passionless

Example Sentences

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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

Len mocked the idea of a passionless passion.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 15, 2019

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