Sentence examples for cold-heartedness from inspiring English sources

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cold-heartedness

noun

The state of being cold-hearted

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The picture's appeal comes from its cold-heartedness.

We shy away from talking about death, not out of cold-heartedness, but out of fear.

Left alone with Amy, he resorts either to brusque cold-heartedness ("my time for lovemaking is limited") or to a stumbling hesitancy.

But whether and how their sums add up is crucial for the Tories, encumbered as they have been for much of the past 20 years by toxic auras of cold-heartedness and incompetence.

While conceding defeat on the issue for now, Democrats said that the White House's refusal to support $2 billion more in farm aid was proof of the Bush administration's cold-heartedness.

His infantile character, duplicity, cold-heartedness, and self-dealing greed are evident not merely to the majority of the poll-answering electorate but, sooner or later, to those who make the decision to work at his side.

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Taylor realises his film lacks an emotional core, and he cuts back for a scene in which Brown tearfully turns away his mother (Viola Davis) from his dressing room; then in order to explain his cold heartedness, he footnotes that flashback with another, to show her earlier renunciation of him – a very model of telescoping redundancy.

The mind manipulation is stunningly precise -- cold hearted to be sure, but when trying to defraud someone, cold heartedness is a requirement.

President Obama has not been commendable on this issue either, but nothing pales in comparison to the wretched cold heartedness displayed by the GOP.

The real side of Whitman, carefully hidden from view by her handlers, was released that night and now she is paying the price for her penchant to blame others, cold heartedness, and self-preserving political cowardice.

They include: Entitlement (feeling of privilege) Personal irresponsibility (blaming others/external factors for criminal behavior) Power Orientation (the need for power/control over others) Justification (minimization of seriousness of antisocial acts) Cold Heartedness (callousness) Criminal Rationalization (negative attitude toward law and authority figures).

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