She was among the most unsentimental persons I ever knew.
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This unsentimental position puts her at odds with her friends.
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But that was Mr. Bloomberg: unsentimental even when he cared.
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The unsentimental leader doubted anyone would care, even his children.
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Zimet is less wide-eyed and more unsentimental in her approach.
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It is, like its Beckett source, tender, transparent, unsentimental and unsparing.
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Mr. Ashlock is unsentimental about the cab companies of the past.
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How rare and terrible it feels to encounter truly unsentimental art.
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Cashman and Manager Joe Girardi proved unsentimental about easing out stars.
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The Grill is confident, theatrical, retro, unsentimental, sharp and New Yorky.
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"To be honest, I think I'm very unsentimental about it," he said.
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The end when it comes in sport is unsentimental and often unsightly.
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Their motifs, aside from the expected hearts and Cupids, can seem unsentimental.
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"The Unspeakable" included "Matricide," her searingly unsentimental essay about her mother's death.
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He is unsentimental and often my gifts get returned or go unused.
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Ms. Jacquette noted that her father was unsentimental when that time came.
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SINCE ITS emperors first wrangled with distant barbarians, China has practised unsentimental diplomacy.
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They see a system built on an unsentimental bargain between rulers and ruled.
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"Even the Dogs" is a ferocious book, at once intense and alarmingly unsentimental.
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Even by the unsentimental standards of corporate America, it was an abrupt transition.
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Ahead of his address, aides described the normally unsentimental commander in chief as nostalgic.
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His approach today can still be characterized as unsentimental and rational to a fault.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads It's an unsentimental portrait, to say the least.
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It was refreshingly unsentimental, partially because you were so tightly focused on her career.
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For the unsentimental, the casual fan, and the new player, that's not so important.
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Her style is amused and unsentimental, and she has a strong Long Island accent.
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In simple, unsentimental terms, Holly FitzGerald has given us a most unlikely love story.
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The sweet yet unsentimental scenes between them are some of the novel's most powerful.
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Mr. Guido, who gives a sympathetic, unsentimental portrayal of the uncompromising Castle, is deaf.
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That means being ruthless and unsentimental when necessary, not standing rigidly on principle or tradition.
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Moore dismissed that out of hand, though he remains unsentimental about the city's ghost subway.
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But Eileen also is an unsentimental pragmatist, unimpressed by the males who flock to her.
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Despite the seismic changes in British politics, voters were unsentimental about spurning their usual parties.
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Egender and Kauffman's cameras capture these moments of fracture and ultimately, failure, with unsentimental lucidity.
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But this knowing, funny, staunchly unsentimental play is only secondarily a critique of adolescent culture.
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He revealed an attitude that one could describe as unsentimental at best and ruthless at worst.
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"We're all Eurosceptics now," reckons Michael Fallon, the defence secretary (and a typically unsentimental In voter).
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So which is he, asks Mr Chollet: a woolly-headed liberal idealist or an unsentimental realist?
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And there seemed to be something in Mr. Pagetti's direct, unsentimental images that fit the bill.
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Extreme domestic downsizing is like playing the stock market — you have to be aggressive and unsentimental.
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Cashman was unsentimental about Ortiz's retirement, especially since the 40-year-old slugger had posted a .
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In a voice by turns exuberant, humorous, unsentimental and keen, he tells a deeply American story.
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Anchored by its two excellent leads, the movie is sympathetic and, for the most part, unsentimental.
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Gus's deft fingers — rendered with unsentimental affection by his mom — are feeling things others will miss.
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Ginzburg became famous for her ability to conjure up a mixed emotional atmosphere, poignant yet unsentimental.
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His kind of unsentimental and unyielding passion has characterized the Los Angeles teachers strike thus far.
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And yet he unflinchingly depicts the abuse suffered by enslaved black people in an unsentimental way.
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Riley's record as an executive in Miami has been similarly unsentimental in its pursuit of winning.
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The testimonies of radiation poisoning victims were so raw and yet so beautiful, so unsentimental, so pure.
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It's totally unpretentious, and totally unsentimental — there's this inevitability about it, without it being too direction-oriented.
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Crime Karin Fossum may be the most unsentimental crime novelist since Ruth Rendell's alter ego, Barbara Vine.
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Susan Sheehan is unsentimental but empathetic and this is an incredibly suspenseful book about one woman's life.
