He told stories of the most unemphatic kind in the most emphatic way, and Howard was amused at the radiant hues with which the lapse of time had touched the very simplest incidents of his career.
"Watersprings"
Arthur Christopher Benson
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.
"Writing for Vaudeville"
Brett Page
Thus, in the unemphatic parts he would turn away and not be continually "nosing his interlocutor" or talking directly to him.
"Browning and the Dramatic Monologue"
S. S. Curry