passionless

Example Sentences

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These points can get clotted in the book’s late going, as Verdance leadership becomes increasingly one-note and authoritarian; even the inevitable battle scenes can feel passionless in comparison to Newitz’s true passion, urbanist rhetoric.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2023

Len mocked the idea of a passionless passion.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 15, 2019

The CultFest’s running joke on Julia is that she’s a passionless robot, but what I loved about this moment is that it was as full of emotion and guileless as she was.

From Slate • Oct. 26, 2018

Writing in The New York Times, Vincent Canby called the film, “an exceptionally loveless, passionless costume drama.”

From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2018

“That is what most of the discussion was about,” Master Lorren explained, his voice as passionless as stone.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss