unsentimental

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That’s when it hits you that while Stanley Kubrick’s unsentimental “2001: A Space Odyssey” inspired the iPad, Lord and Miller want to inspire a better version of us.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

But where other movies are overly precious while collecting the invisible string that binds characters from different time periods, “Sound of Falling” is stark and unsentimental.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2026

The film is, in a sense, a necrology—a catalog of death—that takes a bleak and unsentimental stance on human suffering.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026

Everyone contributed what money they could to save George’s business from Mr. Potter, an unsentimental tycoon who makes the toughest takeover bankers and lawyers seem like sissies.

From Barron's • Dec. 24, 2025

John Vorster, the new minister of justice, who had himself been detained during World War II for opposing the government’s support of the Allies, was a man unsentimental in the extreme.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela