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
  • My dispassionate leanings were vindicated a couple of months later, when the U.S. hosted the World Cup.
    Leo Robson, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2016
  • Abassi presents this student-teacher union with an almost dispassionate detachment.
    Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 23 May 2024

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