Passionless

At the onset, we see her engaging in passionless, cocaine-fueled sex with an undesirable partner, dismissing the affections of a desirable one, and managing depression by slamming her hand in a dresser drawer. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Lyric courtesy of Nobody can doubt the sincerity of his words, or his outrage at the murders, but the deep monotone he used rendered his word passionless and perfunctory. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This is shown through flashbacks and although there are plenty of fire fighting scenes I found it strangely passionless, which is how Tom felt also. ❋ Julie D. (2005)

Recalling the passionless eyes, Palin dis­carded that notion. ❋ Weis, Margaret (1995)

Since they are called the passionless (nirgu. na) worshippers of the passionless K. rish.na, therefore, in consequence of that, all their acts are also (called) passionless (nirgu. na). ❋ Monier Monier-Williams (1859)

As the Duke of Devonshire Fiennes is deadly dull and passionless, which is the point of the character and why Georgiana had to find her amusement in other areas. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It's important that you don't underestimate the work you do, despite how "passionless" it can feel at times. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This view either assumes that those actions attract a woman on a sexual level which they do not, and cannot, because they operate on a material/platonic level, or that women only possess a kind of passionless, platonic love. ❋ Unknown (2005)

And how could that be passionless which is composed of elements and is resolved again into them? ❋ Unknown (1898)

So their passion for each other fails to resonate, and feels distinctly "passionless". ❋ Eoin Ofaolain (2009)

The worthy doctor, one of the physicians of the City Hospital where we shall conduct our readers, who had obtained this situation through a powerful interest, regarded his ward as a sort of place where he experimented on the poor the treatment which he applied afterward to his rich patients, never hazarding on the last any new cures before having first tried and retried the application _in anima vili_, as he said, with that kind of passionless barbarity which a blind love for science produces. ❋ Eug��ne Sue (1830)

As time goes on, is every major member of the administration/corporation going to come out of the woodwork with first a kind of passionless mea culpa, then a common punchline ... wait for it ... " ❋ Unknown (2007)

Groups of people, working within a structure, seem more capable of this form of passionless evaluation. ❋ Unknown (2009)

She could not see his face, but she knew in all certitude that it was bleak and passionless in the terrifying way she had seen it when he fought the three Irishmen. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"Then I shall kill you," Corliss went on, in the same calm, passionless way, at the same time drawing his hunting-knife from its sheath. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It seemed to her the passionless face of an avenging angel, stamped only with the purpose of the Lord. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They produce university professors, men who claim the role of teachers, and who at the same time claim that the austere ideal of learning is passionless pursuit of passionless intelligence. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I told my coworker of my passionless relationship, and she bought me a toy for my birthday, my Battery Operated Boyfriend. ❋ Zondra Hughes (2011)

Daniel Hertzberg for The Wall Street Journal Colson Whitehead The rollicking gusto of some of the writing, with its overheated adjectives and over-the-top images, is hard to resist: It was the passionless, death's-head skull of a long-dead corpse, instinct with hellish life; and the glazed eyes swollen and bulbous betrayed the thing's blindness. ❋ James Kennedy (2011)