unsentimental
Example Sentences
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Sam Sacks highlights the author’s “rigorously achieved style, which is stripped down, dryly unsentimental and keenly attuned to the tensions present in families and friendships.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026
Mr. Thomas, who was age 81, had been diagnosed with glioblastoma, a fatal brain cancer he wrote about in a moving but typically unsentimental open letter published online in March 2022.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
That unsentimental spirit has always drawn me to Rivera’s work.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026
But where other movies are overly precious while collecting the invisible string that binds characters from different time periods, “Sound of Falling” is stark and unsentimental.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2026
John Vorster, the new minister of justice, who had himself been detained during World War II for opposing the government’s support of the Allies, was a man unsentimental in the extreme.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
