unsentimental

Example Sentences

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The setup here is an enticingly fresh and unsentimental look at confused youth.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

It all makes for an atypically clear and unsentimental evocation of wartime displacement.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

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 • Feb. 26, 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