Inhoop, Inhospitable, Inhospitality, Inhuman: lacking kindness, pity or compassion; cruel, indifferent – a dictionary drifts, open at I. I beg to differ.
The neighbors appear to be home, but lacking in pity for their dog.
I saw a man exposing an inner character that lacks both pity or remorse, a man whose ruthlessness knows no bounds -- but who cloaks that harsh inner being in unctuous expressions of empathy.
So far as one could tell, she entirely lacked self-pity.
Judges said it was "a perfect memoir of old age – candid, detailed, charming, totally lacking in self-pity or sentimentality and above all, beautifully, beautifully written".
To the frustration of television correspondents and photographers, almost all the former hostages refused to blub to order and seemed impressively unmarked and lacking in self-pity after their ordeal.
Masaoka frequently wrote of his illness, both in his poems and in such essays as "Byōshō rokushaku" (1902; "The Six-foot Sickbed"), but his work is remarkably detached and almost entirely lacking in self-pity.
It is music of the most incredible generosity, totally lacking in self-pity, written by a man who knew he was dying but that is completely free from irony and bitterness.
At age 38 O'Brien – curious, wickedly funny and utterly lacking in self-pity – contacts a professional surrogate with the help of a friend or two and the blessing of his priest (William H Macy).
Asturias then shows how el Pelele, a mother-loving figure, "suffers at the hands of those who, long under the domination of the over-aggressive father figure, lack love and pity".
