Many stores are empty, closed or selling cruelly expensive toys, Christmas trees, and holiday treats like "hallacas," a cornmeal dish wrapped in plantain leaves.
Reuters(Dec 20, 2016)
This strange phenomenon did not diminish or pass, but stayed cruelly with me.
The New Yorker(Dec 14, 2016)
The testimony about how those with nontraditional gender identities are cruelly punished in our culture is powerful.
Seattle Times(Dec 10, 2016)