How To Use Unmoved In A Sentence

  • Salisbury remained unmoved by the ambassador's ratiocination.
  • Then, as he sat in the front seat, fans spat towards him as he remained unmoved. The Sun
  • But the uninterested and the unmoved are massing everywhere.
  • She became the virtuous focus of masculine desire, the unmoved mover who stirred her subjects to acts of gallantry and heroism.
  • You want them to shout back, not to smile delphically and look utterly unmoved. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
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  • Still, who could remain unmoved by their dignity and strength which is amply demonstrated by their generous and warm-hearted press release (here)? A Biblical Scourge
  • The unmoved expression slowly creeping over Lily's face prompted him to continue explaining post-haste.
  • There can be no doubt that the cold and bitter strength of Sallust; his unflinching method of building up his edifice of invective, stone by stone; his close, unidealistic, dry penetration into character; his clinical attitude, unmoved at the death-bed of a reputation; that all these qualities were directly operative on the mind and intellectual character of Ibsen, and went a long way to mould it while moulding was still possible. Henrik Ibsen
  • As Wimbledon go under, we are immune to their pain, unmoved by their plight.
  • It is largely ineffective against a regime that is unmoved by the sufferings of its people. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's not possible to read Paul's New Testament writings and remain unmoved by his open heart, intellectual prowess and staggering bravery. John Shore: Toward a Christianity of Common Sense
  • The unmoved expression slowly creeping over Lily's face prompted him to continue explaining post-haste.
  • The majority appears unmoved by that inevitability. Christianity Today
  • The cones have remained unmoved for so long that they have acted like cloches to force-grow the grass, which is now sprouting out of the open tops.
  • But the Tour organisation appeared unmoved by his initiative. Times, Sunday Times
  • As even this severe measure left him unmoved, Las Casas ordered his arrest and sent his alguacil and some of the clergy to bring the recalcitrant Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings
  • Mr Morrice, without ceremony, attacked his fair neighbour; he talked of her journey, and the prospects of gaiety which it opened to her view; but by these finding her unmoved, he changed his theme, and expatiated upon the delights of the spot she was quitting. Cecilia
  • Its light genealogy and tearful reunions on beaches may be manipulative, but it is difficult to remain unmoved by tonight's opener. Times, Sunday Times
  • His face was unmoved, but on his lips there was a trace of displeasure.
  • Now I find myself completely unmoved by badges of hierarchy, of mitres and crooks and crowns.
  • And his wrinkled, old visage expressed so crabbed a determination to remain unmoved that Mr. Haviland laughed outright in the most tolerant of humours. That Lass o' Lowrie's: A Lancashire Story
  • The additional assistant referee was standing five yards away but was unmoved by Celtic pleas. Times, Sunday Times
  • May looked unmoved, perhaps seeing no more in it than the usual name-calling. PROSPECT HILL
  • The various spa features left me largely unmoved. Times, Sunday Times
  • the more hieratic sculptures leave the viewer curiously unmoved
  • ASH - offered up for nomination but seemed unmoved by it. The Sun
  • They, looking at a middleaged man rather than a golden droid, were unmoved. Times, Sunday Times
  • Far from me and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue.
  • Eva seems to be in love with Dizzi but he remains unmoved by her affections.
  • I pleaded without success but the bishopric was unmoved, nor would they put me through to anyone else. NOTHING TO WEAR AND NOWHERE TO HIDE: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES
  • The first is the continuing power of album cover art to provoke emotional responses from people normally unmoved by graphic design and visual culture.
  • Once you get over the weirdness of the premise, it takes a hard heart to remain unmoved by this simple yet deeply emotional tale.
  • He was quite unmoved by my anger.
  • The story spans 20 years, but the detail of the earlier scenes gives way to sketchiness, with the result that - even at the sight of so much emotion - we're left strangely unmoved.
  • Yet the banana seems unmoved by that outward display of vanity.
  • Unmoved we stared at a load of cold, geometrical abstractions, pooh-poohed the idea of living in such a gallery and, on the brink of calling it a day, stoically suffered on.
  • All three defendants appeared unmoved as the verdicts were delivered. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's a human tragedy that could leave only the hardest heart unmoved.
