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It may appear that we were cruel and callous, but no one had time to spend sympathizing with poor Isaac -- except the Reverend.
She hates the callous and indifferent Lunar Authority for personal reasons: when she was transported to Luna as a young girl along with her convict mother, a radiation storm contaminated her ova, causing her to later give birth to a deformed child-a misfortune that could have been averted had the Lunar Authority acted in a timely manner to move their ship's passengers from the surface of Luna.
Incidents like those may seem very minor to persons with long experience of large and impersonal institutions such as government departments, but they happened to the Naskapis when they were in a very formative stage of their relations with Indian and Northern Affairs and when they had still not forgotten their callous treatment by the Hudson ’ s Bay Company.
Brian, who had made separate alliances and formed friendships with both Helen and Ted, was lambasted for his callous approach, but he was praised for his challenge performances and strong work ethic.
) The European frontiersmen exhibited callous behavior toward the natives, but the Beothuk seemed to have had an equally strong cultural imperative toward revenge that caused them to carry out attacks.
The Primordials, particularly The Dragon's Shadow ; Adrián, the River of All Torments ; Isidoros, the Black Boar That Twists the Skies ; and the Empyreal Chaos, the Primordial Tyrant-King, were callous and hazardous rulers, whose all-consuming, incorrigible egos and inability to see their Creation as other than solely a reflection of themselves wrought immense suffering across the world they had made.
An alternative explanation has been proposed by Stanley Milgram, who hypothesized that the bystanders ′ callous behavior was caused by the strategies they had adopted in daily life to cope with information overload.
During the weeks between the two tapings, changes were made to costuming, effects, performances, and the script ( which had originally featured a more callous and threatening Doctor and Susan doing strange things like flicking ink blots onto paper ).
Sir David Maxwell Fyfe KC, defending, called many witnesses to attest to Haigh ’ s mental state, including Dr Henry Yellowlees who claimed Haigh had a paranoid constitution, adding: " The absolute callous, cheerful, bland and almost friendly indifference of the accused to the crimes which he freely admits having committed is unique in my experience.
The discovery of the Katyn massacre in 1943 and callous conduct towards the Warsaw uprising in 1944 had cast shadows on relations ; nevertheless, all three victors still displayed solidarity at the Yalta conference in 1945.
Described by his contemporaries as a " professional malcontent ", he was physically well-built at 6 ' 2 " and 195 pounds, and had a mean and callous expression.
During the days between the two tapings, changes were made to costuming, effects, performances, and the script ( which had originally featured a more callous Doctor, and Susan doing unexplained things such as flicking ink on paper and folding it to produce a symmetrical pattern, and then tracing shapes over the pattern ).
Even though Nobunaga is often regarded as a callous and bellicose figure, it is said that Nobunaga mourned her throughout the night and had her buried within view of his castle.

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This particular song at this particular time could only be interpreted as the ultimate in bad taste, callous exploitation beyond the bounds of decency.
Finally, the depiction of the tragic story of Beppo shows a certain sympathy for the character of the poor Italian bootblack but also includes a callous disregard for depicting Italian immigrants in a stereotypical manner, an attitude that no doubt reflected the opinions of the majority of Americans at the time.
The report stated that there was " a pervasive culture of fear " at the jail, and that staff were " callous and uncaring " and guilty of intimidation, racism and sexism.
On the night of 6 August, at the same time as the British IX Corps began landing at Suvla to the north, the breakout from the Anzac sector was made by units of the New Zealand and Australian Division under the command of General Alexander Godley, who was known for his callous indifference to the plight of his troops.
Some woody plants that tend to bleed profusely from cuts, such as maples, or which callous over slowly, such as magnolias, are better pruned in summer or at the onset of dormancy instead.
Byron's seemingly callous treatment of the child was further vilified when Allegra died there at age five from a fever some scholars identify as typhus and others speculate was a malarial-type fever.
He was at first deeply affected by the horrific violence of the slavery which surrounded him, but eventually became hardened to the plight of the slaves ( by his own admission “ callous and indifferent ”).
Del worked at his father's greeting card company, but after he takes one too many insults from his callous father, he quits to build his own business later in the series.
Reta Halteman Finger approves Capper's judgment that only in the context of an almshouse at Bethany, where the poor were received and assisted, could Jesus remark that " The poor you will always have with you " ( Mark 14: 7 ; Matthew 26: 11 ) without sounding callous.
He came to public notice acting for victims of thalidomide in the late 1960s in their action for damages against the manufacturer of the drug, Distillers, which was settled before trial, and as counsel for the families of the victims at the public inquiry into the Aberfan disaster in 1967, in which he condemned the " callous indifference, incompetence, ignorance, and inertia " in the National Coal Board.
This statement of Haig's has been used repeatedly to portray him as being callous and indifferent to the plight of the soldiers under his command, though at the time he could only make an assessment based on the information given to him.
Having experienced the loss of his mother at an early age, and with a desire to leave behind a callous father, he heads to university.
In 1958, Condon wrote that his decision reflected his belief that the Eisenhower administration " was committed by policy to the persecution of scientists, or, at the very least, to a callous indifference toward what others were doing to attack and discredit them.
He is callous to supplicants in need .” Steblin ( 2007, p. 169 ) also discovered a document headed " Table of Rules " and dated 5 – 11 July with a list of ethical categories in the hand-writing of Christoph von Stackelberg: " Thus this whole document, dated at the time when ... he ... was deliberating about his future, is surely further proof that Josephine was left alone ... in June and July 1812.
In technical terms, The Fistula in Ano, without any regard to the strict definition of the word, is understood to be an Abscess, running upon, or into the Intestinum Rectum ; though an abscess in this part, when once ruptured, does generally, if neglected, grow callous in its cavity and edges, and become at last, what is properly called a Fistula ; this condition is now diagnosed as a sacrococcygeal fistula, more commonly known as a pilonidal cyst ( This developed due to long amounts of time sitting on a horse.

