Never had paler and more callous light entered by the large glazed doors, behind which one espied the little slumberous garden with its meagre, wintry lawns.
Jamais clarté plus blême, plus indifférente, n’était entrée par les grandes portes-fenêtres, derrière lesquelles on apercevait le petit jardin endormi, avec ses maigres gazons d’hiver.
Zola, Emile / The Three Cities - ParisZola, Emile / Les Trois Villes - Paris
Les Trois Villes - Paris
Zola, Emile
The Three Cities - Paris
Zola, Emile
The callous indifference was gone; there was now sensibility, hope, desire, and the striving for good, – a strife irregular, interrupted, suspended oft, but yet renewed again.
Son insouciance opiniâtre avait disparu. La sensibilité, l’espoir, le désir d’arriver au bien s’étaient éveillés. La lutte était maintenant commencée; lutte irrégulière, inégale, suspendue souvent, mais toujours reprise.
Beecher Stowe, Harriet / Uncle Tom's CabinBeecher Stowe, Harriet / La case de l'oncle Tom
La case de l'oncle Tom
Beecher Stowe, Harriet
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Beecher Stowe, Harriet
The whole object of the training to which the negro is put, from the time he is sold in the northern market till he arrives south, is systematically directed towards making him callous, unthinking, and brutal.
Le régime auquel le nègre est soumis, du moment qu’il est acheté dans le Nord jusqu’à son arrivée au Sud, a pour but unique de tuer sa pensée, de l’abrutir.
Beecher Stowe, Harriet / Uncle Tom's CabinBeecher Stowe, Harriet / La case de l'oncle Tom
La case de l'oncle Tom
Beecher Stowe, Harriet
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Beecher Stowe, Harriet
In many cases, it is a gradual hardening process on both sides, – the owner growing more and more cruel, as the servant more and more callous.
– Ce n’est la plupart du temps qu’un endurcissement progressif des deux parts. – Le propriétaire devient cruel à proportion que l’esclave devient insensible.
Beecher Stowe, Harriet / Uncle Tom's CabinBeecher Stowe, Harriet / La case de l'oncle Tom
La case de l'oncle Tom
Beecher Stowe, Harriet
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Beecher Stowe, Harriet
Oh my friend! you, my glory!" she wrote, farther on, "you must indeed love me well to love me still; to love me callous, ungrateful, turned to stone by grief."
O mon ami, vous ma gloire; m’écrivait-elle plus loin, vous devez bien m’aimer pour m’aimer encore, pour m’aimer inerte, ingrate, et pétrifiée par la douleur.
Balzac, Honore de / The Lily of the ValleyBalzac, Honore de / Le Lys dans la vallee
Le Lys dans la vallee
Balzac, Honore de
The Lily of the Valley
Balzac, Honore de
Harris, who is callous in his nature, and not prone to pity, said: "Ah! and now you are going to have a hard time on the river for a change; change is good for everyone.
Harris, qui n’est pas précisément un tendre, lui répondit : « Eh bien ! pour changer tu vas avoir une dure journée sur la rivière. Le changement n’a jamais fait de mal à personne.
Jerome, Jerome Klapka / Three Men in a BoatJerome, Jerome Klapka / Trois hommes dans le bateau
Trois hommes dans le bateau
Jerome, Jerome Klapka
Three Men in a Boat
Jerome, Jerome Klapka
Between the folds of the pelisse they gazed upon the fields stretching on both sides of the road, without experiencing that crushing feeling with which far-stretching callous vistas oppress the human affections.
Ils regardaient, à travers les plis de la pelisse, les champs qui s’étendaient aux deux bords de la route, sans éprouver cet écrasement que les larges horizons indifférents font peser sur les tendresses humaines.
Zola, Emile / The Fortune of the RougonsZola, Emile / La Fortune des Rougon
And they would fall back into their trance, striving to become callous, and'musing from mom till night on trivial matters, on the fire that refused to bum, on the weather, or on what they were going to have for dinner.
Et ils se rendormaient cherchant à s’hébéter, rêvant vaguement du matin au soir à des puérilités, au feu qui ne brûlait pas, au temps qu’il faisait, à ce qu’ils mangeraient à dîner.
