Such compassionless conservatism (slashing taxes for the rich and expenditure on the poor) comes with little thought as to which bits of government spending are useful.
No longer merely vilified in the press as crass and compassionless, he was under arrest for alleged securities fraud, though unrelated to the pill affair.
Such compassionless pragmatism is found in the most noble, as well as the most tarnished, of noir heroes.
"On the one side stand the corporate interests of the United States, the moneyed interests, aggregated wealth and capital, imperious, arrogant, compassionless," William Jennings Bryan, a.k.a. the Great Commoner, declared in a famous speech.
Your bowels, your miraculously lucky life, your love of your mother, your well-crafted similes, all are lost in the slide from depth to depth, pure, impure, compassionless.
He might well be called a compassionless conservative.
I'm not a moral relativist, and I find such a world view to be compassionless and callous, if not outright cruel.
The success of that novel was driven by Shriver's cool-headed unwillingness to apportion blame between the evil son and his calculating, compassionless mother, so that the reader becomes a moral arbiter, forced to take sides in the nature-nurture debate.
Having never been exposed to the faces of the individuals detained for years in Guantánamo and elsewhere, the American public – not just the arguably criminal instigators and organisers of the detention policy – has been rendered compassionless and, to some extent, morally inert.
You need only look to the US to see the sacrifices made in the name of national security – a compassionless system fuelled by uncompromising secret surveillance of citizens and allowing the unchecked detention of suspects in Guantánamo Bay.
On the other hand, the compassionless "firm" or so-called "tough love" approach on its own clearly does not work either.