  • He told it with the greatest thrillingness any one could have, but Daisy and Alice seemed almost unmoved. The Wouldbegoods
  • Government bond prices were firm while the pound was relatively unmoved. Times, Sunday Times
  • If the jurors were unmoved by the dignity of the presidency, they were not going to be impressed by the governorship.
  • The field was afterwards “tedded,” i.e., the grass was tossed about by a machine, which again passed over the nest, still leaving her unscathed and unmoved. Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter
  • Not that one can ever become a total abstainer from spending: one's landlord on quarter-day would remain coldly unmoved by a letter saying that one had signed the pledge. Try Anything Twice
  • But even then the friend may remain unmoved and unimpressed; the magic doesn't always work.
  • For once, and once only, in the long course of his butlership did the placid and unmoved calm of his manner entirely desert Jessop. Antony Gray,—Gardener
  • always appeared completely unmoved and imperturbable
  • In particular, Schoenfeldt deals with the critical problem of Sonnet 94, a poem that celebrates those who contain their emotions and are as unmoved by others as stone.
  • Now the question is do the people of Kentucky think that this was a stupid and tragic use of power to subverse dissent and vote this bag of waste out of office of will they remain unmoved? Think Progress » State censorship in Kentucky.
  • The young men building the fire for the funeral ceremony were equally unmoved and insisted that the deaths of their friends would not stop them from enlisting. Times, Sunday Times
  • The audience, though, remains unmoved, aloof - everyone is far too cool to show any excitement.
  • Richard seemed unmoved by the tragedy.
  • The implacable Destiny which consigns the brothers to mutual enmity and mutual destruction, for the guilt of a past generation, involving a Mother and a Sister in their ruin, spreads a sombre hue over all the poem; we are not unmoved by the characters of the hostile Brothers, and we pity the hapless and amiable Beatrice, the victim of their feud. The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works
  • Now I find myself completely unmoved by badges of hierarchy, of mitres and crooks and crowns.
  • First Kaeldra is brutally knocked unconscious, and then this man admits to terrorizing Sabriel and all he can do is sit there and stare at me, unmoved and uncaring?
  • The naked-lady fetishist, however, is unmoved by such features as hairstyle and clothing, regarding them as distractions and impediments to the one thing that truly interests him - her naked body.
  • He was friendly to evangelists but was unmoved by their calls for his conversion.
  • She's not unmoved, but demurs because she doesn't want to complicate their arrangement.
  • Other European assets were also largely unmoved. Times, Sunday Times
  • They were age-twisted and palsied, faithful to their meat, a generation out of the past that watched unmoved the antics of younger life. The Wit of Porportuk
  • Both men appeared unmoved as the judge read out their sentence.
  • But the LDNPA remained unmoved and plans to bring down the full force of the law when the temporary enforcement officer post is filled.
  • Her daughter's accident had left her curiously unmoved.
  • Yet I felt strangely unmoved, even during the celebrated, shimmering adagietto. Fine Sounds in Hated Premises-If It Ain't Broke, Why Fix It?
  • Unmoved by a chorus of anguished cries, the Biltmore crew calmly rounded up the glasses, tallied the tabs and shrugged off entreaties for special dispensation.
  • So why did I feel unmoved watching the pictures? Times, Sunday Times
  • Now I find myself completely unmoved by badges of hierarchy, of mitres and crooks and crowns.
  • Without being petty or mean-spirited, she explained why what had so persuaded me had left her so unmoved.
  • But, just in case, the handheld cameras pointed at the crowds by security police convinced any doubters of the folly of appearing unmoved. The Sun
  • He can catch bullets in his nostrils, leap from buildings and remain unmoved when a piranha is placed in his swim trunks. Kevin's Review: You Don't Mess with the Zohan - Zohan's Crotch, That Is « FirstShowing.net
  • He told it with the greatest thrillingness anyone could have, but Daisy and Alice seemed almost unmoved. The Wouldbegoods
  • But Russian officials appeared unmoved. Times, Sunday Times
  • A birthday party in which he reads a simple poem to his mother unleashes a tidal wave of emotion that will leave few viewers unmoved.
  • Sensibly, Collina was unmoved and the Aston Villa defender had only served to add a further scar to his already blemished reputation.
