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

An Ohio couple reinvigorate their passionless marriage during a bizarre 24 hours in New York City.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2019

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

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