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单词 unsentimental
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Definition of unsentimental in English:

unsentimental

adjectiveˌʌnsɛntɪˈmɛnt(ə)lˌənˌsɛn(t)əˈmɛn(t)l
  • Not displaying or influenced by sentimental feelings.

    the speeches were short and unsentimental
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He has the uncommon gift of bringing remote places and people alive in an unsentimental way.
    • At 45, the Marquis has already earned the reputation of a cool-headed, unsentimental type.
    • They are unsentimental about the persons who occupy democratic posts but sentimental in their conception of the kind of persons who could, ideally, occupy them.
    • They are unsentimental and category-averse, a mind-set that means much of business is now working on an old paradigm.
    • An unsentimental character who auctioned most of his football medals in 1995, Cantwell had one constant in his peregrinations, his home town.
    • Nevertheless, this slim volume is full of snapshots from the frontier of pain: unsentimental observations, anecdotes and cries of anguish.
    • But the BBC's effort got it just about right, giving us a commendably unsentimental insight into top-level disabled sport.
    • The camera is distant without being cold, the script unsentimental without being cynical.
    • The script was clunky, but refreshingly unsentimental.
    • His previous attitude was typically unsentimental.
    • While the series gives us two brilliantly portrayed murderers, for me this unsentimental portrait of women of principle is more impressive.
    • It radiates hard-headed realism, icy egoism and unsentimental calculation.
    • Humane but unsentimental, unabashedly artsy but instantly approachable, this is a movie for just about everybody.
    • Time and again, in prose unsparing and unsentimental, Liz has allowed readers a peek into her own mental health struggles.
    • A long-time supporter of devolution while an economic moderniser, he provides unsentimental analysis of heavy industry's demise.
    • From this you might be forgiven for thinking that Italians are unsentimental about a currency that's been credited as one of the prime unifiers in such a young country.
    • She talks with the no-nonsense speed of a native East Coaster and the unsentimental clarity of a clinician.
    • Subjecting him to a cold, unsentimental, statistical evaluation hardly does justice to the qualities he possessed.
    • It has a lugubrious pace and doesn't entirely convince but there are some sharp lines, an unsentimental view of big city politics and Pacino's rich performance.
    • But about his work, and about popular culture in general, he is surprisingly unsentimental.
    Synonyms
    reserved, controlled, undemonstrative, restrained, self-controlled, impersonal, clinical, passionless, emotionless, cold, frigid, cool, calm, composed, collected, cool, calm, and collected, cool-headed, level-headed, hard-headed, businesslike, rational, sober, unfeeling, unresponsive, unexcitable, unmoved, unagitated, unruffled, serene, impassive, tranquil, indifferent, apathetic, phlegmatic, stoical, equable, detached, distant, remote, aloof, disinterested, unconcerned

Derivatives

  • unsentimentally

  • adverb
    • Most touchingly of all, his parents, whose story he lovingly told in Ethel and Ernest, are shown unsentimentally on the mortuary trolley at the end of their quiet, blameless lives.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Calmly, unsentimentally, and with extraordinary compassion, he has marshalled the city's heroic police, fire and emergency services to admirable effect and, alas, with huge loss of life.
      • In these and other lovely poems, Black is convincingly, unsentimentally affirmative about daily life.
      • Ozu marvelously - and unsentimentally - depicts the secret society of unsupervised boys with its hierarchies and reversals, a feat helped no end by his charming young leads, who must be very old men by now, if they're alive at all.
      • Haran and Kearney write compassionately but unsentimentally about the young soldiers who were seriously wounded in the war.
 
 

Definition of unsentimental in US English:

unsentimental

adjectiveˌənˌsen(t)əˈmen(t)lˌənˌsɛn(t)əˈmɛn(t)l
  • Not displaying or influenced by sentimental feelings.

    the speeches were short and unsentimental
    Example sentencesExamples
    • But the BBC's effort got it just about right, giving us a commendably unsentimental insight into top-level disabled sport.
    • Humane but unsentimental, unabashedly artsy but instantly approachable, this is a movie for just about everybody.
    • His previous attitude was typically unsentimental.
    • Nevertheless, this slim volume is full of snapshots from the frontier of pain: unsentimental observations, anecdotes and cries of anguish.
    • A long-time supporter of devolution while an economic moderniser, he provides unsentimental analysis of heavy industry's demise.
    • They are unsentimental and category-averse, a mind-set that means much of business is now working on an old paradigm.
    • From this you might be forgiven for thinking that Italians are unsentimental about a currency that's been credited as one of the prime unifiers in such a young country.
    • An unsentimental character who auctioned most of his football medals in 1995, Cantwell had one constant in his peregrinations, his home town.
    • She talks with the no-nonsense speed of a native East Coaster and the unsentimental clarity of a clinician.
    • It has a lugubrious pace and doesn't entirely convince but there are some sharp lines, an unsentimental view of big city politics and Pacino's rich performance.
    • Time and again, in prose unsparing and unsentimental, Liz has allowed readers a peek into her own mental health struggles.
    • It radiates hard-headed realism, icy egoism and unsentimental calculation.
    • The camera is distant without being cold, the script unsentimental without being cynical.
    • But about his work, and about popular culture in general, he is surprisingly unsentimental.
    • While the series gives us two brilliantly portrayed murderers, for me this unsentimental portrait of women of principle is more impressive.
    • The script was clunky, but refreshingly unsentimental.
    • Subjecting him to a cold, unsentimental, statistical evaluation hardly does justice to the qualities he possessed.
    • They are unsentimental about the persons who occupy democratic posts but sentimental in their conception of the kind of persons who could, ideally, occupy them.
    • At 45, the Marquis has already earned the reputation of a cool-headed, unsentimental type.
    • He has the uncommon gift of bringing remote places and people alive in an unsentimental way.
    Synonyms
    reserved, controlled, undemonstrative, restrained, self-controlled, impersonal, clinical, passionless, emotionless, cold, frigid, cool, calm, composed, collected, cool, calm, and collected, cool-headed, level-headed, hard-headed, businesslike, rational, sober, unfeeling, unresponsive, unexcitable, unmoved, unagitated, unruffled, serene, impassive, tranquil, indifferent, apathetic, phlegmatic, stoical, equable, detached, distant, remote, aloof, disinterested, unconcerned
 
 
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