You are wrong--and the accusation isunflattering to my perceptive powers.
Orrin should have moved--assured as he was that he was the subject of unflattering remark.
One lives on them better than on unflattering ones.
Pompeii an unflattering portrait of some martinet centurion which the ashes of Vesuvius have preserved until to-day.
You see that I am reduced to the unflattering alternative that it is myself that he objects to or my playing.
Yet the situation, unflattering though it was, had its advantages, which dawned upon him gradually, while Elizabeth still sobbed.
He was very much the fashion and absorbed in his success, and seldom had the time, or perhaps the inclination, to encounter Elizabeth's unflattering indifference.
Perhaps the claim also had its influence in producing the one unflattering estimate of Jane which we shall have to lay before the reader.
Evidently my best is an inadequate thing, and unflattering to me, for she has failed.
Culpepper the undemonstrative, the coolly unflattering in his attitude always, swung about at the sound of her footsteps and met her at the parlor door.
Nothing annoyed him so much as being spoken to in turns, with an intense and unflattering attention towards an uninteresting piece of work, or what he considered uninteresting.
On the other hand, mere costliness does not constitute the soul of a present; on the contrary, it has the commercial and unflattering effect of repayment for value received.
He found, or fancied that he found, that the portrait of Catherine belied the unflattering accounts he had deceived.
Mrs. Gano, with unflattering eyes on the head of the house, gave an incredulous cough.
She gave anunflattering account of the extravagance, filth, and idleness cultivated in servants by the Southern regime.
Of William Carragh O'Brien, of Aherlow, one of the chiefs of this sept, Clyn gives a veryunflattering account.
Everybody seemed to know in some mysterious way that the circulators of the new and unflattering stories about Davies were not so much the invalid colonel or Messrs.
What Captain Cranston would have said to a man who had come to him with such a tale, and with such unflattering conception of the profession he was proud of, need not here be recorded.
Selma colored at the unflattering simplicity of his deduction.
Some editors would have replied to you as I have done, and yet been capable of a mental reservation unflattering to the ambitious young woman to whom we have been listening.
So he, too, went out and mounted Glory and rode away to the ranch where waited the horses; and as he went he thought, for perhaps the first time in his life, some hard and unflattering things of Chip Bennett.
The girl--even now he did not know what name to call her--was showing a strain of coarse temper; the temper that must descend to personalities and the calling of unflattering names.
The butler was probably a mixture of half a dozen primitive races; he was wearing one of his late master's evening suits, a bright mellow-pink, which was distinctly unflattering to his complexion.
Odo was thus driven to the not unflattering conclusion that she had been instructed to avoid his company; and after the first disappointment he was too honest to regret it.
Shall I own," she cried, "that I suspect in this unflattering compliance a pretext to conceal your friend's features from me as long as possible?
Not about your drama," she said significantly; but Sam was too happy to draw any unflattering deductions.
The child slipped from her knee with unflattering haste.
Of course, all people connected with the theatres were very indignant at the insult implied; whilst, on the other hand, many parsons and Nonconformist ministers rushed into print and said very unflattering things about the stage.
One hears comments upon the gowns, and sometimes severe remarks about the alleged misdeeds of the professional critics, as well as unflattering observations concerning the personal appearance of some of us.
The apparent ease with which Claude had yielded the preference to Marjorie's claim upon his time carried with it an unflattering implication as regards the value he set upon Janet's friendship.
But Cornelia made unflattering comparison between the surface conveyances in Manhattan and the bus transportation which Londoners and Parisians enjoyed.
He had good reason to know howunflattering the comparison was.
The most unflattering portrait is no bar to poets' confidence in their brother's beauty, yet they are happiest when fashioning a frame for geniuses of whom we have no authentic description.
Trafalgar Square continued to excite his unflattering comments, but there is no public place in the world which lends itself to more criticism.
First of all we have an unflattering picture of the rudeness and inattention of the girls in one of those joint establishments--half shop and half post-office.
The Four Georges is in a vein of delicate satire, and presents a rather unflattering picture of four of England's rulers and of the courts in which they moved.
Boswell disliked Goldsmith, and so draws an unflattering Portrait, but even this does not disguise the contagious good humor which made men love him.
