Sentences with phrase «for callousness»

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.

The stability measures of ODD and CU between ages 3 and 5 yielded significant (p <.001) but moderate - low coefficients: intra-class correlation was.31 for callousness,.40 for uncaring,.03 for unemotional,.40 for total score and.42 for number of ODD symptoms.

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.

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.

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».

His perceived callousness was a catalyst for her growth.

I look at people, and I see no god - just a potential vector for civilization's advance or retreat, for decency or callousness, but above all for learning and change.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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).

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

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

The divorce is just beginning and it has destroyed me to think about the betrayal, deceit and callousness to do this and not even fight for the marriage.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.&raqFor 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.&raqfor 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.

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?

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).

These traits commonly underpin many forms of social manipulation and deception, and involve a drive for ruthless self - advancement, aggression and, most notably, a lack of empathy and severe callousness.