Word: callously
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Hussein, of course, has rejected smart sanctions, international weapons inspectors and an expanded oil-for-food program. He has continued to use the people of Iraq as his pawns in a callous act of international blackmail, exhibiting their abject poverty as evidence of U.S. cruelty while he and his henchmen live in luxury. His behavior is evidence of his utter disregard for the people of Iraq—if anyone had needed more from a leader who attacked his own nation’s citizens with nerve...
...true that terrible things happen in war - and though it's also true that even the most enlightened armies will fail to meet the Arthurian tests hypocritically set for them by some of those who routinely oppose military action by the West - still we must not become callous or inured. It should be, on balance, an advantage in a democracy to be faced with the implications - even in graphic terms - of our actions...
...their credit, most professors and TFs already make these accommodations. But it only takes one callous department chair or one disenchanted 20-something to keep us here until the turkey gets cold...
...Nocturne, lent his rich voice to a blunt delivery that gave the comic and dramatic moments of the story equal power. The story is too short and well crafted to ruin with synopsis, but it reveals the humanity of the sort of rambunctious young men who seemed so callous in “Think of England.” “Boys” provided a bittersweet ending to the evening, bringing the other stories into focus with a tragic ending that touched on the fears inherent in all of them: growing old, the tragedy of love, the desire...
...have to wonder if Giuliani would be such a perfect wartime mayor if he hadn't had his own brush with death. No one would wish all those dark nights of sickness on anyone. But in a man who had often seemed indifferent if not callous to the feelings of others, prostate cancer brought out a gentler side that New Yorkers had rarely seen. As he dropped out of the 2000 Senate race, Rudy acknowledged how suddenly vulnerable to the slings and arrows of life he'd become. A soulful awareness of the fragility of life and an inexhaustible supply...