Sentence examples for too callous from inspiring English sources

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Too callous for tender princes?

The judge said: "You lived your family life for all those years knowing the extreme misery you must have inflicted on your victim's family but you were too callous and cowardly to put an end to their heartache".

The problem with this line of reasoning is that it assumes that Israel's leaders are either too stupid and shortsighted, or simply too callous and too "addicted to violence" to anticipate that every major military campaign undertaken by the Jewish state will unite the Arab and Muslim world in a decades-old reflex, which finds increasing sympathy in liberal western circles.

The severity of his budget proposals and his intellectual romance with Ayn Rand don't strike me as big turn-ons for a large number of independents and moderates, many of whom will deem him and maybe, by extension, the nominee who chose him as too callous: as the man in that political ad who pushes grandma in her wheelchair all the way off the cliff.

A one seems too callous, but these games just aren't my thing.

Was the recent Gilbert Gottfried tweet fiasco a product of Gottfried being "too soon" or just "too callous"?

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The Millennials, also known as Generation Y, may be a little callous, too: At a psychology conference in May, researchers presented data suggesting that college students today had significantly less "empathetic concern" than students of the 1980s.

On the other, Mr Romney's poise in the debates has undermined the Democrats' main line of attack, that he is too rich and callous to understand ordinary Americans.

Unfortunately for Tony, the prominent dinner-party guest, Dr. Will, only manages to blind the dog in attempting to replace infected corneas Jim wonders whether he, too, should become callous and uncaring and simply look forward to his schooling at Yale and his future career.

Also, "cold, callous, heartless, mean-spirited, hateful".

In this anti-free-market fable, Hamelin is the global village and its townspeople are callous capitalists, too busy chasing filthy lucre to look out for their children.

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