Examples of dispassion in a Sentence
She viewed the problem with the weary dispassion of a police officer who had seen everything.
Recent Examples on the Web
And the agency has consistently performed those duties with rigor and dispassion.
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Eva Temkin, STAT, 14 Dec. 2023
The tone is one of admiring dispassion, the approach at times discreet to the point of inertia.
—Michelle Orange, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
But dispassion is not their strong suit.
—The Intersection, Discover Magazine, 27 July 2011
Traditional journalism emphasized values and norms like balance, dispassion.
—Chris Mooney, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2011
The cowboys are loading their guns with dispassion and buckshot.
—Luther Ray Abel, National Review, 23 June 2022
Ina understood that nobody wanted to hear of her sorrow or her fear or loss or anything to indicate her passion or dispassion for life.
—Ottessa Moshfegh, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
With critical dispassion, mixed with internal queasiness.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 2 May 2022
The business today tends to reduce artists to hit singles, treating those tracks with the same dispassion as traders evaluating stocks.
—Elias Leight, Rolling Stone, 6 Jan. 2022
Eva Temkin, STAT, 14 Dec. 2023
The tone is one of admiring dispassion, the approach at times discreet to the point of inertia.
—Michelle Orange, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
But dispassion is not their strong suit.
—The Intersection, Discover Magazine, 27 July 2011
Traditional journalism emphasized values and norms like balance, dispassion.
—Chris Mooney, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2011
The cowboys are loading their guns with dispassion and buckshot.
—Luther Ray Abel, National Review, 23 June 2022
Ina understood that nobody wanted to hear of her sorrow or her fear or loss or anything to indicate her passion or dispassion for life.
—Ottessa Moshfegh, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
With critical dispassion, mixed with internal queasiness.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 2 May 2022
The business today tends to reduce artists to hit singles, treating those tracks with the same dispassion as traders evaluating stocks.
—Elias Leight, Rolling Stone, 6 Jan. 2022
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“Dispassion.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dispassion. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.
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