unsentimental
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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That’s when it hits you that while Stanley Kubrick’s unsentimental “2001: A Space Odyssey” inspired the iPad, Lord and Miller want to inspire a better version of us.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026
Dangers are ever-present, but the novel is a study in unsentimental indomitability, as the hero reckons with the elements and her past on her way to a heartbreaking coda.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2026
The film is, in a sense, a necrology—a catalog of death—that takes a bleak and unsentimental stance on human suffering.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026
Everyone contributed what money they could to save George’s business from Mr. Potter, an unsentimental tycoon who makes the toughest takeover bankers and lawyers seem like sissies.
From Barron's • Dec. 24, 2025
And the usually gruff and unsentimental Lord Fredrick Ashton was discussing wallpaper with Mrs. Clarke and cheerily picking baby names, and with a full moon coming on, too!
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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