dispassion

Example Sentences

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More than just about anyone, Pelosi knows how to read a political situation with dispassion, detachment and clear-eyed calculation.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2025

This sounds like a downer, and “Hope” is exquisitely attuned to the nuances of grief, especially when it’s expressed by way of task-oriented dispassion.

From Washington Post • Apr. 14, 2021

Perhaps there’s something about my geographic distance from him that creates dispassion akin to the documentarian’s camera, that allows me to see this film’s conceit as fascinating but not upsetting.

From Slate • Sep. 30, 2020

Such endeavors in Britain are often conducted in the language of lawyers trained in the dry arts of dispassion in their quest for truth and explanations.

From New York Times • May 21, 2018

There was a moment, very brief, when the guarded dispassion fell away from Thyon’s face, and Lazlo saw something human in him.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor