passionless

Example Sentences

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These points can get clotted in the book’s late going, as Verdance leadership becomes increasingly one-note and authoritarian; even the inevitable battle scenes can feel passionless in comparison to Newitz’s true passion, urbanist rhetoric.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2023

Len mocked the idea of a passionless passion.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 15, 2019

The CultFest’s running joke on Julia is that she’s a passionless robot, but what I loved about this moment is that it was as full of emotion and guileless as she was.

From Slate • Oct. 26, 2018

The result is a movie that, for all its operatic allusions and actorly expertise, feels dismayingly passionless.

From New York Times • Sep. 13, 2018

Pythagoras taught that God is a number; Xenophanes that it is a sphere, passionless and consubstantial with all things; Parmenides that it is but the confluence of earth and fire.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson