ungiving

The cashier felt herself being squeezed between two ungiving forces.

But all of them had thighs like alabaster, cool and ungiving.

She let him, but the shape of her body against his was stiff, inflexible, ungiving.

Doughty men, hard and ungiving, yet never were they allowed into the front rank of the battle.

Here everything was tight-lipped, ungiving, good for nothing and nothing.

A little to the right, so she would come to rest on a narrow ledge beside the ungiving rocks.

She seemed to move down toward an absolute darkness, and the water was like ink, opaque, ungiving.

I had forgotten how utterly cold and ungiving Bennett had been.

Disappointing to report, then, that Friday's concert seemed tense, driven and ungiving in almost every respect.

Here, the ground was ungiving, stony, and damned, but there was cover.

No people but the Bhrathair have ever wrested bare life from such a grand and ungiving land.

He was tipping the album towards the ungiving light, scrutinising the wide pages.

If not, a dry, ungiving olive oil and orange pound cake will sum things up neatly.

She began to feel fatigue for it was as if she battled an ungiving brick wall.

A taller person would not have been able to stand at all, but would need to kneel upon the ungiving metal floor.

As yet the palate's still slick, cheeky and ungiving.

The Russians were impassive — not unfriendly, more ungiving.

She was tired, but with weak patience, victoriously ungiving, she held out against life.

She is emotionally ungiving and puts her feminist beliefs before her role as a mummy.

There was something very persuasive about the Ambassador, very tough, very ungiving.

It struck this listener as far too self-denyingly grim and ungiving for the poem at hand.

Annie hungers for affection from her ungiving mother and disengaged stepfather.

Apparently warming hugs can be most ungiving and greedily grasping for the self.

Twenty years without anger as Waylander clung like a leech to the ungiving rock of life.