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A wealthy man arrives at middle age in Haiti stripped down to a tough, resilient, unsentimental core.
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Avilés approaches Eve's inner life with frank and tactful sympathy, and depicts her circumstances with unsentimental clarity.
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Lulu Wang's unsentimental, autobiographically inspired "The Farewell" (on Wednesday) has been showing in theaters since the summer.
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In interviews, he spoke at a fast clip, expressing an unsentimental zeal for what was new and next.
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In fact their unsentimental collective task is to enforce discipline and to block bids by over-extended firms.
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But what impresses me most about the series is how completely unsentimental Neuvel is about the status quo.
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A committed abstractionist and a generally unsentimental musician, Mr. Kikuchi could appear contradictory around songs, especially sentimental ones.
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She "grows," she comes of age, but the journey will strike most readers as a distinctly unsentimental education.
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There is nary a misstep in the cleareyed, unsentimental portrait of a determined woman's sacrifice for her children.
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Radically unsentimental, it portrays the end of life largely without the emotional concomitants of grief, suffering and solace.
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They tend to be brutally unsentimental, see through the nonsense and cut to the cold, hard bottom line.
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Full of bad haircuts, perfectly posed group shots, and unsentimental romanticism, the photos are nostalgia at its best.
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Julianne Pachico's "The Lucky Ones" offers a blunt, fresh and unsentimental look inside Colombia's last 30 bloody years.
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Langlands, surprisingly unsentimental for someone who made his fame doing historical re-enactments, resists the pull of nostalgia.
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Few American cities have the accrued historical sediment of New York, but few are as unsentimental about the past.
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"Avilés approaches Eve's inner life with frank and tactful sympathy, and depicts her circumstances with unsentimental clarity," he added.
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Wink's writing is sage and absorbing and — despite the expansive landscapes of Montana or Wyoming or Texas — mostly unsentimental.
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Gamora (Zoe Saldana) is unsentimental, unafraid, and green, as if a Spartan warrior had been blended with an avocado.
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And ever present is the enchantment of his voice, one that is at turns exuberant, humorous, unsentimental, imaginative, keen.
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Recognizing that horse racing can be a rough, heartbreaking business, Mr. Jolley offered an unsentimental view of Ruffian's death.
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And then, Mr. Bloomberg — almost ostentatiously unsentimental over much of his political career — seemed to go somewhere unexpected: inward.
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His words—once he begins a two-hour meeting with The Economist on September 10th—are precise and unsentimental.
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Astringent and unsentimental, these essays span over half a century and, as such, constitute a monumental, if unwitting, autobiography.
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Mr. Bloomberg is offering audiences an unsentimental bargain, in some ways, pitched less at the heart than the gut.
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Like every employee, you have to earn and re-earn your standing - and companies are pretty unsentimental about that stuff.
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But they give a sense of the fertility of his pristine, unsentimental language and the breadth of subject and form.
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The unsentimental gift shop stocks cheeky T-shirts, mugs, needlepoint and barware, as well as artistically crafted soaps and jewelry.
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Critic's pick A woman watches those she left behind in Milly Thomas's unsentimental solo show at the Fourth Street Theater.
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Deng took an unsentimental view of Hong Kong as a place made valuable by free markets and a strong, unelected government.
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But an unsentimental toughness lies just beneath Ms. Burke's disarmingly scattered sunniness, itself a perfect foil for avant-garde self-seriousness.
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The situation offers a glimpse at an unanticipated intersection of a high-profile #MeToo case and the unsentimental business of media.
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Sceptics wonder about the model's viability in an unsentimental, margin-driven property industry that is prone to painful ups and downs.
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Alex Davidson, his longtime film collaborator, said Mr. Laurent had a humanistic but unsentimental approach to filmmaking that reflected his personality.
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That unsentimental insistence on our mortality may have been the biggest turnoff to New York theatergoers of the mid-20th century.
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Both girls shared an unsentimental interest in gangster rap, serial killers, and ruthless men like the former Mafia boss, John Gotti.
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In the most jarring part of the show, he discussed the death of his mother in June in a remarkably unsentimental aside.
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The Thompsons adhere to a traditional Christian understanding of the afterlife, but they have prepared for their own deaths with unsentimental pragmatism.
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The show's treatment of Josh's sexual adventures, like its treatment of mental illness, is idiosyncratic and unsentimental, romantic without dipping into formula.
