(a.) Free from passion; not warped, prejudiced, swerved, or carried away by passion or feeling; judicial; calm; composed.
(a.) Not dictated by passion; not proceeding from temper or bias; impartial; as, dispassionate proceedings; a dispassionate view.
Example Sentences:
(1) He was not very active politically, but "current affairs", as he more dispassionately called it, had come to fascinate him and he left university with "a hunger to be involved in the game in some way," Ganesh says.
(2) Any reduction of emissions contributes to the prevention of dangerous climate change and as a developed country the Netherlands should take the lead in this.” After a legal campaign that took two and a half years to get to its first hearing in April, normally dispassionate lawyers were visibly moved by the judge’s words.
(3) Céspedes has the potential to be a dynamic player and from a dispassionate viewpoint, it’s probably a no-brainer of a trade.
(4) The high-minded answer to that would offer an Enlightenment fable of dispassionate scientific curiosity.
(5) Only once during the trial did a crack appear in his dispassionate facade.
(6) In the first case, we have to be dispassionate even when the issues arouse great passion.
(7) Prompt, dispassionate physician counseling, wider provision of National Health Service facilities, and uniform service in all districts would also be beneficial.
(8) Real hope and opportunity, if it is to arise at all, will do so from a raw and dispassionate assessment of the scale of the challenge faced by the global community."
(9) Even more seriously, in the short-term, voters believe that the Smith commission’s proposals on fresh powers – the so-called “vow” – are a letdown and not, as Labour claims and dispassionate analysis confirms, a big devolutionary package.
(10) In the absence of dispassionate investigation, proper legal process, or even official regret, the suspicion of state complicity remains.
(11) Sadly for any potential babe-botherers out there, the film is actually a dispassionate coming-of-age indie flick set in a washed-out town on the west coast of Sweden, where two teenage girls attempt to navigate the psychological minefield of those strange years just before womanhood.
(12) From now on, Griffith-Jones wrote, for the abuse to remain legal, Mau Mau suspects must be beaten mainly on their upper body, "vulnerable parts of the body should not be struck, particularly the spleen, liver or kidneys", and it was important that "those who administer violence … should remain collected, balanced and dispassionate".
(13) I can't find the words to describe dispassionately what I have gone through but I remember another reason why I gave up on New Labour, on my country.
(14) The rather neutral ground of college allows for relatively dispassionate examination of traditional moral teaching and peer group values.
(15) Comments concerning a report on the consequences of induced abortion which cite the author's book, ''Legal Abortion: the English Experience'' focus on the author's desire to provide a dispassionate survey on an emotionally charged issue.
(16) We’re an independent company and we are simply doing what economists do and we are impartial and dispassionate in the way that we conduct our economic analysis.” Morrison said the report proved that the Coalition’s slow and steady approach on negative gearing was the right one.
(17) Divine judgment, they believed, was neither flawless nor dispassionate; it was warped by lust, vengeance and self-interest.
(18) It is hoped this new medical technology will satisfy the desire of Mackenzie for "comparative evaluation of medical remedies and different modes of treatment of disease by the lynx-eyed scrutiny of dispassionate analysis."
(19) On all sides the fixation on the “genocide” issue is likely to cloud any dispassionate assessment of the verdict, as if crimes against humanity were not horrific enough.
(20) The dominant belief that all politicians are contemptible, promoted not just by public entertainers like Hislop but by rightwing libertarian blogger Guido Fawkes among many others in the media, is not grounded in fact, is profoundly pessimistic, and is far from being a dispassionate depiction of the world.
Zealous
Definition:
(a.) Filled with, or characterized by, zeal; warmly engaged, or ardent, in behalf of an object.
(a.) Filled with religious zeal.
Example Sentences:
(1) Republicans were under pressure not to dwell on Clinton’s use of a private email server as too zealous an attack could come off as partisan.
(2) More than 60 officers, who might be investigating a burglary in your street, are zealously pursuing other cops and public officials who may, or may not, have taken bungs from Sun journalists in return for information.
(3) His allies charge the prime minister with cowardice for dispatching one of his most zealously reforming ministers.
(4) Abaaoud’s older sister, Yasmina, told the New York Times in January that neither of the brothers showed a zealous interest in religion before leaving for Syria.
(5) Asked about the plan, Baker said on Monday that "both sides of the coalition" wanted high streets to prosper and that he agreed that over-zealous action by traffic wardens could be a problem.
(6) Care must be taken to guard against the health worker being overly zealous in motivating and mobilizing potential voluntary sterilization contraception candidates.
(7) Colonel David Black of the Queen's Lancashire Regiment says soldiers need to operate without being worried about "over-zealous and remote officialdom".
(8) After a zealous assessment of respective anatomical merits, attention switched to flaws.
(9) Those who leave the left are often those who end up detesting it more: becoming a convert often means being more zealous than existing believers.
(10) Sutherland said the Co-op bank's bad loans were mostly accounted for by Britannia, with half of all its poorly performing retail loans and three quarters of its roughly £440m corporate bad debts blamed on over-zealous loan agreements sold by the building society.
(11) Miller, too, earned Trump’s praise and widespread scorn for his zealous defense of the president and for peddling a baseless claim about phantom illegal voting.
(12) Most attempts to humanize medicine have at best been temporary, barely touching the margins of medicine and sustained largely by their zealous advocates.
(13) Arteta had been introduced as an early substitute for Coquelin, who hurt his knee in a zealous tackle on Claudio Yacob.
(14) In that sense, zealous neoconservatism may not be the cleverest political option, and May's ideas may yet point the way ahead.
(15) It has been zealously guarded by the recipients of the letters themselves, and over the last few years, by the full might of the British state and government, as Whitehall has fought every step of the way to stop the Freedom of Information Act disclosure of the letters to Rob Evans of the Guardian.
(16) When finally open public welfare was translated into reality during 1918-1933 as a result of the zealous efforts on the part of the reformatory psychiatrists, this was mainly done to save cost, whereas Kolb's original aims were largely lost in the process.
(17) Then, one evening, her zealous son accused her of tacitly criticising Mao.
(18) They are in the firing line if they do not endorse a zealous world view.
(19) They are beaten up and raped daily and it's not because they feel bad about themselves or have been got at by some zealous politically correct propaganda.
(20) Behind him lies the zealous, over-confident Dominic Cummings, his special adviser at education – forced out – humiliated at the Treasury select committee when his version of reality collided with its clever Tory chairman, Andrew Tyrie.