Sentences with word «callousness»

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.

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.

The personal stories of callousness in this book are, if anything, more horrific.

These authors found a satisfactory fit when the subscale lying was excluded and when the error terms for callousness and thrill seeking with unemotionality were correlated.

[jounal] Burke, J. D. / 2007 / Adolescent conduct disorder and interpersonal callousness as predictors of psychopathy in young adults / Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology 36: 334 ~ 346

Dating shows callousness toward the feelings of the children.

After spending his days chained together with other slaves to work in the fields, witnessing horrible callousness towards human life and brutality, he adopts a nothing - to - lose attitude but vows he will not stay in his current state.

Late childhood interpersonal callousness and conduct problem trajectories interact to predict adult psychopathy.

Ezekiel's seeming callousness is psychologically understandable.

Outraged at such moral callousness, David declared that the rich man deserved to die.

Cera, clad in a ratty hoodie and playing the part with casual callousness, never leans into the mega-star wattage of the actors he's supposedly standing in for, and he's all the more magnetic as a result.

Thus, Justice Stephen Breyer's callousness about something so close to infanticide highlighted as never before the discrepancy between the rigid, lethal logic of the Court majority and the more complex moral sentiments of most Americans.

Seeing it again last week, on the very day Trump announced the U.S. would exit the Paris climate accord, only brought renewed force to its indictment of environmental callousness and corporate greed.

Girls showed more delinquent problems and girls» delinquency showed greater correlation with callousness while boys» delinquency showed greater correlation with lack of emotional expression.

Schroeder's attention to habit, his circular, obsessive logic and ultimate callousness feels very true to life.

Compared to the rosier portrayals of the British elite in The Crown, Patrick Melrose lacerates a class of people whom centuries of self - indulgence have calcified into callousness and toxic absurdity.

increased detachment, insensitivity and emotional callousness — sometimes described as «compassion fatigue»

Such callousness beggars belief.

From its failure to immediately deploy America's top disaster recovery expert, to a sluggish rescue and recovery operation, to the self - regarding callousness of its...

His perceived callousness was a catalyst for her growth.

It was an indictment on our shared apathy, on our shared callousness, on our shared simplistic political solutions.

Not all expediency in our treatment of the distressed derives from gross callousness; usually, we are simply too busy obscuring from view our own poverty.

In the face of the mundane callousness of his parishioners, one can see the priest weighing his options — are such people worth ministering to, repenting for, dying for?

With that kind of mindset and the abject callousness of his remarks it is most probable that he was actively involved along with his other «brethren.»

* the sense of totality in disaster situations callousness, irresponsibility of some humans in disaster situations

This appetite for violence entails an increased callousness to people who may be hurting or in need.

Instead of sensitivity it promotes indiscriminate callousness.

Hate callousness toward the environment.

I know that intellectually every family is different, but I can't help but feeling like I just limped along for a few years, propping my kids up with too much tv, too many convenience dinners, and too much callousness toward my children as I just couldn't attend to all their needs at once.

Of course any method of wildlife management, whether it be hunting, shooting, game - keeping etc., can go wrong through bad practice or just sheer callousness.

«The budget blueprint revealed last week is a mockery of what a responsible budget should be and shows a cold - hearted callousness and disregard for our most vulnerable citizens on the part of the White House,» Poloncarz said in a release on Monday.

Director Alexander Mackendrick... reached a masterful apex of sorts with this wickedly hilarious movie's precise balance of situational comedy and stark murderous callousness.

A gloriously shameless exploration of good hearts and mean spirits, of Christian charity and heathen callousness amid the rigorously simple life of backwoods Tennessee in 1912.

Rosamund Pike, as German hijacker and revolutionary Brigitte Kuhlmann, captures the frazzled callousness of a woman who feels she has to be twice as tough to compensate for her gender.

Once again the character representative of Christianity shows only selfish, shallow callousness while the character representative of Islam offers a well - spring of peace, rest, and reoriented perspective for the weary Western protagonist's soul.

We're so used to brutality in films that directors are always searching for new ways to be callous, and to make callousness funny.

Mark felt hurt by this display of callousness reminiscent of how the President had similarly thrown Reverend Wright, the pastor of the church where he'd married and worshipped for 20 years, under the bus when it was expedient for his career to do so.

Villainy comes in the caped form of Australian actor Ben Mendelsohn, whose seething callousness and desperate lust for power make him a truly malevolent figure (though his human frailties are exposed in one memorable encounter with a certain Imperial Lord).

In King's version, Roget's callousness initially seems to stem from his familiarity with Patrick.