heartlessness

Example Sentences

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The production projects social media posts about the heartlessness of Britain’s unemployment services and benefits system.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 2024

“Here from this crossing, we see the heartbreak and heartlessness … a long line of blocked relief trucks on one side of the gates, the long shadow of starvation on the other,” he said.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 23, 2024

All of which is to say that the most sacred week in Christianity’s liturgical year is, in D.C., interspersed with days of cruelty and heartlessness.

From Washington Post • Apr. 7, 2023

And she enacts that wrongdoing with an equal measure of precision and heartlessness, talking about it later as if it were a dreamy sequence in one of the cheap romance novels she escapes into.

From Salon • May 10, 2022

“How I’ve stood this heartlessness through the years I’ll never know.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole