Sentence examples for act callously from inspiring English sources

Le Carré manages to convey this complexity of deception in many of his characters, often forced by circumstance to act callously, but The Spy Who Came in From the Cold is, in my view, his best book.

Old film taken from interviews with Dr. Milgram, who died in 1984, reveal a mild, slightly pedantic man with big glasses and a chin beard, who explains that the Holocaust made him want to understand better how it was possible for ordinary people to act "callously and inhumanely".

The controversial Milgram experiment into obedience by Stanley Milgram showed that many people lack the psychological resources to openly resist authority, even when they are directed to act callously and inhumanely against an innocent victim.

Prosecutors argued that Gray never should have been arrested in the first place and that officers acted callously by failing to buckle him.

They accused Mr. Boehner of acting callously in so easily accepting the loss of federal jobs.

I think most customers are a bit too savvy to act this callously.

Perhaps they have acted foolishly, callously, unlawfully or unconstitutionally.

Cain resists respectability politics at every turn — by presenting a character who is smart and full of yearning, but often acts aggressively, even callously.

The account in The Independent in Ireland (which seems to take a proprietary interest in Barkin because of Byrne) read: "Insiders said the tough-skinned corporate raider callously acted with such speed to avoid the looming financial penalties inherent in the renegotiation of the couple's prenup, which was literally days from its expiry date".

The final number so callously disturbed from their resting place was 155.

The Rasta Sanctuary also shared screenshots of a Facebook account they purport belongs to the man who ate darling Molly which show him speaking callously about the act.