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not responsive to individual persons- The strange young woman talked with him impersonally, without ever smiling or showing any warmth.Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
- Impelled by feelings that were primal yet paradoxically wholly impersonal.Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
- If I claim full justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing—a thing beyond myself.Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- Less obviously, though, he had watched her too, with a certain impersonal alertness; she might have been an experiment in progress.Gish Jen -- Typical American
- In the midst of the personified impersonal, a personality stands here.Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
- The drops which lashed her face were not scorpions, but prosy rain; Egdon in the mass was no monster whatever, but impersonal open ground.Thomas Hardy -- The Return of the Native
- Instead I stood in the hallway, absorbing the same sterile, impersonal surroundings I'd noticed while visiting with my father.Nicholas Sparks -- Dear John
- From all her talk of moving, I'd imagined a place full of boxes, something impersonal and antiseptic.Gayle Forman -- Where She Went
- Poirot spoke quietly and impersonally like a lecturer coming down to the level of a small child.Agatha Christie -- Early Cases Of Hercule Poirot
- Books, letters, dressing-gown, slipped about on the impersonality of the horsehair like incongruous impertinences.Virginia Woolf -- Mrs. Dalloway
- The clouds are the shape of our new prison walls—untouchable, impersonal, random.Joy Kogawa -- Obasan
- The lighting in the small, impersonal interrogation room was even brighter and harsher than it had looked from behind the two-way mirror.James Patterson -- Kiss the Girls
- 'Qing, qing,' broke in an impersonal voice over the line, speaking rapidly in Chinese.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
- The service is excellent but impersonal.Robert M. Pirsig -- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- As if by some unspoken consent, Annie had talked of her husband only rarely and even then impersonally, more of his job than of his character.Nicholas Evans -- The Horse Whisperer
- The voice was impersonal, as if it Issued from a machine and not a person.Robert Cormier -- After the First Death
- Even before these impersonal electric minds had arrived at their conclusions, however, the Inspector had given his own recommendations.Arthur C. Clarke -- Childhood's End
- Doug gives an impersonal nod.Simone Elkeles -- Perfect Chemistry
- Got to attention, Whitney thought, annoyed by the stiff and impersonal formality.J.D. Robb -- Glory in Death
- It doesn't seem as impersonal as I thought it would be, and it's cleaner, too.Nicholas Sparks -- Message in a Bottle
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