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dispassion

[ dis-pash-uhn ]

noun

  1. the state or quality of being unemotional or emotionally uninvolved.


dispassion

/ »åɪ²õˈ±èæʃə²Ô /

noun

  1. detachment; objectivity
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of dispassion1

First recorded in 1685–95; dis- 1 + passion
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Murray is good, delivering threats in an East Coast rasp and maximizing the dispassion in his eyes.

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While I admire the dogged dispassion of “20 Days in Mariupol†— perhaps the only strategy able to withstand Vladimir Putin’s propaganda machine — “Four Daughters†is the rare nominee that excels as both advocacy and art.

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She also frequently fixes her camera on characters as they impassively recount stories of past traumas, such as an abortion and an apostasy; the sedateness of her shots mirrors the dispassion of their accounts.

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Cocherel had been singled out by the Baron de Vastey in his treatise on the horrors of slavery, but in flowing handwriting, the commissioner’s note taker recorded the marquis’s losses with bureaucratic dispassion:

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But if we can dispassionately and, effectively, murder a person in restraints, we can surely harness the same dispassion for the longer, harsher punishment of life behind bars.

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