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Noun
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These young graduates start out naive about the heartlessness of the corporate world and harbor illusory hopes for success in unforgiving professions.—
George Packer,
The Atlantic,
16 Mar. 2026 -
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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Hantz was turning callousness into spectacle and many viewers were hungry for it.—
Shaan Merchant,
Rolling Stone,
20 May 2026
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Our chance to take corrective action was lost by our callousness.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
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Too often families like the Hostlers have been met with indifference by local authorities.—
James C Ramos,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 May 2026
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Combating antisemitism is a moral imperative — one rooted, for me, in personal history that makes indifference unthinkable.—
Austin Turner,
CBS News,
26 May 2026
Noun
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Tarr's reputation for films tinged with misery and hard-heartedness, distinguished by black-and-white cinematography and unusually long sequences, only grew throughout the 1990s and 2000s, particularly after his 1994 film Sátántangó.—
Alina Edwards,
NPR,
6 Jan. 2026
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To make the musical masterpiece of his dreams, Lestat will have to break on through his shell of witty cruelty and hope an authentic soul remains intact beneath it.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
2 June 2026
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She was arrested at a hotel near the barn and booked at the Clark County Juvenile Hall on 12 counts of animal cruelty, including intentionally aiming or torturing a horse, as well as three counts of malicious destruction of property.—
Emily Mae Czachor,
CBS News,
1 June 2026
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“Coldheartedness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coldheartedness. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.
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