Word: inhuman
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...most shocking facts of recent history is the moral imperturbability with which democratic nations, like the U.S. and Britain, have handed over millions of people in eastern Europe to the inhuman mercies of a police state...
...Cruel and inhuman...
...thought the American troops were here for justice & freedom." But death was welcomed, after a fashion, by August Eigruber, once Gauleiter of Upper Austria. "I consider it ... an honor," he snarled as the hood was placed over his head, "to be tried and hanged by the most inhuman of all victors." Anton Kaufmann was less resigned. Snapping the cords about his wrists as he plunged through the trap, he grasped the rope above his head. Kicking & squirming, he fought for 18 minutes before he died...
...their vocation and their plight, one of the loneliest frontiers of modern science-jet propulsion-has found an accurate metaphor. They are commissioned (but at their own risk) to cross the supersonic thresholds of the mind-the point at which the familiar sound-lengths of human life dissolve into inhuman silence. If they pass the barrier of dissolution, they may investigate in uncompetitive privacy the mysteries inaudible to the other minds. If they can recross the sonic sill, alive and sane, they may report what they have experienced to men who, never having known the experience, will never quite understand...
...public with the wives of the Court attendants. The law "books, when Joseph K. finally peeps into them, are filled with obscene pictures. He never can find out the nature of the charge against him. He never can find out what Justice is, except that it is utterly inhuman...