How to Use unfeeling in a Sentence

unfeeling

adjective
  • She says the most unfeeling things.
  • How can you be so cold and unfeeling?
  • Our phones, in their unfeeling way, have seen and recorded all of this—our constant floundering toward and away from the world.
    Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2021
  • What kind of heartless person does such an unfeeling thing?
    Lauren Ritchie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 1 June 2018
  • Joe Alwyn also stars in the film as Jennifer's husband, the unfeeling, cold Laurence Stirling.
    Natalie Morin, refinery29.com, 30 Apr. 2021
  • But don't overlook a despairing howl into the unfeeling night.
    Luke Darby, GQ, 26 Oct. 2017
  • This contention should not be taken as a repetition of the canard that Kubrick was a cold or unfeeling director.
    Peter Tonguette, National Review, 3 Sep. 2020
  • At the end of 2016, our country had swung in the direction of gold leaf, an ecstatic celebration of unfeeling billionaire-dom that kept me up at night.
    Laura Beck, Cosmopolitan, 16 Dec. 2017
  • Contrast that with Kai Leng, who on the other hand is stoic and unfeeling, which unfortunately are stereotypes of Asians.
    George Yang, Wired, 8 Dec. 2020
  • Tom is an absurdly unfeeling partner who’s openly hostile from his first minute on screen.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2018
  • But the image of a sweet, fresh-smelling newborn being murdered in cold blood makes for better politics, and brands pro-choice Democrats as cold, unfeeling, and hypocritical.
    Hillary Kelly, Glamour, 5 Oct. 2017
  • Atkinson's Maigret likewise is largely in the spirit of Gambon's -- quiet and gentle, though not as playful; more cerebral, but not unfeeling.
    Robert Lloyd, latimes.com, 3 Mar. 2018
  • Within a week, all the calluses Ronny had built up in his barefoot years disintegrated, flaking from his unfeeling feet onto the bed.
    Claire McNeill, miamiherald, 4 May 2018
  • Once again a former lover morphs into a vengeful enemy, and Bloom’s version of Roth as an unfeeling misogynist persists until this day.
    New York Times, 1 Apr. 2021
  • On the legislature’s uninformed and unfeeling rejection of these fragile human beings, with the passage and override of HB11.
    Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Playing the good guy, Charles Bronson projects little charisma, and his unfeeling performance works hand in glove with Winner's clodhopper direction.
    Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 2 Mar. 2018
  • The notion of male athletes as unfeeling superheroes has been passed down from generation to generation, and the stigma of seeing them showing weakness will not dissolve overnight.
    BostonGlobe.com, 5 Nov. 2019
  • The public image of Jason Kreis is one of an unfeeling, unflinching robo-coach who has been computer-programmed to possess ultra-intensity and laser-focus.
    Mike Bianchi, OrlandoSentinel.com, 17 June 2017
  • In both iterations, the Other is a robot—or at least robotic—because Western speculations about an Asianized future still rely on stereotypes of Asians as passive, unfeeling, and good at math.
    Jane Hu, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Knowing this, Rilke’s advice can sound astonishingly unfeeling, even reckless, in its dogmatic insistence.
    Kamran Javadizadeh, The New Yorker, 26 May 2021

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