Word: callouses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many Americans, a frightening effect of the inevitable rationing of health care dollars will be an inability to use all of the lifesaving means available. We may have to stop spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to add three months to an 80-year-old's life. As callous as it may sound, we will have to start viewing life in terms of dollar figures...
Ignorance: Attitudes are improving, perhaps, but still I hear so many ignorant and callous remarks and actions. With regard to attitudes and acceptance, the Harvard community can be a better place than many for the highly functional mentally ill. (It would be terribly difficult for anyone to last around Harvard if burdened with the gravest forms of mental illness.) In my experience most people here are relatively enlightened and compassionate compared to society at large...
Shame, Christopher, is the feeling one has when one treats another with disgrace and disrespect. Shame is the human experience of realizing that one has acted inhumanely. Shame is the sense of embarrassment and regret that overwhelms each of us when we appreciate how callous we have been, how intolerant or fearful. Shame is what we feel when we are young and mean to one younger, poor and indifferent to one poorer, willing to act superior toward those more rejected than ourselves...
Mark Fish, as the callous, sexually insatiable, unspeakably cruel Gomez sets the action rolling. He packs incalculable arrogance, sneering and self-satisfaction into every swaggering footstep. Fish balances deft comic timing with a chillingly impassive sadism...
...line between fact and fiction is a delicate one when it comes to survivor stories," she writes. "It's impossible to tell how many of these stories are authentic, faithful accounts of what actually happened. They all sound tinny, staged." Her insinuation is a cheap shot, unprovable and callous...