jesus were God's answer to Israel's desperate cry, this seemed like a cruel joke.

She became a Catholic and began to study theology (she is currently working toward a pontifical doctorate, which, she writes, «by some cruel joke on chaste people, is called an STD»).

rolled off Cuban tongues like a mantra, but in recent times it has fallen into disuse and even become a cruel joke.

Everyone knows that the EU has turned the idea of subsidiarity into a cruel joke for Europeans.

Existence, he concluded, was nothing but a cruel joke.

The messianic hopes that Jesus has kindled end with the cruel joke, «This is Jesus, the King of the Jews» (Matt.

At those moments in time, it all seems like a cruel joke, and humans and all living creatures are the butt of it.

It's almost like a cruel joke.

He is not playing a cruel joke but «educating them in otherness,» as Sacks puts it, so that «they will understand what evil feels like from the other side, not as perpetrator but as victim.»

Trying to get someone so powerless to «take responsibility for her sexuality» is a cruel joke.

Well, Mother Nature is playing a cruel joke on us here in the Phoenix area, putting temperatures in the 90s this week.

I was skeptical that making something out of mushrooms and calling it bacon would be anything but a cruel joke.

This is when it starts to feel as if the universe is playing a cruel joke on us.

I can't believe I'm sharing a pantry - friendly stew recipe here with you in April, but springtime in Ontario is a bit of a cruel joke, so here we are.

if you're English then this has got to be some cruel joke.

But as determined before, this is all just a cruel joke.

It was a cruel joke; it had to be.

When nursing, and especially if you're still nursing in the middle of the night, this may feel impossible and like a cruel joke when someone suggests it.

It's a cruel joke that motherhood, when you are constantly surrounded by children, can be very lonely!

It's obviously just a cruel joke that's going right in the trash, and if the teachers had thought about it for ten seconds they would have realized this is just a mean joke and completely inappropriate behavior for a teacher.

One of nature's cruel jokes on moms was to place eyes just a few inches below the hairline, thereby making the rinsing portion of bath time particularly painful.

The fact that this mastery of civil disobedience typically coincides with potty training, is clearly the universe's cruel joke on parents everywhere.