How to Use dispassion in a Sentence

dispassion

noun

• She viewed the problem with the weary dispassion of a police officer who had seen everything.
• The strength of the Uyghur Tribunal’s judgment last week lies in its caution, dispassion and legal rigor.
  — Benedict Rogers, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2021
• Unlike grime M.C.s, who are often frenetic and jumpy, Nines is composed to the point of dispassion.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 19 May 2017
• The footage of mass Nazi salutes from the crowd and Adolf Hitler looking on cheerfully is utterly chilling, but so is Riefenstahl’s dispassion.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 23 Feb. 2018
• Such endeavors in Britain are often conducted in the language of lawyers trained in the dry arts of dispassion in their quest for truth and explanations.
  — Alan Cowell, BostonGlobe.com, 21 May 2018
• The business today tends to reduce artists to hit singles, treating those tracks with the same dispassion as traders evaluating stocks.
  — Elias Leight, Rolling Stone, 6 Jan. 2022
• These slender mouth sticks are usually made of birch wood that’s been infused with tea tree oil, menthol, and cowboy-level dispassion.
  — Maggie Lange, Bon Appetit, 28 June 2017
• Ina understood that nobody wanted to hear of her sorrow or her fear or loss or anything to indicate her passion or dispassion for life.
  — Ottessa Moshfegh, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
• Italy and Germany, meanwhile, are both in a period of relative dispassion.
  — Natasha Frost, Quartz, 14 Oct. 2019
• The ad hopes to connect body-type dispassion with the Dove brand, scoring another victory for the company’s purported mission.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 9 May 2017
• The appropriate response to correct this is to strip Congress of power and transfer it to nonpartisan experts who have the knowledge and dispassion to trim the fat (rather than muscle or bone) from Medicare.
  — Jay Cost, National Review, 12 Feb. 2018
• Everyone across the ideological spectrum that has examined that record with care and dispassion has praised him.
  — WSJ, 20 Mar. 2017
• Beneath the veneer of dispassion roiled deep emotionality and sorrow, as well as humor.
  — Leah Ollman, latimes.com, 5 July 2019
• That widespread dispassion is why Mijente and students on their college campuses are focused so hard on educating their peers.
  — NBC News, 2 Dec. 2019
• His passionately personal engagement with his idols is all the more persuasive for these attempts to merge with them; there is no facade of critical dispassion.
  — Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2021
• That rational assessment was an example of X’s typical post-project dispassion, writ small.
  — Wired, 10 Nov. 2019
• The cumulative effect of this volume, however, is to suggest that Moskowitz lacks both the strategic dispassion and intellectual breadth for a big political job.
  — Lisa Miller, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2017
• The dispassion is interesting, understandable, but also an obstacle: a barrier meant to keep people out.
  — Laura Collins-Hughes, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2018
• In Chekhov, the clinical detachment—that cool, unsparing, astringent gaze—gives way to tenderness, to a sensitivity that is precisely the opposite of dispassion.
  — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2017
• Here, in the safe, neutral territory of public art, Ms. Puno has created an opportunity to assume different identities and compare and contrast the outcomes with a certain level of dispassion.
  — Jillian Steinhauer, New York Times, 23 July 2019
• With critical dispassion, mixed with internal queasiness.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 2 May 2022
• But the characters are far more complicated individuals than are likely to be found in a sitcom; their stunted interiority is explored with a combination of empathy and dispassion.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024