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" To this is added the terror and cruelty to which they are subjected whilst driven by callous drovers, often through a crowded city, to the slaughter house to which they have an instinctive dread.
At the commencement of a day’s work one often feels anxious, if not timid;[103] but when the work is very hard we become callous and sometimes stupefied by the incessant knocking about.
Wherever we turned peril stared us in the face; but the recurrence of danger had rendered us callous to it, and this indifference gave a mechanical surety to the step in places where such surety was the only means of avoiding destruction.
At the sight of this callous contempt, this disregard of the invitation to rejoice, as if there were neither hope nor joy for such as themselves, with only a mad desire to work for something to stay the dreadful pains of hunger, some of the women among the spectators wept aloud.
But the malady had now come to a head, and intelligent public attention was at length focussed on a difficult and unpopular subject, which hitherto had been deliberately avoided by all but the very few who had been familiarized with its magnitude by routine, and who had mostly grown callous to its evils by use.
Bound thee forth, my booklet, quick To greet the callous public.
And couldn't Uncle Pumblechook, being always considerate and thoughtful for us-though you may not think it, Joseph,"" in a tone of the deepest reproach, as if he were the most callous of nephews, ""then mention this boy, standing Prancing here""-which I solemnly declare I was not doing-""that I have for ever been a willing slave to?
But, indeed, from what I saw, all these buccaneers were as callous as the sea they sailed on.
So great indeed was their faith in a mother's love that they felt they could afford to be callous for a bit longer.
Much of his past was unearthed, indeed, and all disreputable: tales came out of the man's cruelty, at once so callous and violent; of his vile life, of his strange associates, of the hatred that seemed to have surrounded his career; but of his present whereabouts, not a whisper.
Women who were quite strangers, mere spectators, were watching it excitedly, holding their breath, in fear of losing a single movement or expression of the bride and bridegroom, and angrily not answering, often not hearing, the remarks of the callous men, who kept making joking or irrelevant observations.
"" And there rose again before her imagination the cruel memory, that always tore her mother’s heart, of the death of her last little baby, who had died of croup; his funeral, the callous indifference of all at the little pink coffin, and her own torn heart, and her lonely anguish at the sight of the pale little brow with its projecting temples, and the open, wondering little mouth seen in the coffin at the moment when it was being covered with the little pink lid with a cross braided on it.
-to look at her, see her heart was breaking with despair, and go out without a word with that face of callous composure?
I know that sounds callous and I apologize--someone is dead, perhaps others will be too soon--but stories like this are far and away the worst thing that we in the media do.
I went to one ""salad bar"" where not only did I not see anything that reminded me of a vegetable (and by the way, I'm intentionally going to skip the reflexive but pointlessly callous joke I could make about the customers, who I'm sure upon closer examination were lovely and admirable people), but among the ""salad ingredients"" being offered was a dish of chocolate pudding.
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