How To Use Dispassionate In A Sentence

She would have given a great deal to be able to recall dispassionately all they had said and done that night. Ship Of Magic
The tone of Nicholls' biography is dispassionately respectful, admiring even.
These may be true, but these are arguments that appeal to the dispassionate mind of a judge, not the emotional public fervor.
Viewed dispassionately, the empirical evidence does not support such a position.
The gods are dispassionate, jealous, vainly superior, and sometimes unfair and bitter.

Will was calm and dispassionate in stating something that is demonstrably false.
If any thing has fallen under your observation, either on the one side or the other, I intreat you to lay it totally aside; to come to the consideration of this subject with cool, dispassionate, unprejudiced, unprepossessed minds, to attend to the evidence that will be laid before you, and to that evidence alone -- by that evidence let the Defendants stand or fall. The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M'Rae, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte for A Conspiracy In the Court of
My friends at BGS had advised me about this aspect of a genealogical road trip: keeping your genealogically dispassionate companions happy while you pursue the family history trail. Shaking the Family Tree
How these professionals can remain dispassionate and impartial in their job I will never know.
The opening shot, a stunning long take from a fixed camera, dispassionately observes the fumbling stick-up of a jewelry store.
There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery
He held a cut glass tumbler in his hand and gazed at her with dispassionate dark eyes that seemed to miss nothing. HEAVEN, TEXAS
In this, too, the want of dispassionateness in his nature revealed itself. Reminiscences of Tolstoy
His unflappable dispassionate calm is an end in itself.
The reply came hesitantly and in exactly the manner Tiff had expected: dispassionately and unsuspiciously. Parlor Games
What this means is that my own ability for dispassionateness about Friend's standing as an artist is perhaps more questionable than most.
Jerry L. Thompson Smith's pieces, far from being dispassionate arrangements of geometric elements, retain an eerie sense of presentness, as if they have us fixed in their invisible gaze. The Artist in All His Dimensions
The commission's fact-finding, moreover, should be dispassionate; it should not be freighted with agendas that create incentives - wittingly or not - to maximize or minimize some contributory factors at the expense of others.
I have lived without forethought or arrière pensée -- without the weakness of regrets or the stinginess of precautions, 'and then he turned to me -- his eyes were half shut and his voice was muffled as if a flood were battering on the door of his dispassionateness,' I have had everything in life except you, 'he said. Balloons
Or if you like the cool, dispassionate analysis, I'd recommend the Union of Concerned Scientists or the well-respected journalist Eric Pooley's take on how the authors -- who he says are friends of his -- "flunk" the science. Andrew Winston: Missing the SuperFreaking Point (and Ignoring the Business Case for Green)
a journalist should be a dispassionate reporter of fact
Advocates, critics, and dispassionate observers alike have been responsible for a massive outpouring of work on the subject.
Given its stridency of tone, it would be disingenuous to claim that it merely represented a divergent view; it is anything but dispassionately presented.
They encored with England Made Me, and a brilliantly dispassionate version of one of Bowie's more histrionic moments.
The advantage is that he will be able to take a more distant and dispassionate view of things and will be seen to be impartial.
The lead vocal is perfect: sung in a dispassionate English accent, devoid of vibrato or ad-libs, everything enunciated as precisely as suburban etiquette would demand.
There's a moment in writing presentations; you are dispassionately writing and editing point-form notes about the things you want to talk about, a kind of disjoint series of ideas that you know all fit together somehow, and you're really just playing with them to see how they fit, then you take a bit of time off to help someone on IRC and you come back to it. Planet Python
Now he strode wearily and dispassionately through the enemy filth, cutting down those that stood in his path and ignoring all others.
There is no reason to believe that the juror in question has received information which might undermine his ability to judge this case dispassionately.
They're able to go back now and take really deliberate, dispassionate views of the situation.
He looked at her with the dispassionateness which comes to men who have lived much in countries where nakedness offers itself unashamed to the sunlight, and said to himself, "I should like to see her run. The Judge
Overall, Lewis presents his factual materials dispassionately and carefully.
