hardheartedness

Example Sentences

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Both externally and internally, there has also been a hardheartedness about how Australian officialdom has regulated the movement of its citizens.

From BBC • Feb. 3, 2022

Last year, his image softened when he embraced Medicaid expansion, criticizing the hardheartedness of some Republicans.

From New York Times • Sep. 28, 2014

Chairman Jesse Jones explained RFC's hardheartedness as simply that "a matter of principle is involved."

From Time Magazine Archive

Parson Stubbs had passed the hat before Speaker Byrns mustered up sufficient hardheartedness to point out that it was strictly against the House rules to take up a collection on the floor.

From Time Magazine Archive

This, I am convinced, was not hardheartedness on the part of most; but merely that all men’s minds were filled with a great desire.

From Gold by White, Stewart Edward