passionless
Americanadjective
adjective
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empty of emotion or feeling
a passionless marriage
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calm and detached; dispassionate
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These points can get clotted in the book’s late going, as Verdance leadership becomes increasingly one-note and authoritarian; even the inevitable battle scenes can feel passionless in comparison to Newitz’s true passion, urbanist rhetoric.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2023
Len mocked the idea of a passionless passion.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 15, 2019
The CultFest’s running joke on Julia is that she’s a passionless robot, but what I loved about this moment is that it was as full of emotion and guileless as she was.
From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2018
Writing in The New York Times, Vincent Canby called the film, “an exceptionally loveless, passionless costume drama.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2018
The scandal sheets and tattlers call her icy and passionless.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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