as in detached
based on, influenced by, or resulting from reason or thought rather than feelings or emotions
an unsentimental decision She's completely unsentimental about holidays.
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Recent Examples of unsentimental
In The Miracle Worker, director Arthur Penn depicted the Helen Keller story in a direct and unsentimental manner that was unusual for its time.
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Paul Grein, Billboard, 18 Dec. 2024
But Dana’s writing is trippy enough, and Blush keeps things heightened and unsentimental enough, that the pair avoid the cliff.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2024
In his fourth feature, director Hsiao Ya-Chuan follows the unsentimental education of a motherless 11-year-old boy, Liao Jie (Bai Run-yin), raised in poverty by his kindly father, Liao Tai-lai (Liu Kuan-Ting), a waiter at a busy banqueting hall.
—Alissa Simon, Variety, 25 Nov. 2024
Students and parents need to be unsentimental about weighing risks and rewards, and come up with a gameplan that takes costs and future earnings into account.
—Taylor Tepper, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
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Paul Grein, Billboard, 18 Dec. 2024
But Dana’s writing is trippy enough, and Blush keeps things heightened and unsentimental enough, that the pair avoid the cliff.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2024
In his fourth feature, director Hsiao Ya-Chuan follows the unsentimental education of a motherless 11-year-old boy, Liao Jie (Bai Run-yin), raised in poverty by his kindly father, Liao Tai-lai (Liu Kuan-Ting), a waiter at a busy banqueting hall.
—Alissa Simon, Variety, 25 Nov. 2024
Students and parents need to be unsentimental about weighing risks and rewards, and come up with a gameplan that takes costs and future earnings into account.
—Taylor Tepper, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsentimental
Adjective
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In addition to the main floor porch, the property has a large detached deck close to shore for waterside entertaining. Take a look around...—
Audrey Kennedy,
Axios,
17 Jan. 2025
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The property comes with a detached garage with a stylish glass garage door and a car charger.—
David Caraccio,
Sacbee.com,
29 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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And finally… Win as a team, lose as a team, or so the saying goes, but stoic camaraderie is asking a lot of Real Valladolid.—
Phil Hay,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2025
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Both fascinating and infuriating, Henry Fonda for President, by Austrian filmmaker Alexander Horwath, examines the dark-browed, blue-eyed stoic Hollywood actor Henry Fonda as more politically significant than his infamously radical daughter, Jane.—
Armond White,
National Review,
4 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The sulfur and salicylic acid calm things down without stripping my skin, and there’s even charcoal and bentonite clay to go even deeper and pull out gunk.—
Jennifer Hussein,
Allure,
6 Apr. 2025
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Tsunoda came into the weekend with fairly calm expectations, saying that a Q3 appearance and points return would be a good start.—
Luke Smith,
New York Times,
6 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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As the film opens, a matter-of-fact, unemotional voice shares statistics about children living with poverty, parental abuse and alcoholism in the United States, as the numbers flash in simple white text on a black screen.—
Murtada Elfadl,
Variety,
30 Mar. 2025
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Al Capone in Boardwalk Empire, an underground crime lord and boxer in A Thousand Blows, a neo-Nazi play-acting at being a father in This Is England, a coolly unemotional dystopian leader in Bodies.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
22 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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This includes drugs like lidocaine, which is used to numb pain.—
Mary Kekatos,
ABC News,
9 Apr. 2025
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Regarding driving dynamics, the LT is tuned for non-enthusiasts—the steering is numb and lifeless, and the cornering grip is average.—
Michael Harley,
Forbes.com,
8 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Danielle then argues that Carolyn’s aloof demeanor is all an act, à la Columbo, meant to trick people into underestimating her.—
Tom Smyth,
Vulture,
20 Feb. 2025
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Adichie’s protagonists are independent and deeply ambivalent, not so much aloof as detached, both from their love interests and from their own desires and aspirations.—
Tyler Austin Harper,
The Atlantic,
5 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The 2021 Baylor and 2022 Kansas national championship squads were nearly entirely composed of upperclassmen, and UConn started just one freshman for each of its back-to-back titles in 2023 and 2024.—
Lev Akabas,
Sportico.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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For example, research at the Ivey Business School reveals that temperance (being calm, composed, patient, prudent, and self-controlled) is one of the weakest character dimensions for many people.—
Mary Crossan,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Until then, Fraga believed the role of a scientist was to identify and describe, to remain dispassionate.—
Meg Bernhard,
New York Times,
24 Jan. 2025
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Her character’s face in Hyper Knife is blank and dispassionate.—
Joan MacDonald,
Forbes,
20 Mar. 2025
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“Unsentimental.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsentimental. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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