英语词汇“unsentimental”造句子简单的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

Fortunately, my teachers were unsentimental about their responsibility. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their voices were melodious and unsentimental, almost to the point where a somewhat more denominational man than myself might, without straining, have experienced levitation. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

They had to investigate the charges against me, but the assignment was their unsentimental affirmation that their belief in me was unbroken. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The honor of Chicago’s leading men, who prided themselves on their unsentimental—some might say ruthless—pursuit of maximum profit, was in peril. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

John Vorster, the new minister of justice, who had himself been detained during World War II for opposing the government’s support of the Allies, was a man unsentimental in the extreme. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father was a cultured man, rather unsentimental. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Dothraki were a hard and unsentimental people, and it was not their custom to name their animals, so Dany thought of her only as the silver. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But I guess New York City’s going to give me an abundance of opportunities to be cool and unsentimental. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He, at fourteen, was pudgy, bespectacled, and totally unsentimental. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had originally been a port-red color—and by lamplight, at least, still was—but it now featured a number of rather pancreas-shaped faded spots, unsentimental mementos, all, of a series of household pets. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Here, he offered gracious, unsentimental interpretations of the Barcarolle No. 3, Impromptu No. 2 and the Nocturne No. 6. Marc-André Hamelin Plays at the Keyboard Institute 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z

Anna, strong, resourceful, unsentimental, is the book's heroine, but the main character is Leningrad itself. Sue Arnold's audiobook choice - reviews 2011-07-15T21:55:06Z

That it’s a woman’s urge that’s being explored, in unsentimental and noncelebratory terms, makes “The Village Bike” an uncommon and revitalizing entry in mainstream theater. ‘The Village Bike’ Stars Greta Gerwig as a Woman Obsessed 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z

“Fox & I: An Uncommon Friendship,” a fanciful, literate, unsentimental and yet deeply felt memoir, is her answer. Review | In ‘Fox & I,’ a biologist finds solace in a wild animal’s friendship 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z

Meeting him cadence for unsentimental cadence is Liu’s Watson, who at one point sums up not just the truth of recovery but also why it is so difficult to depict on television. ‘Elementary’ affirms its place as the smartest study of recovery on TV 2014-04-24T19:18:54Z

“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.” Louise Erdrich Wins Library of Congress Award 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

The songs are gloriously unsentimental—the kind that incite physical, not emotional, catharsis. Play It Again (for the First Time) 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

Rhythm, texture, splendor of sentiment in language, unsentimental soulfulness. Maria Popova: By the Book 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

Loudon is like a single, relentless glare of light: his lyrics are trenchant and unsentimental, his music plain and direct. House of Rufus ? review 2011-07-22T17:44:20Z

I’ve always worked with unsentimental directors who make no attempt to make people better than they are, and this was really Chabrol’s specialty. Isabelle Huppert Doesn’t Watch Her Past Films, but She Will Discuss Them 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z

Because we feed ourselves from our land, we’re unsentimental about certain creatures that thrive and multiply by consuming our crops. For a gardener, wildlife can make life a little livelier 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

And ever present is the enchantment of his voice, one that is at turns exuberant, humorous, unsentimental, imaginative, keen. The Odyssey of a Gay Black Football-Star Banker, From ‘Peasant Boy’ to the Mountaintop 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

Ordered, analytical, rigorous and unsentimental, the images were a deadpan chronicle of the built landscape, hinting at the environmental and social consequences of extracting natural resources. Hilla Becher, Photographer Who Chronicled Industrial Scenery, Dies at 81 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

Diaz's strong, unsentimental performance persuasively depicts him as a principled, incorruptible man of the people. 'Lula, Son of Brazil': An upbeat look at rise of leader for the people 2012-03-08T22:02:08Z

But as one of her previous shows, “Speak Easy” demonstrated, she has the brassy, unsentimental attitude of a flapper who is nobody’s fool. Carole J. Bufford at the Metropolitan Room 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z

