Word: heartlessness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...search through the newspapers and the Congressional Record for June turns up no public figure who declared at the time any change of heart about U.S. involvement in Somalia. Very few politicians had the courage to be heartless and oppose the original deployment by President Bush late last year. Many more had begun agitating for withdrawal by September, as American deaths started to rise. There was some mild grumbling about the killing of civilians, but no criticism I could find of what is now held to be an obvious and devastating error: the change of mission...
...right that Republicans tend to be portrayed as heartless people, who do not care at all about the poor. He is also right that that is an unfair stereotype, which is almost never accurate...
...college with eyes wide open, an eager, closet liberal at last free to burst from my ideological chrysalis and to begin my intellectual growth at Harvard, capital of the liberal world. I believed that the color-blind society was achievable. I believed that we could save Mother Earth from heartless loggers. I even believed that we could be entirely accepting of all opinions...
...discussion arranged by Jesse Jackson which followed the showing of the film "The Liberators," have forced Veritas back into my mind. What motto would Harvard have chosen for itself if it had been established in the past decade? "Truth" these days is not a very politically correct word. So heartless. So unyielding. I used to think that a malleable truth is an oxymoron, but apparently no longer...
...perhaps your reasons don't matter if you're performing good deeds. Only the most heartless and brainless of isolationists could fault the U.S. intervention in Somalia. If we still cling to the notion that our legitimacy as a people derives from a humanistic social contract and an obligation to use our power as a moral force wherever reasonable, Operation Restore Hope is simply right. We should find no defects in Bush's actions...