unsentimental
adjective
un·sen·ti·men·tal
ˌən-ˌsen-tə-ˈmen-tᵊl 
: not marked or governed by feeling, sensibility, or emotional idealism : not sentimental
an unsentimental person
unsentimental remarks
unsentimentally
adverb
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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.
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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
The cousins’ eventual arrival at the home Grandma Dory left behind to escape the Nazis is handled in a way that’s unsentimental yet also credible and thoroughly touching, with a gentle twist that nicely serves the arc of David and Benji’s roller-coaster relationship.
—Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2024
In the extreme dry taking summer into winter, its flange
collects the scant dew, converting
it into persistence
and unsentimental
imagery.
—John Kinsella, The New York Review of Books, 31 Oct. 2024
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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
The cousins’ eventual arrival at the home Grandma Dory left behind to escape the Nazis is handled in a way that’s unsentimental yet also credible and thoroughly touching, with a gentle twist that nicely serves the arc of David and Benji’s roller-coaster relationship.
—Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2024
In the extreme dry taking summer into winter, its flange
collects the scant dew, converting
it into persistence
and unsentimental
imagery.
—John Kinsella, The New York Review of Books, 31 Oct. 2024
See all Example Sentences for unsentimental
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“Unsentimental.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unsentimental. Accessed 15 Dec. 2024.
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