Sentences with phrase «callousness as»

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So just as I grew irritated with the pro-life movement for its inconsistency and simplistic solutions, I grew irritated with the pro-choice movement for its callousness and disinterest in discussing the very real ethical concerns surrounding the termination of a pregnancy.

Much as we may dislike the doctrine of original sin — and indeed it has often been formulated in a way that must antagonize any man of sense and good will — there would appear to be in human beings the seeds of selfishness, arrogance, brutality, callousness, the lust for power, jealousy, hatred and all the rest of the miserable host of evil.

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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.

Nevertheless, the fact is that any abortion draws a mortal deadline, and this requires an arrogance and callousness to actual living beings that I believe we must recognize and reject, just as we have recognized and rejected the evil inherent in slavery.

If the church, taken as a whole, is at best irrelevant and at worst a training center for hypocrisy, indifference and callousness, it is unlikely that the clergy — members of the religious Establishment — will be the ones to initiate the program of radical change that seems to be called for.

Since moving to America from Britain, I have found that failing to view one's dog or cat as a furry, non — English - speaking human is considered a sign of callousness.

Such a mistake contributes to our callousness toward the rest of creation, as if we could treat animals, fields, and forests in any way we please.

My rage at the stupidity of Basic Instinct's script and the callousness of its calculations overruled any consideration I might have given it as a guilty pleasure.

As backup, the indie dream team of Jenkins and J.K. Simmons (playing a CIA honcho who monitors the unfolding chaos) offer portraits in individual decency and bureaucratic callousness, respectively.

Ms. Devine, with her sweet, girlish voice, is usually cast as a lovable pixie in films like «What Women Want,» but here she reveals an impressive range, bringing out both Cassie's vulnerability and callousness.

This especially comes into focus as Amanda and Lily rope in a local low - level drug dealer (the last role for the late Anton Yelchin) to assist in their scheme, whose righteously shocked reactions to their callousness serve as a grounding influence in a film drowning in surreal perspectives.

The wife sees that as evidence of callousness.

During my two years as her primary classroom teacher, I watched her grow up — compassion and kindness slowly taking the place of the callousness that had characterized so many of her actions when I first met her.

Dismayed after hearing details of the performance artwork organized by Marina Abramovic set to take place during a donor gala for the museum, she describes the planned performance as «degrading» and «grotesque,» denouncing Abramovic's project as «another example of the Museum's callousness and greed.»

I could understand the hunt for resources in past times if necessity dictated as such; but in these times of abundance of a wealth of alternative resources, what is the purpose of pursuing the whales resources other than pure greed and callousness?

Family Instability and Young Children's School Adjustment: Callousness and Negative Internal Representations as Mediators.

Within this broadly antisocial group, the most severe subgroup is the so - called psychopaths, who have core psychopathic personality traits such as ruthlessness, callousness, and remorselessness.

Assuming the three factor structure validated in previous research (callousness, uncaring and unemotional), results showed the expected associations of ICU scales and other psychopathic and more general personality traits, as well as with a wide range of external behavioral and psychosocial criteria.

Taking each of the tetrad in turn, narcissism is associated with feelings of superiority and ego - inflation; psychopathy is linked to impulsivity and callousness; Machiavellianism is associated with manipulation and exploitation of others; and sadism is defined as the enjoyment of inflicting pain on others.

The Triarchic Psychopathy Measure (TriPM) is a 58 - item, self - report questionnaire designed to measure psychopathy in terms of three distinct phenotypic constructs (Patrick, Fowles, & Krueger, 2009): boldness, defined as the nexus of high dominance, low anxiousness, and venturesomeness; meanness, reflecting tendencies toward callousness, cruelty, predatory aggression, and excitement seeking; and disinhibition, reflecting tendencies toward impulsiveness, irresponsibility, oppositionality, and anger / hostility.