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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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| While these words could offer a rigorous command about marriage and remarriage, they also offer the good news of Jesus' refusal to answer questions with Yes or No; rather, Jesus answers with a question to the community and with a challenge to hardheartedness. Only then will we--and our children and their children--be saved from the hardheartedness that allowed it to happen and that could, at any time, allow it to happen again. The external source material in the film systematically heightens the culpability and the inhuman hardheartedness of the Jews and their leaders. |
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