unlachrymose

Adjective

unlachrymose (not comparable)

1. Free from dejection and melancholy; not vexed or weighed down by circumstances.
   • The only articulate sounds that could be distinguished, were the impatient exclamations of hungry soldiers, clamouring for their schnapps and suppers, and throwing the toiling sutlers into a frenzy of bewilderment. The spectacle, too, was of an equally joyous and unlachrymose description.1852, The New Monthly Magazine, volume 95, page 324
2. Tearless; not given to crying.
   • When the devil was going out of the possessed person, he was supposed to do so with reluctance: “The spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and he was as one dead; insomuch that many said, He is dead.” (St. Mark, ix. 26.) The tears and struggles of the infant would therefore be a...1853, Notes and Queries, volume 7, page 97
   • And as to the slumber of infants, it is no guess of mine that to sleep like a baby is not always to lie quiet and unlachrymose all night.1944, Franklin Pierce Adams, Nods and Becks, Whittlesey House, page 126
3. Unamenable to appeals of emotion.
   • But the really dangerous people would be the servants, la valetaille et la piétaille, the cold-eyed, unimpressionable, unlachrymose, and, when encountered in a corridor, insolent observers of Rousseau’s magisterial performances.1975: The Spectator, volume 235, part 2, page 13 (F.C. Westley)
4. Not schmaltzy; expressed without gratuitous sorrow.
   • His films with Temple are surprisingly light and unlachrymose.1983, Jean Pierre Coursodon et al., American Directors, volume 1, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 112, →ISBN
   • Ezio Pinza (DB 828; GEMM 162/3), recorded in 1924, offers unlachrymose singing of the lovely aria ‘Cinta di fiori’.1984, Alan Blyth, Malcolm Walker, editors, Opera on Record, volume 2, Hutchinson, page 126
5. Unmournful; free from lamentation.
   • I conclude that the kaddish, in Rashi’s day, played only its traditional role, in and out of the context of mourning. It was still a liturgical corollary to a pedagogical activity. Indeed, in Rashi’s reading, the liturgy of mourning that the kaddish accompanied was itself not construed as an...1998, Leon Wieseltier, Kaddish, Knopf, →ISBN, page 54, →ISBN