ungiving

"Your energy was pure selfless love. A giver in this ungiving life. Your loving nature carried thru decades."

“This is torture. Anyone who cannot recognize that has really had a very ungiving, very unloving upbringing,” she said, calling the separation of families under the Trump administration’s zero tolerance policy “unforgivable” as a directive.

Pattinson’s arthouse dabblings have potentially prepared him well to play Bruce Wayne, the superhero with a more human, angsty backstory than the rest of them, even if many of those to play him over years – Christian Bale’s clenched, ungiving Dark Knight included – have been loth to dwell on his weaknesses.

Most of them only see the ungiving soil from which a man must wrestle his subsistence and the barriers that shut him out from the world.

Phoenix would have to be pretty spectacular in the Audiard film to supplant You Were Never Really Here as the high point of not only Phoenix’s year, but just about any actor’s: as Joe, the silent-storm hitman concealing tidal waves of trauma beneath a grizzled, ungiving exterior, he brought sore-souled complexity, psychic pain and a stoic streak of gallows humour to what would otherwise be a familiar noir type.