passionless

Example Sentences

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Their relationship is adrift and passionless, and the stranger seems to know it, “messaging her from the shadows and keeping his identity hidden while he judged her, exposed her.”

From Washington Post • May 27, 2021

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

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

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