  • It would take a hard heart to be unmoved by the mourning of those bereaved by the Bali bombing.
  • A feeling of sudden, proud self-confidence, an indocile wish to walk unmoved in spite of grim environments, plainly possessed him, and when he reached the wicket-gate he turned in without apparent effort. Wessex Tales
  • Many food trends have come and gone since she became famous, and she remained unmoved, deriding the anti-butterfat lobby and other bores.
  • Revelations of cases of child sexual abuse by members of the clergy followed, during which the cardinal adopted a stoic attitude, unmoved in his belief that the church should not give up the tradition of a celibate priesthood.
  • Mr Bird remained unmoved by the corruption allegations.
  • He knew full well that these emotional Serbs could not hear his name unmoved, while the extraordinary racial difference between himself and every other man in the Assembly must have made a strong appeal to their dramatic instincts. A Son of the Immortals
  • As we go, ever the mountains of Mount Desert rise and greet us on our going—somber, rockribbed and silent, looking unmoved on the moving world, yet conscious of their everlasting strength. DARKWATER
  • Rick was unmoved emotionally as he laid eyes on the same dashboards and controls he sees almost every day but Alexia…
  • Most of the 600,000 are palpably unmoved, merely ticking the place off their list.
  • They were unshaved, unwashed, unkempt, and curiously unmoved.
  • Campus bookselling had existed in splendid isolation and been largely unmoved by the 1980s high street revolution, he argued.
  • On 26 August 1944 he walked down the Champs Elysées to the acclamation of a vast crowd, and then went on to Notre Dame, where he stood unmoved when a sudden fusillade broke out inside the cathedral.
  • The idea is good but the execution lacks flair and leaves me feeling curiously unmoved. Times, Sunday Times
  • Guest was an outspoken, independent thinker and relatively unmoved by fluctuations in fame and attention. Times, Sunday Times
  • Grobler was unmoved by the outburst and maintained that the switch offered Team GB the better chance of procuring the ultimate reward.
  • These wretches undismayed, unmoved by the terrors of the bombarding ravages around, strove and vied with each other in the committal of every act of the most unlicensed ferocity and depredation, breaking open houses, assaulting the inmates, murdering such as shewed resistance, denuding the more submissive of their clothing, abusing women — particularly in the Jewish quarter — to all which atrocities the Europeans were likewise exposed. Travels in Morocco
  • So we're right to be unmoved to anger or even peremptory indignation.
  • However, you'd have to be an iller mademoiselle than I seem to be at present to be in this locale and remain unmoved.
  • I was totally unmoved and unstimulated by the film. Movie Review: Alice in Wonderland » Scene-Stealers
  • The man was unmoved by the declaration and stood watching Jet intently.
  • He was perfectly unmoved, and took the opportunity to tell me of his unshakeable conviction that France will rise again! Times, Sunday Times
  • Only a heart of stone could be left unmoved by the strings' swinging force in that fugal passage, early on. Times, Sunday Times
  • Mr Bird remained unmoved by the corruption allegations.
  • As he blew the final whistle Collina walked over to the distraught Kahn to offer his commiserations but Kahn was unmoved.
  • He remained unmoved by her tears
  • I watched Natural Born Killers yesterday, and was at once quite impressed by the film itself, yet left emotionally unmoved.
  • At that time (for the world was not yet Christianized) there flourished a race of teachers and philosophers known as Stoics -- wise old pagans, who held that the perfect man must be free from passion, unmoved by either joy or grief, taking every thing just as it came, with supreme and utter indifference. Historic Boys Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times
  • And still the voters seemed unmoved. Times, Sunday Times
  • She was unmoved by the physical I had partaken in two weeks ago normal at the same facility in the same practice, the visit I had with my GP last Tuesday, nor the fact that my asthma is totally managed and followed through pulmonology and is utterly under control right now. Not Just for Kids
  • He spoke of him afterwards as “that amphibolous being sitting calmly and unmoved on the throne of amphibology, while he cheats and deludes us by his double meaning, covert phraseology, and claps his hands when he sees us involved in his insidious figures of speech, as a spider rejoices over a captured fly.” Luther and Other Leaders of the Reformation
  • The programmer bowed his head along with the rest of them but remained unmoved.
