How To Use Callous In A Sentence

I trust this callous disregard for viewers' feelings will be put right as soon as possible. Times, Sunday Times
The letters also suggest that callous treatment of patients and their relatives is becoming more common. Times, Sunday Times
He winks out of the corner of his eye at me and says, 'Your old daddy is tough isn't he?' and shows me the end of his thumb calloused and hard as the knurl of white oak; only fire could clean it to the original skin. Confessions of Boyhood
In particular I became aware of an increasing callousness or defect of sensibility in the stomach, and this I imagined might imply a scirrhous state of that organ either formed or forming. The Opium Habit
he was arrogant and occasionally callous

But the picture built up in the media of a swaggering and callous man, was wrong. Times, Sunday Times
Enforcing the isolation of this callow and callous ruler is the least that a humane and pacific foreign policy must aim for.
They are actually callous and indifferent to the drama of life and death in the midst of which they find themselves. WHEN SCOTLAND RULED THE WORLD: The Story of the Golden Age of Genius, Creativity and Exploration
And what a callous disregard he is showing for your feelings. The Sun
In humanitarian terms it can be defended, though it often appears callous and short-sighted.
A most practical and emotionally calloused Youth interrupted.
Once, this was a stout ship, with oak futtocks and floor timbers, fastened with iron nails, built with saw and adz and the calloused hands of shipwrights now long dead. Md. center studies ship's remains found at World Trade Center site
For many it epitomised the callousness of leaders who for years have regarded power as a means of making money. Times, Sunday Times
My feet harbor the calloused soles of one has walked across beds of fire and the wrinkled flesh of one who had, for so long, too long, believed he could walk on water. Went Sideways
Some say that it has two souls, because it is furnished with two pineal glands, with two callous substances, with two “sensoria communia.” A Philosophical Dictionary
His cruel and callous comments made me shiver.
That the film opens the same week as "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" could only have been a marketing calculation, "Larry" being intended as the perfect counterprogramming to Hollywood's most callous exercise in soulless commerce. 'Crowne': A Bad Fit for Hollywood Royalty
She said last night: 'I want these callous people caught. The Sun
But my simple shunning of her had given the lesser folk of the keep permission to be cruel and callous to her. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
How dare they show such callous disregard for all the above points?
The sentencing judge noted "a high degree of cruelty, viciousness, and callousness."
Let's be frank here, and maybe just a teensy bit callous.
But the picture built up in the media of a swaggering and callous man, was wrong. Times, Sunday Times
Svenson was not normally given to such arrogant posturing, but he felt sure that the two were not men of violence — that indeed, they were educated and accustomed to clean cuffs and uncalloused hands … rather like himself, actually. The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters
The men are condemned as callous and culturally insensitive. Times, Sunday Times
And its death was not due to the great tactics or machinations of the Bush administration, but due to its own crimes and callous repugnancy. Sunday, January 18, 2009
Some might call him insensitive, callous even, but he believes there's some plain talk that America and a large part of the rest of the world needs to hear.
The ardour of the pilgrims, an old couple, is attested by their stiff limbs and the man's calloused bare feet as they kneel before the apparition of the Madonna at the door of the shrine.
A fragile little thing floating softly through a cruel and callous world. Times, Sunday Times
But despite the ineluctable force of modernization it's surprising how strongly and deeply rooted this callous disregard for women is.
The men are condemned as callous and culturally insensitive. Times, Sunday Times
I trust this callous disregard for viewers' feelings will be put right as soon as possible. Times, Sunday Times
In this video, the problem is sitting across from Colbert, Rodriguez and Moreschi, in comfy leather chairs behind elevated wooden barricades in large temperature controlled rooms, wearing tailored suits and expensive jewelry and working smart phones with uncalloused hands while deliberating endlessly over the fate of people who are just trying to feed and clothe their families and give their children a little better life than the one they're having. Mike Bonifer: Who's That Guy Behind Colbert?
When measured against the suffering of people infected with a lethal disease, this point sounds abstract, even callous.
To find this amusing shows a certain callousness toward other human beings. EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - What is wrong with day time TV?
It was also callous, slapdash and neglectful of the interests of less secure and well paid workers.
Jan 7 3pm Lump in gums? trying to callous tooth from pushing at night when bruxing. Android, age one
The tile company had callously sacked 29 regular workers and replaced them with casual labour supplied by Skilled.
By defending his blundering ways, this self-serving little weasel shows callous disregard for that poor little girl.
It appears cold and callous and it might come back to bite her. The Sun
This isn't callous and soulless; it can be rich and exciting.
When prison air and prison influence have succeeded in incasing a man with the sort of moral hardbake that renders him callous to those feelings which at first so gall the raw spots, he finds himself watching with curiosity the shapings of newcomers. Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude
There are many people who will say - with callous accuracy - that for servicemen and servicewomen hard duty is their job.
A handful of people seated in a campus auditorium on Wednesday assailed Gingrich for what they called a "callous attitude toward poor people. The Seattle Times
A hope that one day, the dusky, beautiful God of the cowherds and the shepherds would salvage her callously broken dreams.
It may have seemed callous to the nurses, but I desperately needed that time to myself.
If they turn their backs, they are condemned as indifferent and callous. Times, Sunday Times
His dark deep-set eyes were lost in thought and he traced a large, calloused finger along the straight edge of his jaw.
Lucy was brutally taken from us in a malicious, callous and evil way leaving a gap in our lives never to be filled.
It was abominable, atavistic and atrocious, big, black and brutal, cruel cold and callous, and so on.
The men are condemned as callous and culturally insensitive. Times, Sunday Times
But they were old enough to carry out this callous and cruel crime. The Sun
He shook it formally, his calloused palms rough against her delicate skin but his grip surprisingly gentle.
The man who embodies this callousness and disdain more than any other is the widely reviled Interior Minister, Nicolas Sarkozy. A Little Rioting, now and then, is a Good Thing
In the face of enduring human callousness how can man persist with his compromises?
He becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.
She looked down and saw that the hand on the edge of the blanket was calloused, and scarred blue-black. THE WHITE DOVE
Many of the sports explored here document the callous treatment of animals by our forebears in the name of entertainment. Times, Sunday Times
The GOP are calloused, cold hearted/blooded, and cruel. King: Uninsured 23-year-old battles leukemia, medical bills
How could I be so callous when the poor creature was still alive?
It was when she shook hands with him and lacerated her tender skin in the fisty grip of his rope-calloused palms. CHAPTER V
There's virtue to such curiosity and research, but it could also leave an exhausted writer holding an emotionally bankrupt manuscript in calloused hands.
He scribbled a callous note insulting the family he robbed. The Sun
But they were old enough to carry out this callous and cruel crime. The Sun
Police have described the crime as despicable and urged members of the public to help them catch the callous thief.
A handful of protesters drowned him out for at least three minutes, assailing Gingrich for what they called a "callous attitude toward poor people. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
With a start, Luke also noticed the Princess 'hands: soft, pale, uncalloused, clearly the hands of anyone but a manual worker. Splinter Of The Mind's Eye
He was knocked to the floor by a cold and callous killer, which left him totally defenceless on the floor.
Yeah, the idealist is still alive, somewhere deep under this calloused skin.
All of them are presented as taking place in an environment of such reckless irresponsibility and callous disregard of the value of human life as to strain credulity.
Thus the granulations of new flesh to repair the injuries of wounds are visible to the eye; as well as the callous matter, which cements broken bones; the calcareous matter, which repairs injured snail-shells; and the threads, which are formed by silk-worms and spiders; which are all secreted in a softer state, and harden by exsiccation, or by the contact of the air, or by absorption of their more fluid parts. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
His scraggly beard, prayer callous on his forehead and thick glasses make him look more like an unpleasant and pious schoolmaster than a terrorist mastermind.
The whole arms business has made top politicians, of both main parties, increasingly callous and insensitive.
He must be so scared that he scrolls immediately to the bottom where he posts his mindless, callous, cold-hearted one-liners. Think Progress » Corporate Front Group Funded By Coal Industry Scorns Widow Of Mine Disaster: ‘Everyone Wants Free Money’ (Updated)
He shook it formally, his calloused palms rough against her delicate skin but his grip surprisingly gentle.
The entire episode is a dramatic lesson in the breathtaking callousness of government officials at the ground level.
The wonder is that the country ever got governed at all, but it seems that all public men who had any fixed and sensible ideas and wished to see them carried out, had to make themselves callous, pachydermatous, hardened against this offensive mud-slinging. The Dominion in 1983
The bishop criticized the government for its "callous, uncaring attitude" to the homeless and the unemployed.
How bizarre that, because conservatives have so savagely attacked Sotomayor for not being callous and cold-hearted, the response is to emphasize her capacity to rule against likeable people. Wonk Room » Sotomayor Hearing Live-Blog, Day 2
The callous yobs scattered cuddly toys, flowers and a red heart left decorating the tiny graveside around the cemetery.
To what degree did it reflect the callous attitude the government routinely exhibited toward civil rights and antiwar protesters in the course of the 1960s? Nixon Reconsidered
That they could allow such a resource to be lost, and lost for ever, is far more than a dereliction of duty – even a banana republic would blush at the callousness of letting something so good and worthwhile go in the name of short-term cuts Fiona Millar, Education, 12 April. Letters: School music coda
Hypocrisy is at its worst; for we not only persecute bigotedly but sincerely in the name of the cure-mongering witchcraft we do believe in, but callously and hypocritically in the name of the Evangelical creed that our rulers privately smile at as the Italian patricians of the fifth century smiled at Jupiter and Venus. The Revolutionist’s Handbook
If they're calloused, does she pumice them and slather them in lotion to make them soft and resilient again?
Sure thing, go right ahead and make it a three strikes felony, that's what they deserve ... but, realistically, I'm not sure it would have much of a deterrent effect to a calloused lawbreaker. How Do You Stop A Serial Poacher?
She said last night: 'I want these callous people caught. The Sun
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Because it is just another bit of London pavement, albeit one that shows one of the many scars of this strange, brutal, callous, extraordinary city.
His was a big, strong hand, roughly calloused from fieldwork.
His skin was rough and calloused, and it made the nerves under her skin shudder to feel the texture.
It was abominable, atavistic and atrocious, big, black and brutal, cruel cold and callous, and so on.
I don't think I'm a cruel or callous person, and I don't want to think that what happened to me made me into one.
She took his rough, calloused hands in her own soft, slender ones and told him the only thing she wanted was for him to return safely.
His hands were thin, with long fingers unmarked by callouses, and his skin was too white to have been too often outside.
It uncovers a callous disregard for innocent life. Times, Sunday Times
It dissects (a shade too scientifically and cold-bloodedly at times perhaps) the sentiments and emotions associated with attack and defence; the impulses that eventuate in heroism; the alternating super-sensitiveness and callousness of the nerves; fear and the mastery of fear; the 'hope deferred that maketh the heart sick'; the devious stratagems of the terrible 'cafard' (blues). The Jervaise Comedy
Few people in the horsey sports are callous. Times, Sunday Times
I guess this means I don't need to feel I went wrong somewhere raising someone who has become such a cruel and callous snob?
Casual callousness, unthinking cruelty and sheer insensitivity remain key subjects. Times, Sunday Times
She looked down and saw that the hand on the edge of the blanket was calloused, and scarred blue-black. THE WHITE DOVE
With scarred, calloused skin, he was much more frightening than Diego could ever hope to be.
His work, though far from didactic, is full of moral implications; his example of aesthetic idealism, set by abnegation and artistry is a standing rebuke to facility and venality, callousness and obtuseness. James Joyce
I trust this callous disregard for viewers' feelings will be put right as soon as possible. Times, Sunday Times
They picked at their calloused feet and scraped their teeth with matchsticks.
His callous disregard for the priest also showed itself in his subsequent failure to discover whether he was dead or alive.
In particular, "Chocolate Wars" follows the history of the British Cadbury chocolate company, owned by a couple of extraordinarily decent and virtuous Quaker brothers, George and Richard Cadbury, who disdained the callous and ruthless business practices of many of their Victorian rivals, put the welfare of their workers first and developed a series of marvelous chocolate products as well. Deborah Cadbury's "The Chocolate Wars," reviewed by Carolyn See
I don't mean to sound callous or unfeeling, and I can appreciate that the parents themselves are full of joy, but I just can't summon up any ersatz enthusiasm for other people's children.
Male or female, they can be insensitive, callous, immature, selfish, proud (without base), and chauvinistic.
He felt her callouses grind and grate on his, and a great wave of pity welled over him. Chapter 4
Callous hunters are now presented as the personification of moral depravity.
Fairness can best thrive in a culture of honesty, goodwill, compassion and tolerance, not the prevailing culture of callousness and perdition.
How cold and callous is that. The Sun
It is impossible to fathom such depths of sheer callousness. The Sun
It shows a complete poverty of imagination and a vast amount of callousness.
They lack callouses or any other marks that might indicate manual labor; in fact, they deal mostly with information processing and dissemination, in one form or another. French Word-A-Day:
Many therapists have been told that they are more sensitive, intelligent and compassionate than the patient's callous, self-involved, demanding and critical spouse.
