unsentimental
Example Sentences
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Dangers are ever-present, but the novel is a study in unsentimental indomitability, as the hero reckons with the elements and her past on her way to a heartbreaking coda.
From Los Angeles Times
The discussions are unsentimental because the consequences are real.
The characters were pricklier and more restless than I remembered, and Alcott’s voice—good-natured but chiding, unsentimental—was a revelation.
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
The film is, in a sense, a necrology—a catalog of death—that takes a bleak and unsentimental stance on human suffering.
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