For dispassionate account of how the fight started, ask a neutral observer not a participant.
The picture of an agency which dispassionately administers scientifically-designed standards is blurred further by organizational practices.
But to advance our knowledge such views need to be supported by rigorous analytical reasoning and the dispassionate gathering of cases and data.
This is not a film where we find ourselves empathizing with the heroine; instead, we are dispassionate voyeurs, observing her actions and unraveling clues about who she was, is, and will be.
Last night's, however, tipped over into the sensational and I felt he lost his usual dispassionate objectivity. HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
It is calculated that more than 2,000 books have been published on him, but a great deal of it is hagiolatry, lacking critical rigour and dispassionate appraisal.
Instead we are given a cool, dispassionate demonstration of formal alternatives.
We, as prosecutors, try to be dispassionate about the cases we bring.
They stand up, slowly, then pace their dispassionate bodies toward those two coffins, coffin-like boxes.
And here comes a certified Great Thinker to tell you that what really counts is not dispassionateness but, on the contrary, passion.
The lead vocal is perfect: sung in a dispassionate English accent, devoid of vibrato or ad-libs, everything enunciated as precisely as suburban etiquette would demand.
It is true that independent and dispassionate criticism of the so-called 'unprintable' books, criticism in the common interest of publishers, authors, and readers, is now almost nonexistent. Unprintable
At one point Kassir veers off what one might expect from a dispassionate history by describing the city as having a 'unique and incomparably seductive quality'. James Denselow: From Beirut With Love
This is the dispassionate term archaeologists often use to refer to even the most exciting discoveries. The Goddess and the Bull
I had renovated several old properties in England and was trying to look at the house dispassionately. Mi Pullman: remodeling a Mexican Art Nouveau townhouse I
So part of the essay attempts to identify the sort of praise and blame that can be practised in a dispassionate and clear-headed way, while junking the rest.
But he knew he had never heard someone speak so dispassionately.
Will was calm and dispassionate in stating something that is demonstrably false.
This dispassionate view of man and nature brings an icy edge to his work, intensified by her color choice of glacial whites and gelid blues.
He must hear her confession, not as man, but as God; he must pronounce his judgments with a divine dispassionateness. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862
As more managers become sensitized to graphicacy issues such as this, we can expect a decrease in advocacy graphics and an increase in the number of decisions made dispassionately, based on a full understanding of the reality in the data.
Who that has known a man quick and shrewd to see dispassionately the inner history, the reason and the ends, of the combinations of society, and at the same time eloquent to tell of them, with a hold on the attention gained by a certain quaint force and sagacity resident in no other man, can find it difficult to understand why men still resort to Montesquieu? How Books Become Immortal
Waited and watched with his dispassionate eye while something died nearby, recording its passing like the truthful witness he was. SACRAMENT
Things are made to arouse our passion, so long as meanness and villainy prevail; and if old men, knowing the balance of the world, can contemplate them all "dispassionately," more clearly than any thing else, to my mind, that proves the beauty of being young. Erema — My Father's Sin
He's a perfectionist who pushes himself, often in a cold, dispassionate way.
For the sullen steadiness, dispassionateness, detachment with which it was said made it more real than it had been at the water's edge. The Visioning
The critical were there, representing various shades of belief and prejudice, from the quiet repressionist, who, disdaining emotion, views with dispassionate coldness the great tenets of the faith, to the irrepressible enthusiast whose spiritual understanding is often lost beneath a foam of feeling; from the instructed brother who reads his title clear with logical accuracy in the Scriptures and glories in his standing with belieing indifference to his state, to the anxious soul whose hope of heaven veers with every changing wind of fitful emotion. The First Soprano
Painting came off best, taking two primary directions: reductive abstraction and figurative work characterized by a dispassionate folksiness.
While he never diffused an aura of vanity, he held his fine features at a haughty tilt as though regarding himself dispassionately in an invisible looking-glass.
