Sentences with phrase «with unimaginable cruelty»

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That pride co-exists with Coogler's awareness that a real, non-Wakandan world of struggle, intolerance, and unimaginable cruelty hovers just beyond the frames of his film, rarely confronted head - on but always somehow present.

While the film and the memoir have been given the unfair label of being ONLY ABOUT «slavery is bad» (as if that fact alone would not be worthy) many of the more subtle points have been ignored, but is best summed up this way, «It is notable not only for its lucid description of plantation life, with detailed passages on the methods by which cotton and sugarcane were harvested and processed, and how slaves were fed, housed and punished, but also for the author's evenhanded treatment of his subject: although he denounces slavery as an institution, Northup expresses his gratitude to the masters who treated him with gentleness and generosity, and shows a surprising ability to forgive even the most unimaginable cruelties.»