How To Use Unsympathetic In A Sentence

It worries them that many vintage structures, both vernacular and colonial, are being changed unsympathetically, resulting in eyesores, even on King Street.
I told him about the problem but he was totally unsympathetic.
He talked of his harsh, unsympathetic upbringing in which his often drunken father physically abused his wife and children.
Save your breath! Don't even mention your illness to your unsympathetic boss.
We have our sympathetic characters doing unsympathetic things and vice versa. Times, Sunday Times

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A broadcaster of gentlemanly calm and courtesy, he was unsympathetic to the more confrontational style which increasingly became the norm. Times, Sunday Times
He's unsympathetic, but charismatic and complex.
A generally unsympathetic Supreme Court will again take up the issue - in the context of federal contracting programs - next term.
Many sufferers have found their doctors unhelpful and unsympathetic when they first sought help. Repetitive Strain Injury
Her husband was unsympathetic and she felt she had no one to turn to.
They both then rushed pell-mell to the doctor, carrying dead snake and severed thumb, and Henry laughed very heartily and unsympathetically because, as it happened, the snake was a non-poisonous variety.
She starts off, by design, as an unsympathetic character (hence the titled comeuppance), who, like any newcomer in a Hollywood flick, not only learns to cope well enough (despite the natives) to stay in Japan and grow, but also to recommend to everyone (in a self-important interview in the back of the book) to try living overseas (I agree, of course, but one year abroad hardly makes one an authority on world travel). Debito.org
And to compound the problem, the local planning authority had shown themselves unsympathetic to the owner's over-ambitious plans for rebuilding.
I don't think she's an entirely unsympathetic character. The Sun
She assigned the story, she said last week, as an example of ‘an unsympathetic narrator, a guy who is sadistic and sexist.’
When I just go ahead and speak my mind, inevitably it comes out sounding like I am an insensitive, unsympathetic rationalist.
What I got instead was a gut-wrenchingly awful representation of my community, peopled with unlikeable and unsympathetic characters.
Over a period of time this frustration can wear down the carers' understanding to the point where they seem to become unsympathetic. M.E. and You - a self-help plan
I've written another cruel and unsympathetic character.
Many soreheads and unsympathetic people will probably cavil that this is pretty darn cool and lots of people don't get to go to Australia and experience such a beautiful land.
(I may here remark that I suppose myself to be better acquainted than any living authority, with the ridgy effect of a wedding – ring, passing unsympathetically over the human countenance.) Great Expectations
Distributors and studios are fairly unsympathetic entities, so it's hard to get average people to care about them.
His own gaze, generally unsympathetic and indifferent to the Other as such, evokes little sympathy.
The museum does depict Stalin unsympathetically.
The Scottish Executive's slowness to bring in new rights led to accusations that ministers have been ‘got at’ by civil servants unsympathetic to the language.
There are valid arguments in favor of keeping an estate tax, and I'm not unsympathetic to all of them.
He added: ‘The sign looks a discordant and random afterthought which is entirely unsympathetic to the architectural integrity of this attractive building.’
But the narrator is so unsympathetic, so blank and fleshless, that it's hard to feel engaged by her story, unless by the freak-show details.
Craig then says that "Goethe tended to be unsympathetic toward university intellectuals with liberal views, but this was because he feared that their activities would lead neighboring princes to withdraw their subjects from the university. The Goethe Case
A petite woman dressed in pearls and a well-tailored suit, she comes across as shrewd and hardheaded but not unsympathetic to her subjects.
He was battling an unsympathetic crowd. Times, Sunday Times
I'm highly unsympathetic to what you are trying to achieve.
Not to mention that after the long wait, when you finally get to the counter, you meet an unsympathetic employee telling you there's no child support money deposited there for you to collect.
While not unsympathetic, he raises three important objections to his proposal: First, we need educated soldiers.
Unsympathetically it is the job of computer alarm clock to crystallized sinusoidally the feeble maledict grindelia halfway as the opsb and the generosity of new cetus in this lattice. Rational Review
White has written a sympathetic and balanced account of an unsympathetic and unbalanced character. Times, Sunday Times
Her husband was unsympathetic and she felt she had no one to turn to.
He was battling an unsympathetic crowd. Times, Sunday Times
The space is totally unsympathetic and encourages declamatory performances.
Although these physical attributes are shared by other Oriental and also by the Latin races, they reach a climax in the Jewish type, which in its culmination is unsympathetic to the Anglo-Saxon, the Oriental, or the Latin people. The Social Disability of the Jew
I'm generally unsympathetic to autobiographical works.
one unfortunately sees historic features carelessly lost when estates fall into unsympathetic hands
But as we contemplate these bitter internecine struggles we should not be too unsympathetic or complacent.
