How to Use unsentimental in a Sentence

unsentimental

adjective
  • There’s a gentle, unsentimental warmth to this novel that feels like a balm in times like these.
    — Constance Grady, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
  • Chopra writes in a prose style that is both unflinching and unsentimental.
    — Annie Berke, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2022
  • All of the humor and unsentimental toughness and darkness was part of him, yes.
    — James Gray, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The book, ardent yet measured, is unsentimental in a way few show-business bios are.
    — David Denby, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Sometimes there are unsentimental deals that send a favorite away, leaving the home fans cold.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2021
  • There’s a mix of the sentimental and the unsentimental in the song.
    — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2021
  • Its view of women who dance to make money is unsentimental and never pitying.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Scorsese’s movie is brutal and cleareyed and unsentimental, yes.
    — New York Times, 26 May 2022
  • That unsentimental spirit has always drawn me to Rivera’s work.
    — Sammy Loren, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2026
  • The title alone offers a view of life as starkly unsentimental as any memento mori.
    — The New York Review of Books, 21 Feb. 2019
  • So sometimes, exits can be swift and unsentimental.
    — Greg O'Keeffe, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Yet Raven, who knows that well, writes with a refreshingly unsentimental hand.
    — Time, 24 June 2021
  • Washington is a brutally unsentimental place; the smell of weakness brings out the sharks.
    — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Harbaugh made the unsentimental decision to stick with what was working.
    — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 11 Sep. 2022
  • The cable was cold, smooth, unsentimental.
    — Scott Campbell, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Sep. 2025
  • The power of the book derives less from its coverage of battles than its unsentimental honesty.
    — Judith MacKrell, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2021
  • But what poses as unsentimental truth telling isn’t cynical enough about the parlous state of our privacy.
    — Jonathan Zittrain, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2020
  • But Dana’s writing is trippy enough, and Blush keeps things heightened and unsentimental enough, that the pair avoid the cliff.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2024
  • His message to parishioners has remained steady and unsentimental.
    — Michelle Edgar, Daily News, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The Doerries translation, spare and unsentimental, is a punch in the face.
    — Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Yet myths can sometimes show us the recurrence of fatal patterns that a more unsentimental approach might overlook.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 25 July 2023
  • For a bunch of guys in what can be the high-touch world of video games, the Tripledot Studios founders are remarkably unsentimental.
    — Abram Brown, Forbes, 25 July 2022
  • But for those with an open mind, the production revealed just how unsentimental about the American myth this chestnut can be.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2022
  • The rumba, the cha-cha and the tango help bring a widow out of mourning in this surprisingly buoyant, unsentimental film about grief.
    — Caryn James, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • His advice to the aspiring filmmakers in the room was unsentimental.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 16 Mar. 2026
  • One thing that heartlessly unsentimental writing does is force the reader to generate the very sympathy such books lack.
    — James Wood, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Calling it a return to his roots might seem a tad nostalgic, especially for an unsentimental type such as Strange.
    — John Petkovic, cleveland.com, 4 May 2018
  • The postwar Navy, glutted with warships, was unsentimental and set them all at anchor at Bikini.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 19 May 2021
  • Despite these advances, Mike Bell is unsentimental about the ceiling.
    — New Atlas, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Students and parents need to be unsentimental about weighing risks and rewards, and come up with a gameplan that takes costs and future earnings into account.
    — Taylor Tepper, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024

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