passionless

Example Sentences

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Haider’s yearning for Biba is intense and undeniable, especially in contrast with his affectionate but passionless marriage to Mumtaz.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2023

Interactions between characters feel hollow, no matter how well-lit or well-cast the scenes are, with a passionless non-ending that has little of substance to say about the period or its social morés.

From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2022

Len mocked the idea of a passionless passion.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 15, 2019

It lost to the passionless “Lullaby of Broadway,” warbled by Winifred Shaw and then re-purposed, instrumentally, for a bonkers Busby Berkeley number.

From Washington Post • Mar. 2, 2018

The scandal sheets and tattlers call her icy and passionless.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton