Example Sentences

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Ms. Pitts’s revelation of Robin’s disappointments in her life—she works at a coffee shop, and made a mistake that poisoned her relationship with Melissa—is touchingly but unsentimentally rendered.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025

Some apartment buildings have proved to be too much even for a country accustomed to unsentimentally efficient forms of housing.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2025

She desperately, unsentimentally prods him to get healthier, to care about himself.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 23, 2022

Another Democratic chief of staff involved in the vote-counting unsentimentally walked me through the numbers as they stood late Wednesday.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 21, 2018

This shrinkage in values was not due to any impairment of the resource or wealth of the Allies but because the machinery of international payment works automatically and unsentimentally.

From The War After the War by Marcosson, Isaac Frederick