How To Use Passionless In A Sentence
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The period, as he never tired of repeating, was one of passionless reflection and detached understanding.
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The highest ideal in Jainism is the wandering, possessionless, and passionless ascetic, which is why jinas are always depicted as mendicants or yogis.
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Alcatraz embodies a rigid and compassionless system that strips the humanity from all but the few who have the strength to resist.
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One should give up anger; one should abandon pride; one should overcome all fetters. I'll never befall him who clings not to mind and body and is passionless.
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this passionless girl was like an icicle in the sunshine
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I tell you hopeless grief is passionless.
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Souness was pleased with the character shown by his players, particularly in the wake of Saturday's passionless display at Birmingham, which had prompted the manager to question the attitude of his squad.
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At the onset, we see her engaging in passionless, cocaine-fueled sex with an undesirable partner, dismissing the affections of a desirable one, and managing depression by slamming her hand in a dresser drawer.
Overlooked Movie Monday: Winter Passing » Scene-Stealers
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I tell you hopeless grief is passionless.
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This is shown through flashbacks and although there are plenty of fire fighting scenes I found it strangely passionless, which is how Tom felt also.
A Love Letter to Firemen
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How could he be so compassionless, so cruel to his daughter?
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And how could that be passionless which is composed of elements and is resolved again into them?
NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus
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I tell you hopeless grief is passionless.
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An ill-tempered, compassionless moneygrubber, Scrooge runs roughshod over everyone he encounters.
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Her face was passionless, like those by sculptor grave for niches in a temple.
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One should give up anger; one should abandon pride; one should overcome all fetters. I'll never befall him who clings not to mind and body and is passionless.
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The years passed and our married life became increasingly compassionless.
Times, Sunday Times
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Recalling the passionless eyes, Palin disÂcarded that notion.
Dragons Of Summer Flame
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But in some ways it's almost as passionless as the characters skirting their emotions and desires.
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Taking refuge in the dharma, taking a passionless approach, means that all of life is regarded as a fertile situation and a learning situation, always.
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One should give up anger; one should abandon pride; one should overcome all fetters. I'll never befall him who clings not to mind and body and is passionless.
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But overall the performances, the music, the photography and the pace are passionless and at 270 minutes, the film is ponderous.
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Aiming a punch at an egg-throwing protester during the 2001 General Election campaign and being shamelessly rude to the fourth estate strikes a chord with many voters who believe politics has become too passionless.
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Nowadays critics are vapid, passionless creatures who seem increasingly irrelevant.
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One should give up anger; one should abandon pride; one should overcome all fetters. I'll never befall him who clings not to mind and body and is passionless.
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Sylvian's work isn't tinged with the same sense of loss and tragedy and his stylised delivery makes for oddly passionless songs; but, like the Scot, he is an artist who has managed to produce consistently fascinating work.
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passionless observation of human nature
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Daniel Hertzberg for The Wall Street Journal Colson Whitehead The rollicking gusto of some of the writing, with its overheated adjectives and over-the-top images, is hard to resist: It was the passionless, death's-head skull of a long-dead corpse, instinct with hellish life; and the glazed eyes swollen and bulbous betrayed the thing's blindness.
Instinct With Hellish Life
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Jim ends up in a loveless, passionless marriage with no children and a job in law.
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This side is being out-thought and out-fought by virtually every team in the division with passionless and pedestrian performances.
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Nowadays critics are vapid, passionless creatures who seem increasingly irrelevant.
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It would seem no coincidence that the cool, passionless persona emerged at the time of the break-up of her marriage.
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No doubt, if we could create a despotical governing machine, a steam autocrat, — passionless, untiring, and supreme, — we should advance further, and live more at ease than under any other form of government.
The Paris Sketch Book
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As we journey through Cook's life, we get a clear if passionless commentary, which delicately glosses over unpleasantness and is regularly brightened by, fancy that, facts.
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Anything further removed from instinct it were hard to fancy; and one is even stirred to a certain impatience with a character so destitute of spontaneity, so passionless in justice, and so priggishly obedient to the voice of reason.
Memories and Portraits
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So their passion for each other fails to resonate, and feels distinctly "passionless".
Screenhead
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It is the embodiment of a campaign that has been accused of being a passionless, paint-by-numbers effort.
Times, Sunday Times
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One should give up anger; one should abandon pride; one should overcome all fetters. I'll never befall him who clings not to mind and body and is passionless.
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It made him seem rather bloodless, rather passionless.
