dispassion

Example Sentences

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She also frequently fixes her camera on characters as they impassively recount stories of past traumas, such as an abortion and an apostasy; the sedateness of her shots mirrors the dispassion of their accounts.

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Cocherel had been singled out by the Baron de Vastey in his treatise on the horrors of slavery, but in flowing handwriting, the commissioner’s note taker recorded the marquis’s losses with bureaucratic dispassion:

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But if we can dispassionately and, effectively, murder a person in restraints, we can surely harness the same dispassion for the longer, harsher punishment of life behind bars.

From Washington Post

He might have explored their prejudices with more dispassion.

From Washington Post

Pans and zooms show the same dispassion that his characters profess.

From New York Times