heartlessness
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In a victim impact statement, Nurse's sister Samantha Carvalho described Sabat as a "menace to society", and said the "heartlessness" of the killing was "impossible to comprehend".
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
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
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
“Furious at the anti-science ignorance causing the thousands of totally unnecessary deaths. Sad at my own growing heartlessness about it.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 1, 2021
How could someone like Samir ever survive that sort of heartlessness?
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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