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based on, influenced by, or resulting from reason or thought rather than feelings or emotions
an unsentimental decision She's completely unsentimental about holidays.
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Recent Examples of unsentimental
This lyrical but unsentimental book is a eulogy for transhumance—the seasonal movement of livestock and the people who watch over them.
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The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
Yet after three years of lengthy overnight flights, navigating language barriers, and the emotional disconnect of having a wedding in a beautiful yet often unsentimental venue, the pendulum has begun to swing the other way.
—Elise Taylor, Vogue, 18 Dec. 2024
In The Miracle Worker, director Arthur Penn depicted the Helen Keller story in a direct and unsentimental manner that was unusual for its time.
—Paul Grein, Billboard, 18 Dec. 2024
But Dana’s writing is trippy enough, and Blush keeps things heightened and unsentimental enough, that the pair avoid the cliff.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2024
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The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
Yet after three years of lengthy overnight flights, navigating language barriers, and the emotional disconnect of having a wedding in a beautiful yet often unsentimental venue, the pendulum has begun to swing the other way.
—Elise Taylor, Vogue, 18 Dec. 2024
In The Miracle Worker, director Arthur Penn depicted the Helen Keller story in a direct and unsentimental manner that was unusual for its time.
—Paul Grein, Billboard, 18 Dec. 2024
But Dana’s writing is trippy enough, and Blush keeps things heightened and unsentimental enough, that the pair avoid the cliff.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsentimental
Adjective
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Out back, there’s a sleek new pool and detached garage, primed for conversion.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
18 Apr. 2025
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The report further indicates that there was one dead rodent in the attached garage, and across the three detached garages, investigators encountered one live rodent, one dead rodent, one nest, and one building with gnaw marks.—
Wesley Stenzel,
EW.com,
16 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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By placing both Washington and the camera filming him in close-up on a moving dolly outside the ballroom, Lee created the impression that Malcolm was floating through space, in a trance of stoic anticipation.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
2 May 2025
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Since the org partnered with Three Camel Lodge in 2020 to expand the breeding program, visitors to the camp can meet the stoic (but still quite cute and fluffy) guardian dogs.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
25 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The evening is expected to be calm and mild with a low of 57.—
Todd Karpovich,
Baltimore Sun,
30 Apr. 2025
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To those leading their march and speaking for the tens of thousands standing behind you: be calm, be clear.—
Danielle Wallace,
FOXNews.com,
28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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As the film opens, a matter-of-fact, unemotional voice shares statistics about children living with poverty, parental abuse and alcoholism in the United States, as the numbers flash in simple white text on a black screen.—
Murtada Elfadl,
Variety,
30 Mar. 2025
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Al Capone in Boardwalk Empire, an underground crime lord and boxer in A Thousand Blows, a neo-Nazi play-acting at being a father in This Is England, a coolly unemotional dystopian leader in Bodies.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
22 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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But, some people can feel numb after achieving major goals in life.—
Renée Onque,
CNBC,
24 Apr. 2025
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That’s always art’s job, but particularly now, when everyone is sort of numb with their disenfranchisement.—
Brent Lang,
Variety,
11 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Though never a commercial success, the LP made its way into the hands of oddball punks and art-rock weirdos in the Midwest, intriguing many with its aloof approach to merging rock, punk, new-wave, and experimental prog.—
Nina Corcoran,
Pitchfork,
24 Apr. 2025
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Pratt played the aloof but lovable Andy Dwyer, who held a series of odd jobs in the Parks and Rec department, while Lowe played auditor Chris Traeger.—
Jessica Wang,
EW.com,
22 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Eliot compares this style to Rory McIlroy lining up a putt to win the Masters: focused, composed, blocking out distractions.—
Julian Hayes II,
Forbes.com,
19 Apr. 2025
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The sets had their ups and downs: some of the improvisations were gorgeous, but the more composed elements felt messy.—
Amanda Petrusich,
New Yorker,
14 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Readers acquainted with the mixed lyricism and sarcasm of the Communist Manifesto or Marx’s inflamed journalism on the events of his day may be surprised by the desiccated laying out of concepts and dispassionate tone of Capital.—
Benjamin Kunkel,
Harpers Magazine,
28 Mar. 2025
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The tone of his book is dispassionate, befitting his soft-spoken, considered persona, but its message is clear: By favoring more and more immigration, the modern left betrayed its traditional working-class constituency.—
Robert Petkoff Krish Seenivasan Quinton Kamara,
New York Times,
24 Feb. 2025
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“Unsentimental.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsentimental. Accessed 8 May. 2025.
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