stony-hearted
Example Sentences
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However, you'dbe stony-hearted indeed not to watch this on the edge of tears throughout.
From The Guardian • Jun. 27, 2012
Right on schedule, Nixon delivered his TV speech�which even stony-hearted critics ruled as the best of his political career.
From Time Magazine Archive
A shade came o'er the eternal bliss That fills the dwellers of the skies; Even stony-hearted Nemesis, And Rhadamanthus, wiped their eyes.
From Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by Stoddard, Richard Henry
I have forgotten to say that, in my chagrin against Annouchka, I attempted to revive in my thoughts the image of my stony-hearted widow, but had my labor for my pains.
From Annouchka A Tale by Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich
Of all the protean forms of misery that meet us in the bosom of that "stony-hearted stepmother, London," there is none that appeals so directly to our sympathies as the spectacle of a destitute child.
From Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis by Davies, Charles Maurice
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