passionless

Example Sentences

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Len mocked the idea of a passionless passion.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 15, 2019

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

The network often goes overboard during the Olympics when it comes to covering emotional angles, but Friday’s broadcast was weirdly passionless.

From Slate • Feb. 10, 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