Sentences with phrase «cruel trick»

If not, it's a very cruel trick, you two!

Time plays cruel tricks on the characters of Brokeback Mountain, Ang Lee's adaptation of an Annie Proulx short story.

Inevitably somebody will also loudly declare «Ghost» or «Lips» and snatch a card, only to sheepishly put it back when they realise that their eyes were playing cruel tricks on them.

But what cruel tricks might the Enchantress have up her sleeve?

«Children need to know they can count on you for consistent loving care, not cruel tricks that violate their trust.»

Video games often employ lots of cruel tricks in which gamers find themselves in precarious pickles — the gigantic and seemingly impossible bosses, timers, that last collectable that requires precision to attain.

But memory can play cruel tricks and, well, mythology has a habit of obscuring some inconvenient truths.

Even here, however, cruel tricks are played.

It would be easy to start accusing God of negligence or playing some cruel trick.

Alas, the lettuce season is over, a cruel trick of the garden gods not to make both tomatoes and lettuce in season at the same time, at least in Chicago,... I'll have to come up with options.

Even if you're the deepest sleeper in the world, sometimes nature plays a cruel trick on us when we need the sleep the most.

If this is your first baby you will soon learn the cruel tricks manufactures have played on us parents.

The end of pregnancy can play some cruel tricks.

it all seems like such a cruel trick now... and now 9 months later, still ttc a rainbow..

I like to think it's the world helping Lars adjust to life outside the womb — or playing a cruel trick on me because breastfeeding in 100 + degree weather is sticky and tricky.

By now we had moved to Bedford, a cruel trick for life to play on one who loves the hills perhaps, but it meant we had new areas to explore.

It's just another cruel trick they've played on us!

His previous film, «In the Company of Men,» was about two men who play a cruel trick on a woman.

I immediately started texting Lainey in all caps about Olyphant, who has only been available in limited quantities since Justified ended two years ago (one of 2016's cruelest tricks was replacing 2015's Justified model with Mother's Day Olyphant), but she could not have cared less.

He plays a cruel trick on a young woman whom he met when his first book was published.

Then again, could be these are all red herring titles designed to obfuscate the true nature of the film, a cruel trick perpetrated on the endlessly - speculative Star Wars fanbase by noted trickster John Powell (note: John Powell does not have a reputation as a trickster), but we won't know for sure until Solo: A Star Wars Story opens on May 25th.

Suspicious, exhausted, sensing this was a cruel trick, Peter lapsed into a diatribe about how bad America was, how much he liked the Iraqi militia, how he'd give them five stars on TripAdvisor.

Now, if you think this is a cruel trick to play on your dog, you'd be mistaken.

But the cruelest trick of all?

The game plays a cruel trick on you up front, threatening the player with a save file deletion if they die too often, to try and get you into the nervy, jangled mindset the game world preys on.

They may play cruel tricks, or make light of violence à la Punch and Judy while their disguises lend them a disconcerting anonymity — perhaps adopting the face of the dark clown explored in popular culture through Stephen King's horror novel It (1987) and Cindy Sherman's series of ominous self - portraits in clown makeup.

Nauman's clowns play nonsensical word games in grating, frustrated tones; they are the victims of cruel tricks, screeching as buckets of water are dumped on their heads; they attempt to balance objects with no success, cry wretchedly while pleading with an invisible captor, have tantrums on the floor, and shout «No!»

Although you can turn off location tracking, as Uber promised, the company played a cruel trick by forcing users to leave the app and grapple with the sometimes - unintuitive Android and OS settings menus.