Sample sentences for DISPASSIONATE

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Definition

unaffected by strong emotion or bias

dispassionate = unaffected by strong emotion or bias

dispassionate = unaffected by emotional bias

dispassionate = unaffected by strong emotion or bias

dispassionate = unaffected by strong emotion or bias

Jane, I am not a gentle-tempered man — you forget that: I am not long-enduring; I am not cool and dispassionate.
Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre

dispassionate = unaffected by strong emotion

This one massive miscarriage of justice had afflicted the whole community with despair and made it hard for me to be dispassionate.
Bryan Stevenson -- Just Mercy

dispassionate = unaffected by strong emotion or bias

It was the dispassionate stare of a man well used to weighing humanity in the balance.
Agatha Christie -- And Then There Were None

dispassionate = unaffected by emotion or bias

McCandless's strange tale struck a personal note that made a dispassionate rendering of the tragedy impossible.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

dispassionate = unaffected by strong emotion or bias

...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.
Tara Westover -- Educated

dispassionate = without emotion

Consider the matter dispassionately, Mr. Foster, and you will see that no offence is so heinous as unorthodoxy of behaviour.
Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World

dispassionately = without emotion or bias

  "...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."
John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars

dispassionately = without emotion

(HONEY is weeping louder)
GEORGE (Quietly, dispassionately): I thought you should know.
Edward Albee -- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

dispassionately = in a manner that is unaffected by strong emotion

Looking at the matter dispassionately, I shared his view.
Albert Camus -- The Stranger

dispassionately = in a manner that is unaffected by strong emotion or bias

Sometimes he drove by the building, just to feel how dispassionately he could look upon it.
Gish Jen -- Typical American

dispassionately = in a manner that is unaffected by strong emotion

The Soc textbook had described the reasons behind bloodlust in logical, dispassionate words that didn't begin to represent the truth of it.
P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast -- Betrayed

dispassionate = unemotional (without passion)

I turned my head to see Father, looking on dispassionately, as his son "mooned" him and as the brown seepage spilled into the bucket.
Dave Pelzer -- A Child Called It

dispassionately = in a manner that is unaffected by strong emotion or bias

He spilled some wine and stared down at it dispassionately.
Tim O'Brien -- Going After Cacciato

dispassionately = without concern (without emotion)

A dispassionate white sun shone at the summit of the sky.
Sylvia Plath -- The Bell Jar

dispassionate = unaffected by strong emotion or bias

In high-stakes, fast-moving situations, we don't want to be as dispassionate and purely rational as the Iowa ventromedial patients.
Malcolm Gladwell -- Blink

dispassionate = unaffected by strong emotion

A column is a personal take, and as such, it's less dispassionate than a straight news story.
Steve Lopez -- The Soloist

dispassionate = unaffected by emotion or bias

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