Sentence examples for grow callous from inspiring English sources

"We harden our hearts, grow callous.

"We've been through so many of those that you grow callous to it," Chief Warrant Officer Justin Hutchinson recalled via Skype.

But you grow callous to those around you.

The United States, to put it bluntly, has grown callous about the lives of its children.

But "Americans across the board aren't as alarmed as they should be because I think they've grown callous to violence in the Middle East, and some Americans wrongly assume that violence in the Middle East is something we should just expect," Moore added.

He said, Damn me!' I cannot find words to convey to the reader the pain I felt in seeing those dear children taught to utter such words to amuse ears grown callous to their ghastly meaning .... How Mr. Gilbert could have stooped to write, or Sir Arthur Sullivan could have prostituted his noble art to set to music, such vile trash, it passes my skill to understand".

The effect shows in their relations with each other: in a reduced sense of belonging together.When the sense of belonging together fades, people can grow more callous and more violent.

Network television has grown remarkably callous and blasé about all kind of things, including rape, adultery and masturbation, but there is still a taboo against child endangerment.

Are we growing more callous?

Leaf cuttings undergo a more visible change, growing a "callous" over the cut surface.

The neuroscientists Hanna and Antonio Damasio and their colleagues found that some children who sustain severe injuries to their frontal lobes can grow up into callous and irresponsible adults, despite normal intelligence.