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
For the second time in my life, I felt my hardness of heart towards the mother I had never known soften with pity; a sob rose in my throat.
From A Cry in the Wilderness by Mary E. (Mary Ella) Waller
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