He was no actor, but unconsciously he perceived her effort; and he resented it, unconsciously also, by short answers and an uninterested tone.
Peter is very silent, and most meritoriously uninterested in everything," he said to his wife.
Then he must write the story from the uninterested point of view of the public, which wants to hear the exact facts of the fire told in an unprejudiced way.
The paper wants the story from a single point of view--the point of view of an uninterested spectator.
Peter avoiding them and talking to them when needs must, with that distant, uninterestedlook and voice, was quite another.
Leonore, calmly, in the mostuninterested of tones.
With these words he resumed his uninteresting conversation with the equally uninterested Rawlins, and the undenominated passenger subsided into an admiring and dreamy contemplation of them both.
For an instant Hale gave himself up to the delicious flattery of unexpected, unintended, and apparently uninterested compliment.
Nevertheless Mr. King was not uninterested in renewing his memories of the old house.
Surely you are not uninterestedin what is now called psychical research?
A bright tear, which at that moment fell into her lap, showed that though a silent, she was no uninterested auditor.
I can tell you with absolute truthfulness that I am very much uninterested in whether I am shot or not.
The cry was taken up in a great shout of laughter, even the uninterested joining in from sheer joy in a catchword.
Matt’s thoughts soon passed from Shechaniah, the son of Jehiel, uninterested even by his relationship to Elam.
On receiving a negative answer he took one look at the uninterested Robin and suggested he be entered for the "novice class," alone.
For some reason best known to himself, the young collie accepted the fighter as his one and eternal lord; and lavished on him a single-hearted devotion he had never granted to his former uninterested owner.
Beth and Mary were totallyuninterested in this suggestion.
Jimmy seemed uninterested in the ultimate value of the hole to the modern parish.
And it was plain from their air of indifference and gravity, of uninterested yet strained attention, that they were newly come from a scene which, though almost tediously familiar to them, yet struck them as solemn.
But although there was evident in that an amiable desire to please, Ellen was again alienated by the cool smile with which Marion greeted the maid who opened the door, the uninterested "Good morning, Mabel.
Tell me the names of some of the big waterfalls," she insisted, uninterested in the loving things that he had said.
You can get tickets for Adamsville, and have two dollars left over," said the uninterested agent.
Fumbling first on one foot, then the other, he eyed the uninterested clerk closely.
He played perfunctorily, uninterested in the game, dreaming.
Edwin, with his elbows on the stone parapet of the bridge, stared uninterested at the spectacle of the child, the whip, and the skeleton.
There is an inner circle, surrounded by concentric circles which fade out gradually into the disinterested or uninterested rank and file.
The two should be parallel but quite distinct bodies of men, recruited differently, paid if possible from separate funds, responsible to different heads, intrinsically uninterested in each other's personal success.
John Smith was interested in a suit that did not affect his "interests," and Guy was uninterested in one that would determine the whole course of his life.
To the pelting cross-examination that beset him Con Brickley replied with sombre deliberation, and with a manner of uninterested honesty, emphasising what he said with slight, very effective gestures of his big, supple hands.
He was the least bit apologetic but Lydia in a daze of bliss was nonchalant and more or less uninterested in Kent's surprise at seeing her at a dance.
She seemed singularly uninterested in the preparations for Commencement, though she went through her final examinations with credit.
Unprejudiced and uninterested spectators, however, had but one opinion as to the chances of the Briton's success.
Euchenor, ever prone to wrangle, stepped forward from the background, where he had remained so as to appear an impartial and uninterested observer.
Not interested; not having any interest or property in; having nothing at stake; as, to be uninterested in any business.
Not having the mind or the passions engaged; as, uninterested in a discourse or narration.
But I am not uninterested in my people here, not by any means, and they bore me less than going to court and visiting my father-in-law.
Deganway and Carstairs were arguing in subdued tones and seemed as vacantly uninterested as Pentyre, who had exhausted the feuilleton of his paper and was studying the advertisements.