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An unsentimental, practical person, she has for many years been preparing for the moment when death would become more alluring than life.
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The language is spare and unsentimental; Hamid follows the young couple to bleak refugee camps in Mykonos, London and Marin County, Calif.
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In other offerings, before "Titanic," there was "A Night to Remember" (Sunday and Tuesday), a strikingly unsentimental account of the ship's sinking.
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In the unsentimental way of nature, the answer to "What good are they?" is an unwavering "Well, they survive and they reproduce."
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In Ms. Jiles's exquisite, unsentimental voice, this novel describes the captain's journey with the initially surly 10-year-old he calls Johanna.
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Pam Tanowitz has been making dances for more than two decades, but only lately has her intelligent, unsentimental style found a wider audience.
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But it's the unsentimental, difficult kind of love that an adult child has for a parent with whom she's had a rough history.
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Inside Peter Abernathy's head there's a "key" to unlocking … something in the valley, presumably the mysterious "weapon," and it's making Dolores particularly unsentimental.
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"In delineating the casual blend of irritation and unsentimental affection among family members of all ages, Patchett excels," our reviewer, Curtis Sittenfeld, wrote.
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So while people might say there should be a more high-brow and unsentimental internet, the stats show that's not really what they want.
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Unsentimental and precise, he reckons with a past simultaneously vanished and all too present, drawing inventively on Proust, Nabokov, De Quincey, and St. Augustine.
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Her practice has taken her to many countries, but "Liberty Theater," her latest book, focuses her roving, unsentimental eye firmly on the United States.
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She was a funny, spirited woman who was guarded, cool and singularly unsentimental, except when she talked about her parents, both bakers by trade.
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The first, written in spare, unsentimental prose of a near-poetic density, explores the manifold ways in which death invests life with true meaning.
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It's a far more ingratiating piece than the Variations, but its abstract and unsentimental treatment of jazz and ragtime influences demands an attentive audience.
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The influence of these mentors is readily visible in Draper's early work: Smith's darkroom wizardry, Feinstein's unsentimental humanism, DeCarava's concern with light and shadow.
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Regular folks present a relic—usually excavated from some unswept corner of the home—to a specialist, who then delivers a swift and unsentimental appraisal.
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Twice, serendipitous encounters in department stores steered him toward what would become his life's work: immortalizing sharply observed moments through a nonjudgmental, unsentimental humanist lens.
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Which is to say, it must be formulated around unsentimental answers to questions like: Where are voters with us, and where are they against us?
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In a series of personal but unsentimental essays, she gave succinct shorthand to a familiar female experience that before had gone unarticulated, perhaps even unrecognized.
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Much of this beautifully unsentimental novel takes place over five days in a New York hospital, where Lucy Barton, the narrator, is recovering from surgery.
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Rigorously unsentimental in his attitude to the world around him, Mr. Frank deviated from form in 1950, taking what was arguably his most romantic picture.
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The outlook is often grim, but thanks to Díaz's riveting and intoxicating narrative, we manage to see the characters' unsentimental determination for a better life.
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It's also a reminder, as if we needed one, of the brutal and beautifully unsentimental revelations that only a peak De Niro performance can provide.
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Ms. Fure is deeply attuned to the relationship between sound and space, and has crafted a powerfully unsentimental language steeped in the European avant-garde.
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I have been accused of being as unsentimental as a Presbyterian minister myself, and I am here to report that I did not mist up (mostly).
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To Als, Neel and her portraits of her East Harlem neighbors are a prime example of the "unsentimental wonder" with which the artist must meet the world.
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A similarly unsentimental programme once brought Australia success, but the tally has fallen since the Sydney games in 2000 and the retirement of a brilliant sporting generation.
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Everything here drives the story on, and except for the excessive ending, it feels authentic, from the unsentimental Albanian immigrant neighborhood to the no-nonsense supporting performances.
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Sabathia, who lives in the New York area year-round, was unsentimental about pitching in the stadium where he watched the Athletics play when he was young.
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Compared with the comedy for which she was so well known, "Wit" was a drama about a serious scholar — unmarried, unattached and unsentimental — with terminal ovarian cancer.
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In confronting the Soviet Union and Russia, Republicans have long claimed to be unsentimental realists, in contrast to the credulous, starry-eyed naïfs in the Democratic Party.
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The director Ciarán O'Reilly and Mr. Bean approach both the play and the part in a — excuse the pun — sober manner that underlines the material's unsentimental perspective.
