• In comedy, the analysis of death, or near-death, experiences is a clear, unsentimental process.

    NEWYORKER: Dead Man Laughing

  • His manner is as pugnacious and unsentimental as the acts of courage that he recalls.

    NEWYORKER: Share

  • The result is an unsentimental style that allows managers to ditch fallen tech stocks.

    FORBES: The Non-Janus

  • Notwithstanding his obvious partisanship, Wilpon displays a deep and unsentimental knowledge of the game.

    NEWYORKER: Madoff��s Curveball

  • She did not enjoy killing a German sentry with her bare hands, but she was unsentimental.

    ECONOMIST: Nancy Wake

  • This is no hagiography: she could be prickly, stubborn and unsentimental to the point of coldness.

    ECONOMIST: A new biography of Julia Child

  • Then their Darwinian, unsentimental aim is to drop the flops and expand the successes, forming national organizations.

    FORBES: The Radical Philanthropist

  • In introducing the reader to the depths of urban Indian poverty, she is unsentimental but evokes compassion.

    ECONOMIST: Poverty in Mumbai

  • The best thing on show is Bell, whose ratty, unsentimental demeanor just about sees the story though.

    NEWYORKER: Billy Elliot

  • Mr Jobs is famously unsentimental, and took being forced out of Apple as an opportunity to think afresh.

    ECONOMIST: Second-act chief executives

  • With Julie Christie, Dustin Hoffman, and, in the role of a real Peter, the clear and unsentimental Freddie Highmore.

    NEWYORKER: Finding Neverland

  • But "to this day, 'Thatcherism' is used all over the world to describe a brisk, unsentimental, pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps approach, " he writes.

    BBC: Newspaper review: Margaret Thatcher's legacy considered

  • Jeannie (Tilly Hatcher), who runs the store, gets around in a wheelchair (and Bujalski films her ordinary challenges with unsentimental directness).

    NEWYORKER: Beeswax

  • Indeed, there could be no greater testimony to its health than the unsentimental ability to let one-time national champions float quietly off into another's embrace.

    ECONOMIST: British manufacturing

  • Since nearly everything in the Senate depends on unanimous consent, the main business of the place is a continuous negotiation between these two supremely unsentimental men.

    NEWYORKER: The Empty Chamber

  • Despite its reputation for the unsentimental pursuit of the yuan, the city has had more success in saving its heritage than many others in China, including Beijing.

    WSJ: Ancient Village Rises in Shanghai; The Shock of the Old

  • All are written in the social-realist style, and all are marked by Mr Wilson's gift for dialogue, his feeling for language and his capacity to evoke unsentimental emotion.

    ECONOMIST: August Wilson

  • Where Mr Baverez is clinical in his analysis and unsentimental in style, Jean-Marie Rouart, on the other hand, transports the reader into an altogether different world of nostalgia for a France long-gone.

    ECONOMIST: Zut alors, even Britain is ahead

  • That unsentimental education gave Mr Fuller material for the 23 films he wrote and directed, as well as for dozens more scripts and 11 novels which he happily describes as pulp fiction.

    ECONOMIST: American film

  • Middle Eastern rulers and oppositionists alike had come to an unsentimental reading of Mr. Obama: He was no friend of liberty, he had made peace with the order of power in Arab-Islamic lands.

    WSJ: Fouad Ajami: Obama's Holbrooke Moment

  • While Mullen sympathises with those players who face an uncertain future, the beautiful game has, according to the League One boss, become an unsentimental rat race, with clubs scurrying around to cobble together a promotion-winning squad.

    BBC: Football's free transfer rat race

  • Thomas Cromwell (c. 1485-1540) is one of the most fascinating characters in contemporary fiction brutal, worldly, reticent, practical, unsentimental but not without tenderness of a kind, Biblically literate but theologically uncommitted, freakishly self-confident but perilously low on friends.

    NEWYORKER: Invitation to a Beheading

  • If he doesn't manage to see it off, the resulting instability may mean that anything could happen - and as Conservative history shows us, the party is far more brutal and unsentimental about dumping its leaders than Labour.

    BBC: Not-so-quiet plot to dump the quiet man

  • Given its assertion that states base their foreign policies on unsentimental assessments of their national interests, true realists would argue that there is no rational bar to enemy states sharing the same allies if doing so advances their national interests.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Israel and the 'realists'

  • But Mr Wenger is unsentimental.

    ECONOMIST: Ars��ne Wenger, a football coach for Europe

  • Now in order for this belief system to operate effectively, it has to continually position the journalist and his or her observations not as right where others are wrong, or virtuous where others are corrupt, or visionary where others are short-sghted, but as practical, hardheaded, unsentimental, and shrewd where others are didactic, ideological, and dreamy.

    FORBES: Roger Lowenstein Dismisses Charges Against Wall Street; Not So Fast

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