Sentences with phrase «more callous»

If you watch this film and don't feel emotions or a feeling of disgust in the pit of your stomach, regardless of where you are from, you are far more callous than I could ever imagine anyone being.

There are some questions of the film's sexual politics — apparently going to Vegas and carousing with strippers is okay for certain married men to do, but not others (the more callous the man, the more permissible), but whatever.

While it's not highly offensive stuff, it comes across as more callous and abrupt when interspersed with the light and airy gospel melodies.

Public perceptions are changing, slowly but surely, and with every rejection of progress, every desperate attempt to cling to the status quo, governments will appear more out of touch, and their actions more callous and cold - hearted.

Not exact matches

And while I'm not particularly phased by death (people die, it happens), even I am not so callous as to make the day someone loses their mother more difficult than it already is.

I first took it more as commentary on how indifferent and callous people can be to strangers.

Again — probably more often and certainly more insidiously — it appears in callous indifference, coldness of heart, and moral dullness to the needs and feelings of others.

In a context where millions in our world are either excluded or have been rendered invisible by callous and inhuman policies and actions of international financial institutions and agencies (which are supposedly there to regulate trade and create the space for the powerless), to talk of ethical engagement of Christians in struggle for life, is more urgent now then ever before.

Each represented an aspect of my own moral failings: the arrogant revolutionary who, given the right circumstances, would turn into a callous Robespierre, and the weak, self - indulgent liberal whose progressive views are no more than fashionable designer accessories.

Richard Neuhaus calls this sentence from the Smith opinion «one of the more chilling, not to say callous, observations in the history of the Supreme Court.»

I suggest sir you achieved nothing and that as early as in the 1st half yesterday you realised you little more than make a fool of yourself with the thick - skinned and callous mind you possess.

Cuomo said the company's decision to shut down the plant showed a «callous disregard» for its more than 600 employees.

Although, as I've said before, he and his colleagues shouldn't allow that confidence to spill over into callous rhetoric — there's more to Iain Duncan Smith's reforms than lazy lines about «scroungers» and «shirkers» admit.

It would be no small thing to have a power broker like Cuomo leading the charge, but until he takes legitimate action to prepare for a Trump presidency and the normalization of hate speech that has accompanied his candidacy, his promises will feel like just another callous gesture from a man who is more concerned with his own political trajectory than the actual well being of the people he claims to speak for.

something of which Kristol knows not... false pretext for war... callous disregard for war victims... convenient lies to prove any political point... perhaps only Bernie Madoff has led a more delusional existence...

As an American, I was giddy at the prospect of shaking off the stereotype of us as cold, callous people who care more about our right to have guns than our obligations to collective society.

Grandiose narcissism, the more extroverted, callous form, positively related to time spent on social media, the frequency of updates, number of friends / followers, and the frequency of posting selfies.

This emptily callous film tries to be an edgy expose of the Dominican criminal world, but plays more like a particularly juvenile game of shoot -»em - up.

The «sparrow» program, from which Dominika graduates (or, at least, passes through) is decidedly more unprincipled and callous than anything that is typically portrayed in American counterpart institutions.

Under the silly veneer, there is also the serious issue of callous male entitlement dealt with interestingly in Better Watch Out, in a way more timely than the filmmakers could have possibly imagined.

Maurice and getting into the backstory of how Maurice and Belle came to the town and backstory for the Beast, how he became such a cold and callous young man, and also trying to root ourselves much more in the time and place, 18

Unsurprisingly, the removal project goes terribly awry — and at least some of the aliens» secrets are revealed — but along the way Wikus morphs from a smug, callous, sycophantic moron into one of the more unlikely motion - picture protagonists you'll ever see.

Cumberbatch's Sherlock is a wonderful creation, callous, selfish and staggeringly self - absorbed, and probably closer to the spirit of Conan Doyle's stories than Downey's more jittery and lovable Holmes.

Cagney is the most extreme version of the Hawks hero, whose callous dismissal of his long - suffering girl (poor, hopelessly obsessed Ann Dvorak) borders on abusive, but he's also more hotheaded and less disciplined than the usual self - contained Hawks man: a hypocrite, a drinker, a risk - taker whose impatience and anger kills his best friend.

