Wiktionary
a. 1 Not lachrymose. 2 # Free from dejection and melancholy; not vexed or weigh down by circumstances. 3 # tearless; not given to crying. 4 # unsentimental. 5 ## unamenable to appeals of emotion. 6 ##* '''1975''': ''The Spectator'', volume 235, part 2, (F.C. Westley) 7 ##*: But the really dangerous people would be the servants, ''la valetaille et la piétaille'', the cold-eyed, unimpressionable, '''unlachrymose''', and, when encountered in a corridor, insolent observers of Rousseau’s magisterial performances. 8 ## Not schmaltzy; expressed without gratuitous sorrow. 9 ##* '''1983''': Jean Pierre Coursodon ''et alii'', ''American Directors'', volume 1, (McGraw-Hill; ISBN 0070132615, 9780070132610) 10 ##*: His films with Temple are surprisingly light and '''unlachrymose'''. 11 ##* '''1984''': Alan Blyth and Malcolm Walker [eds.], ''Opera on Record'', volume 2, (Hutchinson) 12 ##*: Ezio Pinza (DB 828; GEMM 162/3), recorded in 1924, offers '''unlachrymose''' singing of the lovely aria ‘Cinta di fiori’. 13 ##* '''1989''': Gareth Reeves, ''T.S. Eliot: A Virgilian Poet'', (Macmillan; ISBN 033344390X, 9780333443903) 14 ##*: For instance, there is the sparely stated consolation of the poem’s concluding paragraph, or the sinewy articulation of the lines in ‘The Dry Salvages’ I distinguishing the sea’s ‘different voices’, and culminating in '''unlachrymose''' sympathy for the ‘anxious worried women’: an effect achieved by the way in which their anxiety is syntactically submerged, and thereby enhanced, in the unwinding sentence delineating time’s relentlessness. 15 ##* '''1990''': Joel Flegler, ''Fanfare'', volume 13, issues 5–6, (''sub nomine sui'') 16 ##*: The off-handed elegance and freedom of Dino Borgioli’s Duke make him seem utterly charming and irresistible. His use of legato and the sweetness he can call upon are worthy of an '''unlachrymose''' Gigli. 17 # unmournful; free from lamentation.