Her expression was pure tranquillity, so dispassionate and detached that she seemed to be in the depths of some daydream.
Reporting should be dispassionate and news judgements based on the need to give viewers an even-handed account of events.
Dispassionate analysis of American politics is neither easy nor straightforward.
There has been no open forum in which each side could present its case in a sober and dispassionate manner.
The Taoist theory of prolonging life by quietism and dispassionateness, by regulating one's breath, and using medicines is untenable. Lunheng
It is not surprising that the decision was not as dispassionate and impartial as we might feel after 60 years.
The evidence against him appears to be, even to a dispassionate observer, compelling if not devastating.
Later, when the publicity had died down and independent researchers take a more dispassionate view of the outcomes of treatment over a longer period, the extravagant claims cannot be sustained.
I, for one, found no joy in the work, colored as it was by his cheerlessness and dispassionate industry. Artichoke
Dispassionateness of judgment will also lead to dispassionateness of speech.
The issue has become so politically charged that it is hard to view dispassionately.
In all the media hysteria, there was one journalist whose comments were clear-sighted and dispassionate.
So I try to approach possible conflicts dispassionately, removing the personal element.
There was enough of mocking inconsistency at the bottom of this speech to make it rather discordant, though the manner was refined and the person well – favoured, and though the depreciatory part of it was so skilfully thrown off as to be very difficult for one not perfectly acquainted with the English language to understand, or, even understanding, to take offence at: so simple and dispassionate was its tone. Little Dorrit
This is colder and more dispassionate, with a lead character who we're supposed to sympathise with, but who kills for a living.
Burke's usual objectivity and dispassionateness de - part when he ponders the effect of darkness on human imagination. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Rajaratnam's lawyers had asked for a sentence below the term sought by the government, one that was "fair, dispassionate and proportionate. BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
For a system that boasts a dispassionate reliance on artistic brilliance as its arbiter, this anomaly is a crisis.
We, as prosecutors, try to be dispassionate about the cases we bring.
The case needs to be examined dispassionately at a public inquiry.
It was a dispassionate declaration, said serenely, not in the heat of a tantrum or the cool spite of a sulk.
Victorio is dispassionate and controlling as the substitute father figure.
He held a cut glass tumbler in his hand and gazed at her with dispassionate dark eyes that seemed to miss nothing. HEAVEN, TEXAS
But on the surface he remains calm, a dispassionate child observing his parents from the other side of an emotional gulf.
Don't be a juggins, Jenny," he remarked, in a dispassionate way that made her feel helpless. Nocturne
Her father mistook her dispassionateness for a veil of politeness over a sense of ill-usage. A Pair of Blue Eyes
He gulps, and his emotions retreat behind a dispassionate mask.
While their style is sometimes cool and dispassionate, their sympathies are usually clear.
Chief among these was our attachment to the ideal of impartial and dispassionate administration of justice.
Beneath the Art Deco awning of her perfect eyelashes I see nothing but dark pools of dispassionate blue. LOVE YOU MADLY
She stood on the other side of the bed, gloved hands by her sides and expression dispassionate as she continued to relate the various tests conducted and maneuvers instigated to decrease intracranial pressure. CRUEL AND UNUSUAL
That immediately drained the emotion out of everything; I became dispassionate, rational.
Moviegoers who look beyond the daily coming and goings, perhaps on a second viewing, may find the dispassionate style, lack of plot momentum and flat characters a little dull.
All this angst needs to be placed in dispassionate perspective. Danny Schechter: How Can You Cover a War From Only One Side?
Still, considered dispassionately, the DNC convention policing was less violent than it might have been. Discourse.net: Something About International Conferences Brings Out the Worst in Police
What can be reasonably claimed is that dispassionate study and research is a good route to the achievement of greater international amity.