Mary Lincoln was overcome with grief and erupted in wailing and sobbing to the point that the unsentimental Stanton banished her to the front parlor. Abraham Lincoln’s assassination: Great joy, then a gunshot 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

For the giver, who is famously unsentimental about his past, it may have seemed just a sheaf of papers that had outlived their usefulness. ArtsBeat: Dylan’s Handwritten Lyrics to ‘Like a Rolling Stone’ to Be Auctioned 2014-05-01T01:00:46Z

The next three suggestions, showcasing a range of experiences in women's fiction, include a family saga, a smartly unsentimental journey set at an Ivy League school and a witty novel of random encounters in Paris. Best summer reading picks: women's fiction favorites 2011-08-05T21:59:03Z

Iron Man 3 is smart, funny and spectacular – I particularly liked Stark's brutally unsentimental reaction to the news that a kid who is helping him is missing his errant dad. Iron Man 3 2013-04-22T16:28:57Z

It is also deeply unsentimental about our sentimental natures, and how we perceive happiness only retrospectively. ‘Ayckbourn Ensemble,’ 3 Offerings by the British Playwright 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

Perhaps their brooding distracts them from the “long string of indignities” that constitutes old age in these unsentimental tales. Unnerving short stories by Hilary Mantel, Margaret Atwood and Joyce Carol Oates

The production’s sharpened focus on moral ambiguity extends even to Willow Geer’s steely, unsentimental turn as Portia, the quick-witted ostensible heroine who disguises herself as a lawyer to turn the tables on Shylock. Shylock, revisited, in Theatricum's 'Merchant of Venice' 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z

Quietly brilliant, it is an unsentimental look at family life and working single mothers – blunt, warm, fascinated by the absurdity of trying to hold it all together. Pamela Adlon: ‘Better Things is about hope and love amid the darkness’ 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z

On Friday, that sonata still in the audience’s ears, he closed the concert with an unsentimental, graceful version of the opening aria from the “Goldbergs.” Review: Andras Schiff Deconstructs Sonatas 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z

He compared one veteran ambassador’s prose to Evelyn Waugh’s, and deemed other analyses “astute,” “unsentimental” and “hilarious.” In His First Book, Ronan Farrow Laments the Decline of Diplomacy 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z

Beneath the puppies-and-peppermint cuteness lies an unsentimental take on the industry that sustains her. 'You have to bust your ass' 2010-08-06T23:02:00Z

Martin’s saga is built on unsentimental honesty: thus the first season was largely about demolishing fairy-tale ideas that honor and honesty conquer all, as Ned Stark could speak to, if he could speak. Dead Tree Alert: Veep, Women in Power and Game of Thrones? Clash of Queens 2012-03-30T16:54:53Z

The Quarry, nevertheless, is full of unsentimental, furiously exact unpickings of the cliches surrounding terminal illness. Iain Banks: the final interview 2013-06-15T07:07:55Z

Then I read some of the original Observer pieces, which were tough and unsentimental, even caustic. “Is There Still Sex in the City?” and the Decline of a Particular Fantasy Life 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z

Fascinating, too, is Fraser-Cavassoni’s fresh, unsentimental take on Dior’s inner circle, a triumvirate of women who alternately adored and exasperated him. Once Upon a Time 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

It is easy to like this Eurydice, her presence sweet yet unsentimental, but it is hard to care about her as much as we must. Review: The Met Opera’s ‘Eurydice’ Tries to Raise the Dead 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

As always, Sharp takes on potentially sentimental subjects with a tone which is almost shockingly unsentimental; never has the trope of a Victorian drawing master romancing his sheltered female pupil been rendered less romantic. In Praise of Margery Sharp 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

Apatow is one of the most deceptively conservative directors in Hollywood, and even in the female-fronted hit Bridesmaids, which he produced, the film’s theme of unsentimental female friendship saw a forgettable romantic subplot shoehorned in. Why How to Be Single is more casually progressive than Trainwreck 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

If he's no longer the bruised, idealistic firebrand of five years ago, he still dredges electrifying comedy from the badlands of unsentimental despair. Doug Stanhope 2010-09-01T21:00:00Z

