Word: callously
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...people who show up late or fall asleep after they arrive until finally a friendly, energetic Trinidadian nurse takes over and be comes the book's unlikely heroine. For a story of two isolated women, Sheehan's canvas is crowded with lively figures, including Claire's callous sister and a diabolical city administrator. The author's prose is as prosy and readable as Trollope's, and she has written a lion-hearted little book...
...both 'guilty but mentally ill' and 'guilty but insane' permit the evasion of the hard, unqualified choice between guilty or not guilty usually required by the criminal law." The move towards a double standard of judicial judgment for the mentally ill is tantamount to making constitutional a cynical and callous assessment of the status of a fellow citizen. The proposed mens rea standard (already accepted in certain states) seems ambiguous at best. The question of intent or motivation, separate from the crucial one of illness, is thorny and puts us closer to equating illness with "evil." In any case, restricting...
...last month was the director of Christian Aid, claimed that the U.S. and Britain had withheld assistance with the intention of destabilizing Ethiopia's Marxist government. M. Peter McPherson, U.S. administrator of the Agency for International Development, denied such charges and instead blamed the Soviet Union for its "callous indifference" to the plight of its African ally. The Soviets, said McPherson, have provided Ethiopia with some $3 billion worth of weapons but only 10,000 tons of rice-a food that Ethiopians normally...
...human complexities are fully recognized. Between his violent rages, Mickey is sincerely repentant, even charming as he whines for one more chance. Significantly, he never beats the children. And the various relatives and authorities to whom Francine turns in vain for help are not evil or callous, just ineffectual...
Turning more specifically to abortion, the Governor contended that people who favor legalized abortion "aren't a ruthless, callous alliance of anti-Christians determined to overthrow our moral standards." Among them, he noted, are the American Lutheran Church, the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), and women of the Episcopal Church and of B'nai B'rith. In view of the widespread opposition to an all-out ban on abortion, Cuomo noted, even the bishops had decided in 1981 that it was futile to seek such a constitutional ban. Instead, they endorsed the Hatch...