Sentences with phrase «callousness with»

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.

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.

On more than one occasion, Ellison has said that «everyone wants to be loved,» including him — a peculiar statement considering the callousness with which he has been known to treat employees.

Not exact matches

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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).

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).

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.

He should have given up medicine many years ago and with his callousness, perhaps not ever have practiced medicine at all.

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.

The hardship that this places on people is being met with a callousness that is a bit surprising.

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.

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.

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.

People with such disorders have symptoms of emotional detachment and a propensity for disinhibited, impulsive behavior combined with a general callousness and lack of insight for the impact that such behavior has on others (Cleckley, 1941; Anderson and Kiehl, 2012).

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.

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).

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