passionless

Example Sentences

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I refuse to discredit an immediate connection with someone as inherently dangerous and resign myself to passionless dating and relationships because “boring” is good and safe.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2024

Interactions between characters feel hollow, no matter how well-lit or well-cast the scenes are, with a passionless non-ending that has little of substance to say about the period or its social morés.

From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2022

Vanilla can mean anything from “without a power dynamic” to simply passionless.

From Slate • May 6, 2021

Len mocked the idea of a passionless passion.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 15, 2019

Pythagoras taught that God is a number; Xenophanes that it is a sphere, passionless and consubstantial with all things; Parmenides that it is but the confluence of earth and fire.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson