The gnome acted without cruelty or kindness, only a matter-of-fact coldheartedness.

Truth, deceit, risk, compassion, coldheartedness, resolve, seductiveness; everything was coin of the realm.

To the Editor: Too often, New Yorkers are blamed for indifference and coldheartedness.

Disillusioned with the seeming coldheartedness of the world, she succumbs to Robert's hypnotic charisma and joins the Ten.

III: Coldheartedness.

Similar to PPI Coldheartedness but also includes elements of subscales in Impulsive antisociality.

"I'm going through this horrific pain and illness, and then it was like coldheartedness to the bone," said Linda Mangracina, 49, of Brooklyn, the lead plaintiff.

NOTE: You can't ignore the contrast between Zeena's coldheartedness and Mattie's innocent goodwill in this and several following scenes.

This bravura coldheartedness, which this actor revels in, could win Cho-Won his own private subdivision in Dante's Ninth Circle.

It would appear that about the only things they do conserve are the very things the human race ought to have discarded long ago: narrow-mindedness, intolerance, coldheartedness, bigotry, machismo, and greed.

Pipeline spills unsettle the trailer-park poor; children suffer dog bites and near-fatal staph infections; homeless people take the innocent hostage out of frustration at the coldheartedness of the state.

For Winnie's fragmented utterances of joyful affirmation, as she moves barely and then not at all, emanate from a glorious resignation to the direst of straits, to the coldheartedness of the heavens.

The experience was a moving reminder of the harshness that life holds for some people, he said, and it made him cringe at the memory of his own coldheartedness years earlier in dealing with a part-time employee.

Insulated From Bombast Here in the pit, far from the madding conventions, it is possible to savor the sheer coldheartedness of the market on the American political scene, and its relative insulation from the ephemeral bombast of the great beyond.

This segment of the movie builds a complicated subplot in which the Communist authorities use Alexander to manipulate Conrad's politically dissident sister, Barbara (Eva Mattes), and her husband, Harald (Hans Kremer), with a fiendish coldheartedness.

Art Harris, owner of The Gentleman Hunter Inc., a hunting and fly-fishing supply store in Bethesda, said he was struck by the coldheartedness of the crime and thought about how some deer hunters got "buck fever," once they saw their target, a rush of anxiety that stops them from pulling the trigger.

After the 50th whimpering account of his being banished to the couch by his wife (astonishingly, he remained convinced that she had no motive but coldheartedness and spite), I began to feel as if I'd intruded into the bedroom of a couple I could only advise to divorce as quickly as possible - and they hadn't asked me.

They were, perhaps, the final flowering of all this history: not a turning point, as he had thought, or a watershed, but rather the final roar of an avalanche that had started slowly, thousands of years before, in the slow settling of layer upon layer of coldheartedness and cruelty onto the high ground of the nature of Man.