hardness of heart
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Elmer Johnson, a Chicago lawyer and former executive vice president of General Motors, sees "a hardness of heart that has not yet begun to be broken."
From Time Magazine Archive
He got the usual response: instead of repentance, a hardness of heart.
From Time Magazine Archive
Wars by definition require a hardness of heart that looks terrible on television.
From Time Magazine Archive
She did not like to think of with what hardness of heart, what calculated weeping, what deceit, what cruelty she now went into battle with her aunt for her freedom.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
The grace of humility, and tenderness of spirit, shall be the more eminently illustrated in that station, where, too often, there is only pride and hardness of heart.
From The Church of England Magazine - Volume 10, No. 263, January 9, 1841 by Various
