Sentence examples for hardheartedness from inspiring English sources

Though he complains bitterly of her rapacity and hardheartedness, Tibullus seems to have remained subjugated to her for the rest of his life.

But those same successes have contributed to a distillation of ever more concentrated pools of poverty and despair in the inner cities — a process greatly worsened by the catastrophic decline of decent manufacturing jobs and the growing hardheartedness and insolvency of social policy at every level of government.

As I learned it in Hebrew School, the Pharaoh brings the plagues on himself with his hardheartedness.

But by his remarks, Mr. Obama showed he is well aware that a recent string of debates produced moments in which reactions from audiences of Tea Party sympathizers became as widely discussed afterward as anything the candidates said – prompting some of the candidates to distance themselves later from the expressions of intolerance or hardheartedness.

Matthews wears his hardheartedness proudly like a badge: "Spite had taught him detachment.

The agency is employing a degree of hardheartedness that feels well outside our national character and traditions for sheltering the persecuted.

Mercy is essential because all men are sinners, in need of God's forgiveness and grace, and it's especially necessary today, at a time when "humanity is wounded," suffering from "the many slaveries of the third millennium" — not just war and poverty and social exclusion, but also fatalism, hardheartedness and self-righteousness.

Is it the means by which we rationalize our own hardheartedness, buoyed by the knowledge that the sufferings of the vulnerable are not our fault?