callousness

How To Use callousness In A Sentence

• In particular I became aware of an increasing callousness or defect of sensibility in the stomach, and this I imagined might imply a scirrhous state of that organ either formed or forming. The Opium Habit
• For many it epitomised the callousness of leaders who for years have regarded power as a means of making money. Times, Sunday Times
• The sentencing judge noted "a high degree of cruelty, viciousness, and callousness."
• To find this amusing shows a certain callousness toward other human beings. EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - What is wrong with day time TV?
• The man who embodies this callousness and disdain more than any other is the widely reviled Interior Minister, Nicolas Sarkozy. A Little Rioting, now and then, is a Good Thing
• In the face of enduring human callousness how can man persist with his compromises?
• The entire episode is a dramatic lesson in the breathtaking callousness of government officials at the ground level.
• That they could allow such a resource to be lost, and lost for ever, is far more than a dereliction of duty – even a banana republic would blush at the callousness of letting something so good and worthwhile go in the name of short-term cuts Fiona Millar, Education, 12 April. Letters: School music coda
• It dissects (a shade too scientifically and cold-bloodedly at times perhaps) the sentiments and emotions associated with attack and defence; the impulses that eventuate in heroism; the alternating super-sensitiveness and callousness of the nerves; fear and the mastery of fear; the 'hope deferred that maketh the heart sick'; the devious stratagems of the terrible 'cafard' (blues). The Jervaise Comedy
• Casual callousness, unthinking cruelty and sheer insensitivity remain key subjects. Times, Sunday Times