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 result is a movie that, for all its operatic allusions and actorly expertise, feels dismayingly passionless.

From New York Times • Sep. 13, 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

Minkoff, my passionless flame, has turned upon me.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole