I begin to see that writers are liable to become callous".
Smothers says that he turned to crime because he became "callous" after losing the "two people closest to him" — a somewhat self-serving explanation.
The second idea — it might seem the converse of what has just been described — is that in a world saturated, even hypersaturated, with images, those which should matter to us have a diminishing effect: we become callous.
The second idea it might seem the converse of what has just been described is that in a world saturated, even hypersaturated, with images, those which should matter to us have a diminishing effect: we become callous.
Unfortunately for Tony, the prominent dinner-party guest, Dr. Will, only manages to blind the dog in attempting to replace infected corneas Jim wonders whether he, too, should become callous and uncaring and simply look forward to his schooling at Yale and his future career.
Consumers often become callous from messages they don't like -- they tune out and eventually ignore them completely and, instead, pursue their true interests, much to the chagrin of marketers and politicians.
It's so easy to become callous in Africa.
One study of emergency department nurses credited their built up, pervasive anger towards patients as causing them to withdraw and become callous towards patients [ 28].
Don't lose the right mindset and become callous.
He "becomes more callous as he plunges deeper in guilt and in the end anticipates his wife in the boldness and bloodiness of his enterprises, while she for want of the same stimulus of action, goes mad and dies".
