The Collaborative International Dictionary
Iron-hearted
Iron-hearted \I"ron-heart`ed\, a.
Hard-hearted; unfeeling; cruel; as, an iron-hearted master.
--Cowper.
Usage examples of "iron-hearted".
Between them and the vision, between the fecund San Joaquin, reeking with fruitfulness, and the millions of Asia crowding toward the verge of starvation, lay the iron-hearted monster of steel and steam, implacable, insatiable, huge--its entrails gorged with the life blood that it sucked from an entire commonwealth, its ever hungry maw glutted with the harvests that should have fed the famished bellies of the whole world of the Orient.
Gordy flirting with the sentimental, yet iron-hearted sob sisters of the yellow press.