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

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

Writing in The New York Times, Vincent Canby called the film, “an exceptionally loveless, passionless costume drama.”

From New York Times • Sep. 14, 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