How to Use unsentimental in a Sentence

unsentimental

adjective
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  • There’s a mix of the sentimental and the unsentimental in the song.
    — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2021
  • All of the humor and unsentimental toughness and darkness was part of him, yes.
    — James Gray, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 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
  • Chopra writes in a prose style that is both unflinching and unsentimental.
    — Annie Berke, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Sometimes there are unsentimental deals that send a favorite away, leaving the home fans cold.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2021
  • The Doerries translation, spare and unsentimental, is a punch in the face.
    — Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian, 26 Oct. 2017
  • The result of a Guggenheim Grant and two years spent on the road with his family, the 1959 book unleashed a vision of the US notable for its unsentimental and foreboding tone.
    — Johnny Simon, Quartzy, 11 Sep. 2019
  • The Transit of Venus is the most unsentimental book ever to be devoted to transcendent love.
    — Lauren Groff, The Atlantic, 14 Dec. 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
  • Washington is a brutally unsentimental place; the smell of weakness brings out the sharks.
    — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Its view of women who dance to make money is unsentimental and never pitying.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 12 Sep. 2019
  • In the unsentimental and often damning language of the newspapers and websites that cover hockey, Beach, now 31, was a bust.
    — Kevin Draper, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Gehry is unsentimental about doing away with the building.
    — Lesley M.m. Blume, Town & Country, 25 Jan. 2023
  • The power of the book derives less from its coverage of battles than its unsentimental honesty.
    — Judith MacKrell, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2021
  • The postwar Navy, glutted with warships, was unsentimental and set them all at anchor at Bikini.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 19 May 2021
  • The very concept of favoritism is mainly derived from odds and betting, and the bookmakers, those unsentimental seekers of profit, have Spain at the top of their markets.
    — Martin Rogers, USA TODAY, 27 June 2018
  • The title alone offers a view of life as starkly unsentimental as any memento mori.
    — The New York Review of Books, 21 Feb. 2019
  • This resilience is on display—righteous and unsentimental—in Israel’s pursuit of Hamas in Gaza.
    — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2023
  • In her quest to become Jude, Cindy takes it all in, providing an unsentimental and unadorned appraisal of life, class differences, and the crazy ways that people relate.
    — Clea Simon, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Yet Raven, who knows that well, writes with a refreshingly unsentimental hand.
    — Time, 24 June 2021
  • Scorsese’s movie is brutal and cleareyed and unsentimental, yes.
    — New York Times, 26 May 2022
  • Members of the Ashcan School, for example, wanted frames that reflected the raw, unsentimental spirit of their work, not that of an Old-World cathedral.
    — Eleanor Cummins, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 June 2020
  • The first to go on trial in connection with to the Watergate break in, Chapin writes that Nixon could be unsentimental in his use of people, but harbors no regrets about his years of loyal service.
    — ABC News, 13 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • Harbaugh made the unsentimental decision to stick with what was working.
    — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 11 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • The way the writer was killed was so anticlimactic, so unsentimental.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 11 Apr. 2024
  • What comes through are highs and valleys seen from the inside, a clarifying memoir from an unsentimental woman who endured being called every shaming name, with powerful grace notes of understanding from a son whose eyes betray a tough childhood.
    — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2024

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