hearts of stone
Utterly without compassion
Hearts of stone describes people who are cold, unsympathetic, or unmoved by appeals to emotion.
The phrase treats hardness as the opposite of warmth and compassion—a stone heart cannot be softened or touched: Even hearts of stone were moved by the footage of the disaster.
Someone with a heart of stone remains indifferent where others would feel pity or love.
- pitilessLacking any compassion
- no mercyComplete absence of clemency
- indifferenceLack of interest
- callousnessCruel emotional indifference
- unfeelingnessAbsence of emotional response
stonehearted · apathy · cold-blooded · ice queen · impassivity · cold-heartedness · emotionlessness · dead inside · petrification · tragic flaw · merciless · cold as ice · hubris · obduracy · ruthless · frostiness · insensitivity · impenetrable
hearts of stonehearts of gold
Exceptionally kind natures
bleeding hearts · soft-heartedness · warmth · tender-heartedness · tenderness
hearts of stonemercy
Compassion toward offenders
compassion · pity · empathy · fellow feeling · human kindness
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