Sentences with phrase «by callous»

This disorder is an adult pattern of the same behaviors marked by a callous disregard of other persons and societal rules.

The Toronto Star has been at the vanguard of this issue exposing the stories of people whose lives have been ruined by the callous disclosure of mental health encounters, surveillance notes, and withdrawn charges.

Though the double entendre in the installation's title, which signals both intimacy and protest, may prompt a chuckle, the phrase's underlying vulnerability is especially haunting now, over two years later, when Puerto Rico has been devastated by natural disaster, the aftermath of which has been exacerbated by the callous indifference of the Trump administration.

«Peer reviewed studies have shown that over time, cat colonies increase in size, the result of the inability to neuter or spay all the cats and the dumping of unwanted cats at the colony sites by callous pet owners.

The fallout from such politically craven decisions is now being felt not only by the thousands of families whose lives have been upended by this callous calculation but also by Americans at large whose sense of insecurity and vulnerability has been exacerbated by the widely reported instances of mentally ill individuals committing acts of violence in schools, workplaces, and public spaces.

Fans and film lovers should be and or feel insulted by his callous and error prone revisionism.

The set - up is not unlike The Hunger Games (Red Sparrow director Francis Lawrence also worked on that saga, helming all but the first chapter), with Dominika's body technically owned by a callous government.

In 1959, slightly weary of being ignored by callous Broadway producers and casting directors, Constantine appeared in his first film, The Last Mile (1959), thereby launching a cinematic career that has endured into the mid-1990s.

In this romantic melodrama, Barbara Stanwyck plays a pregnant young woman who is abandoned by her callous lover.

Well, according to researchers it's a «personality disorder characterized by callous lack of empathy, impulsive antisocial behavior, and criminal recidivism.»

He said, «It has become necessary to issue this statement to debunk the falsehood being circulated by some callous elements in the society.

He however told clerics and worshipers not to be deterred by callous and demonic forces but be strengthened in their faith and trust on the Almighty God to defeat the marauders.

«Having said that, let it be known that we find the statement by the Presidency stating that 756 Nigerians were killed by Fulani herdsmen in two years under the government of former President Jonathan as a mischievous assertion by a callous Presidential spokesman who thinks that death is something to be trivialized.

Here it goes - Footage of the devastation caused by Irene: roads and bridges being washed away, houses pushed off foundations, cars flushed down streets, flooded farm land, dead animals in the farm fields, old and young crying as they enter their mud clogged homes GO TO The brave Republicans standing behind their hypocrite leader Cantor, followed by their callous video clips speaking about how we can't afford to help unless we cut, cut, cut.

In a context where millions in our world are either excluded or have been rendered invisible by callous and inhuman policies and actions of international financial institutions and agencies (which are supposedly there to regulate trade and create the space for the powerless), to talk of ethical engagement of Christians in struggle for life, is more urgent now then ever before.

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That image was cemented in the public mind, and in a not - so - positive light, by David Fincher's movie The Social Network, in which Parker was played by Justin Timberlake as a self - serving, callous playboy.

The B.C. Liberals» child support clawbacks hurt B.C.'s poorest kids, and have been widely panned by the media and general public as callous.

And while I'm not particularly phased by death (people die, it happens), even I am not so callous as to make the day someone loses their mother more difficult than it already is.

I think at some point the defensiveness becomes just as bad or even worse than the initial injury, and we have to admit that there is at the very least a callous disregard and contempt for the injured by the leaders of the organization.

Jews are taught early that the atonement of Yom Kippur must be preceded by the effort to reconcile with persons one has hurt, and that it is forbidden to be callous when approached for forgiveness.

Shocked as we have been by well attested stories of unspeakable tortures and degradation's, by the mass exterminations of the gas chamber, and by the living death of such places as Belsen and Buchenwald, many people find it difficult to react with proper indignation to contemporary cruelties such as the Communist slave camps in Siberia, or the callous indifference of most people to the plight of millions of refugees.

Yet both Jesus and the prophets are clear in their convictions that any exploiting and callous dishonesty, by whatever name it may be called, is wrong in the eyes of God.

Pilate ordered Jesus put to death by crucifixion, the most horrible form of execution that the callous Romans had been able to devise; the sentence was carried out on a hill named Golgotha just outside Jerusalem on a spring day in the year A.D. 30.

What appears to us to be insincere, false, callous and cruel may be perfectly «moral» and «human» by the standards of Communism.

The international sex abuse crisis has involved revelations of the deep wounding of innocent children and their families by the sinful actions of individual priests and religious, sometimes enabled by the, at best, incompetence and, at worst, callous dereliction of duty of some members of the Church's hierarchy.

As wild and callous as you are, by rights You should be banished outside to the ditch, To pay your pen - ance in disturbing nights, Expecting to be rescued by some witch In morbid need of a familiar friend With wicked eyes and automatic claws; A master with few fineries to mend, And less respect for....

But Per could not have expected the personal abuse as well as some general racist and callous responses, as reported by The Independent.

