But the overall impact highlights the novel's underlying themes: the hypocrisy of many but compassion of some; the way craven people get the callous rulers they deserve, yet now and then rise to a nobility that deserves better.
" Well, well." said Greyback, and Harry could hear the tiniest note of trepidation in that callous voice, and knew that Greyback was wondering whether he had just indeed just attacked and bound the son of a Ministry Official.
What entire lack of imagination! How callous! How common! How often have those words come back to me in the wretched solitary cell of the various prisons I have been sent to.
But there can be no nuance when discussing papa doc, nothing else to say except that he was a shallow callous man who did no good in the world and far too much bad.
" There must be an end to a conduct in banking and in business which too often has given to a sacred trust the likeness of callous and selfish wrongdoing, " he said in his first inaugural address.
Karl Mayer didn't pray often, but when he did, it was usually to ask for god's help in breaking up with a woman and to spare him the nasty drama that usually accompanied such callous and unexpected departures.
Karl Mayer不常祈祷,但旦他祈祷了通常是为了祈求上帝保佑他能顺利地甩掉个女人,并且帮他省掉些伴随着冷酷而又突然离别令人不快场面。
There was an indecent excitement in her voice, the same callous pleasure Harry had heard as she watched Professor Trelawney dissolving with misery in the Entrance Hall. The Malfoy boy cornered him.'