unvital

Isabelle's religious views were vague, broad, liberal, and unvital.

Together Robert Herrick 1903

None but children in mind could mistake them for truth, or keep up any real sympathy with such unvital motions.

Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters Hudson, H N 1872

Madame Sherrill, who carries on the farm since the death of her husband, is a woman of strong and liberal mind, who informed us that she got small comfort in the churches in the neighborhood, and gave us, in fact, a discouraging account of the unvital piety of the region.

On Horseback Charles Dudley Warner 1864

Madame Sherrill, who carries on the farm since the death of her husband, is a woman of strong and liberal mind, who informed us that she got small comfort in the churches in the neighborhood, and gave us, in fact, a discouraging account of the unvital piety of the region.

The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

While humanity is growing, they continue fixed; daily get more mechanical and unvital; and by and by tend to strangle what they before preserved.

Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library Herbert Spencer 1861

None but children in mind could mistake them for truth, or keep up any real sympathy with such unvital motions.

Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England Henry Norman Hudson 1850

She inhaled with joy the atmosphere of the flower-scented rooms; her eye dwelt with delight on their luxurious and tasteful appointments, the belongings of her former life, which seemed to emerge in them from the past and claim her again; the women in their _chic_ New York costumes and their miracles of early winter hats hailed her a long-lost sister by every graceful movement and cultivated tone; the correctly tailored and agreeably mannered men had polite intelligence of a world that Maxwell never would and never could be part of; the talk of the little amusing, unvital things that began at once was more precious to her than the problems which the austere imagination of her husband dealt with; it suddenly fatigued her to think how hard she had tried to sympathize with his interest in them.

The Story of a Play A Novel William Dean Howells 1878