Adjective : a big, emphatic man; I must be emphatic about this particular. ,the emphatic beauty of sunset. ,It stands, like a great, stone dagger, emphatic against the sky. From Dictionary.com.
He asked, making his voice unemphatic, hardly interested. From Wordnik.com. [She Closed Her Eyes] Reference
The unemphatic versions are I shall, you will, he will, etc. From Wordnik.com. ["People who think with their epidermis or their genitalia or their clan are the problem to begin with."] Reference
He was using his quiet unemphatic tone, the one I didn't care for very much. From Wordnik.com. [When Eight Bells Toll]
And the Quakeress repeated, in calm, unemphatic language, the story narrated by Mrs. Janes. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859] Reference
The soft Irish voice was as unemphatic as it might be were it making observations of the weather. From Wordnik.com. [Drums of Autumn]
His voice was unemphatic and without dramatic values, yet had the authentic colour of vivid recollection. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Fool]
Meanwhile, the short story has continued an unbroken narrative, speaking in its quiet way its unemphatic verities. From Wordnik.com. [Revelations] Reference
Despite the omission of the usual “sir” the voice, educated and unemphatic, held no trace of insolence or resentment. From Wordnik.com. [A Mind to Murder]
He spoke in a neutral, unemphatic voice, probably seeing nothing around him but a sort of fog in which figures were moving. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Little Crosses]
Someone ordered him a whisky, we found him a chair in the middle of the ring round the fire, and in a quiet, unemphatic voice he began. From Wordnik.com. [Best Detective Stories]
Jamie, and Ian with him, talking together in Gaelic, in the comfortable, unemphatic manner that meant they were discussing farm matters. From Wordnik.com. [Dragonfly in Amber]
His dislike of this system of committees, and of the generally dull and unemphatic administration of the Commonwealth, attached him to the. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
Again she acquiesced, her manner soothing and unemphatic. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography of a Yogi] Reference
"Well, I must pay America a visit," he said with an unemphatic smile. From Wordnik.com. [A Fountain Sealed] Reference
He told stories of the most unemphatic kind in the most emphatic way, and. From Wordnik.com. [Watersprings] Reference
It was graceful, unemphatic, composed of playful repartee and merry glances. From Wordnik.com. [Franklin Kane] Reference
Pronouns.a. Classical Greek has no equivalent for our unemphatic pronoun ` he. '. From Wordnik.com. [A Grammar of Septuagint Greek] Reference
It would hardly have been seemly merely to make a simple unemphatic statement of the fulfilment. From Wordnik.com. [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference
Her deep voice was unemphatic, her enunciation so level as to suggest that English was not her native tongue. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Peer]
The Greek of the LXX gets over this difficulty by the use of autos as an unemphatic pronoun of the 3d person. From Wordnik.com. [A Grammar of Septuagint Greek] Reference
By his natural, unemphatic manner, I understood that he wished no astonished ejaculations at his clairvoyance. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography of a Yogi] Reference
An unemphatic personal, indefinite or demonstrative pronoun very frequently precedes the verb of which it is the object. From Wordnik.com. [A Complete Grammar of Esperanto] Reference
There was, he noticed, a boastful ring to his voice -- not the suave, unemphatic tone considered proper on a message-tape. From Wordnik.com. [Little Fuzzy] Reference
Even the lank, straw-coloured hair hardly showed the streaks of yellow-white that offered their unemphatic clue to Wark's age. From Wordnik.com. [The Convert] Reference
Even the mystery of the Incarnation, His words of grace, and His works of power, were all too unemphatic, too inarticulate, to express. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons. Volume Third.] Reference
My tone was unemphatic. From Wordnik.com. [Death on the River Walk]
"Aye," Murtagh said, unemphatic as ever. From Wordnik.com. [Sick Cycle Carousel] Reference
27; of unemphatic pronoun, 274; of interrogative adv. From Wordnik.com. [A Complete Grammar of Esperanto] Reference
The slow unemphatic voice spoke. From Wordnik.com. [A Mind to Murder]
In unemphatic accents, level, low. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, February 1, 1890] Reference
"The ordinary unemphatic English |. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
Hadria was limp, docile, unemphatic. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
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