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She has a reputation as a dispassionate judge.dispassionate = unaffected by strong emotion or bias
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A journalist should be a dispassionate reporter of fact.dispassionate = unaffected by emotional bias
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Her thoughts on the subject run deep, but are far from dispassionate.dispassionate = unaffected by strong emotion or bias
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I think dispassionate readers will agree with my analysis.
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McCandless's strange tale struck a personal note that made a dispassionate rendering of the tragedy impossible. (source)
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...and her lips are pulled into a polite smile, which is welded in place. Her eyes are pleasant but unoccupied, as if she's observing a staged drama. That smile haunts me. It was constant, the only eternal thing, inscrutable, detached, dispassionate. (source)dispassionate = without emotion
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"...I refuse to pity you in the manner to which you are well accustomed." "I don't want your pity," I said. "Like all sick children," he answered dispassionately, "you say you don't want pity, but your very existence depends upon it." (source)dispassionately = without emotion
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This one massive miscarriage of justice had afflicted the whole community with despair and made it hard for me to be dispassionate. (source)dispassionate = unaffected by strong emotion or bias
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There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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I turned my head to see Father, looking on dispassionately, as his son "mooned" him and as the brown seepage spilled into the bucket. (source)dispassionately = in a manner that is unaffected by strong emotion or bias
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A column is a personal take, and as such, it's less dispassionate than a straight news story. (source)dispassionate = unaffected by emotion or bias
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It was just after the Lords had thrown out the Reform Bill: that explains how Mr. Cadwallader came to be walking on the slope of the lawn near the great conservatory at Freshitt Hall, holding the "Times" in his hands behind him, while he talked with a trout-fisher's dispassionateness about the prospects of the country to Sir James Chettam.† (source)
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He spilled some wine and stared down at it dispassionately. (source)dispassionately = without concern (without emotion)
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In high-stakes, fast-moving situations, we don't want to be as dispassionate and purely rational as the Iowa ventromedial patients. (source)dispassionate = unaffected by strong emotion
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It was a time, according to a noticeable article in the "Pioneer," when the crying needs of the country might well counteract a reluctance to public action on the part of men whose minds had from long experience acquired breadth as well as concentration, decision of judgment as well as tolerance, dispassionateness as well as energy—in fact, all those qualities which in the melancholy experience of mankind have been the least disposed to share lodgings.† (source)
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(HONEY is weeping louder) GEORGE (Quietly, dispassionately): I thought you should know. (source)dispassionately = in a manner that is unaffected by strong emotion
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