Mrs. Winthrop, with her hard unlovable face, sat silently listening beside the stove, and picking over the potatoes for the spring planting.
It defeats its own ends, and instead of exposing the faults of our neighbors, serves only to call attention to our own irritable, peevish, unlovable disposition.
Egotism and skepticism are always miserable companions in life, and are especiallyunlovable in youth.
Perhaps, she reflected, it muted its rage because it knew that it was unlovable and must curry favour by not troubling people.
Then try and make Allie understand how unbecoming and unlovable jealousy is, and how it renders a man or woman an object of pity and ridicule to others.
Among the recognised "fits" in our family is "the Accal who loves the unlovable babies.
I think of the child, now our happy Gladness, lover of the unlovable babies; and I for one cannot wonder at the little Fawn's fear.
A proper, perfect, "model" man, is an unlovable man.
It is religion that is supposed to rub down that long face, and inspire that stiff demeanor, and to make him at all points an unattractive and unlovable man.
It is unlovable in an artist to keep an audience waiting, and put a manager to the necessity of making explanations.
It is unlovable in a coal dealer to discontinue supplies until a debt is settled.
I know you are never sea-sick, unlovable creature that you are, so you won't sympathize with us as we lay limp and wretched in our deck-chairs on the damp and draughty deck.
This unlovable child with an insatiate appetite for information found his way to a public library and determined to write an encyclopaedia of all knowledge.
Nor was I unaware of certain unlovable traits that were unavoidably developing in my own self under these influences.
There I am apt to put my least attractive wares in the show-window, to expose some unlovable trait of my character, while whatever good there may be in me eludes the eye of a superficial acquaintance.
Did you ever ask yourself what some of these unlovable people are doing, the while you and I are telling each other how impossible and unlovable they are?
Realise that the Lord your God is the God also of these unlovable people.
To me it says this--and I think we all need to learn it--that God is the God even of unlovable people!
Ah, yes, it's a mercy that there is a God even for unlovable people!
But that unlovable people have a God, too, is actually harder for us to realise, for the plain fact is that unlovable, disagreeable people irritate and annoy us more even than the sinners.
