passionless

Example Sentences

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Len mocked the idea of a passionless passion.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 15, 2019

She’s left behind a dissertation she no longer believes in; a dreary grad-school job; an empty, aimless, passionless relationship.

From New York Times • Jun. 12, 2018

It lost to the passionless “Lullaby of Broadway,” warbled by Winifred Shaw and then re-purposed, instrumentally, for a bonkers Busby Berkeley number.

From Washington Post • Mar. 2, 2018

The network often goes overboard during the Olympics when it comes to covering emotional angles, but Friday’s broadcast was weirdly passionless.

From Slate • Feb. 10, 2018

As for her, she was a passionless maid and she clung to him as to a father, and to him she was indeed more than half child and scarcely woman.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck