Their regular and unimpassioned features are, probably, somewhat idealised by the pencil of one more happy, as well as more habituated, to embody inspirations of religious mysticism, than to portray the indexes of human passion.
Imperator," replied Decimus, trying to speak with unimpassioned preciseness, "a messenger has just arrived from Rome.
Those eyes that rarely met another's were fixed upon his searching yet unimpassioned glance.
I think of this thing and love her, of that and hate her--of a hundred aspects in which I can now see her with an unimpassioned sympathy.
The inspired and exalted lover deserves every preference over the unimpassioned friend.
Du Gard kept his promise to say the truth: his paper is as unimpassioned as could well be a paper published "by authority.
Might we not set aside for a time all the opinions that we upheld with so much ardour, to examine them afterwards with an open unimpassioned mind, adhering always to our common principle, which is Holy Scripture?
I was born rich, enormously, hatefully rich," she said in the low, unimpassioned voice of a confessional.
It would be a pity," he continued, quite calmly now, and his words seemed unimpassioned and dreamy in their simplicity.
No wonder if you are; for a mournful tale poured into an unimpassioned ear is more likely to induce drowsiness than pity.
I shall be only too happy to stay till you are at leisure,' said Neigh, in the unimpassioned delivery he used whether his meaning were a trite compliment or the expression of his most earnest feeling.
The orations of Antony, in vivid contrast to the conciliatory but unimpassioned speeches of Brutus, fire the people and liberate fresh forces in the falling action.
It was all drawn back by the croupier's unimpassioned rake, and the rolls of gold were restored to the tray from whence they had been taken.
That cold dislike which is the anger of unimpassioned beings was hardening within him.
Yet we seeing him in the unimpassioned moods of daily life, it is more than probable that we should see nothing in him but what was ordinary; nay, in some qualities he would seem inferior.
The incurious unimpassioned gaze of the Alpine peasant on the scenes which mysteriously and profoundly affect the cultivated tourist, is the gaze of one who has never been taught to look.
Charles possessed a miniature of the First Consul, which he assured me was strikingly like him; and for hours long I could sit and gaze upon that cold, unimpassioned brow, where greatness seemed to sit enthroned.
Cold and unimpassioned as you call yourself, I know your heart better.
Bother your rot," answered the other coldly, and quite unimpassioned before Martin's eloquence.
