Word: calloused
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...grandfather took a long time dying. This whole fall semester he was in decline. I wonder if I seemed callous to my roommates...
...better job of invigorating the students at HYPE than the other speakers. He put a whole slew of issues on the table, and asked for the students to decide if it was worth their time to vote. His actions were those of a senator who was not yet callous from so-called "Washington politics," but one who actually cares about the people he represents and the issues he deals with...
...main defense will be the one Democrats have grown so skilled at deploying against the GOP: Hey, we're just trying to help you heat your homes and drive your cars. Is that so wrong? Bush and Cheney will try to find a way to say yes without sounding callous. They'll hit at Clinton-Gore for being wishy-washy, for shape-shifting, and for letting OPEC types kick sand in their faces since the Gulf...
...feel somewhat sorry for these pharmaceutical companies - the idea of profiting off human misery may seem reprehensible, but it is, after all, the very logic of the market economy in medicine. Pharmaceutical corporations are not venal or callous; they're simply corporations. And they behave as corporations are supposed to do, maximizing their profits, protecting and expanding their market share and pumping money into the political process to keep Washington sweet on their interests...
...after years of rumblings, the atrocities of the diamond wars in Angola and Sierra Leone have finally infiltrated the mainstream American press, and ever so slowly, the assumptions about engagement rings are starting to change. That shift, which strikes so many as a callous dismissal of age-old tradition, actually represents something of a throwback - the colored gems finding favor in today's market were also extremely popular among 18th- and 19th-century brides...