Sentence examples for callous joke from inspiring English sources
He even made a callous joke about someone shooting her. .
It would be impossible not to within a theatrical cabaret evening but NEVER with her as the butt of a callous joke.
When Rob complains, toward the end, that a call from Alvy interrupted him in bed with 16-year-old twins, an otherwise unremarkable one-liner about Hollywood depravity becomes a callous joke about incest and exploitation (if not quite statutory rape).
A barrister representing MGN had told the jury that Boyle was "callous" and "insensitive" for joking about Jade Goody and Madeleine McCann.
The few references to homosexuality at school or on TV were either as cruel one-note jokes or callous dismissals.
Premenstrual suffering is not to be dismissed or taken lightly, as it has been in countless PMS jokes and in the more callous male view of it as an excuse for any moment of female ill temper.
In "The Telephone Game" a young woman discovers on the eve of her wedding that her fiance, who has concocted an elaborate practical joke to play on a complete stranger, has a callous, cynical streak.
The grievance at the heart of that joke is that we wrongly think of the engineers' attitude as callous, when to their mind, in their focus on identifying the real problem, they are the opposite of callous.
