heartlessness

Example Sentences

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The story is in no sense a petition for the return of the monarchy but contrasts Old World gentility with the heartlessness of the surveillance state, culture against the assassination of culture.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2024

“Here from this crossing, we see the heartbreak and heartlessness … a long line of blocked relief trucks on one side of the gates, the long shadow of starvation on the other,” he said.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 23, 2024

And she enacts that wrongdoing with an equal measure of precision and heartlessness, talking about it later as if it were a dreamy sequence in one of the cheap romance novels she escapes into.

From Salon • May 10, 2022

The heartlessness of it couldn’t be ignored or shrugged off.

From Washington Post • Apr. 20, 2021

For total greed, rapacity, heartlessness, and irresponsibility there is nothing to match a nation.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas