dispassion

Example Sentences

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More than just about anyone, Pelosi knows how to read a political situation with dispassion, detachment and clear-eyed calculation.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2025

She also frequently fixes her camera on characters as they impassively recount stories of past traumas, such as an abortion and an apostasy; the sedateness of her shots mirrors the dispassion of their accounts.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2023

This sounds like a downer, and “Hope” is exquisitely attuned to the nuances of grief, especially when it’s expressed by way of task-oriented dispassion.

From Washington Post • Apr. 14, 2021

Perhaps there’s something about my geographic distance from him that creates dispassion akin to the documentarian’s camera, that allows me to see this film’s conceit as fascinating but not upsetting.

From Slate • Sep. 30, 2020

I looked at Isaac’s eyes with their strange mix of warmth and dispassion.

From "How I Live Now" by Meg Rosoff