uncalloused

In this video, the problem is sitting across from Colbert, Rodriguez and Moreschi, in comfy leather chairs behind elevated wooden barricades in large temperature controlled rooms, wearing tailored suits and expensive jewelry and working smart phones with uncalloused hands while deliberating endlessly over the fate of people who are just trying to feed and clothe their families and give their children a little better life than the one they're having.

Mike Bonifer: Who's That Guy Behind Colbert? Mike Bonifer 2010

In this video, the problem is sitting across from Colbert, Rodriguez and Moreschi, in comfy leather chairs behind elevated wooden barricades in large temperature controlled rooms, wearing tailored suits and expensive jewelry and working smart phones with uncalloused hands while deliberating endlessly over the fate of people who are just trying to feed and clothe their families and give their children a little better life than the one they're having.

Mike Bonifer: Who's That Guy Behind Colbert? Mike Bonifer 2010

I remember working on a downtown construction site as temp labor, and I'd watch all the soft office workers with their uncalloused hands come out for lunch, and I'd wonder why they got paid two or three times what I did for work that was so much easier (and which, of course, I could do, even if I didn't have a BA.)

Ian Welsh: The Personal Politics of Hopelessness 2009

Maybe Richard Cohen's only problem is that he gently cries himself to sleep at night, his uncalloused, lily-white hands self-consciously stroking his beard, waiting for an anthrax letter that never comes.

Dan Sweeney: Richard Cohen: Squealing Porcine Quisling, or just Gone Native? 2008

I chopped some kindling for him, until the uncalloused skin on my hands protested this rough usage.

Renegade's Magic Hobb, Robin 2008

I watch their uncalloused hands, hands not used to such tasks, skillfully wrapping the shape with twine, transforming what had been a violent an chaotic death into something more orderly, peaceful – something that the living could make sense of and that the dead may have ultimately wished for.

Boing Boing: January 23, 2005 - January 29, 2005 Archives 2005

Svenson was not normally given to such arrogant posturing, but he felt sure that the two were not men of violence — that indeed, they were educated and accustomed to clean cuffs and uncalloused hands … rather like himself, actually.

The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters Dahlquist, Gordon 2006

Svenson was not normally given to such arrogant posturing, but he felt sure that the two were not men of violence — that indeed, they were educated and accustomed to clean cuffs and uncalloused hands … rather like himself, actually.

The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters Dahlquist, Gordon 2006

The Frenchman took one of Lawford's hands and mutely inspected the soft uncalloused fingers.

Sharpe's Tiger Cornwell, Bernard 1997

With a start, Luke also noticed the Princess 'hands: soft, pale, uncalloused, clearly the hands of anyone but a manual worker.

Splinter Of The Mind's Eye Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1978