heart of stone
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You’d have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 26, 2025
"My family say I'm the woman with the heart of stone, but I found it very emotional."
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2024
“You have to have a heart of stone if you can’t feel some level of compassion for these people,” he said.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 19, 2018
It may have been the most visceral display of mental agony I've seen in tennis, and anyone who didn't feel for the guy at that moment must have a heart of stone.
From Golf Digest ● Jul. 17, 2017
The remainder of this susceptible young creature's note, my boy, was calculated to move a heart of stone.
From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1 by R. H. (Robert Henry) Newell
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