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  • His unpathetic willingness to show his withered self in order to introduce to the world the latest wonders of Apple product development was painful and glorious to watch.

    The Amazing Steve Jobs Story Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2011

  • As I looked at it there came over me a rush of the pity I have so often felt for this suffering of age in poverty -- so unpicturesque, so unwinning, to shallow sight so unpathetic -- and I put out my hand and let it rest for a moment on his own, knotted with rheumatism, stained and seamed with toil.

    Cecilia de Noël Lanoe Falconer

  • The others, down to their smallest item, were defaced with capitals, head-lines, alliterations, swaggering misquotations, and the shoddy picturesque and unpathetic pathos of the Harry Millers: the OCCIDENTAL alone appeared to be written by a dull, sane, Christian gentleman, singly desirous of communicating knowledge.

    The Wrecker 1898

  • There was, in fact, something in the tranquil, calm, unpathetic nature of that good man, which rendered him peculiarly inapt to enter into the secret chamber of souls that struggle and suffer and doubt.

    Oldtown Folks 1869

  • We are all slaves and puppets of a blind and unpathetic necessity. '

    Nightmare Abbey Thomas Love Peacock 1825

  • Not unpathetic the farewell; tall Barbaroux, cheeriest of brave men, stoops to clasp his Louvet: "In what place soever thou findest my mother," cries he, "try to be instead of a son to her: no resource of mine but

    The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

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