Sentence examples for callous that from inspiring English sources

Her killing in 1987 was so heartbreaking, his actions so callous, that the case never faded from collective memory.

He is believable but lovable as Scrooge, a wealthy businessman so callous that when asked to donate something to the needy at Christmas, he suggests that the unfortunate be sent to the poorhouse or prison.

When he spirits a bandaged patient out of a hospital, believing him to be Nick, we half-admire Connie's initiative, as if he were an untrained Jason Bourne, whereupon he does something so creepy or so callous that we recoil.

How could I be so callous that I allow myself to feel defeated?" She's been going to an Episcopal church that is led by a woman pastor, who recently told her, plainly, "I don't believe God made man to be pieces of shit".

He's so callous that after driving a clueless little boy (Brett Kelly) home, he steals passports and money, then just moves in (the grandmother is drugged and oblivious) and -- oh, no! -- opens all the windows on the boy's Advent calendar and eats the chocolates.

Similarly, stenosis is simply a callous that the body forms to protect the nerve root from the friction occurring through misalignment.

It wasn't student nurses who were cruel and callous in that hospital; it was senior nurses and bureaucrats.

As callous as that may sound, the group's plight - or more accurately, their "flight" - no matter where in the world they come from, is receiving more international media attention than ever before.

"My fear is that there is a dangerous and callous attitude that is developing among some Republicans and some Democrats that these dangerous cuts can be allowed to take place in order to blame the other party for the consequences," he said.

Mr. Romney's friends, colleagues and old classmates — women and men, Republicans and even some Democrats — have remarked throughout the campaign that they do not recognize the aloof, seemingly callous man that has been depicted by the Obama campaign.

This seems nearly callous, but that's the point.