But the book was ultimately acclaimed as one of the most important photographic projects of the 20th century, a radical personalization of the documentary impulse into something haunted, bleakly poetic and daringly unsentimental. Perspective | Robert Frank’s photographs captured the bleak reality we’re still living in today 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

"Bowler’s writing is direct and unsentimental. She's not saying her life is unfair or that she deserved better. She’s just telling you what happened." Bill Gates has some summer reading recommendations for you 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z

Or maybe the book isn’t about love or happiness at all, but a lament about the passing of time, an unsentimental view of physical decay, a withering away. The Giving Tree at Fifty: Sadder Than I Remembered 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z

And it was Michael and Steven with a voice that was irreverent, scatological, tough and unsentimental. Steven Bochco and Others on Creating ‘Hill Street Blues’ 2014-05-01T17:39:39Z

The arrival of a seasonal worker from Romania triggers an unsentimental romance, played out under harsh rural skies. Summer 2017's best movies: from Scarlett Johansson's hen night to Morrissey's teen years 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

His portraits revealed the drama and comedy of the everyday, exhuming unsentimental levity from the melancholy, or hüzun, that Pamuk attributed to modern Istanbul. What Ara Güler, “The Eye of Istanbul,” Saw in His Homeland 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z

“Students were often surprised by how unsentimental these female novelists are, how wide-ranging are their themes, and how frank they are about female desire,” Norich said. How Yiddish Scholars Are Rescuing Women’s Novels From Obscurity 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z

An optimistic and unsentimental neighbor of mine is already hoping a Trader Joe’s will move in. Closing Up Shop on a Marriage 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

In a voice by turns exuberant, humorous, unsentimental and keen, he tells a deeply American story. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

Radically unsentimental, the first film had a gleeful apocalyptic quality that made it feel like a feature-length version of the end of “Dr. Strangelove,” in which Slim Pickens hoots his way to doomsday. Movie Review: ‘RoboCop’ Remake Arrives, Starring Joel Kinnaman 2014-02-11T23:09:06Z

It is also profoundly, deeply unsentimental, a set of lines about living in the aftermath of hope. Edward Hirsch's ode to a lost son 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

That context adds a bit of weight to the song, but as ever, Williams is gimlet-eyed and unsentimental, singing in her signature growl, “No one’s brought the curtain down, maybe you should stick around.” Drake Surprises With a Kim Kardashian Sample, and 11 More New Songs 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z

Rowell pulls off this impossible premise with great charm, and her depictions of the couple’s sweet courtship and their later compromise-filled marriage are equally unsentimental and knowing. The Books We Loved in 2016 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

And while being unsentimental, he was deeply moving. Pete Postlethwaite remembered 2011-01-03T19:30:01Z

Let me close with a final quotation — from the finale of “Thoughts About the Person From Porlock” — that again reflects Smith’s characteristic blend of the comic and bleakly unsentimental: Michael Dirda on the misunderstood poet Stevie Smith 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

For all her devotion to the musicians she advises, Ms. Gordon describes this work in unsentimental terms. Jazz Wouldn’t Be the Same Without Them. But Few Applauded These Hidden Figures. 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z

The title connotes unsentimental, amoral ruthlessness, a refusal to compromise in the pursuit of profit. ‘The Godfather’ Explained in Seven Quotes 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z

In “Better Things,” Sam is a superbly capable parent, but her scrappy, unsentimental style also serves as a corrective to C.K.’s idealized view of motherhood. “Better Things,” Pamela Adlon’s Unlikely Ode to Single Motherhood 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

“The Unspeakable” included “Matricide,” her searingly unsentimental essay about her mother’s death. A Liberal Uneasy in the World of #MeToo Feminism 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

She captures the hope and pain of immigration and the terror of deportation with an unsentimental yet empathetic eye. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z

Based on the evidence, Berlin audiences have a large appetite for her brash, energetic and exuberantly discomfiting work, with its unflinching and unsentimental look at women’s bodies and desires. A Splashy, Messy All-Naked Revue 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

