Examples of unsympathetic in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web For one eternal moment, Ousland stared into the unsympathetic depths of the Arctic Ocean and his own mortality. — Adventure, "The untold story of the boldest polar expedition of modern times," 23 Dec. 2020 Harrison is thoroughly the villain of the piece, always venal and vicious, always untrustworthy and unsympathetic. — Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor, "‘Tecumseh and the Prophet’ shines a light on Native American resistance," 14 Dec. 2020 Chief Justice John Roberts and Barrett were unsympathetic. — Aaron Tang, Star Tribune, "Court sends decidedly centrist signals," 30 Nov. 2020 To an unsympathetic listener, Costello can sound twee in studio, especially surrounded by Nieve’s filigrees. — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, "Why a 41-Year-Old Record About Fascism Matters Now," 30 Nov. 2020 Judges, too, with packed schedules and rigid rules of courtroom conduct, were often unsympathetic to defendants’ desire to make a case for themselves in court by, for example, attempting to file motions against their lawyers’ instructions. — Andrew Martin, Harper's Magazine, "New Books," 24 Nov. 2020 The cumulative effect was, unsurprisingly, wide-scale burnout among employees and high turnover, to which Neumann was largely unsympathetic. — J.c. Pan, The New Republic, "How WeWork Got Away With Spectacular Failure," 24 Nov. 2020 On Wednesday, however, posts on Chinese social-media platforms were largely unsympathetic toward Ma. — Enda Curran, Bloomberg.com, "Derailing of Jack Ma’s Ant IPO Shows Xi Jinping’s in Charge," 4 Nov. 2020 In that short time, Thunberg, a 17-year-old Swede, has become a figure of international standing, able to meet with sympathetic world leaders and rattle the unsympathetic. — David Marchesephoto Illustration By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, "Greta Thunberg Hears Your Excuses. She Is Not Impressed.," 30 Oct. 2020

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