Sadistic cruelty, the prolongation of terror and pain, the casual callousness of some murders for no more reason than to eliminate witnesses to a minor theft — such horrors of contempt for life frequently underlie the distancing language of homicide and due process. (religion-online.org)
Miliband himself neatly divided up the issue into two parts, the emotional and the technical, when he talked of ministers mixing «callousness with incompetence» on immigration. (politics.co.uk)
The personal stories of callousness in this book are, if anything, more horrific. (vulture.com)