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unsentimental









ADJECTIVE
tough-minded
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He is also unsentimental when it comes to upending the status quo in bookselling, including his conviction that Barnes & Noble needs to shelve fewer total books but more individual titles.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026

Mr. Thomas, who was age 81, had been diagnosed with glioblastoma, a fatal brain cancer he wrote about in a moving but typically unsentimental open letter published online in March 2022.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

But I suppose I was a quite unsentimental young man in many ways and I was always on the lookout for some material where I could a rattle the public’s cage a bit.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

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

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




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