She talks with the no-nonsense speed of a native East Coaster and the unsentimental clarity of a clinician. |
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He has the uncommon gift of bringing remote places and people alive in an unsentimental way. |
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As a witness of the last days of this cruel and malevolent regime, Downfall is clear-eyed and unsentimental. |
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In place of Merman's razzmatazz, Ross gives us a rounded, unsentimental portrait of a damaged human being. |
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A long-time supporter of devolution while an economic moderniser, he provides unsentimental analysis of heavy industry's demise. |
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Subjecting him to a cold, unsentimental, statistical evaluation hardly does justice to the qualities he possessed. |
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Time and again, in prose unsparing and unsentimental, Liz has allowed readers a peek into her own mental health struggles. |
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Like nearly all former East Germans, he is unsentimental about the Ostmark. |
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The Irish horse person, largely, appears to have an entirely unsentimental view of racehorses, which is that they are racehorses first and last. |
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They are united in achieving an extremely rare, unsentimental, precisely controlled gentleness of touch. |
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Humane but unsentimental, unabashedly artsy but instantly approachable, this is a movie for just about everybody. |
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While the series gives us two brilliantly portrayed murderers, for me this unsentimental portrait of women of principle is more impressive. |
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This is a grimly powerful, unsentimental picture, not least in showing what a battleground school can be. |
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The camera is distant without being cold, the script unsentimental without being cynical. |
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But the BBC's effort got it just about right, giving us a commendably unsentimental insight into top-level disabled sport. |
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An unsentimental character who auctioned most of his football medals in 1995, Cantwell had one constant in his peregrinations, his home town. |
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But about his work, and about popular culture in general, he is surprisingly unsentimental. |
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They are unsentimental and category-averse, a mind-set that means much of business is now working on an old paradigm. |
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Not only do I look like an unsentimental person, but I also look like an unrefined idiot. |
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Frazier's unsentimental portrait of Sioux culture also exposes the confines of his own Caucasian world. |
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At 45, the Marquis has already earned the reputation of a cool-headed, unsentimental type. |
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Or was the bestowal of a glass of wine regarded as a necessary courtesy in broaching or sealing these unsentimental transactions? |
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More than mere testimonials, these comments underline Zinn's unsentimental dedication to the democracy he believes in. |
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Handel's optimistic disposition, corresponding to a bright, unsentimental spirit of the 18th century, keeps him from lamenting over difficulties. |
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He was the very image of the quintessential American hero — loyal, unsentimental, plain-spoken. |
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Even in the unsentimental world of business, a rainmaker is someone who makes things work. |
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Longer, sweeter melodies were no less well served, Mr. Pollini's unsentimental approach warding off triviality. |
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It was an unsentimental model, based on careful analysis and built to fit more than one leader. |
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The glare was direct, unsentimental, honest, and powerful and it paved the way for a fledgling Canadian dramatic literature to grow. |
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An unsentimental look at the market value of your home can save time and disappointment. |
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He was matchlessly unorthodox, brave, loving, generous, riotously funny, as well as shrewd and unsentimental, in a blend of human chemistry that is indeed irreplaceable. |
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Despite its subject matter, the film is unsentimental and avoids the conventions of melodrama, with some of the most intense scenes being quietly underplayed and restrained. |
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It offers keen insights into Hitch's craft while painting an intimate and unsentimental picture of the man behind the camera. |
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Yet in the unsentimental world of modern football, it could just happen. |
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She was thus well positioned to make respectful, informed, and unsentimental observations, and to deploy anthropomorphic comparisons and metaphors in a sophisticated way. |
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Americans may indeed be well served externally at this dangerous juncture by the unsentimental foreign policy hawks that tend to predominate in the Republican Party. |
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Howard is unsentimental when it comes to how he was treated at the end of his time at Manchester United. |
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I like that second graf especially, because it is an entirely market-based, unsentimental case for government. |
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The unsentimental path is to focus on Asia, which is safer politically and historically, the bigger prize. |
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In keeping with the film's unsentimental tone, we immediately flash forward to an undetermined later date, after the grieving process has presumably run its course. |
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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. |
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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. |
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It radiates hard-headed realism, icy egoism and unsentimental calculation. |
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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. |
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Scion of a proud father and unsentimental mother, Alma possesses a casehardened confidence that does not dispose her to self-pity — or, for that matter, to any special interest in female solidarity. |
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His unsentimental treatment of controversial topics often shocked his audience, yet it opened the door to a more honest appraisal of acute social problems and uncomfortable truths. |
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The young leads are refreshingly unsentimental about their condition and have a sense of rebelliousness and mischief, especially when their parents try to mollycoddle them. |
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Williams is a virtuoso ranter and pleader, but, as a rule, he is neither an unsentimental social critic, like Chris Rock, nor a charming rogue, like Jamie Foxx. |
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In this realistic, unsentimental novel he recounts with great simplicity the experiences of a small eight-year-old boy who, confronted with sudden loss, discovers that hope endures and life goes on. |
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There's a kind of unsentimental, unselfish lens through which she articulates the simple joys and burdens of living, the journey of finding oneself. |
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The first book to be written about the exodus from Haiti, Alexis d'Haïti is an unsentimental and historically accurate tale, which includes several intense moments. |
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Add his evocative, unsentimental new memoir, Elsewhere, to the list. |
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The dream of the African continent has excited us from the very beginning: more than one western traveller has described the fascination of Africa as enticing even to the most unsentimental eyes. |
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The House of Lords held that these considerations should not stand in the way of a swift and unsentimental decision to return a child to his home country, even if that country was very different from the United Kingdom. |
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The firm slap is seen as part of a repertoire of sanctions that distinguishes the unsentimental French approach to parenting from the permissive, child-centric Anglo-Saxon variety. |
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The closing chapters of the book, in which Hurstwood is ruined and then disgraced, are among the most powerful pages in a novel of merciless momentum, whose unsentimental depiction of big-city life sets it apart. |
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This is a heart-rending pattern of abuse, but the study explains in as unsentimental way as possible what can be done to stop child trafficking and to protect children who are trafficked. |
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Set in 1982 Czechoslovakia, Walking Too Fast is an utterly unsentimental look at one man's moral corruption, set amid the broader malaise of communist normalization. |
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In short, if there is one person tough and unsentimental enough to disassemble Yahoo!, sell parts of it to Microsoft and merge others with some media company, it is Carol Bartz. |
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The three seasoned leads give some of their best performances and Wilder's cynical sensibility finds a perfect match in the story's unsentimental perspective. |
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Both uncle Frank and uncle Stephen Austen had made it a point of principle to be rigorously unsentimental in the discharge of their avuncular obligations. |
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Her prose manages to be at once lyrical and gritty, magical yet unsentimental, connecting a dreamworld of Ojibwe legend to stark realities of the modern-day. |
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