How to Use dispassionate in a Sentence

dispassionate

adjective
  • He spoke in a dispassionate tone about the accident.
  • Journalists aim to be dispassionate observers.
  • Even dispassionate sports hacks can go all fan when their teams are involved.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 22 Aug. 2017
  • And this film does that in a reasonably smart and dispassionate way.
    — Washington Post, 27 May 2021
  • The works of dispassionate analysis will come once the guns fall silent.
    — Joshua Keating, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Again, this is what a dispassionate look at [what] decades of research suggest.
    — Ezra Klein, Vox, 27 Mar. 2018
  • This faux science is not dispassionate but fired by a great moral certainty.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Burns thought that Putin sounded cool and dispassionate, as if his mind was nearly made up.
    — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Cool, dispassionate reason is elbowed out of the way by hot passion.
    — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 21 June 2017
  • Think about how to frame your critique in a dispassionate, constructive way.
    — Rob Walker, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2016
  • Thus, a dispassionate discussion is needed on what net zero means for oil and gas.
    — Simi Thambi​, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
  • Flood and Thomas are not dispassionate observers in this debate.
    — Nathan Whitlock, The New York Review of Books, 3 Nov. 2020
  • Because the law, at its best, is dispassionate and objective.
    — Katie Reilly, Time, 11 May 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • Was Aimard making the case for Beethoven as a dispassionate modernist?
    — Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 14 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The mission at hand is to move beyond anecdote and gather enough dispassionate evidence to make the case.
    — Teri Sforza, Orange County Register, 26 June 2024
  • But pundits should always show their work and walk people through their analysis in a dispassionate manner.
    — Noah Rothman, National Review, 10 Nov. 2023
  • And give the museum credit for trying to break out of the dispassionate curator mode.
    — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 7 July 2017
  • 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
  • But the Roberts court is not about compromise, dispassionate or otherwise.
    — Jeffrey Toobin, The New Republic, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Her character’s face in Hyper Knife is blank and dispassionate.
    — Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
  • We are subjected to the dispassionate will of power structures beyond our control.
    — Nate Hochman, National Review, 10 July 2019
  • But where roasts are full of dispassionate barbs, these performances would be fueled by genuine resentment so the results would be even more thrilling.
    — Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2025
  • All of this is broached, though often in language that is both maddeningly dispassionate and morally obtuse.
    — Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2020
  • Ewert is not a fully dispassionate witness.
    — Simon Akam, Vanity Fair, 2 Apr. 2026
  • 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

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