Most patients were content with their care, the determining feature of discontent being a doctor seen as rude, abrupt, or unsympathetic.
Unsympathetically it is the job of computer alarm clock to crystallized sinusoidally the feeble maledict grindelia halfway as the opsb and the generosity of new cetus in this lattice. Rational Review
The pitfall is that if some story aspect is already working, stretching can create distortion: characters that pass edgy and go straight to unnatural or unsympathetic, conflicts that no longer fit the tone or intent of the story, etc … Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Weapons of Mass Instruction
He believes that developers struggle to maintain prices when, at the peak of a market cycle, they've squeezed every last room they can into an unsympathetically designed space.
Because there's bound to be a few hideously unsympathetic and philandering surgeons on any given staff that will be seen as models for Alice's attendings. A Conversation with Elinor Lipman
This led to some inconsistent and frankly unbelievable plot devices and left me feeling detached and unsympathetic towards both of the lead characters.
people unsympathetic to the revolution
My wife is extremely unsympathetic to it but it's my way of winding down, it helps me to relax when I'm stressed.
There's nothing quite as unsympathetic as a politician looking for sympathy.
At this point, an unsympathetic viewer might say that he is too severe.
A snorter is a snob expressing their disapproval, while a sniggerer is insensitive, unsympathetic and immature.
The unsympathetic indifference of previously amiable females, the contempt of muscular males, the acceptance of fragments of bread, the simulated ignorance of casual acquaintances, the latration of illegitimate unlicensed vagabond dogs, the infantile discharge of decomposed vegetable missiles, worth little or nothing, nothing or less than nothing. Ulysses
The castle was then a disused, grade II listed building that had unsympathetically been turned into four holiday flats.
Save your breath! Don't even mention your illness to your unsympathetic boss.
There was some delay as we wrestled with both an unsympathetic location and the glare of the lights in his famously large glasses. Times, Sunday Times
In Nanxuzhou Pearl came close to taking the conventional missionary view that pictured Chinese people not as individuals but as a menacing, faceless horde, morally obnoxious and numerically overwhelming: “hard-featured, envious, curious, unsympathetic and ungracious,” as the head of U.S. Presbyterian Missions put it on a tour of the Yangtse basin, “they flock to a foreigner and close him in, like ants to a piece of bread.” PEARL BUCK IN CHINA
Without wishing to appear unsympathetic, this seems surprisingly tolerant. Times, Sunday Times
The Catholic hierarchy and clergy, drawn in large part from the rural bourgeoisie, had traditionally been uncomprehending and unsympathetic to the conditions of the urban working class.
Despite these unsympathetic harsh changes there are still many hygrophytes in the limited remaining marsh-lands.
These songs are also a ruse, winning the audience over to unsympathetic characters with a bit of modern familiarity. Times, Sunday Times
The film is likewise unsympathetic to their foibles.
It's like that sometimes," she said, not unsympathetically. THE IMAGE OF LAURA
Unlike him, whose doctors were extremely supportive, she found herself being dealt with by abrasive, unsympathetic staff.
Mr Sparrow said the site was the only green space in a largely built-up area and had, until recent ‘unsympathetic’ pruning, been a ‘green counterpoise to the surrounding buildings’.
We can also accuse the dental surgeon of being unsympathetic and the researcher of being unscrupulous for selfish reasons. They have both failed in their duty.
Maybe it's this lack of awareness about the moral timbre of what he writes and says that causes Corn to be so upset about my description of his book as not unsympathetic to Shackley.
More generally, they regarded him as unsympathetic to popular aspirations and intent on imposing a restrictive arrangement with precipitate haste.
unsympathetic officialdom
In 1930 he assumed power in Brazil after a revolution and his dictatorship was unsympathetic towards modern art.
I'm highly unsympathetic to what you are trying to achieve.
Save your breath! Don't even mention your illness to your unsympathetic boss.
Despite the husband's touching attentiveness to their four children he is unsympathetic and controlling towards his wife.
He was battling an unsympathetic crowd. Times, Sunday Times
His inclination, as a federalist, was unsympathetic towards some of that exploration.
Although not unsympathetic to the idea of states' rights, he believed that the South needed outside help in order to improve.
The war of classes, which was beginning, sprang not so much from material discomfort of the poor, as from what unsympathetic annalists called their greediness, their pride, and their wantonness. The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377)
The Heartbreak Kid, by contrast, is a mean piece of work with an unsympathetic, lying stinkard of an anti-hero.
The behaviour of the contestants has reduced them to little more than cyphers, their actions unsympathetic.
I am not unsympathetic to Singer's vegetarianism.
Save your breath! Don't even mention your illness to your unsympathetic boss.
Christina had thought the German Swiss a hard unsympathetic race.
On several levels Mary is unsympathetic - she doesn't repent her murder, she shuns the affection of her loved ones, and continues to obsess about her lover.
She recalls how she handled a call from one man who rang in and spoke unsympathetically about his daughter's eating disorder.
During his presidential years, perhaps due to shyness, he was at times criticized for being aloof, cold, and unsympathetic under the stress of public duty.
One of the lady victims feels that they are being let down and find themselves directionless in an unsympathetic environment.
Eventually, the Mail succumbed, a victim of increased competition, incompetent, unsympathetic executives, in - house spies and its cussed refusal to play the government game.
Many critics have observed that Yamamoto is not unsympathetic to the plight of issei men.
People see that present-day law is unduly lenient towards the criminal, and unsympathetic, sometimes harsh, towards the victim.
they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct
But the narrator is so unsympathetic, so blank and fleshless, that it's hard to feel engaged by her story, unless by the freak-show details.
Without sounding too unsympathetic, diseases and illnesses are a natural way of stopping the earth becoming too overpopulated.
The doctor was largely unsympathetic and sent me away with some paracetamol. Times, Sunday Times
He talked of his harsh, unsympathetic upbringing in which his often drunken father physically abused his wife and children.
At first, I was unsympathetic with his position and had not attended the meeting.
The story starts here with a slap in the mush from some unsympathetic magistrate.
I don't mean to sound harsh and unsympathetic, but I did not want to be held hostage in a room listening to other peoples' problems.
'You've only got yourself to blame,' she said unsympathetically.
his dignity made him seem aloof and unsympathetic
They belong to a self-complacent time, and we to a time of doubt and unsatisfied aspiration, and the two spirits are unsympathetic. Voltaire
the judge listened to the accused unsympathetically
The writing and directing move the story along, painting a rather sympathetic portrait of a very unsympathetic character.
Councillors decided the proposals were unsympathetic towards existing properties and grouping the low-cost homes together would create a ‘ghetto’ at one end of the cul-de-sac.
I was a good enough actor I suppose, having practised practically my whole life, but why did I always play the cold unsympathetic villain?
The campaign may have been started by figures unsympathetic to the Labour government, but the reality is that it has resonated with a very large proportion of the public, including many Labour supporters.
He himself said the Government's handling of the crisis appeared high-handed and unsympathetic.
We have our sympathetic characters doing unsympathetic things and vice versa. Times, Sunday Times
There was some delay as we wrestled with both an unsympathetic location and the glare of the lights in his famously large glasses. Times, Sunday Times
White has written a sympathetic and balanced account of an unsympathetic and unbalanced character. Times, Sunday Times
all the characters were peculiarly unsympathetic
a job temperamentally unsympathetic to him
One wonders what bad experiences the sensitive prince has had with unsympathetic sofas or aggressive pouffes.
He said it was natural for the public to feel unsympathetic towards prisoners at a time when crime was rampant and prisons overflowing.
Admittedly, I am an historian, so that makes me extremely unsympathetic to the sorts of loose and ahistorical generalizations to which sociologists are greatly inclined.
With her face shadowed with the night, it was hard to tell if her expression was concerned or unsympathetic as she looked to the girl sitting next to her.
Instantly, Penn establishes himself as an unsympathetic Satan, even before he starts his white-supremacist cant.
He said both he and his ministers had practiced an ‘illogical, unsympathetic and self-centered style of communication’.
Consequently, he is an unsympathetic character, whom he is hard pressed to make sympathetic.
By making their fortunes on the backs of common Russians, the oligarchs themselves are a pretty unsympathetic lot.
They were originally concerned that she appeared too aggressive, shrill, and unsympathetic.
She held out the pills, her expression unchanging and unsympathetic. Music in The Night
Guarding your face meant forfeiting peripheral vision and risking a new sort of physical harm - unsympathetic players were known to prod and jab loose-fitting facial armor.
Because of its emphasis on universalism and on acculturation within the host societies, Reform was unsympathetic, even hostile, towards the Zionist movement.
At times it's excruciatingly well-observed and cruel, but without being totally unsympathetic.
The absolute winner is the Elsa Schraeder of Jan, whose unstrained professionalism turns an unsympathetic secondary part into the show's single star turn.
The experience will drive him away from his deaf parents and alienate him from an unsympathetic hearing world
They have been betrayed by those who say that Australians are hard-hearted, unsympathetic, closed and cold.
A reader would understandably begin to suspect that he might be shirking his imaginative responsibilities here by offering us nothing more than an unsympathetic portrait of an unsympathetic character.
He notes the struggle during Elizabeth's reign between committed Protestants and the majority of conformists, the latter often unsympathetic to Protestant doctrines if, indeed, they understood them.
Rather, such a film would have to happily violate conventions of generic sexuality by explicitly eroticizing alternative sexualities for a non-alternative, unsuspecting, uncurious, and unsympathetic audience.
We can also accuse the dental surgeon of being unsympathetic and the researcher of being unscrupulous for selfish reasons. They have both failed in their duty.
What is remarkable, by contrast, is how unsympathetic and inartistic his spouse and offspring appear to be.
While some may regard this perspective as elitist, unsympathetic or simply arrogant, I remain dismayed that so many clumsy and misleading errors clutter the cryptozoological literature. Archive 2006-04-01
Indeed, almost any fiction written in English which deals with Catholicism, especially since the Second Vatican Catastrophe, is likely to be appropriately unsympathetic.
He was battling an unsympathetic crowd. Times, Sunday Times
Reporters and publications seen as unsympathetic to the administration's goals find it harder to get access to officials.
If anything, deconstruction made the left wing postures even less palatable to unsympathetic observers both inside and outside the university.
The inspector said in his report that, while not ideal, the colour scheme and lettering on the pub sign were not so unsympathetic or brash as to reduce the special interest of the listed building as a whole.
Priya is unsympathetic as she feels suicide is a betrayal - a coward's way out. The Sun
They were originally concerned that she appeared too aggressive, shrill, and unsympathetic.
In short, I am not unsympathetic to his agenda nor am I of the religious right.
You can call this the most seasonally unsympathetic killjoy of a column if you like, but over the past week did television not furnish the most unappealing crock of keech to masquerade as mass entertainment?
Put in this context, playing an unsympathetic figure in Magnolia looks less like a leap of faith and more a logical progression, and as for the ‘risky’ element?
Stone busts looked unsympathetically out from arbours along an arcaded walk. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
He produced a portrait which, though not unsympathetic, adopted an expressionistic intensity of colour more vigorous than anything he had attempted previously.
It was an encounter which began to turn the public against Judith, who appeared on the defensive, uncontrolled, bad tempered and all in all a rather unsympathetic character.
They've also been portrayed, by the husband and his attorneys, and by unsympathetic media, as everything from religious fanatics to pathetic simpletons.
Some reformers are simply unsympathetic to the clash of ideas and interests that is inseparable from democratic politics.
Save your breath! Don't even mention your illness to your unsympathetic boss.
With piles of work mounting up, deadlines looming and ever-increasing pressure from unsympathetic bosses, the 25-year-old was suffering from stress.
Their failure to satisfy a zealous and unsympathetic referee contributed to their downfall, whereas the home team's humouring of his idiosyncrasies meant that we only conceded two penalties before half time.
My generation of mothers - I still have a child at school - has been largely unsympathetic to the whining of new parents about how hard it all is.
The other one, playing Charles VII, had to deal with one of the most unsympathetic, unthankful roles in opera: neither good nor evil but merely pathetic.
He seems a somewhat austere and unsympathetic figure and his verses today seem dull and obscure, in translation at least.
We can also accuse the dental surgeon of being unsympathetic and the researcher of being unscrupulous for selfish reasons. They have both failed in their duty.
He seems a somewhat austere and unsympathetic figure and his verses today seem dull and obscure, in translation at least.
Don't hike across beaches if you can't understand the tides,' Arthur counselled, somewhat unsympathetically, `especially in Anglesey. BEHINDLINGS
The administration might be unsympathetic to a more robust policy towards Burma.
Ben QuinnLewisham, a suburb of south-east London blighted by serious deprivation and unsympathetic post-war planning which turned much of its centre into a one-way gyratory, experienced a few hours of trouble on Monday although it was quiet after several hours. London riots: conflagration and carnage in the capital and beyond
She's cold and unsympathetic, and I don't like her.
He was halted by the master-at-arms on watch outside Narby's suite, cuffed around a bit for his insistence on entering, referred to a boredly unsympathetic clerk who took his name and told him to return to his village and wait to be summoned. Destiny Narrowly Avoided
Many soreheads and unsympathetic people will probably cavil that this is pretty darn cool and lots of people don't get to go to Australia and experience such a beautiful land and have all these wonderful adventures.
Reading unsympathetically, we may reflect that there's not much he does that isn't for show.
The precise merit of his book is that he details how pluralist authors have evolved in response to both sympathetic and unsympathetic critics.
His idea, about a week with a worm named Willi, didn't grab his editor, Ms. Beneduce, who thought an annelid was too unsympathetic a protagonist. The Very Busy Author-Illustrator
In each, Douglas struggles against uppity, unsympathetic women who threaten his masculinity, disrupt his career and his cosy family life, and sexually harass him in the office.
His book is particularly unsympathetic towards the Lhasa theocracy, which is not surprising since he chronicles the 1904 invasion of Tibet by the British.
His dignity made him seem aloof and unsympathetic.

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