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And the country is going to need a leader who can take a clear-eyed and unsentimental view of the situation to win the battles to come.
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Cutting between past and present, the Chicago chapters are a brilliantly exact and unsentimental portrait of the hidden tax that American racism has always placed on black ambition.
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If you hear the record in the manner suggested to you, Merzbow's music, unsentimental to the core, sluices through the elegant silences in and among the Boris tracks.
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Under the guidance of Ms. Merkel and her famously unsentimental finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, Germany effectively used the crisis as an elaborate demonstration of the euro's foundational defects.
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With its wicked humor and unsentimental treatment of Maori life, it was an immediate sensation in New Zealand, becoming the highest-grossing locally produced film of all time.
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Some of the franchise's most memorable moments have dealt with Spock's Vulcan upbringing and how being reared as an icy, unsentimental logician affected his relationships with his human colleagues.
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If they want to keep fighting, Europe's social democrats must reckon with a newly unsentimental, biddable and fragmented electorate and a range of rivals eager to steal their supporters.
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Louis Langrée finally leads the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra in the overture, more curt and unsentimental than usual, as a soldier rapes one of the dancing women in a corner.
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Dominique Blanc and Hervé Pierre shine an unsentimental light on the working-class couple they portray; he slipping away into dementia, she aching from their loveless 40-year marriage.
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Along with being unsentimental and chillingly honest, her responses to probing, no-holds-barred questions are often extensive, as Lopate-the-interviewer yields the stage to her outsize personality.
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Dr. Contino, who specialized in the visceral, unsentimental realism of Italian verismo opera, was also a music professor and vocal coach, but was best known as an acclaimed conductor.
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Mr. Jude, while he shares with his contemporaries an unsentimental interest in human folly and failure, departs from the naturalism that has been their collective signature for the last decade.
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In this first (and only) series on the affluent, he retained his unsentimental sympathy, especially for the women, who typically look like flinching captives on the arm of a man.
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In a feisty new adaptation by Conor McPherson, this is an unusually spiky, unsentimental reading of a frequently performed play — but one that could benefit from deepening the emotional stakes.
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Their tone is bracingly unsentimental, as is clear from the first swear words uttered by the chain-smoking nun who patrols the women's prison where Mata Hari awaits her verdict.
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The stories — all of them elegantly plotted and unsentimental, with an addictive, told-over-tea quality — are largely character studies of people isolated, often tragically, by custom or self-delusion.
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Confirmation succeeds in offering an unsensational, unsentimental look into the world of white suprematists in the U.K. and by extension their likeminded cohorts in the U.S., an uncomfortable but necessary experience.
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Rather than indulging in nostalgia, they acknowledge this dilemma, almost approaching a strange double consciousness; the propulsive energy signals an unsentimental determination to enjoy life even if they're not supposed to.
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She is unsentimental, and sometimes brutal, about the necessity of their deaths, but also presents them as quasi-mystical portals between the world of human affairs and the indifference of nature.
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After "The Chain Saw Dance" was published, some local residents bristled at his unsentimental way of depicting his fellow Vermonters, presented as a hard-luck group with sometimes off-putting habits.
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Mr. Lewis, the subject of the 2010 documentary film "Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore," took an unsentimental view of his craft, and regarded his legacy with an amused eye.
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Dee Rees's "Mudbound" is a period drama (it takes place in the Mississippi Delta during and after World War II) that is unflinching and unsentimental in its dissection of white supremacy.
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Yet he also encounters the unsentimental, occasionally grudging kindness of ordinary Finns, and when he tells Mazdak that he has fallen in love with his new home, you can understand why.
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Peres, portrayed as an unsentimental hard-liner — an interesting contrast to his later dovish reputation — pushes the prime minister, a more emotional and indecisive man, to approve a risky military response.
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"I wonder what their reaction would have been if TKAM had been complex, sour, unsentimental, racially unpaternalistic because Atticus was a bastard," she wrote to Mr. Flynt on July 31, 2006.
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A small woman with a two-toned pageboy and an open, unsentimental manner, she is an ideal traveling companion: a wise and canny guide, an impetuous risk-taker, a trusted friend.
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His heroes (the football coach in "Friday Night Lights," the counterterrorism agents in "The Kingdom," the soldiers in "Lone Survivor") are unsentimental troubleshooters dealing with unpredictable problems in less than ideal circumstances.
