How to Use impersonal in a Sentence

impersonal

adjective

• We discussed the weather and other impersonal topics.
• He maintained an impersonal, professional attitude.
• Van Ness speaks with a warmth that breaks through the cold, impersonal monotony of Zoom.
  — Mathew Rodriguez, SELF, 1 Dec. 2020
• New York can feel like big, impersonal place—and so can the offices in or near the largest city in the country.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 18 July 2017
• But that would be way too impersonal for coach Tim Corbin and his staff.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 16 July 2021
• The new app, the team hopes, will act as more of a personal coach than an impersonal shop.
  — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2018
• To the design lead Bryant Jow, that felt impersonal, like the driver was a cog who had to be turned on like a light switch.
  — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2018
• At the same time, Baldessari’s impersonal stamp lends a degree of anonymity to his sheet.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2020
• The movies gave us common ground that was impersonal, less fraught.
  — Outside Online, 23 Nov. 2021
• Rameau said the tone of the message was impersonal, detached and did not sound like Knezevich.
  — Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 20 Feb. 2024
• The name seemed to say it all – this wasn’t a massive, impersonal stadium, this was a place for the people.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 19 June 2020
• But that doesn’t mean that the recessed living room is cold and impersonal.
  — Kate Reggev, Architectural Digest, 28 June 2024
• Even the pictures that emerged from Covid rooms felt impersonal.
  — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 23 Mar. 2022
• During a pandemic, the risk to the body is even more impersonal.
  — Joseph Osmundson, The New Republic, 30 July 2020
• Three Rivers and the Vet just looked miserable, impersonal and grim.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 19 June 2020
• Any bigger, Clark said, and groups start to feel impersonal.
  — Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2021
• The material is hot but the style stays cool, as calm and impersonal as a hotel room.
  — Parul Sehgal, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2017
• If the lake seemed too small-scale, the canyon is the opposite — too massive, almost impersonal.
  — New York Times, 12 May 2022
• The truth is that personalized ads are the result of a very impersonal process.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2017
• Sometimes their words were impersonal, and might even be kind.
  — Sigrid Nunez, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2024
• Does anything feel more impersonal than an email that asks you not to reply?
  — Gareth Parkin, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
• At the same time, his work was cynical, impersonal, lazy and, at times, slipshod.
  — Victoria Dalkey, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024
• What should have been the most impersonal of interactions – the facts and only the facts – turned out differently because of the cop sent to the scene.
  — Tom Hallman Jr., OregonLive.com, 30 June 2017
• That book too was impersonal, which is what bothers Moser.
  — Michael Gorra, The New York Review of Books, 11 Feb. 2020
• The high school girlfriend is dismissed with a letter, impersonal and stiff.
  — Leigh Montville, WSJ, 26 Mar. 2018
• These thinkers continued a search for the impersonal perspective on politics that Rawls had put at the heart of the field.
  — Jedediah Britton-Purdy, The New Republic, 29 Oct. 2019
• The paradox of the impersonal personal is the defining trait of Soderbergh’s art.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2020
• On the flip-side, a lack of empathy can lead to a disconnection from your team and a work culture that feels cold and impersonal.
  — Alexander Puutio, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2023
• The impersonal, modernist thrill of watching strangers on the crowded subway has been eroded, but those strange leers have also been replaced by actual fellowship on group text chats.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2024
• In a paradoxical way, my existence has become tolerable and pleasant by having become, in a sense, impersonal or suprapersonal.
  — Oliver Sacks, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024