Deep in the second act of "Heartless," the murky new play by Sam Shepard, a luminous lunacy lights up the stage.
They may act like heartless animals, but chances are, they're not.
That prompted White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders to counter that Pelosi's fundraising was the "most heartless" act of the day.
"This cruel and heartless act of neglect is barbaric - time is running out to help a vulnerable and traumatised young lady".
"Parsons is trying to play this off as if he's helping people, but he's not doing anything to solve the problem -- he's just committing a heartless act," said Ashley Gonzalez, a spokeswoman for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
It is the same mentality by which, as justice secretary, he destroyed the probation service in a botched privatisation, and even denied prisoners the right to receive books – the most heartless act by a minister in living memory.
In a heartless act designed to arouse the furies of his electoral base, the President has ordered children to be separated from their parents and stowed in tent cities and cages and a hollowed-out former Walmart.
With the country united in righteous indignation about the hacking of Milly Dowler's phone, and the gloss – that this was a criminal, nay heartless, act typical of a certain strand of the British press – the Prime Minister adopted a solemn mien and announced an inquiry.
There's a thread of snarky social commentary, as well, about the attempts by the residents of the fancy building to get rid of the nest — which, she writes, "seemed like such a heartless act coming from people living in their own well-feathered nests".
My heart is breaking right now for the victims and families of this heartless act.
