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

“Furious at the anti-science ignorance causing the thousands of totally unnecessary deaths. Sad at my own growing heartlessness about it.”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 1, 2021

When I see that look Chauvin gave the onlookers, I see more than heartlessness.

From Washington Post • Apr. 1, 2021

Accepting these lower estimates, however, does nothing to lessen the heartlessness of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's notorious response to Lesley Stahl of CBS regarding the deaths of Iraqi children under sanctions.

From Salon • Mar. 13, 2021

For total greed, rapacity, heartlessness, and irresponsibility there is nothing to match a nation.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas