Sample sentences for IMPERSONAL

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Definition

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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