What is "callousness"

Usage examples of "callousness".

His biofather Frank Marcus is a cyborg noted for his callousness, superhuman reflexes, and curious rapport with his mechanical foes.

Kushites of the crew joined whole-heartedly in the prospect of looting their own people, with the callousness of their race.

It was a curious thing to say at such a moment, but probably the spirit which caused the remark was not so much callousness as that which animated Cromwell, who flipped the ink in his neighbour's face when he signed the death-warrant of his king.

Now Jantje had all a Hottentot's natural love for animals, which is, generally speaking, as marked as is the Kafir's callousness towards them, and he was particularly fond of the dog Stomp, which always went out with him those rare occasions when he thought it safe or desirable to walk like an ordinary man instead of wriggling from bush to bush like a panther, or wriggling through the grass like a snake.

Valeria found her indifferent callousness more repugnant than Olmec's naked ferocity.

His callousness to the danger of his country's disintegration, from the incessant, becoming overt, attacks of a foreign priesthood might-- an indignant great lady's precipitation to prophecy said would--bring chastisement on him.

It was the same every evening when she came home, she seemed to move through a wave of disruptive force, that was given off from the presence of thousands of vigorous, underworld, half-automatised colliers, and which went to the brain and the heart, awaking a fatal desire, and a fatal callousness.

But what good was progress if it led to callousness, cruelty, cold judgments about deservedness, a degradation of the godly spark in all of us?

Lamenting the callousness of it all, he set off north on Main, heading for the Androscoggin Kitchen restaurant and Sunny.

They had been exalted by this process, Michel saw, they were proud of their response, of how people had pulled together—also very indignant at any counterexamples of gouging or callousness, blots on an otherwise heroic affair: “Can you believe it?

They had been exalted by this process, Michel saw, they were proud of their response, of how people had pulled together-also very indignant at any counterexamples of gouging or callousness, blots on an otherwise heroic affair: "Can you believe it?