The secret intrigues of men who desire above all things to avoid noise requires special shrewdness, a special aptitude for dealing with small matters, and a patient endurance such as one only finds in persons callous to all passions.
Ces luttes secrètes d’hommes qui veulent avant tout éviter le bruit, demandent une finesse particulière, une aptitude aux petites choses, une patience de gens privés de passions.
Zola, Emile / The Fortune of the RougonsZola, Emile / La Fortune des Rougon
Of him her brother thus wrote, speaking of visiting his plantation, on a collecting tour; "He actually made me feel of his fist, which was like a blacksmith's hammer, or a nodule of iron, telling me that it was'calloused with knocking down niggers.'
En parlant de ce misérable, que dans sa tournée de recettes il venait de visiter, il m’écrivait: «Il m’a fait tâter son poing, tout semblable à un marteau de forge ou à une masse de fer, en se vantant qu’il l’avait endurci à terrasser des nègres.
Beecher Stowe, Harriet / Uncle Tom's CabinBeecher Stowe, Harriet / La case de l'oncle Tom
La case de l'oncle Tom
Beecher Stowe, Harriet
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Beecher Stowe, Harriet
When she saw, on the back and shoulders of the child, great welts and calloused spots, ineffaceable marks of the system under which she had grown up thus far, her heart became pitiful within her.
Cependant, lorsqu’elle vit les épaules et le dos de la petite négresse sillonnés de cicatrices profondes, de bourrelets de chair, de callosités, marques ineffaçables du régime sous lequel la malheureuse avait grandi, son cœur s’émut de pitié.
Beecher Stowe, Harriet / Uncle Tom's CabinBeecher Stowe, Harriet / La case de l'oncle Tom
La case de l'oncle Tom
Beecher Stowe, Harriet
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Beecher Stowe, Harriet
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callous
verb
Basic forms
Past
calloused
Imperative
callous
Present Participle (Participle I)
callousing
Past Participle (Participle II)
calloused
Present Indefinite, Active Voice
I callous
we callous
you callous
you callous
he/she/it callouses
they callous
Present Continuous, Active Voice
I am callousing
we are callousing
you are callousing
you are callousing
he/she/it is callousing
they are callousing
Present Perfect, Active Voice
I have calloused
we have calloused
you have calloused
you have calloused
he/she/it has calloused
they have calloused
Present Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I have been callousing
we have been callousing
you have been callousing
you have been callousing
he/she/it has been callousing
they have been callousing
Past Indefinite, Active Voice
I calloused
we calloused
you calloused
you calloused
he/she/it calloused
they calloused
Past Continuous, Active Voice
I was callousing
we were callousing
you were callousing
you were callousing
he/she/it was callousing
they were callousing
Past Perfect, Active Voice
I had calloused
we had calloused
you had calloused
you had calloused
he/she/it had calloused
they had calloused
Past Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I had been callousing
we had been callousing
you had been callousing
you had been callousing
he/she/it had been callousing
they had been callousing
Future Indefinite, Active Voice
I shall/will callous
we shall/will callous
you will callous
you will callous
he/she/it will callous
they will callous
Future Continuous, Active Voice
I shall/will be callousing
we shall/will be callousing
you will be callousing
you will be callousing
he/she/it will be callousing
they will be callousing
Future Perfect, Active Voice
I shall/will have calloused
we shall/will have calloused
you will have calloused
you will have calloused
he/she/it will have calloused
they will have calloused
Future Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I shall/will have been callousing
we shall/will have been callousing
you will have been callousing
you will have been callousing
he/she/it will have been callousing
they will have been callousing
Future in the Past Indefinite, Active Voice
I should/would callous
we should/would callous
you would callous
you would callous
he/she/it would callous
they would callous
Future in the Past Continuous, Active Voice
I should/would be callousing
we should/would be callousing
you would be callousing
you would be callousing
he/she/it would be callousing
they would be callousing
Future in the Past Perfect, Active Voice
I should/would have calloused
we should/would have calloused
you would have calloused
you would have calloused
he/she/it would have calloused
they would have calloused
Future in the Past Perfect Continuous, Active Voice