(a.) Destitute of feeling or affection; unsympathetic; cruel.
Example Sentences:
(1) It may be just as well that Hugh Grant fervently believes a film succeeds on its qualities, not on publicity about its stars, because he did his tabloid reputation as a heartless, feather-brained Lothario immense harm in the process of delivering damning testimony on phone-hacking to the Leveson inquiry on Monday.
(2) Thrones, perhaps struggling under the weight of its monolithic pop culture status, or simply heartlessly breathtaking to begin with, really isn’t about anything anymore.
(3) He has also declared that he will deport 11 million illegal immigrants, which opponents say is both heartless and impractical.
(4) It isn't only heartless, it puts at risk all the time, effort, care and money that has been spent on the children in the years before.
(5) The dogma that keeps people heartlessly alive is not religious but entirely secular: it is the fear of lawyers and not the fear of God which runs health policy today.
(6) Now that the false claims against Planned Parenthood have fallen apart, politicians are heartlessly scrambling to attack women’s access to health care however they can.
(7) The political impasses and economic shocks in our societies, and the irreparably damaged environment, corroborate the bleakest views of 19th-century critics who condemned modern capitalism as a heartless machinery for economic growth, or the enrichment of the few, which works against such fundamentally human aspirations as stability, community and a better future.
(8) The disaster has led to a surge of anger in Turkey , fuelled by what many saw as a heartless response from the government.
(9) Theirs is a coalition of the last stand against the heartless armies of the EU.
(10) So even from a heartless, self-interested economic point of view, it is perverse to be locking up at prohibitive expense people who have a lot to contribute to Australia.
(11) 4.56am GMT There is a question now asking whether Malaysian officials had been "heartless."
(12) When Missouri prosecutors said they had no relevant state law to prosecute Drew and her admittedly heartless helpers in this scheme, a federal prosecutor in Los Angeles hauled Drew there to face charges under the CFAA.
(13) He made a rare intervention to remind the Conservatives that they lose when they look heartless, that there is a silent phenomenon of " lace curtain poverty " in Britain and that exorbitant energy prices have left many choosing between eating and heating their homes.
(14) Heartless celebration under attack As goal celebrations go, few have come across in such poor taste as Santiago Silva's last week for Vélez Sársfield.
(15) The broadcaster and former footballer Gary Lineker tweeted that the reception by some had been “hideously racist and utterly heartless”.
(16) The middle classes of Britain will rally round their sick family member and pitch in financially rather than see their loved one risk their lives by enduring such heartless treatment from the Department of Work and Pensions.
(17) To a cynic, that might read like a heartless thought.
(18) Gary Lineker (@GaryLineker) The treatment by some towards these young refugees is hideously racist and utterly heartless.
(19) "The modern City is in many ways a cruel, heartless place," Kynaston observes, "and its occupants work such cripplingly long hours that inevitably they lack much of the roundedness of earlier generations."
(20) Had I dreamed up a plot of such cruel folly and heartlessness as May has provided, it would have been dismissed as too far-fetched, even propagandist.
Insensate
Definition:
(a.) Wanting sensibility; destitute of sense; stupid; foolish.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two sets of equations have been proposed to estimate the convective or sensible (WCV) and the evaporative or insensible (WEV) respiratory heat exchanges.
(2) The rapid insensible loss of water in tropical areas was reflected in the rise in serum urea while homeostatic mechanisms maintained a slower fall in sodium and chloride by renal conservation.
(3) The authors conclude that laminectomy on a chronic paralytic through the insensate area should be coupled with fusion and instrumentation even if the facet joints and capsules are preserved during the laminectomy.
(4) The losses included Ca and Na in exfoliated skin cells as well as in insensible perspiration.
(5) Anti-heparin activity of the paraprotein was suggested by insensibility of the patient's plasma to heparin in heparin-thrombin clotting time.
(6) The cutaneous insensible perspiration of adult healthy volunteers was measured by a new method based on estimation of the vapour pressure gradient in the air layer immediately adjacent to skin.
(7) There were a few instances of hypernatraemia in the first week caused by high insensible water loss.
(8) The infants were treated in incubators with high air humidity in order to minimize insensible water loss and total fluid intake was restricted.
(9) It is shown that the water flow density through SC controlling the evaporation rate from the skin surface in the process of insensible perspiration depends upon the skin capillary pressure.
(10) A method is described for determining the concentration of volatile substances that are excreted through the skin via insensible perspiration.
(11) During the first 12 days there were 54.2% urinary and 10.6% insensible losses.
(12) Higher strengths of Nestogen which obligate greater urinary fluid are probably unsafe in a hot climate which induces considerable insensible losses of water.
(13) Five commercially available body-support systems used in the prevention of decubitus heel ulcers were objectively compared for their capacity to dissipate or decrease pressure concentration at the most prominent posterior aspect of the heel in bedridden, insensate patients.
(14) Soft-tissue coverage was the most frequent (56.3%) indication, followed by unstable wound, extensive bone loss, chronic osteomyelitis, insensate scar, loss of specialized tissue, and contour deformity.
(15) Insensible water loss (IWL) was measured in five premature infants, 1 to 4 days old, by multiple weighings on an electronic balance inside an incubator.
(16) Fluid intake was restricted and air humidity in the incubator was high in order to minimize insensible water loss.
(17) In a population having a biologic distribution of repellent protection period against mosquitoes, an inverse linear correlation was observed between repellent duration and insensible water loss.
(18) The numerous factors that influence insensible water loss make calculation of fluid management in the high risk infant even more challenging.
(19) With in 7 years he developed a progressive paralysis of the upper and lower motor neuron type and an insensibility of the inferior extremities.
(20) This insensibility was already acting in the third month of intrauterine life of the fetus.