unsentimental
Example Sentences
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It is a book that leads with its 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. 17, 2026
But I suppose I was a quite unsentimental young man in many ways and I was always on the lookout for some material where I could a rattle the public’s cage a bit.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026
It all makes for an atypically clear and unsentimental evocation of wartime displacement.
From The Wall Street Journal • 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
It had originally been a port-red color—and by lamplight, at least, still was—but it now featured a number of rather pancreas-shaped faded spots, unsentimental mementos, all, of a series of household pets.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
