The phrase "arid heart" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used metaphorically to describe someone who is emotionally dry, unfeeling, or lacking compassion.
Example: "After years of disappointment, she felt as though she had developed an arid heart, unable to connect with others."
Alternatives: "dry heart" or "cold heart".
"The wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience, his fear of life, his arid heart".
You can forget frills, privacy and shelter in this open-air latrine in the arid heart of Bolivia's Siloli Desert, a continuation of the Atacama Desert in neighbouring Chile.
His mother was (in Mark Polizzotti's lucid translation) "a pretty girl with an arid heart": Louisa Colpeyn, a Flemish actress who came to Paris during the war to work for a German-controlled film-production company and settled into a career of bit parts, travelling with the theatre and neglecting her sons.
Let his unbridled wonder and pure joy about this weird app warm your cold, arid heart.
It's about aridity, arid hearts, and finding the link to get the flow".
At its heart are the arid limestone plateaus of Arkadía (Arcadia), where streams disappear underground into the soluble rock and from which the barren upland of the Táygetos (Taïyetos) Mountains, reaching an elevation of 7,800 feet, extends southward to form the backbone of one of the southern peninsulas.
Evora rests in the heart of the arid southern plains of Portugal — a two-hour drive from Lisbon, a day's train from Porto and centuries from the present day.
In this arid country landlocked in the heart of the Sahel, insufficient food intake is but one cause of child malnutrition.
Broadly speaking, "the bush" refers to all rural areas (not only those still forested with gum and stringybark) and encompasses the arid "outback" at the continent's heart.
A vast, arid and landlocked nation in the heart of Africa, Chad has suffered through years of civil war, military coups and tyrannical rule.
The village of Loibor Siret is a community in the heart of the semi-arid grasslands and acacia woodlands of the Maasai Steppe.
