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 cowboys are loading their guns with dispassion and buckshot.
    — Luther Ray Abel, National Review, 23 June 2022
  • Eliot loved hearing Claire talk about people, her combination of warmth and dispassion.
    — Literary Hub, 25 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • The strength of the Uyghur Tribunal’s judgment last week lies in its caution, dispassion and legal rigor.
    — Benedict Rogers, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • Beneath the veneer of dispassion roiled deep emotionality and sorrow, as well as humor.
    — Leah Ollman, latimes.com, 5 July 2019
  • Everyone across the ideological spectrum that has examined that record with care and dispassion has praised him.
    — WSJ, 20 Mar. 2017
  • 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
  • That rational assessment was an example of X’s typical post-project dispassion, writ small.
    — Wired, 10 Nov. 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • Traditional journalism emphasized values and norms like balance, dispassion.
    — Chris Mooney, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2011
  • 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
  • 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

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