More than rage, it was a pity that filled me on seeing this callous indifference all around.
Aby will not have to shame himself to come back to his old home," she rejoiced, clapping her hands – hands blistered from the paintbrush and calloused from rough toil. Hungry Hearts
Why do some public servants show such lazy and callous indifference to vulnerable citizens? The Sun
But the picture built up in the media of a swaggering and callous man, was wrong. Times, Sunday Times
As for the rest if you, I hope Johanna is as thrilled with your idiotic callousness and hairsplitting as I am. Lea Hernandez Makes Comic About Slur » Comics Worth Reading
Note the grooved callous on the second digit, into which the pen fits like a ladle into a gravy-boat.
In this video, the problem is sitting across from Colbert, Rodriguez and Moreschi, in comfy leather chairs behind elevated wooden barricades in large temperature controlled rooms, wearing tailored suits and expensive jewelry and working smart phones with uncalloused hands while deliberating endlessly over the fate of people who are just trying to feed and clothe their families and give their children a little better life than the one they're having. Mike Bonifer: Who's That Guy Behind Colbert?
What makes an otherwise gentle and benign guy like him speak so callously and cruelly of 950 deaths?
The callous couple milked money from a hospital charity to fund a lavish lifestyle.
`You'm trapped here," he said, uncapping the Thermos with calloused hands. THE BOOK LADY
The other extreme of inelegant solution is to become callous and indifferent to the suffering of others.
A fragile little thing floating softly through a cruel and callous world. Times, Sunday Times
His rough, calloused fingers made her skin tingle.
He praised her, therefore, for qualities he wished her to possess, encouraged her to reject general opinions by admiring as the symptoms of a superior understanding, the convenient morality upon which she had occasionally acted; and, calling sternness justice, extolled that for strength of mind, which was only callous insensibility. The Italian
Now he emulated the ease of their calloused old fingers, their sureness and strength, and most of all, their patience. THE BROKEN GOD
It may lead to the person responsible for these callous actions. The Sun
The muscles in his forearms tapered into strong, tanned hands and calloused fingertips.
For one thing, the bad acting and script-writing lend it a certain callousness: not only does a man skip off to church and leave the dead body of his buddy by the side of the road, but Pirkle singles him out during his sermon and tells him in front of a crowded room that his pal is damned forever and that he likely is, too. Archive 2007-09-01
They are actually callous and indifferent to the drama of life and death in the midst of which they find themselves. WHEN SCOTLAND RULED THE WORLD: The Story of the Golden Age of Genius, Creativity and Exploration
Sri Lanka has callously ignored calls for a humanitarian cease - fire .
It is this callous indifference to human life on the part of the ‘disciples’ that he is alerting us to.
The river breaks on cragged rocks, sighs its mists into a callous sky of heat and warped glass. Blood Quantum
It takes effort to refuse, and besides, there's always the danger that the refusal will be interpreted as a rebuff, a betrayal of religion, and a calloused disregard for people in need.
Our callousness as individuals can hardly be called lordly, though the results are majestic; we accept supreme services, and we accept the supreme sacrifice (Skin for skin: all that a man hath will he give for his life), and we very rarely think fit to growl forth a chance word of thanks. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour
Most of these captive elephants live in dirty conditions and suffer from poor treatment and callous management.
The most calloused trull would do it, given a fingerbreadth of encouragement, and other women took even less. Conan The Unconquered
My heroes were mountain men, who had calloused hands and knew how to handle an ax and a rifle.
The surgeon is isolated by his deed, his unnatural callousness lit by a cold clinical glare.
This callous brinkmanship has become an annual ordeal. Times, Sunday Times
They struggle hard not to become callous and harder still not to despise the culture of alcohol. Times, Sunday Times
The men are condemned as callous and culturally insensitive. Times, Sunday Times
You must repent of any callous attitude to the right use of the means God has purposed to accomplish his will.
To be manumitted, slaves required ‘free papers,’ even when masters failed to confer these promised documents, either through callousness, unexpected debt, or untimely death.
When he does mention the unmentionable, as an aside, the effect is callous.
Treating people like pawns and playthings in your own private emotional board game is cruel and callous.
Yeah, the idealist is still alive, somewhere deep under this calloused skin.
But despite the ineluctable force of modernization it's surprising how strongly and deeply rooted this callous disregard for women is.
