How to Use unfeeling in a Sentence

unfeeling

adjective
  • She says the most unfeeling things.
  • How can you be so cold and unfeeling?
  • Theirs is a vast and unfeeling appetite for reassurance, and it must not be given room to grow.
    — Harper's BAZAAR, 27 June 2023
  • One says, God can always see you with his unfeeling precision.
    — Sandra Lim, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Tom is an absurdly unfeeling partner who’s openly hostile from his first minute on screen.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2018
  • But don't overlook a despairing howl into the unfeeling night.
    — Luke Darby, GQ, 26 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • The greatest accusation levied against her is the crime of being an unfeeling mother.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 11 Aug. 2025
  • The truth is that state government is not some distant, unfeeling bureaucracy.
    — John Atkinson, Chicago Tribune, 2 Mar. 2026
  • There’d be too much sympathy in watching this cookie get pulverized by unfeeling overlords.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Human failings amidst an unfeeling snowpocalypse make for some engaging scenes.
    — Ars Technica, 22 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • This savage, amoral and unfeeling Robin Hood has been written to invert everything modern fans like about him.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026
  • As an unfeeling hunk of metal that could unsettle even the most dedicated tech utopian, though, Spot never had a chance.
    — Jess Joho, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2023
  • That’s because for decades, reptiles have been characterized as cold, unfeeling, and even primitive creatures.
    — Lily Carey, Discover Magazine, 8 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • As the actor tells Glamour, most were written according to stereotypes and portrayed as cold, unfeeling, aggressive, or robotic.
    — Sam Reed, Glamour, 20 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Joe Alwyn also stars in the film as Jennifer's husband, the unfeeling, cold Laurence Stirling.
    — Natalie Morin, refinery29.com, 30 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • The author renders the four-year-old Margaret’s inner life with sensitive complexity, depicting an alert child logic that defies adults’ view of her as slow and unfeeling.
    — The New Yorker, 12 June 2024
  • Evmenova saw the position of someone like Marchenko, the city’s mayor, who had evacuated in the spring, as hypocritical and unfeeling.
    — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Al Pacino has a small but memorable role as Hall’s father, presented as so greedy and unfeeling as to force us to think that maybe Kiritsis had a legitimate axe to grind.
    — Mick Lasalle, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Knowing this, Rilke’s advice can sound astonishingly unfeeling, even reckless, in its dogmatic insistence.
    — Kamran Javadizadeh, The New Yorker, 26 May 2021
  • The adversarial shapes work on humans, too—wearing thimbles to emulate the cold unfeeling steel of a robot and using two fingers in a pinching grasp, the researchers were able to verify that the objects were hard to pick up.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 9 July 2019
  • 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 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
  • They are portrayed as autocratic, deaf, unfeeling, self-interested, single-minded, corporatized, and more.
    — David Rosowsky, Forbes, 4 May 2023

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