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His prized possession is a piano stool that supposedly once belonged to Hoagy Carmichael, and he's upset when his unsentimental sister (the great, all-too-briefly seen Rosemarie DeWitt) sits on it.
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Most of the humor here comes from the way Mary manages two competing egos as she runs interference between the evening news's sour, unsentimental producer Lou and the above-it-all Phyllis.
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I see "Vagabond," in part, as a tough, unsentimental exploration about the limits of radical independence for women, which is perhaps what gives it the autobiographical aspect that runs through her movies.
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But "Love & Friendship" is not the average regency story, and if it can't be thought feminist, it is an unsentimental look at the machinations women employed to wield power in a limited sphere.
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Still, Taylor's best role may simply be as a coolly unsentimental truthteller—a youthful radical cutting through the rationalizations of their elders, the people who broke the economy that they grew up in.
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On three essential albums — "The Infamous," from 1995; "Hell on Earth," from 20083; and "Murda Muzik," from 1999 — Mobb Deep became standard bearers for the sound of New York rap: unfazed, unsentimental, uncompromising.
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When Khaled (Darius Homayoun) asks if she knows where he might buy a space heater — a decent guy, he wants it for his ailing mother — the unsentimental Yasmin charges him for the answer.
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" As for the notoriously unsentimental Natalia Ginzburg, she begins with an astonishing laundry list of the differences—some vital, some trivial—between her and her husband: "He always feels hot, I always feel cold. . . .
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Helping grow a U.S. player is also crucial to its strategy, and SoftBank has been openly unsentimental about whether that means funding Uber or Lyft, though Uber would seem to be its strong preference.
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Almost the first thing we learn about the tortured title character of "Nico, 1988" — Susanna Nicchiarelli's brilliantly unsentimental biopic of the German singer Christa Päffgen — is that she doesn't like to be called Nico.
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In place of a grand ideology, Carlson embraces an unsentimental form of tribalism: a belief that, in a cruel and confusing world, no virtue is more important than loyalty to one's family and friends.
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This view is intended to be hardheaded and unsentimental, but the political theorist Teresa M. Bejan would presumably find Bybee's conception of civility, rooted as it is in ideas of respect, no less idealistic.
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What follows is a subtle and thrilling love story, at once unsentimental in its realistic assessment of women's circumstances and almost utopian in its celebration of the freedom that is nonetheless available to them.
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They say that his track record at Novo Nordisk, the drug company based in Denmark where he spent much of his career, is impressive, and that an unsentimental eye is precisely what Teva needs.
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Joined by the intense violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja, the group's reading of Berg's concerto was unsentimental, even severe and raw, but also nuanced and fully developed, the sound milky and organ-like in quotations of Bach.
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Though she was widely expected to receive her first Oscar nomination for her complex, defiantly unsentimental performance as stripper-turned-grifter Ramona Vega in the hit movie "Hustlers," the Academy left her in the cold.
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A cutup at the hotel bar with his beloved baseball writers, he was coldly unsentimental with his players, unafraid to bench a slumping star or trade a player at the first sign of diminishing returns.
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In a Europe of overlapping and concentric circles, perhaps Britain, an unsentimental member state with one foot in Europe's centre, one in its periphery and an eye on the wider world, is best-placed to lead.
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For the most part, it's a cleareyed and unsentimental look at how farming has become relentlessly optimized by automation, markets and politics; factors that don't always take into account the guy who's actually driving the tractor.
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Aficionados of Henry James's "The Portrait of a Lady" should pick up Michael Gorra's utterly unsentimental "Portrait of a Novel," which mixes biography and history to shed new light on the pages of Isabel Archer's journey.
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Even taking into account most of Apatow's directorial efforts are that most Reagan-era of words, dramedies, fans of This is 40 and the like might be surprised how somber, unsentimental, and painful Doc & Darryl can be.
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King's "I Have a Dream" speech is as relevant today as it was over a half century ago precisely because its unsentimental vision of American society demands a mature, reflective and bold approach to social justice organizing.
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Unsentimental, he faced the fact that the Western Edition's circulation had dropped to 70,000 and that it "had no hope of being profitable by the end of a five-year projection," Ms. Tifft and Mr. Jones wrote.
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They are in fact perfect iterations of their form: precise, detailed, and unsentimental portraits of middle-class British women trying to live their ordinary lives in peace, and generally being stymied by men who will keep interfering.
