They warned me of the character of this girl, of your infatuation, of your callousness to public opinion.
A callousness to death that was almost mediæval was in the air, and the friends of the dead hurried on, the richer by a partner's outfit.
Philip was startled at the callousness with which she insisted on getting rid of it so soon, but she argued with common sense that the poor child had much better be put somewhere before it grew used to her.
Oh, he's done for," answered Lawson, with the cheerful callousness of his youth.
Better even than Nell Beecroft she knew that what passed with her following for shrewdness and courage in reality was callousness and calculating cynicism.
Her callousnesspassed for the confidence of knowledge.
No doubt they influenced him to think that he had succeeded in glossing over what he would have condemned as callousness in one further away from him.
He was still ruminating over thecallousness of the world in respect to lovers when she mounted the stairs and tapped firmly on Hetty's door.
Besides, might it not very well be that the blindness and callousness of the Jews in rejecting Jesus was the inevitable issue of a long process of hardening?
The low-down treachery and double-dealing characterizing this transaction, the utter callousnessto sacred obligations it exhibits in men of presumed high standing and personal honor, may surprise my readers.
That is but a single phase and indicative of physical rather than moral qualities; or, perhaps, merely the callousness born of long exposure to danger.
Kernogan was no longer lethargic, he looked down on his daughter's inert form beside him, and not one look of tenderness or compassion softened the hard callousness of his face.
And to this monstrous document of appalling callousness and cold-blooded cruelty there was appended the signature of Andre Dieudonne Duc de Kernogan.
At the chemist's the lank shopman sealed up a packet of powders for a coachman who stood waiting, and refused him opium with the same callousness with which the doctor's footman had cleaned his lamp chimneys.
It begins, in fact, with what might be called a growingcallousness to social life.
Fever carried off de Luynes, and the valets who played cards on his coffin were hardly more indecent in their callousness than de Luynes' enemies.
The indignation of the other guests made him dwell still more fiercely upon {219} the callousness of those who neglect their poorer neighbours.
Vices he had in plenty in common with most men,--except that his particular form of licentiousness was distinguished by a callousness and cruelty in which there was no touch of redeeming quality.
A cruel thing happened just before supper, indicative of the callousness and brutishness of these men.
The callousness of these men, to whom industrial organization gave control of the lives of other men, was appalling.
There were in him a certain coldness, strength, and indifference to sympathy, which, whilst they made his greatness as an artist, made his callousness as a man.
This was not cruelty in him; it was only habit--habit, and the callousness begotten by his own continual pain.
It would be an ill thing for the human race if they did not, and argues no callousness on their part.
We have somehow adjusted ourselves to what is happening, and this adjustment argues no callousness or insensibility; it is just the result of the natural process by virtue of which we are enabled to continue living.
A great deal of Chinese callousness has a similar explanation, and is due to perception of the vastness of the problems involved.
The callousness of the Chinese is bound to strike every Anglo-Saxon.
Especially in time of stress, of war or social unrest, men have felt a certain callousness about the interests of the abstrusely remote scholar.
How had the sun such callousness that it could shine to-day after such a blackness?
The American levity and callousness shown by the young to the old appeared, from the first, in Yuki's mind, and remained ever after, the chief blot upon a country otherwise beloved.
