I know that this sounds heartless, but revolutions are not sentimental.

"I don't mean to sound heartless, but we're with Thomas all the way," she was quoted as saying.

He also does himself no favours by sounding so heartless.

I know that sounds heartless, but we'll know more then.

If that sounds flippant or heartless, it's not meant to be.

She had not meant it to sound so bald and heartless, but then there was no other reply she could think of.

"I hate to sound heartless, Admiral, but you'd do better to look in the morgues."

On the surface, the more stringent policy sounds heartless.

"You sound so heartless," one of the children said.

Put like that, it sounded so cold and heartless, when it was anything but.