Her manner assumed a dispassion and dryness very unlike her usual tone. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
To me, there was something restful in her dispassion. From Wordnik.com. [We Remember - Mattie Levi Rotenberg, 1897 - 1989] Reference
The courtroom should be a temple of analytic dispassion. From Wordnik.com. [The crying, melodramatic judge in the Anna Nicole case.] Reference
It is a suit that symbolizes dispassion in the Arab world. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 5, 2005] Reference
For all his soaring rhetoric, there is a dispassion about him. From Wordnik.com. [Mayhill Fowler: Obama: No Surprise That Hard-Pressed Pennsylvanians Turn Bitter] Reference
But commendable dispassion should not be confused with neutrality. From Wordnik.com. [Clippings From The Media War] Reference
But, the remove gives us the dispassion needed to solve the problem. From Wordnik.com. [First Kill all the Lawyers… or at Least Put Them Out of Work - Warner_Todd_Huston’s blog - RedState] Reference
Brooks closes with this advice, "learn to live with the dispassion.". From Wordnik.com. [Allison Kilkenny: Learn To Love The Lie, and Other Lessons From David Brooks] Reference
FOR A WOMAN USUALLY GIVEN TO lawyerly dispassion, the words were raw. From Wordnik.com. [Fumbles In High Places] Reference
And that's what we Democrats need a lot more of right now: dispassion. From Wordnik.com. [A Sane Discussion Of Hillary And The Popular Vote] Reference
We must decide with full information with dispassion and with dispatch. From Wordnik.com. [What's Behind the Proposed Bank Mergers?] Reference
A breath brought his voice back to its customary deep, flat dispassion. From Wordnik.com. [Nick Mamatas' Journal] Reference
Clearly, he means dispassion for radical governmental and economic change. From Wordnik.com. [Allison Kilkenny: Learn To Love The Lie, and Other Lessons From David Brooks] Reference
Or, is it that we tolerate crimes of passion better than those of dispassion?. From Wordnik.com. ["Crimes of Opportunity"] Reference
They preach dispassion and detachment, a condescending compassion for the damned. From Wordnik.com. [The Tao Of Sith] Reference
Mr. Brooks does single out one example of dignity and dispassion: President Obama. From Wordnik.com. [The Dearth of Dignity] Reference
It's a subject about which he maintains such dispassion, such profound agnosticism. From Wordnik.com. [Philocrites: The attorney general in his labyrinth.] Reference
How will historians, whose scholarly norms demand dispassion, give voice tofeeling?. From Wordnik.com. [Telling the story of history] Reference
He smiled blandly, his eyes wandering over my face and body with clinical dispassion. From Wordnik.com. [Restoree]
Second, a company must analyze, with dispassion and specificity, its lapses of judgment. From Wordnik.com. [A Turnaround Specialist's Advice to GM] Reference
Blues were too fervent, tying emotion around what should be viewed with utter dispassion. From Wordnik.com. [A Crown of Swords]
She could hear from his tone despite his effort at dispassion that something wasn't right. From Wordnik.com. [In the Presence of the Enemy]
Finally the young man went and gazed at the steel padlock with the same forensic dispassion. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral In Berlin]
I blinked slowly, once, and kept looking, with what I hoped appeared to be interested dispassion. From Wordnik.com. [A Breath of Snow and Ashes]
At times this dispassion is so irritating we fail to recognize how extraordinary a spectator he really is. From Wordnik.com. [Eaters Of The Dead]
Yet when Scobie's eyes looked anew on the glacier, they had not quite the dispassion of a scientist. in them. From Wordnik.com. [Explorations]
The dispassion they prompt has less to do with sculptural form or artistic growth than with material integrity. From Wordnik.com. [Scrapyard Sculptures Charm, But Bronzed Bodies Disappoint] Reference
Some dispassion is badly needed to review soberly where we are and what is the true nature of any threat we face. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Brenner: Cooling It On al-Qaeda] Reference
Tyorl, walking watch on the hill, thought the dwarf worked with all the dispassion of a mason constructing a wall. From Wordnik.com. [Stormblade]
The sorcerer stood above him, viewing him with the same dispassion he might exhibit at a bird found dead in the keep. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Invincible]
Encountering New Lifers, I witness a dispassion about politics at odds with the "angst" about which Pastor Boyd speaks. From Wordnik.com. [Mayhill Fowler: Even "Holy Land" Colorado Less Reliably Republican as State Demographics Shift] Reference
YOU MISPLAYED SEVERAL OF THE NOTES IN THE PIECE, the machine would respond, in its characteristic tone of smug dispassion. From Wordnik.com. [The Miracle Of The Keys] Reference
That is, an attitude of dispassion, being at once aware of the landscape in general as well as of the specifics of detail. From Wordnik.com. [beneath an opal moon]
Brokaw is cool and unifying, the embodiment of the old Olympian view of television anchors as gods of authority and dispassion. From Wordnik.com. [Goodnight, Dan, Goodnight Tom] Reference
But sometimes the best journalism is grounded not in dispassion but in the passionate telling of a writer's personal experience. From Wordnik.com. [The Editor's Desk] Reference
Someone had worked on this man with a cunning more than human and with an obvious dispassion that was quite a bit less than human. From Wordnik.com. [beneath an opal moon]
If you have mother issues, try to look at them with dispassion, as though the person you're perceiving isn't your mother, but a mother. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Susan Corso: Mamma Mia!: Remembering My Mother] Reference
There was so much passion and ambition in Obama's words about fixing the economy, and so much dispassion and caution in his policy choices. From Wordnik.com. [Obama’s Old Deal] Reference
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