Word: calloused
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...striking fact to be observed is that in such a movement, no matter how frivolous, is expressed the bitterly callous attitude of our generation toward the evils that have been troubling mankind since the world began. It would have been a remarkable thing, nineteen years ago, to find college students making statements like this: "Since the coming war will otherwise deprive the most deserving block of its veterans of the Bonus by their sudden and complete demise, the Bonus must be paid now." The Princetonians who conceived this clever bit of humour are not to be censored. Youth must play...
Admitting with a cynicism which one would think too callous even for Gallic minds, that the League of Nations has never been more than a stooge for her own European machinations, France is unwilling to lift even one tapering Parisian finger to raise it out of a chaos in which slie has no interest. Now that the League has done its dirty work, France finds herself in the embarrassing position of the housewife who must once and for all get rid of an old servant without having the neighbors accuse her too loudly of cruelty and ingratitude...
...temperature of the fire-pit was measured at 800° F. The soles of Kuda Bux's feet were examined and no sign of callous thickening which might afford protection was found. A surgeon stuck a piece of court plaster under the arch of the dusky performer's right foot. Kuda Bux faced his audience, said: "Anything can be done with faith...
...whole thing is to me distinctly shocking. You have a large circulation among plenty of people who only know of poetry what you tell them, and you have taken occasion to single out a particularly good poet for a casual, callous and uncritical pillorying. I happen to think that poetry is a higher form of writing than any other, and I honor any honest and able practitioner in the field...
...graduate body, the situation admits of defeat. Great benefit is obviously derived from collected outside talent, but greater benefit would accrue from creating at least some few of the giants by from within. Aside from the patently mechanized deficiencies of so many of the larger science courses, the callous, conveyor-belt system of teaching, and the bedraggled mentalities of their overworked instructors, no single issue requires so acid a reform as the rapidly strengthening custom of using up men rather than generating scientists...