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In his speech here, he cast that not as a means of relinquishing labor to the unsentimental winds of capitalism, but rather giving start-up companies relief from the strictures of national labor contracts negotiated by unions.
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In what Manohla Dargis of The New York Times called "a ferocious, unsentimental, often brilliantly directed film," a young student helps a friend secure an illegal, potentially deadly abortion in the late 1980s in Nicolae Ceausescu's Romania.
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Mr. Bloomberg's decision appears to reflect a recognition of the long odds he would have faced as a moderate newcomer in an unapologetically liberal party, and his own unsentimental calculus about the trade-offs involved in running.
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It was also the first real "traumedy," presaging many of the best modern shows, from "Transparent" to "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" and "Orange Is the New Black" —genre blends that are at once generous and unsentimental about damaged people.
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Smith provides an unsentimental education that suggests a messy reality, one in which the scandal resulted from the workings of the college sports industry, including how it prevents athletes from getting a piece of the profits they generate.
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The easy explanation was that they had simply chosen not to consider it: My parents are young enough and unsentimental enough that death (how, when, where) was still sufficiently distant to be an abstraction, a dinner-table conversation.
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This is the view of Yuval Noah Harari, a lecturer at the Hebrew University, in Jerusalem, and the author of "Sapiens," a bracingly unsentimental history of humankind, which was praised by everyone from Jared Diamond to President Obama.
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We may even know that "Pink Moon" completely qualifies as "late work" — an unsentimental production full of nothing-left-to-lose moves: uncomfortable repetitions in short songs, snippings-off before a smooth finish, a disembodied quality to the singing.
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Elena Ferrante has cited Ortese (1914-98) as one of her greatest influences, and the connections are obvious in this collection of short stories and essays, which infuse a grimy, chaotic Naples with unsentimental menace rather than romantic mystique.
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"Keeping On Keeping On" comprises a decade of diary entries, from 2005 to 2015, all originally published in The London Review of Books, each one a burst of intellectual fire and feeling — but unpretentious and unsentimental to the core.
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ANDY WARHOL — FROM A TO B AND BACK AGAIN A wide-ranging reconsideration of the life and oeuvre of this unsentimental icon, drawing on materials discovered after his death and uniting more than 350 separate works of art. Nov.
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The historian Doris Kearns Goodwin's "Wait Till Next Year," her unsentimental 1997 memoir about growing up in Rockville Centre, N.Y., in the 1950s and learning to be a Dodgers fan (sorry), reads like a cultural history told through baseball.
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The scientist surrounded herself with intelligent men (Nigel Lawson, Geoffrey Howe, Keith Joseph, Douglas Hurd), and approached Britain's manifold woes at the start of the nineteen-eighties with an unsentimental willingness to push experiment to the edge of cruelty.
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But the clean, unsentimental ethos of the residence has gained fans over the years, and other rich creative types nearby have hired Ceglic to design their homes, retreats that while physically in the Hamptons, remain psychographically apart from it.
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All the wide, softly blunt marks in these two paintings are bristle-brushed, disarming and equally unsentimental, looking like over-sized felt-tipped pens marking up a blotter pad, but more importantly they occupy a territory between line and shape.
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Over the next hour, the group's conversation is boisterous and unsentimental as they run down the list of 252 women and 250 men who will appear in drug court that day to be questioned, cajoled, rewarded, and sanctioned by Judge Howard.
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Happily, his follow-up, "An Orchestra of Minorities", is a triumph: a wholly unsentimental epic that unspools smoothly over nearly a decade, it is set with equal success across two continents, employing myth and spirituality to create a vibrant new world.
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Kennedy lay the groundwork for the myth of an American Camelot even as the world seemed on the verge of collapse is the story of the brilliant new film Jackie, which both compresses and races through events with an unsentimental intimacy.
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Each scene yields a drop more information—how to rig up a tarpaulin, say, head-high, for gathering rainwater—before being smartly cut off, as if the film were of one mind, pragmatic and unsentimental, with the folk it depicts.
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Writing with unsentimental candor, Mr. Sahota has created a cast of characters whose lives are so richly imagined that this deeply affecting novel calls out for a sequel or follow-up that might recount the next installment of their lives.
