| I watched her for a moment and then resumed listening to Jean's unmeant comedy. |
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| We quickly scrambled for our cars, mumbling unmeant thanks for a good time. |
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| A young girl thinks it will never come, though when it does, things will be ruined and things unmeant may be said. |
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| These facts can, of course, be brought to one's attention by unmeant gestures or inopportune intrusions. |
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| These poems are as heartless as birdsong, as unmeant as elm leaves, which if they love love only the wide blue sky and the air and the idea of elm leaves. |
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| Then there is the crude feeling of some unmeant gratification, a creaturely need. |
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| I just thought it an odd unmeant put-down by you at the end! |
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| The recognition then, I thought, was that the end work of art may be made of meant causes and unmeant causes interwoven in a deft and subtle fabric. |
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| She might have been in church, at the memorial service of some unloved colleague, in a world of unmeant expressions, the opposite of Beethoven. |
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| The third group includes overstretched analogies, unmeant invitations and extravagant compliments, which have their origin in the high value Brazilians place on finding and forging interpersonal connections. |
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| Forgive my sin of understanding one language through its unmeant echoes in another. |
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