Sheasby's writing was precise, unsentimental and usually rooted in observed life, but it also had an element of fantasy. Dave Sheasby obituary 2010-04-01T17:46:00Z

The first is unsentimental and empirical: baseball is made up of a series of discrete plays with a relatively small number of outcomes, which can be measured and represented probabilistically. Seven Turning Points from the Year in Sports 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

At first Carter thought it might be achieved through the pert, lean, unsentimental neo-classical idiom then in fashion. Elliott Carter 2012-11-06T03:26:13Z

Yet the pas de deux, set to Mozart’s Rondo in A minor for solo piano, has a gleaming simplicity and an unsentimental feeling of sisterhood. Easy Does It: Bringing Old-School Wisdom to City Ballet 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z

“I often paint my characters in broad colors, big expressive moments, whereas in reality I’m pretty direct and unsentimental.” Arts & Leisure: The Film ?Once? Becomes a New York Musical 2011-12-04T03:13:02Z

There's something poignant but unsentimental about the relationship the sculpture will have with all those sombre bronze generals on the other plinths. Fourth plinth battle: the heroic child takes the cake 2010-08-19T14:44:00Z

In the hands of master director Reed, Martins' tale is the story of a man's unsentimental education, of the hard road he travels in the getting of wisdom. Classic thriller 'The Third Man' screens in a new light at Landmark Nuart 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

Heartfelt but unsentimental, the film was shot in a kind of fly-on-the-wall style — a distant wall, that is. Oren Moverman hopes 'Time Out of Mind' spotlights homelessness 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

Mr. Diaz’s strong, unsentimental performance persuasively depicts him as a principled, incorruptible man of the people. | 'Lula: Son of Brazil': ?Lula: Son of Brazil,? Directed by F?bio Barreto - Review 2012-01-12T22:38:30Z

She was as unsentimental as the hardest-boiled male PIs of her era, but it was pies she had a weakness for, not scotch. Anne Holt's top 10 female detectives 2010-12-08T12:34:00Z

It is an engrossing, unsentimental continuation of his work on “The Matter,” which he first presented in 1972. Best Dance of 2020 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z

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. Review: ‘Dublin Carol’ Gets Lost in Its Drink 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z

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. Review: Boris and Merzbow Make a Joint Album, With Options 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

And yet “Briggflatts” was the work of an unsentimental sixty-five-year-old, who was looking back on a life of incidents and accidents, wondering whether he could piece them all together. The Improbable Life and Prescient Poetry of Basil Bunting 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

So which is he, asks Mr Chollet: a woolly-headed liberal idealist or an unsentimental realist? Playing it long 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

Her bewitching blend of humility and disdain and her unsentimental yet compassionate eye are welcome tonics for frenzied times. Review | Joan Didion’s ‘Let Me Tell You What I Mean’ shows a writer ahead of her time 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z

The ensemble’s full-blooded and unsentimental approach complemented Mr. Goto’s expressive playing, with his sweet tone particularly lovely in the Adagio. Music Review: Ryu Goto and Orpheus in Spirited Mood at Carnegie Hall 2010-05-05T22:12:00Z

With his usual unsentimental eye, it examines life in a small Protestant village in Germany on the eve of World War I, while teasing out implications about the origins of fascism. 2009-12-28T16:02:00Z

What we said: Coming-of-age is usually a syrupy Hollywood genre, and it’s bracing to find it given such an unsentimental expression – and to see that it applies not only to adolescents, but to adults, too. Best films of 2018 so far 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

“I had taken pride in being absolutely unsentimental with ‘My Life as a Dog,’ and this was a very sentimental story,” Mr. Hallstrom said in a telephone interview. Film Has a Dog and Two Big Names, but No Big Screens 2010-09-24T15:12:00Z

But it’s a while before we get to that poignant material — which, by the way, Ms. Bocanegra presents with an admirably unsentimental lightness of touch. Theater Review: ‘Bodycast,’ at BAM, With a Lecturing Frances McDormand 2013-12-04T19:14:04Z