  • Having once lived up to his heroic ideal, Ciardi was disturbed to find that he could not remain "unmoved" by the possibility of his own death; he hoped that his anxiety was simply a temporary and anomalous response. Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II
  • The unmoved Bottai notes that one of the bodies shows 'an enormous, bloodied gash: they have evirated him'.
  • Or if I just want to carry on being hard and cold and unmoved forever, never getting burned, but also never feeling that burning passion - ever.
  • The nation has been waiting excitedly for Cole to come of age, but the rest of the world has been unmoved by his largely minimal international contributions. Times, Sunday Times
  • The point is that Jesus entered fully into the pain and suffering of human life. Our high priest does not stand aloof and unmoved by the human struggle.
  • Her daughter's accident had left her curiously unmoved.
  • It would seem that no one can remain unmoved, tranquil, while listening to that "Dame un chupi chupi, que yo lo disfruti, abre la bocuti, trágatelo tuti. Yoani Sanchez: Cuba's Communist Party Worries About Our Tastes in Music
  • 'It's noan like thee to mak' a do like that, Oliver, 'said Amos, unmoved,' but thaa shaps (shapes) weel. ' Lancashire Idylls (1898)
  • The more hieratic sculptures leave the viewer curiously unmoved.
  • ‘It used to worry me greatly that there are always people in an audience who are unmoved, unreached by what I do,’ she wrote in her diary of her valedictory year.
  • As a heartless Londoner who has to negotiate such scenarios several times a day, I remained unmoved and whilst offering an emotionless mouthed apology, I carried on my way without really looking at him.
  • It is largely ineffective against a regime that is unmoved by the sufferings of its people. Times, Sunday Times
  • No one can remain unmoved by the pictures of Port-au-Prince after the earthquake (the situation outside the capital remains unknown, but one can imagine). Haiti: an act of Devil « Anglican Samizdat
  • Unmoved by a chorus of anguished cries, the Biltmore crew calmly rounded up the glasses, tallied the tabs and shrugged off entreaties for special dispensation.
  • The additional assistant referee was standing five yards away but was unmoved by Celtic pleas. Times, Sunday Times
  • 'Among the faithless, faithful only he' Among the innumerable false, unmoved, unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, that is my sword. Frederick the Great and His Family
  • Alice seemed totally unmoved by the whole experience.
  • The sheep in the adjoining field remained unmoved. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Mr Bird remained unmoved by the corruption allegations.
  • It would be impossible to watch this programme and remain unmoved. Times, Sunday Times
  • She was got up to the best of her ability as a siren, more popularly a "vamp" -- a picker up and thrower away of men, an unscrupulous and fundamentally unmoved toyer with affections. The Beautiful and Damned
  • He conceded that it is impossible to remain unmoved by the "agonising" cases made public recently. Latest news, breaking news, current news, UK news, world news, celebrity news, politics news
  • Scots, by and large, have remained unmoved. Times, Sunday Times
  • ‘It used to worry me greatly that there are always people in an audience who are unmoved, unreached by what I do,’ she wrote in her diary of her valedictory year.
  • There is something anaphrodisiac about having a shelf full of someone's complete works from the library, I got a lot of A. L. Kennedy on that same trip and though I absolutely loved her novel Paradise having all her books sitting there (and they're short-story collections mostly, so not so much my cup of tea) left me unmoved to take up and read (Augustine!) The grammar of skyscrapers and pavement
  • Where the 2001 movie caused tears to well up in my eyes, this movie left me cold and unmoved, even though its manipulation is relentless.
  • However, the honesty of the lyrics and genuineness of the performance can leave only the stoniest of souls unmoved - emo-grunge with an infectious smile.
  • It would seem that no one can remain unmoved, tranquil, while listening to that "Dame un chupi chupi, que yo lo disfruti, abre la bocuti, trágatelo tuti. Yoani Sanchez: Cuba's Communist Party Worries About Our Tastes in Music
  • He sat there unblenched and apparently unmoved, though it was plain that he was intensely watchful and ready. The Prairie Chief
  • Despite vehement pleas for a penalty, referee Mr Hoare was unmoved.

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