Sentences with phrase «callousness in»

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

What was a disappointment in the game was the callousness in performance by Alex Iwobi in the match.

First, religiously minded ministers and parents ought to understand the situation, not supposing it to be sheer badness or callousness in the young that keeps them from being responsive to religious influences.

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In his classic 1940's book The Mask of Sanity, Hervey Cleckley noted that the psychopathic businessman works industriously and appears rather normal, except for his periodic sprees of «marital infidelity, callousness, wild drinking, and risk - taking».

Although Edward Skidelsky does not specify the sin involved in «off - shoring» hundreds of jobs from Sheffield to Mumbai, I presume it is callousness or avarice.

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.

To know that there is desperate hunger in Europe and Asia and do nothing about it is sinful callousness.

It leads to sensitivity rather than callousness, to responsibility rather than neglect, to decisiveness in place of faltering.

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?

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

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.

Finally, once we realize that most FWTs do not claim that «God in fact deliberately creates conditions producing suffering in order to stimulate moral and spiritual qualities,» we see that there is no basis for maintaining that the affirmation of a free - will theodicy «could promote callousness» in the sense that it could cause FWTs «to belittle the importance of liberating persons from conditions producing suffering» (ER 19).

Because this human being exists, in the darkness the light lies hidden, in fear salvation, and in the callousness of one's fellow - men, the great Love.

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

The least benign characterization alleges that the prosperous are prosperous because of their greed, their callousness, and their connivance in the victimization of the poor.

Get wisdom in the fear of God with diligence; For though there be a leading into captivity, And cities and lands be destroyed, And gold and silver and every possession perish, The wisdom of the wise naught can take away, Save the blindness of ungodliness, and the callousness (that comes) of sin.

The world... to which we brought the boredom and callousness reserved for profane places, is in truth a holy place... Venite, adoremus.13

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.

It shows the callousness of the abortion industry and the heart - rending nature in which many women are subject not only to a difficult....

The MSP told party members that he was «absolutely determined» to bring about change in the labour market and the economy, saying he was «angry about the callousness of the Tories and the complacency of the SNP».

In a statement in Ado - Ekiti, the state APC Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, blamed the unfortunate incident on the «callousness» of the governor, who, he said, «collected more than enough» to pay workers» salary arrears but allegedly kept the money in private accounts to yield interests for personal usIn a statement in Ado - Ekiti, the state APC Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, blamed the unfortunate incident on the «callousness» of the governor, who, he said, «collected more than enough» to pay workers» salary arrears but allegedly kept the money in private accounts to yield interests for personal usin Ado - Ekiti, the state APC Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, blamed the unfortunate incident on the «callousness» of the governor, who, he said, «collected more than enough» to pay workers» salary arrears but allegedly kept the money in private accounts to yield interests for personal usin private accounts to yield interests for personal use.

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.

If anything, the most glaring flaw in McDonagh's screenplay — the callousness with which it reduces its black characters» suffering to a mere plot point — is productively complicated by Rockwell's idiot - bad - boy swagger.

They catch in slashing, searching glimpses the shrewd chicanery of evil men, the callousness and baseness of their puppets and the dread and silence of local citizens.

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.

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).

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.

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.

Here in this more cloistered environment, we explore life among the eccentricity, whimsy, and callousness of the exceptionally wealthy.

This morning, Y ’ all Politics called these comments Rep. Hughes» «Let them eat cake» moment, saying, «For a guy who may reportedly be asking hundreds of thousands of non-Oxonians in Mississippi for their votes in 2019, many who do not look like him or share his privilege, the callousness of his remarks are pretty staggering.»

Even more shocking was Gov. Jay Nixon's decision that same month to veto legislation co-authored by his arch-nemesis, Rep. Maria Chappelle - Nadal, that would have allowed for kids in failing districts to attend higher - quality public and private schools in the area shows the callousness of state officials when it comes to providing kids with high - quality educational options.

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.

Despite located in a remote and pristine area, the effects of global warming and climate change coupled with man's greed and callousness is terribly alarming.

Suspending viewers between the gritty firsthand accounts of people who would typically remain nameless and faceless in the media, and an accessible drama featuring two actors who are the very embodiment of visibility, Love Story reflects on the callousness of a media - saturated culture in which identification with fictional characters and celebrity figures runs parallel to widespread indifference to the plight of those facing real world adversity.

So the song De Colores was sung in response to the callousness and greed of the farm owners and the hatred directed at Cesar Chavez, Delores Huerta and the workers and families of workers they represented.

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?

Rage at the regime's callousness boiled over in 2011, helping to fuel the popular uprising.

Way back in 1990, an episode of «The Simpsons» introduced Blinky, a mutated orange fish with three - eyes caught in the waters near the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, emblematic of mean Mr. Burns» callousness towards the environment — and now, it seems, life has imitated cartoon.

In these moments, we have all a choice: Do we let callousness win, or compassion?

To do so in the shadow of overt refusal of the efforts of Indigenous people to advance reconciliation through the Uluru Statement from the Heart reinforces the political message of callousness.

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.

High CU levels at age 3 were predictive of higher levels of CU traits (callousness, uncaring, unemotional, total), a higher number of ODD symptoms, CAS total aggression, relational aggression, CBCL emotionally withdrawn, aggressive behavior, internalizing, externalizing and total scores, lower scores in functional impairment and high risk of use of services.

Internal consistencies of the subscales in the present study were similar to those reported in Andershed et al. (2001), ranging from 0.65 to 0.80, with the exception of callousness (0.52).

While there's been no response from New York City officials about their feelings on Roth's purported tactics, the suggestion that Roth was holding up the Downtown Crossing development in a ploy to get more money infuriated Mayor Menino, who sent Roth an angry letter berating him for his callousness.