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    callous


    calloused


    callouses


    1. If used as a casual friend and sex partner without coming to depend on her, she was fine, but for an impressionable youngster, she might be too callous with his heart


    2. In the days that followed Smiler’s callous little display of brutality I counted the passing moments of my life through the waves of pain that accompanied my steps along the corridor for the morning’s ablutions


    3. ‘That’d be callous in the extreme after all you’ve done for me


    4. "Yeah, yeah, but I don't want to be callous


    5. Cold, spiteful, callous Mercouri


    6. callous face, he dared not look back for fear he was


    7. But how do you tell a woman that her man is a callous, money-grubbing bastard? Right now Ted is in no fit state to plan anything so thoroughly


    8. Though they all shared the same callous stare, the blood of some was like acid, and burnt flesh and even steel when spilt


    9. Yes, I’d have to live on with the knowledge that I was a murderess, but could it be any worse than knowing that I was reviled on Olympus? It seemed impossible that the callous Fates could spin anything more onerous than what I’d borne already


    10. situation not in their favour, they utter this callous bye and the

    11. She was a callous monster, but she meant the world to him


    12. In one moment of callous stupidity, he had brought up the abortion and had asked her if it was since then that she had felt distant from him


    13. He shuddered as he remembered Khan’s body falling to the ground at his feet, the crowd’s callous shifting of allegiance, Millicent’s piercing scream


    14. He was unlike any other prisoner she had met within these walls and certainly very different from Khan’s callous detachment from morality


    15. The pity unnerved her more than the callous attitudes of the others


    16. For a few brief seconds I stared at him, trying to believe he could be so callous


    17. She infuriated me with her selfish and callous attitude


    18. Some of the blame for US, allied, and Iraqi deaths in both the Gulf and Second Iraq Wars have to be laid at Nixon and Kissinger's callous bumbling


    19. In economics, both Communism and Libertarianism are equally wrong, callous, and dangerous examples of ideological blindness, a set of principles taken to an extreme that caused many people to die


    20. I read the letter that was written in such a cold, callous and estranged tone over and over again

    21. This comment only further cemented Bush's reputation as remote and callous


    22. Most cops his age, like Langdon, have become more callous and cynical


    23. I was starting to bristle at the insurance company"s callous treatment of a nice guy


    24. “So don’t think that I’m callous


    25. For these thoughts, Jeremy knew he’d be called callous, insensitive, maybe even a bigot or fascist


    26. They do this to position themselves to call their opponents warmongers, polluters, and callous


    27. To think that the poor are suffering because of their own miserliness in past lives, and that there is therefore no need to help (since one would be interfering with their karma), is a cruel and callous misconception


    28. But he embarrassed my father and was showing a callous disregard for my feelings,” she said


    29. callous selfishness is at the root of it


    30. unconditionally may seem cold and callous towards the feelings of one’s closest friends and

    31. But if you are callous and without


    32. Even though she didn’t look angry, I knew my callous words had hurt her


    33. And then the callous is gone – and my hand hurts like a


    34. evidence that I am not that cold and callous bitch who can hurt


    35. to be cynical or had an opportunity to become callous


    36. same crowd, her behavior grew very callous, and when


    37. 15 For this people's heart has grown callous their ears are dull of hearing they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes hear with their ears understand with their heart and should turn again and I would heal them


    38. The strongest proof that these invaders were devils, not men, consists of their reaction to my facial sacrifice: any man of flesh and blood -- no matter how callous and hard-hearted -- would, on seeing an aged Abbess cut off her nose in defence of her honour, surely feel some degree of pity, perhaps even regret; but these monsters laughed


    39. callous weeding out of the weak; there isn’t a day that goes by


    40. a little too long for him, he gave a callous, satirical snicker and

    41. "How would you feel if she were your child? Would you want to take a chance of losing her? Are you that callous?"


    42. That is a horrendous and callous way of dealing with people


    43. I'm sorry to admit that my frustration with the meter maid's callous response got the


    44. “You see,” he continued, “I've since realised that the feelings men have for each other are just as valid as those they might feel for women, and it was callous and hurtful of me to say what I did, especially to a sensitive sixteen year-old


    45. Her mother stared back, but the look Jane was getting from her mother was cold and callous


    46. ’ The girl breaks into tears and the audience is even more shocked at his callous insensitivity than they were at the girl showing them her privates


    47. ‘He’s a callous bastard


    48. Jai shuddered at the callous imagery


    49. Not to cry at the fate of others, and the fate of those still living in such an environment would be callous indeed


    50. there was some wisdom, however callous, in what his father had planned for him














































    1. It took us a few tries, but the bravest of us managed to rip the papers from his calloused hands


    2. of stubble crusted wood held in calloused hands


    3. His hands felt good, the skin was rough and calloused, but gentle, and the dose of hormones he was able to squeeze from her went a long way towards making up for the thick yaag missing from her head


    4. She felt the rough calloused fingers of someone she had come to know well in recent weeks and her shoulders immediately began to heave in a great, heartfelt wail


