unsentimental

Example Sentences

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Dangers are ever-present, but the novel is a study in unsentimental indomitability, as the hero reckons with the elements and her past on her way to a heartbreaking coda.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 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

The Dothraki were a hard and unsentimental people, and it was not their custom to name their animals, so Dany thought of her only as the silver.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin