What's the difference between callous and unfeeling?

Callous


Definition:

  • (a.) Hardened; indurated.
  • (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.

Unfeeling


Definition:

  • (a.) Destitute of feeling; void of sensibility; insensible; insensate.
  • (a.) Without kind feelings; cruel; hard-hearted.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It has let itself be called a government of unfeeling toffs … The abiding sin of the government is not that some ministers are rich, but that it seems unable to manage its affairs competently."
  • (2) "You have to be an unfeeling idiot, which we're not, to fail to recognise that the last few years have been tough economic times for people in many places all over the world," he said.
  • (3) I still remember the conversation, with nostalgia mingled with outrage at the unfeeling nature of capitalism.
  • (4) Mass education, economic crisis and unfeeling government have long constituted a fertile soil for the cults of authoritarianism and violence.
  • (5) Trierweiler is forever dashing into bathrooms and collapsing while Hollande is an unfeeling prig who either ignores her or tells her to stop being so melodramatic.
  • (6) It has let itself be called a government of unfeeling toffs.
  • (7) It owes an apology to local authorities and to nation as a whole for this unthinking and unfeeling approach to the plight of some of the most vulnerable children in the world.
  • (8) Government Bond Markets: Unfeeling Psychopaths or Rational Keynesians?
  • (9) Such is the death of the high street: at one end, it evokes poignant nostalgia – at the other, outrage at the unfeeling nature of capitalism.
  • (10) In this regard the film’s psychologically dark and patricidal energies are inescapable: when pressed about his mother, Leon replies “let me tell you about my mother”, and blasts the inquiring blade runner in the groin; when Roy demands of Tyrell, “I want more life, fucker”, it’s the first and only swear word in the film, all the stronger for it, and for being addressed to a “father” who has unfeelingly engineered him, and not out of love fathered him at all.
  • (11) True villains and true psychopaths are, fortunately, rather rare; but, in the right circumstances, becoming unfeelingly obedient and inhuman in this way can become a common condition.
  • (12) Evidence had revealed the sons as "self-indulgent, substance-abusing, over-pampered" and depicted Adelson as a "harsh, demanding, unfeeling" person, the judge wrote.
  • (13) Poorly conceived messages that lack cultural, economic or social adaptation to the specified target population, authoritarian, unfeeling pedagogy, and inadequate educational tools lead to uncertain results.
  • (14) When Gould wrote a lengthy article for the New York Times in 2008 about her compulsion to reveal details of her private life online – she coined the term "oversharing" – more than 1,200 irate comments were left on the Times website condemning her "self-exposure" and calling her everything from a "moronic juvenile" to an "unfeeling, self-absorbed unsavoury clod".
  • (15) There is the intention to be fair - even to the hated bourgeois parents of the cool and apparently unfeeling wife who is at length brought to heel by a miscarriage.
  • (16) Britain wasn't quite the 1963 Wyoming depicted in Brokeback Mountain, but it, too, contained its stories of sex thwarted, love irredeemably lost and lives made grey by unfeeling law.
  • (17) Senior members of the nursing staff were felt to be unfeeling in dealing with the distress of their juniors when laying out deceased patients.
  • (18) "She has been attacked for being cold or unfeeling but she couldn't show the regime she was suffering.