unsympathizing

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Joffrey Baratheon is as cold and unsympathizing a ruler as Rome’s brutally calculating Gaius Octavian.

From The Verge • Apr. 13, 2015

We need not pause to observe how certainly this deficiency in humor and in the delineation of ordinary human feeling is connected with a recluse, a solitary, and to some extent an unsympathizing life.

From Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American by Eliot, Charles William

In life we may look for a singular purity; but also, and with equal probability, for singular self-confidence, a certain unsympathizing straitness, and perhaps a few singular errors.

From Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American by Eliot, Charles William

"Poor Georgia!" she said, as she turned away, feeling, she hardly knew why, a most uncomfortable sinking of her heart at the thought of her sensitive young friend amid all those unsympathizing strangers.

From The Actress' Daughter A Novel by Fleming, May Agnes

I have said that the abundant physical gift of life may carry with it a certain temptation to an unsympathizing self-sufficiency.

From Strong Souls A Sermon by Beard, Charles