Word: calloused
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...Navy sweated on, under a rain of callous suggestions from the Army and Air Force. Old hands wondered aloud how the Missouri had strayed nearly half a mile from the channel, and a board of inquiry was named to find out. Experts, reporters, and the merely curious pointed and peered at her exposed underbody. At week's end the Navy gave up, announced dejectedly that they would try again at the next spring tide in February. Every night, for all to see, two red lights hung at the Missouri's yardarm. They indicated that the ship was aground...
Anna Magnani is notably absent from the cast, but there is good evidence that she is not the only actress in Italy. Lea Padovani mixes all the called-for emotions successfully in the role of the poor girl, while rich girl Elli Parvo manages to appear callous and concerned at the same time. Victoria Duse, as the angular hero, casts his lot with the good people at the required moment, and portrays the true heroic metamorphosis...
Perhaps at that moment in Memorial Hospital, a life frayed with pain and dimmed with morphine is flickering down to the cold. Dr. Rhoads is no callous technician. His confident eyes grow sad when he hears of this everyday event. He looks out the window at the cluttered roofs of New York and at a great bridge roaring with traffic. "It needn't be," he says, "not always...
...plot is really a clash of the Silas Marner theme. Hope, as the doleful bookie, is a miser. Mary Jane, dubbed "Shorts," lands on Jones' doorstep when her father is killed for accidentally discovering a big race fix. Jones is callous towards his new room mate at first, but as the story progresses, he becomes more and more attached to her; the movie's neatest trick is conveying with subtlety Jones' growing affection for his ill-gotten ward. The first night that Shorts stays with Jones, she asks him to sing her a Lullaby. Jones complies, singing the tune...
...world knows that this is true. The Soviet Union may pretend it cannot understand . . . That an effort should be made to deprive two and one-half million men, women & children of medicines and food and fuel and clothing . . . may seem to some a small matter. But . . . we cannot be callous to the suffering of millions . . . We are well aware of course that . . . the Soviet authorities made an offer to feed all of Berlin ... nearly a month after the blockade had been imposed . . . The German population recognized [the offer] for the political bribery...