unexpansive

On the contrary, our approach to them is narrowly utilitarian, unexpansive and without either awe or affection.

Just Send Us The Bill 2008

It would not have been logical to think that this cold unexpansive man was, in his heart, a patriot who felt Spain's decadence deeply and was seeking the means to revive her.

Caesar or Nothing P��o Baroja 1914

He called himself unexpansive and unromantic; he confessed to small understanding, small veneration, for artistic effects.

South Wind Norman Douglas 1910

He was cold, distant and unexpansive in manner and had more followers than friends.

Ireland Since Parnell 1910

Sophia, in the blackest of black weeds, started guiltily up from the volume of "The Corsair," in which she had been plunged, while Madeleine, without manifesting any surprise, rose placidly, laid aside her needlework -- a coarse flannel frock, evidently destined for charity -- and bestowed upon her sister and aunt an affectionate though unexpansive embrace.

The Light of Scarthey Egerton Castle 1889

It has already been remarked, that even before the time of Solon the number of Athenians not included in the gentes or phratries was probably considerable: it tended to become greater and greater, since these bodies were close and unexpansive, while the policy of the new lawgiver tended to invite industrious settlers from other parts of Greece and Athens.

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 Rossiter Johnson 1885

As he prefigured these new beings, the son was to exist chiefly for purposes of distinction and the dignity of heirship, and the paternal relations with him would be always somewhat formal, and, though affectionate, unexpansive.

The Market-Place Harold Frederic 1877

And his physiognomy, though it might at first seem very grave, rough, and unexpansive, beamed with masculine kindliness whenever a smile revealed his teeth, which had remained extremely white.

The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 1 ��mile Zola 1871

And his physiognomy, though it might at first seem very grave, rough, and unexpansive, beamed with masculine kindliness whenever a smile revealed his teeth, which had remained extremely white.

The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris ��mile Zola 1871

And his physiognomy, though it might at first seem very grave, rough, and unexpansive, beamed with masculine kindliness whenever a smile revealed his teeth, which had remained extremely white.

The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Complete ��mile Zola 1871