Example Sentences

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She wondered how Richard could endure hearing that hoarse vehemence from the lips of one whom he must wish to be gentle and unpassionate.

From The Judge by West, Rebecca

The fingers of fear enclosed her and her mind said to her, like the cold, unpassionate voice of a stranger: The Gerns have found us.

From Space Prison by Godwin, Tom

Formerly a radiance of gloriously unpassionate energy had shielded her from any close contact with the vulgar or hectic or merely ordinary life round her.

From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton

A strange despair, An agony, yet strangely, subtly sweet And tender as an unpassionate caress, Filled me ...

From The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems by Huxley, Aldous

For my own part I should say that it is the most curious instance of a radically unpassionate nature, trying to lash itself into passion, that our language contains.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George