hardness of heart
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Wars by definition require a hardness of heart that looks terrible on television.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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 council recited in moving terms its patience and tenderness in dealing with Huss, who had perished merely through his own hardness of heart.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles
