Sentences with phrase «callousness of»

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.

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.

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.»

Were it not for the callousness of these educational institutions and the absence of federal enforcement on behalf of me and others like me, I might have learned more, done more, and accomplished more.

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

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.

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».

One nation Conservatives professing shame at the callousness of their party.

Another judge offended by the callousness of giving people a visa and then pulling the rug out from under them once they get here, may decide, «I want to explore whether a visa is the legal equivalent of a contract that the government has breached.»

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

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.

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.

I should not get so worked up about this but the cold hearted stupidity and callousness of people like Lynesh make me sick, the real answer is that the sky fairy and its son do not of course EXIST.

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?

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...

Not exact matches

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».

I am hence very sensitive to what I perceive to be attitudes of callousness toward the victims of this disease.

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.

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.

But I think we rightly understand Ezekiel only when we recognize that the intensity and frequency of his destructive symbolisms must have made a self - induced callousness imperative.

Atul Gawande has written about «the callousness, inhumanity and extraordinary suffering» inflicted on the severely ill, «with only a sliver's chance of benefit.

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.

Nonetheless it is remarkable to find these ancient authors employing all the modern devices of the literary craftsman, surprise and suspense, rapidity and delay, humor and solemnity, vividness, realism, untempered callousness, dramatic shift of scene — all permeated with their feeling for what is intrinsically interesting, what makes a good story.

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

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).

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.

Talk about destroying the population centers of other countries springs from a combination of fatalism and callousness.

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.

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.

The letters to his parents reflect his occasional sickness, the growing problem of food, his gradual callousness to prison life, and the irritating desire to get out and on with important things.

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.

By Friday, though, the game was off, the perception of callousness being too much to overcome, however noble the reasoning.

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

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.

It is also a clear reflection of the callousness, the grave psychological degeneration and the deep intellectual bankruptcy of the Buhari administration.

Then, STFU for a change of pace, especially while we're watching history take place Your constant bigotry, negativity and callousness is repulsive.

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 use.

Translation: «I used to care about people and the world beyond myself, until I became a bitter old man who retreated into a shell of hatred, bigotry and callousness.

The checklist's 20 items include glibness / superficial charm, grandiose sense of self - worth, need for stimulation / proneness to boredom, pathological lying, conning / manipulation, lack of remorse / guilt, shallow affect, callousness / lack of empathy, parasitic lifestyle, promiscuous sexual behavior, early behavior problems, lack of realistic, long - term goals, impulsivity, failure to accept responsibility, many short - term marital relationships, juvenile delinquency and criminal versatility.

Psychopaths do not: a callousness toward others» suffering is the central feature of a psychopathic personality.

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.

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.

Denis and Angot mine ample, acid - laced comedy from the callousness or carelessness with which Isabelle is treated by men: «You are charming, but my wife is extraordinary,» says one of her lovers, married banker Vincent (a superb Xavier Beauvois).

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.

Certainly they were not restrained by good taste or a lack of callousness.