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As the days went by, Phillip was growing more and more callous with each passing day.

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In stark contrast to Kipling's later poem " The White Man's Burden ," Gunga Din is named after the native, and portrays the native Indian as the hero while the British soldiers are portrayed as callous and shallow, and ultimately inferior to Gunga Din.
José Padilha is currently attached to direct the film with Joel Kinnaman set to play the title role of Alex Murphy while Gary Oldman is signed on to appear as a new character named Norton, the scientist who creates RoboCop and finds himself torn between the ideals of the machine trying to rediscover its humanity and the callous needs of a corporation.
The callous behavior of the paramedics makes him feel very alienated, while his wife's emptiness disturbs and angers him.
Some of the stories are typical of those in war comics of any era, such as the interaction with a callous officer or a description of combat, while others are unique to Vietnam, such as the experience of soldiers on leave bearing the personal burden of animosity from civilians opposed to the war.
Ciel is much more dominating and callous than her video-game persona, while Zero now experiences a sort of split-personality disorder: typically, he is weak, frail, and cowardly ( indicated by a lack of a helmet ), but when danger arises, his helmet appears and he transforms into the powerful " Rockman Zero.
The Doctor saw through the Black Guardian's ruse-due to the Guardian's lack of concern for Astra of Atrios, who was literally the sixth segment ; the White Guardian would never have been so callous about the fate of a sentient being-and ordered the key to disperse, though he commented afterwards that the White Guardian should have been able to carry out his work while the key was assembled.
Blades was a member of one of Grimlock's raiding parties ( with a notably more callous outlook ), while Groove appeared assisting the Aerialbots in a team exercise against Hot Rod and the Dinobots.

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These men are not callous.
As to benefits to employees, it is notorious for its callous disregard except where it depends on them for services.
Greece was one of the highlights of our trip, but beginning in Greece and continuing around the world throughout Southeast Asia the treatment of animals was horrifying, ranging from callous indifference to active cruelty.
He becomes more callous, the population becomes more hostile, the situation grows more tense, and the police force is increased.
Tone is also affected by the skin of the harpist, how much oil and moisture it contains, and the amount of thickening by callous formation and its surface texture.
Some of the characters from the latter reappear, and the same sort of shape-shifting magic is much in evidence, side by side with a grim, almost callous realism.
Claude Lévi-Strauss believed that myths reflect patterns in the mind and interpreted those patterns more as fixed mental structures — specifically, pairs of opposites ( i. e. good / evil, compassionate / callous ) — than as unconscious feelings or urges.
His moral quandary deepens after working briefly with Phil Resch, who Deckard first believes is an android but then learns is a particularly callous fellow human bounty hunter.
Just after Didi and Gogo have been particularly selfish and callous, the boy comes to say that Godot is not coming.
' I cannot find words to convey to the reader the pain I felt in seeing those dear children taught to utter such words to amuse ears grown callous to their ghastly meaning .... How Mr. Gilbert could have stooped to write, or Sir Arthur Sullivan could have prostituted his noble art to set to music, such vile trash, it passes my skill to understand ".
Another character, Lucky, describes an impersonal and callous God.
In her book By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, she memorably intertwined the callous police interrogation under this law with quotations about love from the Song of Songs.
She is referenced as a victim of abuse and power who, used by men all her life, became as ruthless and callous as those around her.
Blue ash displays some resistance to the emerald ash borer by forming callous tissue around EAB galleries ; however, they are usually killed eventually as well.
Her character happens to be the younger sister to Sibusiso Dlomo and has none of the power-hungry, egotistical and callous characteristics he ( Sibusiso ) has.
In the Cape, Chamberlain found that the Afrikaner Bond was more affable regarding his visit than many members of the English speaking Progressive Party, now under the leadership of Jameson, who called Chamberlain ' the callous devil from Birmingham.

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