Word: calloused
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...never a problem for her. In the days right after 9/11 she created an uproar when she wrote in the New Yorker that it was a mistake to call the hijackers cowardly, a judgment issued with her typical brisk authority and with the inevitable result that it sounded callous, however true it may have been. At the height of the Serbian campaign against Sarajevo she traveled to that city more than a dozen times to help focus world attention on Serbian atrocities. To lift morale, she even directed a production there of Waiting for Godot. The exhausted locals would probably...
...civilian casualties. But such complaints fall on deaf ears in light of the fact that U.S. forces do not bother providing an alternate count of civilian fatalities. In fact, the U.S. silence on this issue—arguably to the extent of willful denial—implies a callous determination that non-American casualties are somehow unworthy of attention. If America cannot protect the lives of those it intends to liberate, it should at least honor and respect their sacrifices...
...with her singing teacher, Sylvia (Jaoui) or chasing after a boy who doesn't want her. But Berry keeps her character optimistic and determined, going from lovable to intolerable and back again while she fights to find a place in her father's world. As Etienne, Bacri is brutal, callous and beyond redemption. In The Taste of Others, Bacri's lovelorn character is cranky but harmless; in Look at Me, he's pure bastard. His young wife, Karine, and his put-upon assistant, Vincent, are prime targets for his temper tantrums and cruel sarcasm, but they've got it easy...
...should “be allowed to grasp what exactly is involved” in war. However, his conclusion that Harvard should allow ROTC to recruit on campus, despite its explicitly discriminatory “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, displays callous disregard for the civil liberties of American bisexual, gay, lesbian, transgender, and queer (BGLTQ) individuals...
...Pring-Wilson spent time earlier in the evening, corroborates their claim that he acted in self-defense while fending off an assault by Colono and Colono’s cousin, Samuel Rodriguez. But Adrienne Lynch, the assistant district attorney, used the tape yesterday to paint Pring-Wilson as a callous killer...