Once emotions enter into the equation, any ability to dispassionately judge the value of an item is easily lost. Lighten Up
What commenced is what history will record as Barack Obama's Big Jobs pitch, a rousing ding-dong wood shedding -- this president's finest in more than a calendar year and by far the most passionate a mostly dispassionate leader has given since taking office. James Campion: The Joe Cool Double-Reverse Hail Mary
Filmed decommissioning only makes sense from the dispassionate perspective of cold logic - lubricating the stalled negotiations so that a power-sharing executive and all-Ireland bodies can be restored.
Local politics is something they were devoting much of their lives to, yet they could be dispassionately analytical about this part of themselves.
He held a cut glass tumbler in his hand and gazed at her with dispassionate dark eyes that seemed to miss nothing. HEAVEN, TEXAS
The evidence against him appears to be, even to a dispassionate observer, compelling if not devastating.
Years later, while snowbound in his Canadian home-in-exile with only the odd visits from the local librarian for company, he is dispassionate about the moral choices he's made.
The professional soldier is one who is cold, dispassionate and regretful in his duty when forced to kill.
Amid many biologists that prefer to remain dispassionate about the subjects of their research, or who desire little interaction with local citizens, Nichols stands apart. Baja communities play a key role in conservation
Obama came from a completely different background, which surely equips him to understand and feel pain of other similarly situated people, but he also appears to be a cool clinician as he dispassionately dissects people's pain with the result that he gets far too little credit for understanding and truly sympathizing. Frank A. Weil: Working With Roosevelt
Other journalists were fighting him; but truly enough, though with a rare dispassionateness, he realised that this meant a need for Daily bread in others similar to his own. Gilbert Keith Chesterton
She is a consummate journalist - the facts are all here, and clearly and dispassionately explained.
Joyce moved her chair so that she could see the anchormen's familiar faces and hear their dispassionate voices.
But it's hard to be dispassionate when you're wondering, six hours of shoveling later, if there's a good chiropractor in the neighborhood and what kind of dogsled you might need to reach her. Global Warming RSS Newsfeed
Schooled in self-restraint and ideals of nobility, she maintains a dispassionate tone, and her captors' treatment of her provides insights denied to most prisoners.
I believe that the spirit of true Canadianism is best evidenced by a calm dispassionate consideration of the business communities of the economic facts upon which the country's future must depend. Some Canadian Problems
The show was anchored, with the zeal of a crusader rather than dispassionate neutrality, by Ravi Shastri.
This perspective allows her to observe any dilemma dispassionately and solve problems that go beyond linear logic. New Action Girl Comic: Masquerade
He describes his own intellectual odyssey and provides the most knowledgeable, dispassionate dissection of the evidence ever written.
All digs aside what you may view as a dispassionate amoralism can also be viewed as not letting fear or anger cloud ones viewpoint. Cheeseburger Gothic » Gift suggestion for the Ruddbot/Obama love in.
It cannot be denied that they usually have the matter discussed before them by an intelligent bar, but the manner of the discussion is more after the furious mode of the prize-fighters at a fair for victory, -- not truth, in which violent gesticulation and round and reckless assertion are alone to be found, than the calm, dispassionate ratiocinatory process of one who seeks, by fair argument and clear illustration to enlighten the minds of the motley court upon a subject lying before it, shrouded in the gloom of the profoundest ignorance. Eoneguski, or, the Cherokee Chief: A Tale of Past Wars. Vol. I.
At the same time, he conducts his analysis with a dispassionate respect that evidences both his years of familiarity with Eritrea and the maturity of his knowledge.
although he was looking at the other girl, he did so dispassionately
The reader who reads science fiction dispassionately is likely to be struck by how closely the human imagination is tied to reality, even when it deliberately sets out to violate it. January 2007
Each side is hell-bent on refuting the other's arguments, rather than examining them dispassionately.
The natural sciences, on the other hand, aim to understand nature objectively and dispassionately.
This should be combined with addressing challenges of accountability and dispassionately managing the negative effects of incumbency such as careerism, competition for status, corruption and so on. Contextual considerations in addressing challenges of leadership
This dispassionate view of man and nature brings an icy edge to her work, intensified by her color choice of glacial whites and gelid blues.
Strong opinions are best served by cold dispassionate logic.
