Sentences with phrase «most callous»

Here is a lawsuit sure to tug at the heartstrings of even the most callous among us — with the possible exception of the lawyers for the RIAA.

I think it's the most callous thing I've ever heard, it must certainly run the risk of coming across as callous when put to the victims of our climate change fuelling lifestyles.

Our thinking, at times even our senses, can play most callous tricks on us, so that we are positive of having seen or heard things that in reality never occurred.

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And indifference, though Jews may think it callous, is the most effective prophylactic against the pestilence of hate: those who don't care either way will smash no windows.

Shocked as we have been by well attested stories of unspeakable tortures and degradation's, by the mass exterminations of the gas chamber, and by the living death of such places as Belsen and Buchenwald, many people find it difficult to react with proper indignation to contemporary cruelties such as the Communist slave camps in Siberia, or the callous indifference of most people to the plight of millions of refugees.

It was a profound insight; for man's most poignant question throughout all ages has been «What is my place in a world of immense and seemingly callous might?»

Pilate ordered Jesus put to death by crucifixion, the most horrible form of execution that the callous Romans had been able to devise; the sentence was carried out on a hill named Golgotha just outside Jerusalem on a spring day in the year A.D. 30.

How callous he is about these matters I do not know, but he gives much religious aid and comfort to those who are callous, and he provides political support for those who seek to solve our national problems at the expense of our most vulnerable people.

«Congress tried it under President Reagan, but the gross injustice of it caused all but the most partisan and callous officials to drop support.

Loach stated: «Thank you to the academy for endorsing the truths of what the film says, which hundreds and thousands of people in this country know, the most vulnerable and poorest are treated by the Government with a callous brutality that is disgraceful, a brutality that extends to keeping out refugee children we promised to help and that's a disgrace too.»

He tried to spin the bedroom tax as a way of managing housing stock, but in fact it is a cruel and callous attack on some of the most vulnerable people in our communities.»

In Welch lies most of the bad acting - as she incredibly evolves under Matthew Patrick's telegraphed direction from callous and uncaring to concerned and responsible.

Most of these men are fairly callous individuals, but because they all seem equally doomed we wind up caring about them.

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.

Accompanied by her very supportive roommate (Anamaria Marinca), who handles most of the details, she unwittingly seeks out the services of Bebe (Vlad Ivanov), the callous butcher of Bucharest, an unlicensed monster who could care less about the welfare of his vulnerable clients.

For the most part, it depicts the denizens of Wall Street as self - obsessed, callous and money - oriented blowhards, and it follows a typical progression as we see Bud enticed by the big money that Gekko can help him obtain.

Trapped in airport limbo, Viktor learns English, spars with an absurdly callous official (Stanley Tucci), falls for the world's most awesome flight attendant (Catherine Zeta - Jones), plays cupid for a new buddy (Diego Luna) smitten with a pretty immigration agent (Zoe Saldana), and even makes a decent living for himself.

Perhaps Moe's most intriguing assertion is that both union leaders and would - be reformers routinely mischaracterize union sentiment: union leaders when they say they're seeking to protect students and would - be reformers when they charge that callous union bosses are ignoring the wishes of their membership.

Each was alive with a humanity that the games I hated most — brutal Shadow of Mordor, callous Far Cry 4, monstrous Ground Zeroes — so clearly lacked.

The storm that wracked New Orleans and exposed the federal government's callous ineptitude also inspired Dapper Bruce to become an artist, and he confronts it in some of his most personal work to date.

It's a calling that most would probably not take up, given the callous attitudes around roadkill.

«The calculated, callous and unconscionable actions of both Toronto and Durham police in their deliberate avoidance of an SIU investigation of Dafonte Miller's catastrophic injuries at the hands of Constable Mike Theriault and his brother, Christian Theriault represent the most compelling example of what is wrong with independent investigations of police in Ontario.

The really nasty firms, firms whose partners would break down crying in meetings with me, who would ring me with tales of despicable behaviour on the part of other partners, tales of callous, mean - spirited, vile, arrogant and spiteful individuals, have gone out of business ignominiously, for the most part, collapsing like slabs of rotting meat sloughing off the side of a dead horse.

«The «Workers» Stories Report» is an indictment of the previous government's callous reduction of rights and protections for workers in the province — especially the most vulnerable,» says David Fairey, co-chair of the coalition.

Callous - unemotional traits are highly heritable [161], expressed as early as at two years of age [162] and are predictive of the most severe and persistent variant of conduct disorder [163,164].

Callous — unemotional (CU) traits mark a subgroup of children with conduct problems that are most at risk of developing serious forms of antisocial behavior.

Psychopathy is characterized by interpersonal, affective and behavioral dimensions [7], but a three dimensional approach wherein Callous - Unemotional (CU) traits, Narcissism, and Impulsivity are the core dimensions of psychopathy, has so far been the most influential in the study of youth and bullying [8, 9, 10, 11].