Word: callously
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...gang, he makes an excellent narrator. He has chosen his side and is privy to information, but he retains enough of his independence to report believably. Readers get more than a taste of depravity--murder, violence and illicit sex are painstakingly described, but thanks to Bathgate, they never grow callous. The readers' initial premise is not inverted...
...Seaga's heavy cuts in health and education spending had angered the poor. There was a growing consensus among Jamaicans that the recovery had benefited mainly businessmen and the wealthy. Under the party slogan of "We put people first," Manley succeeded in portraying Seaga as a callous, autocratic Prime Minister obsessed with computer figures and uninterested in his constituents...
...more precisely, the problem lies in what now passes for conservatism on this campus and in this country: neo-conservatism. This is, by and large, a callous socio-economic philosophy that expresses the self-interested traditionalism of those fortunate enough not to be among the dispossessed...
TRUE paleo-conservatism has, as Dostoevsky explained, compassion and a sense of responsibility for "the insulted and the injured." It is not the callous libertarianism of Milton Friedman, Robert Nozick or Margaret Thatcher, which lends itself well to upper-class twittery and renunciations of social responsibility...
DeVore said he was "terribly sorry" for those excluded from the course. "I had to be callous, but there didn't seem to be an alternative," he said...