The fact is she is not a dispassionate or disinterested witness in this case.
Though leavened with humour, the play is a dispassionate survey of humankind's folly.
A mediator is someone who does not have a stake in the business - a dispassionate third-party who can solve particularly sticky issues.
I am bemused that Metro1 treats the police report in a case like this as if it was dispassionate truth rather than the unsworn testimony of an interested party. The Volokh Conspiracy » Gates Charges Dropped:
Restraining our emotions as much as possible, let us endeavor to analyse that power with mathematical dispassionateness. Manhood of Humanity.
The effect is vaguely clinical, dispassionate, like academic anatomical studies, but also enigmatic and voyeuristic.
Don't look here for cool analysis or dispassionate reportage - Cohen is too angry for that.
Among the nations which unite in accusing these defendants the United States is perhaps in a position to be the most dispassionate, for, having sustained the least injury, it is perhaps the least animated by vengeance. The Volokh Conspiracy » Clandestine Military Operations
Each side is hell-bent on refuting the other's arguments, rather than examining them dispassionately.
Let us agree, however, that wherever there is no forced option, the dispassionately judicial intellect with no pet hypothesis, saving us, as it does, from dupery at any rate, ought to be our ideal.
People falsely assume that being dispassionate means being cold or indifferent.
He had a capacity for dispassionate and unbiased analysis and he thought that the inter-service approach was vital.
Use of the first person, moreover, gives this book the tang of an in-house, partisan staff study rather than a dispassionate analysis.
It would never have occurred to him that science is really something else, with its spirit of pure research and serene dispassionateness.
People falsely assume that being dispassionate means being cold or indifferent.
Dispassionately considered, the landrail should be a bird that a man could scarcely miss on the first occasion of his handling a gun; in cold fact, it often survives two barrels apparently untouched. Birds in the Calendar
These may be true, but these are arguments that appeal to the dispassionate mind of a judge, not the emotional public fervor.
And the other, calm-eyed, cool-browed, serene; strong in her own integrity, with faith in herself, thoroughly at ease; dispassionate, imperturbable; a figure chiselled from some cold marble quarry. THE SCORN OF WOMEN
First, let's consider the risks dispassionately.
All are viewed dispassionately, the heart as a pump, the brain as a network of neural tissues, the eye as a receptor of visual stimuli.
Yet the interminable self-contemplation, articulate and sagacious though it is, proves to be a bit too much of a good thing, and this gray, humorless, dispassionate novel eventually sinks under the weight of it all.
This is an admirable book and should be the first stop for anyone interested in a dispassionate overview of the subject.
The picture of an agency which dispassionately administers scientifically-designed standards is blurred further by organizational practices.
Waited and watched with his dispassionate eye while something died nearby, recording its passing like the truthful witness he was. SACRAMENT
They wish to return to an atmosphere of mutual respect, which will permit rational and dispassionate debate.
Instead, it comes across as a rather dispassionate account written by an author frightened of emotion.
With customary detachment, Hamilton became a bosom friend of Lafayette while at the same time assessing French motivations in an entirely dispassionate way.
The opening shot, a stunning long take from a fixed camera, dispassionately observes the fumbling stick-up of a jewelry store.
A little later, when her glance passed to the roof of the mill there was no perceptible change in her expression; and she observed dispassionately that the shingles which caught the drippings from the sycamore were beginning to rot. The Miller of Old Church
His unflappable dispassionate calm is an end in itself.
How these professionals can remain dispassionate and impartial in their job I will never know.
His mind was working coldly, dispassionately, without rancor, but with contempt for the weakness and promiscuousness of his father. Tai-Pan
Tame, cold, dispassionate minds resemble barren lands; warm, animated ones, rich ground, which, if properly cultivated, yields the noblest fruit; but, if neglected, from its luxuriance is most productive of weeds. The History of Emily Montague
The answer is entirely predictable, and not likely to be grounded in dispassionate analysis. Sound Politics: Democrats Pitch on Stem Cell Research Stinks

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