The heart is often shut by romance against social pleasure; and, fostering a sickly sensibility, grows callous to the soft touches of humanity.

I have grown callous to the well-meaning advice, naive remarks and media oversimplification of a trying situation.

Buck, I know this is hard, and I never want to grow callous to the high price we are called to pay.

At first it had enraged him, but after a time he had grown callous to it, and accepted it as it was meant.

It is not just that officials have grown skeptical or callous about the Russian president's troubled health.

"The trouble with you men is that you grow callous."

We saw so many men die-practically all the old crowd has gone now-that we grew callous in a way, and yet we never lost heart.

Mr. Cisneros picked up a copy of Time magazine, with an article about a backlash against the homeless, and complained that the public was growing callous.

His muscles became hard as iron, and he grew callous to all ordinary pain.

As the days went by, Phillip was growing more and more callous with each passing day.