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Example sentences for "heartlessness"

Lexicographically close words:
heartiest; heartily; heartiness; heartless; heartlessly; heartnut; heartnuts; heartrending; hearts; heartsease
  1. To what do you attribute that heartlessness [Page 182] on the part of the daughters?

  2. Do you think that sufficiently accounts for instances of heartlessness such as you have mentioned just now?

  3. Too much heartlessness is intolerable (how soon one turns, revolted, from the literature of the Restoration!

  4. Its heartlessness is not the brilliant, cynical heartlessness of the later Restoration comedy, but something ponderous and vast.

  5. Nothing, in my judgment, can exceed the heartlessness of a law or of a creed that would compel this woman to remain the wife of this monster.

  6. I think that since the loss of my brother nothing could exceed the heartlessness of the remarks made by the average clergyman.

  7. The Salvation Army is the result of two things--the general belief in what are known as the fundamentals of Christianity, and the heartlessness of the church.

  8. It has in it the malice, the malicious logic, the total depravity, the utter heartlessness of John Calvin, and it gives me great pleasure to say that no Presbyterian was ever as bad as his creed.

  9. One can hardly imagine the utter heartlessness of a man who stands between the wholesale manufacturer and the wretched women who make their living--or rather retard their death--by the needle.

  10. Concerning the truth of the charges, the absolute heartlessness exhibited, there can be no possible doubt, for the evidence is cumulative.

  11. This prince, himself unfeeling enough, was so enraged at the heartlessness of these men against their own people, that he ordered every Roman Jew out of the city.

  12. Like predatory wild beasts they revenged themselves upon the society that had cast them off, and with utter heartlessness they smote the now defenseless negro.

  13. They are to be traced mainly to three causes: to the blockade, to the inadequate system of transportation, and to the heartlessness of speculators.

  14. Tragedy was uppermost with him, and at this proof of heartlessness he thought appreciatively of Millie's padded glass.

  15. Anne smiled, for a woman who talks of heartlessness does so to be contradicted.

  16. Much though moralists tell us of the heartlessness of the world in the hour of adversity, we should not have expected to light on so extreme a case of it.

  17. This heartlessness could not but mortify and shock the unfortunate Ernestine.

  18. All three indeed had one great fault, which made them hated by every body: this was their insatiable avarice, their heartlessness towards their debtors and towards the poor, for the Schwarzwaelder are naturally a kind-hearted people.

  19. I recalled the treatment I had received from the world--the contempt with which I had been treated--the heartlessness of high life, and the little chance of my ever again being admitted into fashionable society.

  20. I felt confidence in myself, my eyes were opened all at once as it were to the heartlessness of the world; the more I considered the almost hopeless condition in which I was in, the more my energy was roused.

  21. Oh, the unutterable meanness of orthodox Chris- tianity, the infinite heartlessness of the orthodox angels, who with tearless eyes will forever gaze upon the agonies of those who were once blood of their blood and flesh of their flesh!

  22. What a mingling of heartlessness and thrift--the religion of sword and trade!

  23. If there be a pang greater than another, surely it is to be found in the faithlessness and heartlessness of one we loved and trusted.

  24. Admiral Bell," he said, "you have nothing to do with this business; we can not blame you for the heartlessness of another.

  25. Her friends, of whom, however, she had only few, never found cause to complain of heartlessness in her, and the letters she wrote from Grenwitz proved that she was neither cold nor reserved with those she loved.

  26. When his passionate temper got the better of his attempted calmness, he would even reproach me bitterly on account of my heartlessness and my fickleness.

  27. And think," she added, "of the heartlessness of the wretch, leaving his own child alone here in that way.

  28. How Christ is to be made use of as our Life, in case of heartlessness and fainting through discouragements.

  29. A more perfect exhibition of heartlessness cannot be conceived, nor do I believe any other part of the world could produce its equal.

  30. Days and nights of unremitted watching ensued; Eugene was wildly delirious, now singing snatches of drinking songs, and waving his hand, as if to his guests; and now bitterly upbraiding his wife for her heartlessness and folly.

  31. I have forgiven her heartlessness long ago; and now, sir, I want you to give me that money.

  32. The fashionable heartlessness of Lady Elizabeth and her daughter is coloured to the life, and the refreshment of returning to nature, truth, affection, and happiness at Inch Orran is admirably managed.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "heartlessness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    anesthesia; apathy; barbarity; blah; callousness; chill; coldness; cruelty; dejection; depression; despair; despondency; detachment; dispassion; dullness; hardness; harshness; heart; hebetude; hopelessness; inclemency; indifference; insouciance; lethargy; listlessness; lowness; malaise; nonchalance; numbness; objectivity; oppression; passivity; pessimism; phlegm; relentlessness; resignation; ruthlessness; sloth; sopor; stupor; torpor; unconcern; unfeeling; withdrawal