What is "unsympathetic"

Usage examples of "unsympathetic".

Australian, the Canadian of English blood, the Virginian, and the English Africander, as incomprehensible and unsympathetic one to another as Spaniard and Englishman or Frenchman and German are now.

There is a disposition on the part of artists to tell stories, to encroach upon the sentiment of literature, to paint with a dry brush in harsh unsympathetic colors, to ignore relations of light-and-shade, and to slur beauties of form.

Jews, or foreigners, or Frenchmen known to be unsympathetic to the Communard cause, or if they were owed money by anyone in the mob.

And one may tentatively define his relation to Slavophilism as being the exact obverse of his attitude toward the radicals: while personally unsympathetic to the social biases of the Slavophils, he nonetheless found in their writings a justification for many of his own most intimate idea-feelings.

The police were unsympathetic, though they did not quite tell the Nickers it was their own fault.

You are even liable to face the unsympathetic comments of individual readers who will wax merry, sardonic, or contemptuous at your expense--and what are their qualifications for doing so?

It would be a pity, however, if it should be parted from the parent country merely to be joined to an unsympathetic half-brother like ourselves and nothing, fortunately, seems to be further from the Canadian mind.

Lincoln and Blair may be personally unsympathetic to slavery, as am I, but they are surely not for abolition.

Classes are intolerable to classes and sets to sets, contact provokes aggressions, comparisons, persecutions and discomforts, and the subtler people are excessively tormented by a sense of observation, unsympathetic always and often hostile.

All were carefully chosen to offer the most unambiguous and unsympathetic villains, the most egregious flaunting of civil authority, the greatest threat to innocents, the greatest likelihood of success, and the best opportunities for favorable media play.

She was, indeed, a good deal hurt that Cyril had not confided in her -- did he think, as Ralph Denham or Mary Datchet might think, that she was, for some reason, unsympathetic -- hostile even?

Henry Goodykind, the district manager, expressed this thought in a few not altogether unsympathetic words, and told me at the same time that I was to have a new role.

The preventing is done by introducing into your muscular tissue a substitute for glycogen, a carbohydrate which affects the restoration of activity to fatigued muscles, and also producing a static status of tissue which is unsympathetic to the formation of any fatigue toxic.

And I couldn't count how many times I've been asked to be a non-executive director-' He became aware of Suzi's silent unsympathetic stare.

Apart from them, two men had stomach pains - brought on, according to an unsympathetic Aitken, by a surfeit of roast beef - while two of Kenton's men were almost crippled by the hairlike spines of prickly pear cactus which had penetrated the skin of their legs and festered overnight.