cold-hearted

Television programs such as "The Apprentice" reward and glorify cold-heartedness, deceit and duplicity.

Ironies abound in the story, contrasting Boule de Suif's authentic principles and generosity with her bourgeois fellow passengers' shallow platitudes and cold-heartedness.

Actually, Hoffer traced his outlook, derived from dispassionate observation rather than internally generated convictions, to his view of himself as an amalgam of charisma and cold-heartedness - a potential mass leader.

Accuracy is, fairness is, but cynical cold-heartedness masquerading as objectivity is not something I'd encourage," Raspberry said.

That explains why they show negative traits we expect, like ruthlessness, cold-heartedness and a lack of empathy.

Unless we feel in our heart the pain suffered by others because of our favorite sins, our neglect, apathy, or cold-heartedness, Black Saturday will just be another guilt trip and a reminder of our fear of death and allergy to silence.

But while this story of her campaigning for victims of violent crime covers the cruelty and cold-heartedness of those who wreck lives,it carries the compassion only she can convey in her books and in reality.

Helmer Ragnar Bragason sometimes uses nonlinear technique in an interesting way, but this can't conceal the weak script, constant overacting and a cold-heartedness that's as chilly as a Nordic winter night.

Poelvoorde is wonderful as Roger, all manic energy, over-the-top enthusiasm and a curious kind of cold-heartedness.