Others among the supporting cast are used more effectively — Paul Giamatti and Paul Dano as respectively — a callous slaver and plantation foreman, and Alfre Woodward, striking in her few onscreen minutes, as a former slave, now married to a plantation owner.

However, this isn't just a dumb action vehicle, as there are many political and environmental subtexts underneath the surface, as well as more derisive fears of the US military presence in certain parts of the world, who appear to be callous to the needs and concerns of peoples in other nations.

This part of the plot — successful, pretty, engaged Egyptologist takes a liking to the callous neighbor who's repeatedly wronged her — requires more open - mindedness from the viewer than the easy to embrace fantasy premise.

What can we do as educational and cultural workers, at this crucial moment in history, when corporate revenue expands as the job market shrinks, when there is such a callous disregard for human suffering and human life, when the indomitable human spirit gasps for air in an atmosphere of intellectual paralysis, social amnesia, and political quiescence, when the translucent hues of hope seem ever more ethereal, when thinking about the future seems anachronistic, when the concept of utopia has become irretrievably Disneyfied, when our social roles as citizens have become increasingly corporatized and instrumentalized in a world which hides necessity in the name of consumer desire, when media analyses of military invasions is just another infomercial for the US military industrial complex with its huge global arms industry, and when teachers and students alike wallow in absurdity, waiting for the junkyard of consumer life to vomit up yet another panacea for despair?

From misguided agents to cruel or absent editors to the callous slashing of midlist authors and backlist titles, the longer a writer is in the publishing world, the more chance of encountering at least one of these major (and sometimes career - freezing) hurdles.

They dismiss us as callous and worse, cutting corners wherever possible and treating animals as little more than products.

You and AAS can help to stop the callous disregard for cats in BC caused by the straightforward and uncaring market force of more product than purchasers.

You and I and AAS can help to stop the callous disregard for cats in BC caused by the straightforward market force of more product than purchasers.

I have seen totally objective (and even outright callous) pet owners simply drop off their pet for euthanasia with no more respect or empathy than a robot.

After all, when people are more worried about jobs, the cost of living, the economy, health, and taxation, to bang on about climate change might look somewhat callous.

The letter, signed by more than 350 law students, lawyers, and professors accused the newest SCC judge of acting in a «callous and gratuitous manner» toward Douglas and contributing to her decision to resign from the bench.

Though callous, the phrase is true: there's more than one way to skin a cat.

More recently, studies have focused on child factors and a consistent finding has been that behavioural parent training appears to be less effective in treating conduct problems in children with high callous - unemotional (CU) traits (e.g., limited empathy and guilt, shallow affect; Hawes et al. 2014).

Callous Unemotional (CU) traits are a meaningful specifier in subtyping CD for more severe antisocial and aggressive behaviours in adult psychopathology; they represent the affective dimension of adult psychopathy, but they can be also detected in childhood and adolescence.

There is a need to know whether callous - unemotional (CU) traits identify a more severe group of oppositional defiant children (ODD).

The diagnoses identify heterogeneous groups; however, a characteristic that can be used to identify more homogenous groupings is that of callous - unemotional (CU) traits.

The aim of the present study was to assess empathic accuracy (EA), emotion recognition, and affective empathy in male adolescents with Conduct Disorder (CD) and higher versus lower levels of callous - unemotional (CU) traits, using a more ecologically - valid task than has been used previously.

Specifically, adolescents with high levels of CU traits report more enjoyment from being cruel, callous and antagonistic towards others, and less enjoyment from having affiliative, prosocial exchanges with others.

Confirmatory factor analyses supported the two - and three - factor model, but the two - factor model (Callous - Unemotional and Impulsivity / Conduct Problems) was more parsimonious.

Adults noted the ability of children with callous / unemotional traits to manage and regulate their emotions, while poor emotion regulation was more predictive of the cluster of externalizing problems.

Adolescents with conduct disorder (CD) and elevated callous - unemotional (CU) traits have been reported to present with a more severe and persistent pattern of antisocial behaviour than those with low levels of CU traits.

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