hardheartedness

Indeed, I should be angry with you because of your hardheartedness against me!

The next day, the owner saw the folly and hardheartedness of his ways.

Hardheartedness is surely unbecoming, and kindheartedness may sometimes be too much to ask.

When she first saw farmers refusing workers a week off, she was shocked at their hardheartedness.

A similar hardheartedness informs the rest of Lucy's observations and reminiscences.

You will develop a hardheartedness that flatters your moral vanity because it seems mature.

Matthews wears his hardheartedness proudly like a badge: "Spite had taught him detachment.

'Woe be to you, when your hardheartedness returns and no doves mark its trail in peace.

Is it the means by which we rationalize our own hardheartedness, buoyed by the knowledge that the sufferings of the vulnerable are not our fault?

"I told her I thought the reports of your hardheartedness and political ambitions were exaggerated . . . and why."

With a jolt, I realized that I was a victim of the hardheartedness that has begun to contaminate our society.

TNT's lively new film restores the hardheartedness of the pre-reformed Scrooge while retaining the delight he later finds in joining the human race.

Last week the state of Oregon announced that it would curtail many medical services for the poor -but the move does not demonstrate hardheartedness so much as hardheaded compassion.

In each case, arrogance, intellectual pride or simple hardheartedness must be unlearned if tragedy is to be averted; wisdom and spiritual insight are gained only in the wake of much confusion and self-doubt.

"Hence by degrees it has come to pass the working men have been surrendered, isolated and helpless, to the hardheartedness of employers and the greed of unchecked competition ..." No one with eyes in his head would argue with that one.'

Another current master of the subgenre, James Ellroy, upends expectations with such ferocious hardheartedness that he managed, in "American Tabloid," to shed new - if bilious - light on the events leading to the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

The day had been good: a blind man, the reduced sentence I had hoped for, a cordial handclasp from my client, a few liberalities, and in the afternoon, a brilliant improvisation in the company of several friends on the hardheartedness of our governing class and the hypocrisy of our leaders.