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One should give up anger; one should abandon pride; one should overcome all fetters. I'll never befall him who clings not to mind and body and is passionless.
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It's important that you don't underestimate the work you do, despite how "passionless" it can feel at times.
Christine Hassler: How Do I Find My Passion?
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For the old and withered Nonna Rosa, he restores her youthful dewiness, awakening all the passion deadened by her long passionless marriage.
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As the Duke of Devonshire Fiennes is deadly dull and passionless, which is the point of the character and why Georgiana had to find her amusement in other areas.
EclipseMagazine
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The ratter kills young and old, male and female, pregnant and sterile with the same compassionless urge.
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Chivalry, pure and passionless women, unearthly beauty, some high southern fantasy possessed them.
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That may come across as cold and passionless but that's only because I don't agree with most political philosophies or politicians.
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Randall has two moods: compassionless and acidic.
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That might make some of these heartless, compassionless people vying for political office think twice about using that office for anything other than the public good.
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One should give up anger; one should abandon pride; one should overcome all fetters. I'll never befall him who clings not to mind and body and is passionless.
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It is often frivolous, vehement but mostly passionless, lazily deceitful or ill-informed and without political substance or influence.
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But how faintly it was inbreathed, how passionlessly, as if the seraphim themselves were breathing upon him!
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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To his critics, he is an compassionless bureaucrat who denies cancer patients lifesaving medicines using red tape and fine print.
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Daniel Hertzberg for The Wall Street Journal Colson Whitehead The rollicking gusto of some of the writing, with its overheated adjectives and over-the-top images, is hard to resist: It was the passionless, death's-head skull of a long-dead corpse, instinct with hellish life; and the glazed eyes swollen and bulbous betrayed the thing's blindness.
Instinct With Hellish Life
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‘Rarely has an important political figure in [Massachusetts] engendered such passionless support,’ the Boston Globe reported.
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Garfield's visceral acting and Shaw and Rossen's forceful screenplay compel us, perhaps against our will, to accept Jacob Goff as an amoral, compassionless chiseler.
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Because, contrary to what's been said about us in the past, New Zealanders are not a passionless people, and the brightest gems will sometimes be found lurking in a hole in the ground, clad in blue overalls.
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This view either assumes that those actions attract a woman on a sexual level which they do not, and cannot, because they operate on a material/platonic level, or that women only possess a kind of passionless, platonic love.
Continuing the debate over sexual attraction, gender roles and power
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Chivalry, pure and passionless women, unearthly beauty: the high Southern fantasy possessed them.
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One should give up anger; one should abandon pride; one should overcome all fetters. I'll never befall him who clings not to mind and body and is passionless.
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Just when you think you cannot be shocked by an article on human behaviour - there it is - a new level of compassionless and empathy-devoid intellect that beggars belief.
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I come to you heartwhole and passionless, without a single love-word chronicled in my girlhood's history, or a single incident you may not know.
Temporal Power
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I tell you hopeless grief is passionless.
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The encounter then developed into a pretty passionless and ponderous one for a healthy home crowd of 26,708, with Arena's side content to sit on their single-goal lead.
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Lyric courtesy of Nobody can doubt the sincerity of his words, or his outrage at the murders, but the deep monotone he used rendered his word passionless and perfunctory.
Telegraph Blogs
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One should give up anger; one should abandon pride; one should overcome all fetters. I'll never befall him who clings not to mind and body and is passionless.
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Since they are called the passionless (nirgu. na) worshippers of the passionless K. rish.na, therefore, in consequence of that, all their acts are also (called) passionless (nirgu. na).
The Siksha-Patri of the Swami-Narayana Sect
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Driven by an insatiable and compassionless greed, the predatory capitalist system won out.
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Yet Poole comes across as a vibrant, sympathetic, and deeply troubled figure, quite different from his delicate and passionless wife.
ISAAC CAMPION
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He became insular, emotionally dead, passionless and morose.
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Second, ‘too many liberals compromise themselves and their causes into oblivion,’ through passionless and overly civil politics.
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What a bunch of mean-spirited, compassionless punks, making themselves feel better by picking on a single mother who works long hours trying to feed her family.
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With so much at stake the first-half was a barren, passionless affair.
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For if, when the sun is shining upon a tree, the axe should cleave the tree, and, nevertheless, the sun remains uncleft and void of passion, much more will the passionless divinity of the Word, united in subsistence to the flesh, remain void of passion when the body undergoes passion [2233].
NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus
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It is often frivolous, vehement but mostly passionless, lazily deceitful or ill-informed and without political substance or influence.
