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

Cocherel had been singled out by the Baron de Vastey in his treatise on the horrors of slavery, but in flowing handwriting, the commissioner’s note taker recorded the marquis’s losses with bureaucratic dispassion:

From New York Times • May 20, 2022

He might have explored their prejudices with more dispassion.

From Washington Post • Jan. 21, 2022

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