    5. felt the rough calloused fingers of someone she had come to know


    6. every bit as large and calloused as they had appeared


    7. from the rags he wore, and his hands were calloused


    8. calloused hands, the rough, red skin on his face, and in


    9. Homer placed his calloused palms on Nerissa’s cheeks


    10. In a society where youth is de rigueur and old age a nuisance, such (calloused) indifference is seemingly consistent with a society that has lost touch with its venerable customs

    11. Immigration Reform is unlikely to occur anytime soon for the (very) simple reason that such measures designed to quiet the tides of illegal immigration must necessarily conflict with the efforts of corporate lobbyists and their political minions in conjunction with private enterprises that have come to rely heavily on cheaper sources of labor to operate their businesses and who have repeatedly demonstrated their calloused indifference to rules of law and native born working men and women and are willing to operate outside the law if that‘s what it takes, at the expense of Native Americans for the ―benefit‖ of Illegal Aliens who are ―here‖ to collect a paycheck if nothing else, who routinely flaunt our nation‘s laws while abetting an underground economy injurious to open markets


    12. Colling estimated that she was about 50 years of age, based on her worn features and calloused hands


    13. I picture those hands as mine really are, large with slender fingers and calloused knuckles from hours at the punching bag


    14. He reached out and put his calloused hand on


    15. Opening his mouth to cry out, he finds a calloused hand is placed over his lips and one word is whispered close to his ear


    16. With unexpected speed and deftness Mr Scumble cupped a calloused hand round my neck and dragged my eyes down to his level


    17. His hands and arms were scarred; his fingers rough and calloused


    18. It is not necessary to be calloused in order to be manly


    19. The woodsman sighed and stared at his calloused hand, worn from contact with ax-haft and sword-hilt


    20. 9 Jesus was determined, persistent, and thoroughly devoted to the accomplishment of his mission, but he was not an unfeeling and calloused stoic; he ever sought for the cheerful aspects of his life experiences, but he was not a blind and self-deceived optimist

    21. The cruel treatment of Jesus by the ignorant servants and the calloused soldiers, the unfair conduct of his trials, and the unfeeling attitude of the professed religious leaders, must not be confused with the fact that Jesus, in patiently submitting to all this suffering and humiliation, was truly doing the will of the Father in Paradise


    22. My head had started to bob when he’d raised one calloused hand


    23. Its body was covered with rough hair, plagued with small ticks, and the skin was hardened with the scales of a remora fish, but unlike the priest’s description, its human parts were more like those of a sickly angel than of a man, for its hands were tense and agile, its eyes large and gloomy, and on its shoulder blades it had the scarred-over and calloused stumps of powerful wings which must have been chopped off by a woodsman’s ax


    24. Calloused hands but from work done a while ago, the skin over the thickened areas was clean and smooth


    25. The man on the other side was calmly seated at the metal table with his handcuffed hands—dried, calloused, and cracked from manual labor—placed on the tabletop


    26. In the ancient past an ancestor of his might have thus fled from a rival tribe, calloused feet dancing among the living forest undergrowth as Jacob’s dance atop the lifeless cobbles of the cold city streets


    27. He held out the calloused hand of peace, which the wizard studiously


    28. He felt her grip on his calloused hands tighten


    29. The cowboy ran his calloused palms up the small of the


    30. Rhone took his calloused hand in his own, and shook off

    31. He slid his calloused hand into her panties and worked her into a frenzy


    32. How could she be so calloused? She hopped off her horse


    33. “Don’t you care that I could have died!?” she said, thinking he seemed too calloused for what he had just put her through


    34. They felt full and heavy, cupped in his calloused palms


    35. He stood below the overhead grate, looking up, and he mustered the will to start the short climb up, the heavily rusted and flaking rungs of the ladder chafing even his calloused palms


    36. Padding softly on calloused soles they climbed a flight of stairs to a second level


    37. The soles of her feet were calloused and rough now, one of the reasons she left her shoes with the Gypsy King


    38. I have the feet of a troll, tough and calloused


    39. How many times have I been so calloused as that?”


    40. His hands were gnarled and calloused, his black hair streaked with gray, and his black eyes lined with dark circles and bags beneath them

    41. Nurse placed a calloused hand gently on his arm, warning him to hold still


    42. The rest merely shook their heads in either calloused contempt or detached indifference


    43. He turned from the camera, lifted his large calloused hand, and nudged the microphone aside


    44. Don reached out and shook firmly, his calloused, dinner plate-size hand engulfing the smaller man’s


    45. “How did you become so calloused that life has no value?”


    46. Alex frowned, rubbing his temples with his calloused hands, "I'm all ears


    47. His lips on hers, her soft translucent skin under his hard calloused hands


    48. It wasn’t a soft hand, like Juliana’s; it was tough and calloused by hard work


    49. Kneeling on the steps of the pulpit itself, he bowed his head, bent upon knees that were truly calloused from hours upon them


    50. They were calloused and rough from the work he did in the city



















    1. ” I turned his hand over and touched the callouses that were again part of his hands


    2. A love affair is not made to crouch down and brutalize itself like an English serving-maid who has callouses on her knees from scrubbing


    3. Do NOT be tempted to deal with corns and callouses by cutting them out


    4. A big hand took his elbow, a hand gloved in callouses; and Henry looked down into the broad, guileless face of an Irish seaman


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