Sentence examples for callous world from inspiring English sources

If all this has crossed your mind, Naturally­Curly will seem like a refuge from a callous world.

Yet once again, he comes off like an angst-ridden teenager trying to find meaning in a cold, callous world.

He invariably presented himself as a victim, a free spirit whose simple wish to play his music and live his life was thwarted by a callous world.

"City of Night" in particular has touched thousands of readers through the years with its portrayal of outcasts masking their true identities while searching for acceptance in a callous world.

JOHANNESBURG — For many South Africans, the international brouhaha about whether Caster Semenya is too masculine to compete in women's track events has been an affront to everyone here, as if a callous world wants to peek beneath the entire nation's underpants and evaluate what it sees.

A girl from the prairie using her Spanish to care for damaged boys in a callous world where, contrary to everything the Savior said, the poor and powerless get short shrift — in the U.S. Senate and elsewhere — and she is sharing the tears of the sesame boy and making him laugh.

So, in our youth, we learn to love ourselves, or maybe not, but we start doing that, and we get so far up our own asses that it's just humiliating and heartbreaking when you realize how callous the world can truly be.

All the elements of his intensely pessimistic world view — remorseless fury at a callous universe, lack of faith in human relationships, manic pursuit of aesthetic perfection — were likely set by the hardships of his youth.

But there is a page on its Web site titled "There's No Such Thing as a 'Responsible Breeder.' " The argument is that "producing animals for sale is a greedy and callous business in a world in which there is a critical and chronic shortage of good homes for dogs, cats, and other animals, and the only 'responsible breeders' are those who... get out of the business altogether".

Millar is no more responsible for Harry Frazee's sale of Babe Ruth to the Yankees than the effervescent young Dontrelle Willis is responsible for Wayne Huizenga's callous dismantling of the 1997 world champion Marlins in Florida.

Cleave believes he would not have written the novel were he not a parent, as he does not wish for his children "to grow up into a world that is callous and stupid".