Adjective : an intelligent but unfeeling man. From Dictionary.com.
Madame Fouchet herself, the woman, not the actress, was to blame, I think, for our unfeelingness. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
The unfeelingness which he applied yesterday to our Master, characterises much more the Minister. From Wordnik.com. [George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life] Reference
Richard has provoked me beyond measure by his insolence and unfeelingness about everybody and everything. From Wordnik.com. [George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life] Reference
French to this are, doubtless, base and designing intriguers; yet I cannot acquit the people, who are thus wrought on, of unfeelingness and levity. From Wordnik.com. [A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part I. 1792 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners] Reference
She gave a small, cynical shrug of the unhurt shoulder; it was part of her make-up that when most her spirit cried out in pain, she must repel pity with a show of unfeelingness. From Wordnik.com. [Tour de Force]
Amid complaints about my general unfeelingness and lack of consideration for a gravely injured man, he got dressed and sat long enough for me to bind up the weak ankle before his natural exuberance asserted itself. From Wordnik.com. [Sick Cycle Carousel] Reference
Feeling transcendently deep and powerful is unimpassioned and far lower-voiced than indifference and unfeelingness, being wont to express itself, not by eloquent ebullition, but by extreme understatement, or even by total silence. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator] Reference
We were putting a certain amount of regret into it; for though Villerville has seen us depart with civilized indifference or the stolidity of the barbarian -- for they are one, we found our own attainments in the science of unfeelingness deficient: to look down upon the village from the next hill top was like facing a lost joy. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
If the man was previously to the highest degree merciful and sympathizing, he may become stolid to human suffering as any infant who laughs at its mother's funeral, not from wickedness of disposition but absence of the faculty which appreciates woe, and I doubt not that this change goes far to explain the ghastly unfeelingness of many a Turkish and. From Wordnik.com. [The Opium Habit] Reference
Miss Alda, she's the very wonder of the worruld for jealousy and unfeelingness. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the House, V1] Reference
Pope's rendering ought to dispel the plea of an unfeelingness sometimes lightly urged against him. From Wordnik.com. [Horace] Reference
You can even take up your pen and raise the cry of cruelty and unfeelingness in the public prints!. From Wordnik.com. [The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I] Reference
There is sometimes such hardened unfeelingness in the soul that you do not perceive and do not feel your sins. From Wordnik.com. [My Life in Christ, or Moments of Spiritual Serenity and Contemplation, of Reverent Feeling, of Earnest Self-Amendment, and of Peace in God] Reference
A genuinely feeling soul has an insuperable repugnance alike for unfeelingness, for false feeling, and for false expressions of feeling. From Wordnik.com. [The Friendships of Women] Reference
But she would write to Miss Woppit as soon as ever she reached home -- she would write a letter that would banish every suspicion of unfeelingness. From Wordnik.com. [Second Book of Tales] Reference
Miss Earle had frankly confessed that she thought a great deal of him, and yet she had treated him with an unfeelingness which left him sore and bitter. From Wordnik.com. [In a Steamer Chair and Other Stories] Reference
Sometimes your soul is filled with such terrible slothfulness and hardened unfeelingness that you completely despair of being able to drive away this slothfulness and unfeelingness. From Wordnik.com. [My Life in Christ, or Moments of Spiritual Serenity and Contemplation, of Reverent Feeling, of Earnest Self-Amendment, and of Peace in God] Reference
King Hamlet, in less than two months after his death married his brother Claudius, which was noted by all people at the time for a strange act of indiscretion, or unfeelingness, or worse: for this. From Wordnik.com. [Tales from Shakespeare] Reference
Do not be dead at heart, do not let your heart incline to slothfulness, to spiritual sleep, and to hardened unfeelingness; otherwise woe to you, when its disposition is such during God's service, which requires labour both of heart and mind. From Wordnik.com. [My Life in Christ, or Moments of Spiritual Serenity and Contemplation, of Reverent Feeling, of Earnest Self-Amendment, and of Peace in God] Reference
Hence resulted the unfeelingness that Kirtley observed in the life about him in Loschwitz -- the roughness so little tempered with affection, but, instead, frankly interpreted and exhibited as the true bearing of the dominant male's masculine nobility. From Wordnik.com. [Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life] Reference
It's a cautionary tale-all about the perils of pride and individuality, and the unfeelingness of society toward those who would go their own way-but one that convinces the reader that Lily, if she is to live with dignity, has no choice but to be herself. From Wordnik.com. [The New Yorker] Reference
In the actual world there appears on one side an infinity of material things, of animate and inanimate material creatures; on the other side, an infinite world of thought and feeling, or of the sinful foolishness and unfeelingness, or of sinful and passionate thought and feeling. From Wordnik.com. [My Life in Christ, or Moments of Spiritual Serenity and Contemplation, of Reverent Feeling, of Earnest Self-Amendment, and of Peace in God] Reference
A friend's remonstrance may appear an unkindness -- a friend's jest an unfeelingness -- a friend's visit an intrusion; nay, to come to higher things, during a mere headache it will appear as if there was no truth in the world, no reality but that of pain anywhere, and nothing to be desired but deliverance from it. From Wordnik.com. [Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood] Reference
When you reflect that the company in the Decameron have retired to a place of safety from the raging of a pestilence, their mirth provokes a sense of their unfeelingness; whereas in Chaucer nothing of this sort occurs, and the scheme of a party on a pilgrimage, with different ends and occupations, aptly allows of the greatest variety of expression in the tales. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Remains, Volume 1] Reference
"But it is of no use dwelling on the unfeelingness of those keepers. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Judy's Tales] Reference
Those who have reduced the French to this are, doubtless, base and designing intriguers; yet I cannot acquit the people, who are thus wrought on, of unfeelingness and levity. ”. From Wordnik.com. [A Residence in France During the Years 1792 1793 1794 and 1795]
Claudius, which was noted by all people at the time for a strange act of indiscretion, or unfeelingness, or worse: for this Claudius did no ways resemble her late husband in the qualities of his person or his mind, but was as contemptible in outward appearance, as he was base and unworthy in disposition; and suspicions did not fail to arise in the minds of some, that he had privately made away with his brother, the late king, with the view of marrying his widow, and ascending the throne of Denmark, to the exclusion of young Hamlet, the son of the buried king, and lawful successor to the throne. From Wordnik.com. [Tales from Shakespeare] Reference
GERTRUDE, queen of Denmark, becoming a widow by the sudden death of King Hamlet, in less than two months after his death married his brother Claudius, which was noted by all people at the time for a strange act of indiscretion, or unfeelingness, or worse; for this Claudius did no ways resemble her late husband in the qualities of his person or his mind, but was as contemptible in outward appearance, as he was base and unworthy in disposition; and suspicions did not fail to arise in the minds of some, that he had privately made away with his brother, the late king, with the view of marrying his widow, and ascending the throne of Denmark, to the exclusion of young Hamlet, the son of the buried king, and lawful successor to the throne. From Wordnik.com. [Hamlet, Prince of Denmark] Reference
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