These were kind, loving words, showing in themselves a spirit of love and forbearance; but they were spoken in a harsh, unsympathising voice, and the speaker, as he uttered them, looked gloomily at the fire. ❋ Unknown (2004)
There was something in the hard, dry, unsympathising, unchanging virtues of her husband which almost revolted her. ❋ Unknown (2004)
But, to tell you a secret, if I were convinced that they are necessarily and universally different from us - fickle, soon petrifying, unsympathising - I would never marry. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Then, perhaps — for there was no foreseeing how it might affect her — Pearl would frown, and clench her little fist, and harden her small features into a stern, unsympathising look of discontent. ❋ Unknown (2002)
The most sagacious and sceptical men are apt to be mildly susceptible to conviction in the matter of their own pedigrees, and, a little conscious of their weakness, they shrink from letting the sacred tree be handled by relentless and unsympathising adepts. ❋ John Hill Burton (N/A)
Poor Ireland, trodden by a dominant party whose hand was strengthened by her potent neighbour, sought relief from the gloom of the present, by looking far back into the fabulous glories of the past -- and it seemed the last drop in her cup of bitterness when this pleasant vista was also to be closed by the hard utilitarian hand of the unsympathising Saxon. ❋ John Hill Burton (N/A)
It seems fully to bear out the writer's conception of the unsympathising character of the intercourse between ❋ John Hill Burton (N/A)
Oh! how, bustled about amidst a crowd of unsympathising strangers, to whom our domestic life is only an ideality, I longed for the quiet and charm and love of an English home! ❋ Unknown (N/A)
[6] "I did not dare to breathe aloud the unhallowed anguish of my mind to the majesty of the unsympathising stars." ❋ Various (N/A)
We men folk, on the contrary, soon contrive to exhibit the state of our feelings to unsympathising outsiders, who laugh at us and deride us thereanent! ❋ Unknown (N/A)
How little is he understood -- how imperfectly is he appreciated, by a cold, unsympathising world! his eccentricities are ridiculed -- his excesses are condemned by unthinking persons, who cannot comprehend the fact that a writer, whose mind is weary, naturally longs for physical excitement of some kind of other, and too often seeks for a temporary mental oblivion in the intoxicating bowl. ❋ George Thompson (N/A)
The jarring chords could not be made to vibrate in tune by sweeping them with a rough and unsympathising stroke; all could be reduced to harmony only by some loving and judicious action which would draw up or slacken the discordant strings with a force which would be felt only in its results. ❋ T.P. Wilson (N/A)
Then, perhapsfor there was no foreseeing how it might affect herPearl would frown, and clench her little fist, and harden her small features into a stern, unsympathising look of discontent. ❋ Unknown (1917)
It is often affirmed that utilitarianism renders men cold and unsympathising; that it chills their moral feelings towards individuals; that it makes them regard only the dry and hard consideration of the consequences of actions, not taking into their moral estimate the qualities from which those actions emanate. ❋ Unknown (1901)
Alas, we cannot help ourselves from becoming unimaginative, unsympathising, destructive and brutish when we are hard pressed by agony or by fear. ❋ Vernon Lee (1895)
-- What did those cruel words, those bitter taunts, those unsympathising speeches, tell of the love of Augustus Joyce for his wife? ❋ O. F. Walton (1894)
I always believed in his judgment and good-sense, but what I doubted was his kindness -- he seemed to me a little too harsh, rigid, and unsympathising. ❋ Clement King Shorter (1891)
She was ever gloomy, unsympathising, carping, but she worked herself to death for those whose love she chillily repulsed. ❋ Annie Wood Besant (1890)
The joke -- I do dislike to have to explain jokes, especially to you cool, unsympathising Bostonians -- is the ridiculousness of any mere human person claiming to own such a thing as the Niagara Falls. ❋ Robert Barr (1881)
