as in heartlessness
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Recent Examples of hard-heartedness
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.
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Alina Edwards, NPR, 6 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hard-heartedness
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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.—
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That means uprooting institutionalized callousness and redefining what counts as efficiency, innovation and value.—
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The ego, the hardness, the … callousness of anything that might be on the heart or the mind had literally just melted away.—
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Large roof windows maximize natural light, and the interior decor makes use of coated plywood and glass to offset the coldness of the concrete.—
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However, colors can also pull out negative emotions in people, such as defiance (red), coldness (blue), fear (yellow), and boredom (green).—
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China has gained, not suffered, from this obduracy.—
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Related: ‘Neglected diseases’ are anything but neglected by the billion-plus people living with them One possible reason for this obduracy is that noma begins as a dental disease, and dental diseases have long been underappreciated global health concerns.—
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Does their lack of kindness grant you permission to respond with equal insensitivity or even cruelty?—
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Your son’s insensitivity to your feelings is appalling.—
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Li, a writer whose stories are compressed and deceptively simple, spoke with humor and a certain hardness, perhaps born of the clarity of unimaginable loss.—
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Finally, impact strength assesses a material’s ability to absorb sudden shocks without shattering, highlighting that the hardness alone doesn’t always mean toughness.—
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Unfortunately for her, apathy doesn't appear to be part of the recipe for a long and successful career at PTMC.—
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After months of apathy and doubt, optimism is suddenly abundant.—
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“Hard-heartedness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hard-heartedness. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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