heart-hardening

It was culpable sorrow too, somewhat, in that he had not prevented it, and a heart-hardening sorrow in that it took the best that he loved.

The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore

Symbolizing remorse, the three Furies, in the semblance of women girt with green water snakes, with snakes for hair, and the Gorgon Medusa, representing the heart-hardening effect of sensual pleasures, are found on the fire-glowing towers of the City of

Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 1902

It sounds like the heart-hardening has begun, and you've started to say no to him.

The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed David Eddie 2011

And who can tell in our heart-chilling and heart-hardening society, how much more selfish, how much more debased, how much worse we should have been, in all moral and intellectual respects, had it not been for the unnoticed and unsuspected influence of this preservative?

Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society Robert Southey 1808

And this soul-benumbing ignominy, this unholy and heart-hardening burlesque on the last fearful infliction of outraged law, in pronouncing the sentence to which the stern and familiarized judge not seldom bursts into tears, has been extolled as a happy and ingenious method of remedying -- what? and how?

Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

Capitalism is uplifting: "Far from the heart-hardening and spirit-killing processes cited by poets or movie producers who loudly lament the central role of business in our society, the capitalist system actually opens us to a greater sense of connection, community and, even, creativity."

Forbes.com: News Steve Forbes 2010

This regular and honest interaction with other believers is a means of grace that God has appointed to counteract the self-deceiving, heart-hardening sin that would otherwise lead us away from God.

Desiring God Blog 2010

Capitalism is uplifting: "Far from the heart-hardening and spirit-killing processes cited by poets or movie producers who loudly lament the central role of business in our society, the capitalist system actually opens us to a greater sense of connection, community and, even, creativity."

Forbes.com: News 2010

Capitalism is uplifting: "Far from the heart-hardening and spirit-killing processes cited by poets or movie producers who loudly lament the central role of business in our society, the capitalist system actually opens us to a greater sense of connection, community and, even, creativity."

Forbes.com: News Steve Forbes 2010

Capitalism is uplifting: "Far from the heart-hardening and spirit-killing processes cited by poets or movie producers who loudly lament the central role of business in our society, the capitalist system actually opens us to a greater sense of connection, community and, even, creativity."

Forbes.com: News Steve Forbes 2010