The home birth community seems to be inhabited by singularly callous people, who find that it is worth ostracising and ignoring loss parents, sacrificing other people's (and sometimes even their own) babies, and protecting dangerous midwives, all for the sake of avoiding any kind of discussion whatsoever of the risks and benefits of home birth.

Usually, by day seven or eight, the nipple has developed a callous, and pain is practically non-existent.

The attrition of the public realm; the remorseless growth of inequality; the social pathologies associated with its growth; the humiliations suffered by those at the bottom of the economic pile; the callous indifference of those at the top; the penetration of state institutions by corporate interests; the decline of public trust; and, not least, the hubristic irresponsibility of a sometimes criminal financial sector — all the stigmata of pre-crisis Britain — loom as large as they did before 2008.

The source condemned the planned demolition of the NCBSG, saying that the move by the Akwa Ibom State government was callous considering the intensity of reactions that would follow if the facility is demolished.

«The NDC is laying blame for this heinous and callous lynching of Captain Mahama at the doorstep of President Akufo - Addo,» the party said in a statement in Accra signed by its General Secretary, Johnson Aseidu Nketia.

What is it about so many repressed, morally frightened, politically y motivated individuals that brings out their best character traits: sheer stupidity and callous vanity — in a state that needs to judge elected administrators by their credentials and not personal lives.

«Apparently, this is the reason the insurgents are striving to remain relevant by resorting to callous use of women and children to carry out suicide bomb attacks on soft and vulnerable targets,» he said.

Loach stated: «Thank you to the academy for endorsing the truths of what the film says, which hundreds and thousands of people in this country know, the most vulnerable and poorest are treated by the Government with a callous brutality that is disgraceful, a brutality that extends to keeping out refugee children we promised to help and that's a disgrace too.»

The group in a statement by its Chairman, Alhaji Kamorudeen Olagoke said it was callous of the state government to have asked workers to produce their primary six school leaving certificates before being paid.

Reacting to the various verbal attacks fired against each other by various political camps engaged in campaign activities for the Anambra governorship election, the CLO said that nothing could be so callous than people playing politics with human blood.

«Apart from demonstrating this by paying just one month arrears, his refusal to pay dying pensioners who spent their productive years in the service of the state is a callous neglect of the elderly, who the governor deceived with mouth - watering promises, including prompt payment of pensions, during campaign.»

Gen Khehla John Sitole, National Commissioner of the South African Police Service, has vowed to find the killers, saying he was «appalled and deeply saddened by the cold and callous attack».

This resolution is not an act of mercy for one individual, simply expressing a political grievance by committing callous murder.

Ms Thewliss said: «There is a litany of callous incompetence in this department and it is a problem of deliberate policy: cruel hostile environment policy by the former home secretary now Prime Minister and continued unabated by the current Home Secretary.»

Charming but Callous First described systematically by Medical College of Georgia psychiatrist Hervey M. Cleckley in 1941, psychopathy consists of a specific set of personality traits and behaviors.

By that time we'll be so callous towards each other that everyone will just laugh.

The callous violence is tempered by Washington's irresistible presence — there's no one else I'd rather watch jamming C - 4 up a corrupt cop's rectum — and while the material is distasteful, it's delivered with thundering expertise.

, but in this case don't trust your instincts; Jerry Maguire the trailer is a callous cocktail that coasts by on lowest common denominator Cruise control, while Jerry Maguire the film is among the very best contemporary movies about the uneasy intersection between sports and business as well as the human toll of this peculiarly American phenomenon.

Here's a supplementary list of ten performances: Betty Buckley, articulate as a psychotherapist, and the protean James McAvoy playing against her in Split; Harris Dickinson, implosive with self - loathing in Beach Rats; two turns by Michael Fassbender, as the smarmy villains of Song to Song and Alien: Covenant; Milla Jovovich's valedictory sprint through Resident Evil: The Final Chapter; Barry Keoghan as a teenage sprite barely veiling his hostility in The Killing of a Sacred Deer; Keanu Reeves, put through his paces again in John Wick: Chapter 2; Lady Bird's callous, precocious, and heartbreaking Saoirse Ronan; newcomer Millicent Simmonds and her silent movie acting in Wonderstruck; octagenarian Lois Smith playing her age as Marjorie of Marjorie Prime; and Adrian Titieni, slouching and gloomy as a bad dad in Graduation.

But with lines like «compassion is a weakness» and his matter - of - fact pride in the persecution of the Jews this is no apology for Hitler, and the film never underestimates his egocentric, callous nature that is fuelled by the destructive hatred Nazism was built on.

In this case, that means helping a vulnerable young African immigrant (Claire - Hope Ashitey) who is the only known person to have become pregnant in eighteen years and who has therefore become a pawn in a political game being played by some extremely callous players.

The Coens» concise, efficient script proficiently captures McCarthy's melancholic view of old - young disparities, whether it be Ed Tom's utilization of horses to scour the desolate desert for clues, or his bafflement at the callous disregard for the dead (and propriety) shown by a guy transporting corpses to the morgue.

They might be even noble whereas the U.S. president's response hides a callow, callous, inflexible mindset driven by a moral certainty of the right - wing Christian kind.