Crossword-Solution: UNEMPHATIC 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 19

From beyond among the cottonwoods, came continually the smooth unemphatic sound of the doves answering each other invisibly; and against the empty ridge of the river-bluff lay the moon, no longer shining, for there was established a new light through the sky.

Sometimes he wrote a short article; never in the daily Press, which he despised, nor in the reviews (for he never wrote anything as long as a magazine article), but in a literary weekly he would express in weary and polished phrases the unemphatic boredom or the mitigated approval with which the works of his fellow-men inspired him.

Far away, distant, beautiful, irrelevant, from out of a little cluster of secondhand bookshops, ecclesiastical residences, and the inns and incidentals of a decaying market town, the cathedral of Lowchester pointed a beautiful, unemphatic spire to vague incredible skies.

Because the normal combinations of the emphatic and the unemphatic syllables of the English language are but five, there are only five different poetic measures.

Its characteristic is an emphatic syllable followed by two unemphatic syllables, as: ' ' The | old oak en | buck et ' ' The | iron bound | buck et (d) _The fourth measure_--called by the frighteningly long name of amphibrachic measure--is formed by a short or unemphatic syllable followed by a long or emphatic syllable, which is followed again by another short or unemphatic syllable.