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For me, his performances of standard works as varied as Bach's Mass in B minor and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony have demonstrated keen musical insight, a feeling for the shape and flow of a piece, and an unsentimental sense of drama.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Midway through Thank You for Supporting the Arts, Carolann Stoney and W. Alexander Jones' documentary about the Portland-based writer, stripper, and musician Viva Las Vegas — born Liv Osthus — Viva shares an unsentimental anecdote from her childhood.
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In fact, one scene in which Dee Dee's father and stepmother scathingly discuss her family's dismissive attitude toward her cremated remains is eerily reminiscent of a similarly shocking postmortem scene from S-Town, another recent narrative mystery with cameos from notably unsentimental relatives.
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Brooks Atkinson, the Times' lead theatre reviewer for decades, wrote many pieces about Tennessee Williams's triumphs and fascinating failures; taken together, those reviews read like a long letter from a fair and unsentimental uncle, offering encouragement and tough love in equal measure.
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It occurred to me that Reid, typically as self-aware as he is unsentimental, could have been engaged in a gentle playacting of how two old Senate combatants of a fast-vanishing era are supposed to say goodbye to each other for posterity.
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The "great" America that he talks about is an unsentimental place: not a tight-knit community defined by old-fashioned values but a big and shiny and rather nonjudgmental country where everyone has a good job, stays safe, and adores the President.
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An audible gasp of dismay swept through the auditorium, packed with more than 2,000 people, as the author — so unshockable, so seemingly unsentimental, so darkly humorous, yet so constant in his domestic arrangements — began to lose it, right in front of us.
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His voice is sour, unsentimental and often extremely funny, and the contrast between his cynical milieu, in which individual identity and artistic creation are marketable commodities, and Yuki's ecstatic search for self-actualization gives the novel an edge it might otherwise lack.
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This annual L.G.B.T. festival celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, and its international centerpiece, Wanuri Kahiu's feature "Rafiki" (showing on Friday) — a sensitive, unsentimental portrait of two women who fall for each other in Kenya, where homosexuality is illegal — has been in the news.
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Directed by Griffin Dunne, her nephew, who includes footage from his recent interviews with her, it shows that despite her cultivated image as a nervous waif at the mercy of moods and the Santa Ana wind, she could be ruthlessly practical and utterly unsentimental.
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Chazelle left the fizzy artifice and nostalgia of La La Land far behind for this movie, aiming instead for a raw and unsentimental portrait of how it really felt to be strapped into a cramped and clanging metal capsule atop a gargantuan rocket aimed at outer space.
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Woolf grasped the fundamental concerns of the novels—unsentimental acceptance of the economic realities that forced women into marriage; respect for the natural aristocracy of intelligence, humor, and kindness; social satire; and the subtle morality of human relationships—whereas Kelly's book leads us away from them.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Leila Alaoui, the French-Moroccan photographer and video artist known for her poetic and unsentimental images of daily life in the Mediterranean and Middle East, died last night from injuries sustained during last week's terrorist attack in Ougadougou, Burkina Faso.
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The rest of the television world has pushed more boundaries and grown far raunchier, leaving the cartoon a remnant of an era in which its unsentimental view of the American family, along with language like "Eat my shorts," sparked a rebuke from President George Bush in 1992.
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The prime minister's brother and sister accuse him of abusing his power to try to preserve the estate of their father — the city-state's revered founder, Lee Kuan Yew — as a bedrock for a future dynasty, instead of demolishing it as the unsentimental Mr. Lee wished.
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So when they broke up last year without any explanation or warning—marked not with a final tour or emotive essay, but with a 9-digit Facebook post reading "73-2017"—it felt strangely normal, a perfectly unsentimental ending for a band who saved all sentimentality for recording.
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Pearl Chanda's unsentimental Masha, the middle sister all but undone by love, and the wonderful Peter McDonald's bearded Vershinin, the unhappily married military commander who speaks of a brighter future even as the sisters know better, are especially fine as the two halves of a doomed love affair.
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From the beginning, the Juilliard Quartet was known for its probing musicality (the group once devoted two full rehearsals to a single measure from Elliott Carter's Third String Quartet); hard-driving style, which for all its passionate intensity was considered refreshingly unsentimental; and deep commitment to contemporary music.
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They are offended by the rise of Donald J. Trump, puzzled by Bernie Sanders's democratic socialist appeal to young American voters, and confused by President Obama's unsentimental, risk-averse foreign policy that decided against punishing President Bashar al-Assad of Syria for crossing Mr. Obama's own red line on chemical weapons.
