passionless

Example Sentences

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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

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

As for her, she was a passionless maid and she clung to him as to a father, and to him she was indeed more than half child and scarcely woman.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck