Examples of using "жесток" in a sentence and their english translations:
The world is harsh.
Humans are violent by nature.
- I'm not being cruel.
- I am not mean.
Tom was cruel.
Tom is extremely violent.
Tom isn't violent.
- Tom is callous.
- Tom is cruel.
- Tom's cruel.
Tom is violent and dangerous.
This world is extremely cruel.
He isn't cruel to animals.
I was mean to Tom.
Why is the world so cruel to me?
He isn't cruel.
- I knew Tom was cruel.
- I knew that Tom was cruel.
Don't be cruel.
People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that's all he can do. He would never think of nailing people by the ears, even if he were able to do it.