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Until then, though, Mr. Records (the child actor in "Where the Wild Things Are") is nimble and unsentimental in playing a character who is playing at normal, supported by a solid cast in a well-filmed indie that doesn't let its low budget get in the way of some true chills.
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Although scarcely unsentimental, Kon transposes the Ford movie to the lower depths of Tokyo's skid row, raising the stakes by recasting the outlaws as three homeless outcasts — a teenage runaway, a surly alcoholic, and (in the Wayne role) a transgender woman — who find an abandoned baby nestled in the trash.
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Going all-in means expressing confidence that your team can fight off a half-dozen or more competing postseason hopefuls; giving up on the season and getting to work on the next requires a pragmatic, unsentimental approach that is, in some basic sense, antithetical to the way most people care about sports.
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For its male star, Ektor Rivera, it was a day of turmoil – goodbyes to crew and cast members, some final salsa moves in his character's clothes (he kept a pair of shoes), and a swift and unsentimental cleanup of all personal items, including a small rug, a Puerto Rican flag and two paintings.
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I have been reading Zmirak for years, and it's striking to me that a writer who has been so cold-eyed and unsentimental about so many institutions that others drape in piety – including his own conservative Catholic subculture — could be so trusting about Trump's stated commitments and in his celebrity businessman's capacities.
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Through several interviews with Goldberg, Obama emerges as a realist and an internationalist, in that order, dismissive of the notion that he has undermined American credibility in the world, resolute in defense of his inaction in Syria, skeptical of interventionism, unsentimental about Europe (and most things), and more inclined to view climate change as an existential threat than terrorism.
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With the possible exception of his jokes about fatherhood, which are sharp, unsentimental and more economical than the rest of his digressive 70 minutes, Cross's labored new special picks easy targets: Grateful Dead cover bands, hippies, Southerners with thick accents, and Twitter memes (although he does have a good self-deprecating joke about his own failures at tweeting).
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" Stephen Holden, in a 1990 review in The New York Times of Mr. La Rosa's engagement at Rainbow and Stars in Manhattan, wrote: "Boisterously exuberant and remarkably unsentimental for a singer who came of age with romantic balladeers like Tony Bennett and Vic Damone, he approached almost everything he sang with the easygoing confidence of a raconteur providing illuminating slants on familiar stories.
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Affliction even subtly shapes the journalistic persona Didion crafts for herself in her canonical essays: a rigorously unsentimental reporter writing about senseless violence and serial killers, picking apart the hollow promises of the American dream, but still facing all this darkness with a beguiling female fragility, plagued by migraines and existential angst, packing her own size 2 black cocktail dresses when she hits the road.
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Her father, a sociologist who was the first to identify and name high school archetypes like jocks, freaks, preps, and theater geeks, proved the absent-minded professor stereotype—he once put her into the bath with her socks on—and her mother, who ran both a seamstress business and the household, was no nonsense and unsentimental in the way that many who lived through the Great Depression were.
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The rise of a local boy, the son of a Pakistani bus driver, to govern the seat of a former empire was proof of the same unsentimental indifference toward race and religion, good money and bad, and a past that is gone that has enabled London to more or less detach itself from the reality of its circumstances—the capital of a once great nation in decline—and become a universe unto itself.
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In this unsentimental, deeply poignant book, Sujatha Gidla gives us stories of her family and friends in India — stories she had thought of as "just life," until she moved to America at the age of 26 and realized that the "terrible reality of caste" did not determine one's identity in other countries, that being born "an untouchable" did not entail the sort of ritualized restrictions and indignities she took for granted at home.
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Much is made of innocence in fiction, as in life, but in O'Brien's unsentimental imagination the innocent suffer greatly because they are not distrustful enough; and usually these innocents are girls and young women, as in O'Brien's compelling novel "Down by the River" (1997), in which a young rural Irish girl is impregnated by her father and further humiliated by being forced to endure the public politicization of her pregnancy by people on both sides of the abortion debate.
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Mr. Qian (whose full name is roughly pronounced chee-en chee-chen), had mostly stayed out of the public eye in recent years, but on Thursday his death was mourned on the front page of People's Daily, the Communist Party's main newspaper — a sign of the deep imprint he made in shaping a muted, unsentimental policy after the Soviet bloc fell apart in 21990 and in chipping away at China's isolation from the West in the years after 21990.
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