(a.) Hardened in mind; insensible; unfeeling; unsusceptible.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's largest organised political movement, added its voice to the chorus of discontent, accusing Scaf of contradicting 'all human, religious and patriotic values' with their callousness and warning that the revolution that overthrew former president Hosni Mubarak earlier this year was able to rise again.
(2) In its proposals the MoJ is displaying a callous disregard for the rights of its citizens, as client choice and quality of legal service have been sacrificed on the altar of price competition.
(3) By analogy with the comparable glands of the yellow-bellied toad and the grass frog, these are called the toxic, lumpy, mucous, callous, and small glands.
(4) Inequality, precarity and social division are the causes of our new callousness, helped by the rightwing press, but the real point is that Labour has only two choices in response: either continue to cringe before the prejudices of the public or try to change their minds by arguing for a distinct, simple and compelling alternative.
(5) As the danger of racism depends not only on its callousness but on its power and influence, this coalition at the heart of government suggests a sharp rise in levels of racism and a dramatic decline in democracy.
(6) What to say to the children who went to a pop concert and left to find their waiting parents blown apart by the hate and callous indifference in the foyer?
(7) Angry demonstrators have noted that Putin's tears are in stark contrast to his usually inscrutable, and even callous-seeming, behaviour on other big public occasions.
(8) And now the file on UTA 772 - a chilling story of international intrigue and callous terror - is to be closed.
(9) Photograph: Shenyang government Nicholas Bequelin, Amnesty International ’s East Asia director, described the briefing as “a crude, cruel and callous political show” designed to mask Beijing’s responsibility for the death of Liu, who was diagnosed with late-stage cancer in May while serving an 11-year sentence for his role in a pro-democracy manifesto.
(10) What has happened, of course, is something entirely different – and the callously careless attitude of western governments to this has given the impression of western complicity to many (who are already steeped in a culture of conspiracy theories) in Iraq and the Middle East.
(11) Previously and independently documented patterns of pathological lying, lack of remorse or guilt, callousness or lack of empathy, and failure to accept responsibility for their own behavior were significantly associated with the offenders not admitting responsibility for their crimes.
(12) ( The figure includes 167 victims of a plane crash, caused indirectly by Walt's callousness .)
(13) But remember: record companies can be callous and nefarious beasts."
(14) We are now knee-deep in a punitive, callous system.
(15) It's slightly callous, but the stoppages suit Chelsea; the game has become a tad bitty in the last few minutes.
(16) "They will not further any aim or objective by their vile and callous deeds.
(17) Jerry Petherick, a G4S executive, said the prisoners behind the trouble displayed a callous disregard for the safety of other inmates and staff.
(18) As a person with a disability myself –in fact, a congenital limb reduction like Pistorius – I fear the links that may be made between disability and temperament.” As it emerged, those links would be made not by callous commentators but by Pistorius’ own defence team.
(19) America’s elected leaders offer prayers for gun victims and then, callously and without fear of consequence, reject the most basic restrictions on weapons of mass killing, as they did on Thursday.
(20) ureters) becoming callous and adhesive, safe preoperative diagnosis is desirable.
Obstinate
Definition:
(a.) Pertinaciously adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course; persistent; not yielding to reason, arguments, or other means; stubborn; pertinacious; -- usually implying unreasonableness.
(a.) Not yielding; not easily subdued or removed; as, obstinate fever; obstinate obstructions.
Example Sentences:
(1) The patient was a forty-five-year-old female who had been troubled by obstinate Raynaud's phenomenon for ten years before the definite diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension was made.
(2) The whole proves his introversion, ambivalence, hypersensitivity, obstinancy, anxieties, behavioral anomalies, a life rich in fantasies and his underestimation of his own literary work.
(3) Soon my piano lessons had turned into me, an obstinate 11-year old, demanding that my neighbour teach me ever-more intricate DOS commands.
(4) Peritoneal pseudomyxoma has several main features: it is insidious, recurrent, obstinate and severe.
(5) Adamant avoidance of division of primary clinical responsibility among cooperating specialists and clinician obstinancy when dealing with third parties can help prevent suicides.
(6) When an obstinate irritable colon is present, a diagnostics of neuroses is indicated.
(7) Twenty-two cases 23 eyes with obstinate stromal keratitis treated by combination of traditional Chinese and Western medicines are reported in this paper.
(8) Scores of people, including comedian Mark Thomas and wilderness hiker Cameron McNeish, have become joint owners of an acre of land previously owned by Michael Forbes, the quarryman and salmon netsman who has become Trump's most famous and obstinate opponent.
(9) The results show the possibility that recombinant human interleukin-1 alpha could be of help for treating obstinate infections not successfully treated with antimicrobial agents alone.
(10) "[The officials] have become obstinate – they are seeking just different ways to mistreat my mother and us as her children," he said.
(11) During the first weeks of the rheumatoid arthritis the following symptoms are found: articular syndromes, more frequently in form of obstinate polyarthralgias, mono-oligoarthritis, accompanied by morning rigidity and accelerated BSR as well as impairment of the general condition.
(12) In a study for the recognition of the urodynamics of the detrusor after administration of the anticholinergic drug Mictonorm 14 patients with obstinate urge symptoms were examined.
(13) But these factors become important when patients, particularly debilitated patients, are infected acutely or chronically with some of the more obstinate bacteria.
(14) Back by the obstinately uninflated elephant, Simon Vose clambered in to his van and set off on another callout for his house maintenance business.
(15) These results show the possibility that KW-2228 could be of use in treating obstinate infections not successfully treated with an antimicrobial agent alone.
(16) Instead, the focus has been on the objective question: could an obstinate and prejudiced person have honestly based the comment made by the defendant on the facts on which the defendant commented?
(17) But with a very strong El Niño driving record global temperatures and a huge patch of hot water, known as “the Blob” , hanging obstinately in the north-western Pacific, things look far worse again for 2016.
(18) Such querulous, opinionated persons are obstinate "bellyachers" who "stick to their guns" and imaginary legal positions to the extent of being a general nuisance.
(19) Three years later, he provoked intense controversy with the publication of Haig: The Educated Soldier, which was sharply at odds with the popular view that the first world war had been the supreme example of "mud, blood and futility", with British generals depicted as callous, obstinate and incompetent.
(20) The knowledge of these diseases is a prerequisite to the causal and lasting treatment of patients affected by the obstinate and occasionally even painful symptom of the burning tongue.