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Heartlessness See also Cruelty, Ruthlessness. Chester, Sir John towards son’s love affair. [Br. Lit.: Barnaby Rudge] cannot forgive Tess’s past. [Br. Lit.: Tess of the D’Urbervilles] trained by Miss Havisham to take advantage of men. [Br. Lit.: Great Expectations] encourages knight’s love to gain his tournament prize. [Br. Lit.: Idylls of the King, “Pelleas and Ettarre”] ruthlessly debases and cruelly deceives a former lover, driving him to suicide. [Swed. Drama: Isben Hedda Gabler] unfeeling in singleminded pursuit of Kimble. [TV: “The Fugitive” in Terrace, I, 290] sentenced Tell to shoot apple off son’s head. [Swiss Legend: Brewer Dictionary, 1066; Ital. Opera: Rossini, Wilhelm Tell] for hardheartedness to poor during famine, eaten by mice. [Ger. Legend: LLEI, I: 290] laughs at the death of the little Dwarf who can no longer dance for her. [Br. Lit.: Oscar Wilde “The Birthday of the Infanta”] coldhearted in his relentless pursuit of Valjean. [Fr. Lit.: Les Misérables] cruel and heartless lady. [Br. Lit.: “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” in Walsh Modern, 51] has no pity for others’ sufferings. [Russ. Lit.: Magill III, 921]
in revenge for dishonor to ancestor. [Ital. Opera: Puccini, Turandot, Westerman, 368] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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They were stern enough to look upon her death, had that been the sentence, without a murmur at its severity, but had none of the heartlessness of another social state, which would find only a theme for jest in an exhibition like the present. This one is a woman, with all a woman's wit, combined with the heartlessness of a COCOTTE. With equal heartlessness they disposed of their own dead and dying. |
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