It is impossible to fathom such depths of sheer callousness. The Sun
I watch their uncalloused hands, hands not used to such tasks, skillfully wrapping the shape with twine, transforming what had been a violent an chaotic death into something more orderly, peaceful â something that the living could make sense of and that the dead may have ultimately wished for. Boing Boing: January 23, 2005 - January 29, 2005 Archives
Already, its callous indifference to the plight of the local population is fuelling growing resentment.
It was a callous, cruel and selfish act. Times, Sunday Times
And now its kind of calloused and I learned that my pleasure is only at about 25\% of what it can be. Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
I trust this callous disregard for viewers' feelings will be put right as soon as possible. Times, Sunday Times
In these circumstances, a man with highly calloused palms can make quite a good living.
All traces of courtly refinement and laconic humour had vanished; he was now callous and vulpine, the renegade spirit of the hoodlum streets returning to his lost playground. Ballardian » Simon O’Carrigan’s The Drowned World
Its floor is covered with a fine layer of chalk dust from the calloused palms of legions of lifters.
The shell is cylindrical, dense and heavy; the spire is short, with channelled sutures, and the aperture long and narrow; the anterior part is notched; the columella is callous and striated obliquely. Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds
Mr O'Gorman said the Church had continually fought compensation cases in a callous manner showing no regard for the victims concerned.
And what a callous disregard he is showing for your feelings. The Sun
Trips to refuges like Montezuma or Jamaica Bay are revelatory, but ultimately, we're trespassers, traipsing callously through the beasts' lairs.
One cannot justify the willful and callous act of deliberately choosing to remove the shells of conscious crabs and allowing the animals to writhe in a hot pan, cooking them to death as they struggle.
with a workman's callous hands
It uncovers a callous disregard for innocent life. Times, Sunday Times
We tend to view the impoverished with fear, discomfort, apathy, annoyance, callousness or resentment.
Callous freeloaders have been using a skip in St Mary's Cemetery, Carlow to dump their domestic refuse.
If the adventurers refuse to help, the Ghost will curse them for their callousness and attack.
But for such a callous and despicable crime he should have been horsewhipped. The Sun
It may lead to the person responsible for these callous actions. The Sun
His skin was rough and calloused, but his face was flawless.
This government is the most spineless, intellectually dishonest, corrupt, incompetent and callous administration this Federation has ever known.
Neither was he totally hard and callous to impressions of religion, what we call abandoned; for he absolutely denied to curse Human Nature and Other Sermons
Evil politicians try to outdo each other with callous means of damage limitation. Times, Sunday Times
You are not the callous trifler you pretend to be.
The tile company had callously sacked 29 regular workers and replaced them with casual labour supplied by Skilled.
He is callous about the safety of his workers.
Customer awareness is growing in part because the average buyer is fed up with callous treatment by apathetic clerks and know-nothing customer-service agents.
If they turn their backs, they are condemned as indifferent and callous. Times, Sunday Times
They are actually callous and indifferent to the drama of life and death in the midst of which they find themselves. WHEN SCOTLAND RULED THE WORLD: The Story of the Golden Age of Genius, Creativity and Exploration
This explains in part why slaves were often brutalized by the callous administration of cruel punishments.
How cold and callous is that. The Sun
It uncovers a callous disregard for innocent life. Times, Sunday Times
Several of the 20 items require the examiner to rate personality traits that we historically think of when we use the term "psychopath," such as whether the person shows a lack of remorse or guilt, appears callous, seems superficially charming, and has an inflated sense of self-worth i.e., the personality component. NPR Topics: News
I examined a small callous on the middle finger of my left hand, right underneath my fingernail.
I trust this callous disregard for viewers' feelings will be put right as soon as possible. Times, Sunday Times
When a plant is injured, it develops a callous over the wound as protection.
How did Americans ever allow one man so blithely and callously and "childishly" wreck this nation? Bill Katovsky: 13 Ways of Looking at the Inauguration
The letters also suggest that callous treatment of patients and their relatives is becoming more common. Times, Sunday Times
He was capable of cold, even callous detachment - surely qualities essential for that sort of work.
It uncovers a callous disregard for innocent life. Times, Sunday Times
He rejects the paganlike, antihuman crusade of the Enviro-Statist, which leads to callousness, conformity, and misery. Liberty and Tyranny
With her apparent lack of remorse, she appears to be as cruel and callous as he is. The Sun
To deceive or drop ( a lover ) suddenly or callously.
a callous indifference to suffering
Now he emulated the ease of their calloused old fingers, their sureness and strength, and most of all, their patience. THE BROKEN GOD

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