How to Use dispassionate in a Sentence

dispassionate

adjective

• He spoke in a dispassionate tone about the accident.
• Journalists aim to be dispassionate observers.
• The idea now isn't to be dispassionate; passion is good.
  — Greg Cote, miamiherald, 11 May 2018
• President Trump took a dispassionate view of the deal and scraped it to gain one with real teeth to it.
  — WSJ, 22 May 2018
• The works of dispassionate analysis will come once the guns fall silent.
  — Joshua Keating, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2022
• And this film does that in a reasonably smart and dispassionate way.
  — Washington Post, 27 May 2021
• Was Aimard making the case for Beethoven as a dispassionate modernist?
  — Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• Even dispassionate sports hacks can go all fan when their teams are involved.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 22 Aug. 2017
• Lavender's case reminded me of the plight of child soldiers in parts of Africa with their dead, dispassionate eyes.
  — Byron McCauley, Cincinnati.com, 15 Dec. 2017
• Burns thought that Putin sounded cool and dispassionate, as if his mind was nearly made up.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2022
• Again, this is what a dispassionate look at [what] decades of research suggest.
  — Ezra Klein, Vox, 27 Mar. 2018
• Much of the book is given over to the dispassionate recording of her father’s habits and behaviors.
  — Maggie Doherty, The New Republic, 31 Oct. 2023
• Many of the film’s more jarring moments feel as dispassionate as the film’s dialogue and shooting style.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 18 May 2024
• The first step is to observe the Critic like you would a blemish on your hand, listening to it with a curious, dispassionate ear as a part of you.
  — Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2022
• Cool, dispassionate reason is elbowed out of the way by hot passion.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 21 June 2017
• But, by any number of measurements made by dispassionate researchers, the maps have, in fact, proven to be extreme.
  — Megan O’Matz, ProPublica, 23 Sep. 2023
• The voice is clinical and dispassionate in the manner of therapy, but there is empathy in the tone.
  — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 July 2023
• Flood and Thomas are not dispassionate observers in this debate.
  — Nathan Whitlock, The New York Review of Books, 3 Nov. 2020
• Think about how to frame your critique in a dispassionate, constructive way.
  — Rob Walker, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2016
• But the resulting songs are so dispassionate that they may as well have been recorded by strangers in different cities.
  — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 22 July 2019
• And give the museum credit for trying to break out of the dispassionate curator mode.
  — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 7 July 2017
• This faux science is not dispassionate but fired by a great moral certainty.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 17 Jan. 2023
• Because the law, at its best, is dispassionate and objective.
  — Katie Reilly, Time, 11 May 2018
• That’s best protected by a dispassionate standard of speech overseen by the Supreme Court, Ms. Voss argues.
  — Harry Bruinius, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Aug. 2017
• The case against the FBI that’s being assembled by Trump and his minions is not designed to convince dispassionate observers.
  — Chas Danner, Daily Intelligencer, 4 Feb. 2018
• The Senate, designed and structured to be a more deliberative and dispassionate body than the House, would best resist these forces.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 21 Jan. 2020
• There are no metaphors in the first paragraph of Michael Kohlhaas, no figures of speech—just the dispassionate accounting of existential suspense.
  — Christine Smallwood, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
• His approach was logical and dispassionate, encouraging us to listen with open minds to what Ali had to say.
  — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2022
• Wool invented a visual language that collectors came to love (black and white, dramatic, dispassionate, gritty but in a chic way) and that, in the end, looked great in a minimalist loft.
  — Rachel Corbett, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2024
• Abassi presents this student-teacher union with an almost dispassionate detachment.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 23 May 2024

Last Updated: 24 Dec 2024