Word: callousness
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...constitutional power to grant blanket amnesty to the rebels-especially since one of the guards had already died in the hospital after his skull was fractured at the beginning of the riot. In Rockefeller's action-a euphemistic order to "reopen the institution"-Wicker sees a man not "callous and careless of human life," but one dedicated to maintaining "the order of things...
...most plausible answer is that he never bothered to figure it out himself. Throughout most of the film the message, if any, appears so garbled as to be unfathomable. At times he toys with the idea of condemning these bored aristocrats for their callous inhumanity to each other and their parasitic hold on a decadent way of life. At other times he drifts closer to the original message of the novel, that through the tutelage of this society Emmanuelle is receiving something that everyone is entitled to--a true "sensual awakening...
...would be hard to overestimate Lenny Bruce's impact on contemporary comedy and social criticism. Although he performed over twenty years ago, his ideas and even snatches of his routines still appear in plays, movies, articles, and even Harvard Band half-time shows. Lenny's style is blunt, even callous, creating outlandish imaginary situations: the Lone Ranger becomes a lonely homosexual who can't accept gratitude; Adolf Hitler is reduced to a house painter, cast as the Fuhrer by ambitious producers. His delivery is equally abrupt--he bends words, runs phrases together and throws away punch lines like a jazz...
...definition, terrorists are people who use indiscriminate violence as a means of achieving a political goal. To the victims of the violence-most recently the Israelis, who have suffered through years of wanton attacks by Palestinian bombers and gunmen-terrorists are callous, cowardly murderers preying on innocent women and children. For their part, terrorists usually present themselves as revolutionaries, guerrillas and freedom fighters. They defend the use of violence as the necessary tactic of downtrodden peoples seeking to combat oppressive or colonial governments. In the eyes of their followers, the terrorists' successful use of violence often adds to, rather...
...L.D.C.s some more time-but not much-to control their birth rates. To head off still more hunger in the meantime, they will need much help from wealthy nations. Such aid may become quite selective. In the West, there is increasing talk of triage,* a common-sense if callous concept that teaches that when resources are scarce, they must be used where they will do most good. Thus in the future, if the U.S. considers building a fertilizer plant or a research lab in a developing country, Washington will more carefully scrutinize what efforts that nation has taken to help...