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Noun
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The lives of the two children in the story, aged fourteen and four, are portrayed as being as fleeting as the fireflies, and the story is an unsentimental and unflinching account with moments of both tenderness and heartlessness.—
Ginny Tapley Takemori
September 4,
Literary Hub,
4 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Soft, quiet songs emerged as antidotes to cruelty and callousness.—
Bob Gendron,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Aug. 2025
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Tom Mari, the local union’s president, said in a statement that the company’s habit of blaming its workers for its refusal to meet them in the middle is a good representation of their callousness toward their customers.—
Matthew Medsger,
Boston Herald,
13 Aug. 2025
Noun
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But to the other, this is often construed as coldness or indifference.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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Over the years, despite facing indifference or opposition from whichever political party is in power, the folks in our film carry on.—
Addie Morfoot,
Variety,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Such rhetoric has fostered a climate where cruelty is normalized.—
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
2 Sep. 2025
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His anguished mother insisted on an open-casket ceremony to show the world the gruesome cruelty of lynching.—
Lorenzino Estrada,
AZCentral.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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