Her sense of humor is sardonic and unsentimental enough to appeal to men, which helps explain why Judd Apatow is an executive producer. Television Review: Lena Dunham?s ?Girls? Begins on HBO 2012-04-12T18:49:02Z

His grand, bleak drama of a woman's and a nation's defining ordeal is nonetheless exhilarating for the beauty of its prose and the depths of its unsentimental compassion. Laird Hunt's 'Neverhome' tears a woman and a nation in two 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

It's a gruelling, unsentimental film in a neo-realist vein, with finance from eight different countries, that follows a journey the length of Iraq made in 2003 a few weeks after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. Son of Babylon ? review 2011-02-13T00:05:28Z

There is a real “Andor” feel to this unsentimental depiction of the Empire-versus-Republic dynamic, where everyone has their own agendas and is advancing them by exploiting whatever systems are in place. ‘The Mandalorian’ Season 3, Episode 3: Amnesty Intergalactic 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z

She is low on cash and waits tables at a Chinese restaurant, but is humorous, unsentimental, utterly without self-pity, warm and yet vulnerable in a way that Eve isn’t. My streaming gem: why you should watch The Bigamist 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z

It was rightly celebrated for its non-judgmental portrayal of those who struggle to reach Italy, and its unsentimental depiction of those already there. Fyre festival to Aretha Franklin: 12 documentaries to catch in 2019 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z

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. Review: ‘7 Days in Entebbe’ Revisits a Notorious Hijacking 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z

He says flatteringly of Don that they embody Randian principles of being "completely self-interested" and "unsentimental about the people who depend on our hard work". Mad Men: season one, episode eight 2010-05-21T15:14:00Z

What we’ve been missing in overlooking “Superstore” is a series that intelligently presents one of the most optimistic, unsentimental visions of American life on television. NBC’s “Superstore” challenge: Can an Olympics preview win over viewers? 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

“The Diary of a Teenage Girl” is a strong piece of cinema, human but unsentimental, stylish but not self-conscious. 'Diary of a Teenage Girl' aims for a coming-of-age rarity 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

Unglamorous, unsentimental, and angry, but also humane, hypnotic, and intelligent, they seem to express something honest about the difficulties of life. Depth on the Dance Floor: The Music of DJ Sprinkles 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z

Sprinkled throughout the play are scenes of Jordan visiting his beloved grandmother, played with unsentimental grace by Barbara Barrie. Review: In ‘Significant Other,’ a Young Man Pines as His Pals Pair Off 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

This unsentimental position puts her at odds with her friends. To Make Someone Be or Not to Make Someone Be 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z

Their dancing — florid, continuous, unsentimental — grew larger as they explored the stage with light jumps and darting, tight spins. Silky Ballet Solos and Irresistible Tapping Toes Close Fall for Dance 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z

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. Review: Agnès Varda and JR Travel in the Present, Glancing at the Past 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

As recent recitals and this disc demonstrate, his prowess as an unsentimental, powerful interpreter is not waning. Music Critics? Picks for Chopin Bicentennial 2010-05-27T21:03:00Z

The show’s look is prestige – detailed and expensive – yet crucially unsentimental; the characters’ various humiliations make their opulent mansions and perfectly tailored suits seem far more isolating, even scornful, than aspirational. Filthy rich: why the awful antics of Succession are so addictive 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

The sound and arrangements of the new songs are small and immediate, skeletal and unsentimental, like a garage band in miniature. Caetano Veloso and His Band Perform at BAM 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

An unsentimental and unpatronising portrayal of an unhappy marriage, it struck a new note of sombre and sensitive realism. Stan Barstow obituary 2011-08-01T19:06:48Z

I was also moved by Schaap’s exceptional writing, which manages to be lyrical and whimsical, yet unsentimental. Stormy Fairy Tales 2020-12-12T05:00:00Z

Spanning centuries, he aims to scare by presenting his vampires with an unsentimental realism that makes them seem almost human, without soft-pedaling the brutality and violence. New Plays Like ?The Little One? Put Scary Onstage 2010-06-26T02:39:00Z

The subtle, unsentimental and never condescending discussions of class are a highpoint of this book. Modernity Britain: Opening the Box by David Kynaston – review 2013-06-15T07:01:01Z

One hearing was enough to gather the songs’ grown-up, unsentimental kindness of spirit. ArtsBeat: The Full-Album Set Is a Plus for Fans and Bands 2011-03-18T18:56:55Z

The result is an incredibly expressive yet unsentimental film that vividly captures the terrible process of a woman’s dehumanization. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z

But they’re notably unsentimental about saying goodbye to the spot where their grandfather, a door-to-door fabric salesman, transformed himself into an art dealer known in the trade as “Mr. Americana” and “the Prince of Prints.” F.D.R. and Andy Warhol All Came for Art. Now the Movers Have Arrived. 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

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. Review: ‘Mata Hari,’ a Different Kind of Queen of the Night 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

Carpignano, infinitely sympathetic to these young people and studiously unsentimental about their prospects, doesn’t put a thumb on the scales. ‘A Chiara’ Review: A Mobster’s Daughter Dares to Ask Questions 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z

Low key, affecting and insistently unsentimental, “Great Freedom” is a fictional story of resistance against this inhumane law, a story of salvation told one caress and sexual encounter at a time. ‘Great Freedom’ Review: Unbroken 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

It's no wonder that "A Summer at Grandpa's," a piercingly unsentimental portrait of the end of childhood, begins with a valedictory speech. Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien captures life's big, small moments 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z

Whenever I teach Levy’s essay, and I teach it frequently, my students often praise it for being “unsentimental.” A Memoir of Motherhood Lost 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

The wondrous costumes he designed for the animals use everyday objects, which lend a wry, unsentimental touch to the staging. Music Review: An Impish Creature That Won?t Be Fenced In 2011-06-23T22:21:40Z

But that means it's also refreshingly unsentimental: there are no Who Do You Think You Are? tears here. Burma, My Father and the Forgotten Army; The Lost Submarine of WWI: a Time Team Special – TV review 2013-07-08T06:00:08Z

Derry Girls is a tonic: frank, rude, bracingly unsentimental, and very, very funny. Derry Girl Saoirse-Monica Jackson: ‘Yes, we have a harsh sense of humour’ 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z

To make such a blistering, unsentimental and tough film that wasn't too bleak, out of such unlikely material is some achievement. The best film of 2012: readers' choice 2012-12-21T09:53:57Z

As we will soon learn, George, a Midwestern farmer in late middle age, is stony and unsentimental, the opposite of a weeper. ‘Lunar Eclipse’ Review: A Dark, Cloudy Night of the Soul 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z

But they give a sense of the fertility of his pristine, unsentimental language and the breadth of subject and form. Bertolt Brecht: Poet and Communist 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

But its speedy ending is in keeping with the show’s unsentimental spirit. ‘Derry Girls’: And Now Their Troubles Are Ended 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

A sensitive yet unsentimental portrayal of the unit's work. Great Ormond Street 2010-04-13T05:45:00Z

One leaves his epic endeavor with a rich, unsentimental and jaw-droppingly thorough portrait of a man emblematic of the ideals, ambitions and ambivalences of his America, and, strikingly, ours as well. James Fenimore Cooper — not just your grandpa’s favorite author 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

His taboo-breaking starts with grammar and diction and extends to an unsentimental depiction of behavioural and moral filth: he's as troubling to mainstream Arabic literary culture as Joyce once was to the west. The Iraqi Christ by Hassan Blasim – review 2013-03-20T09:01:01Z

There was a very pragmatic, very hard-headed, very unsentimental search for a bride, and the person they hit on, the sole candidate more or less, was this girl, Diana Spencer. Why the monarchy needed Diana: "She had to be a front-rank aristocrat, and she had to be a virgin" 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z

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. The Unsentimental, Darkly Elegant Stories of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

It’s “a mighty work of critical imagination, a loving, unsentimental portrait of a rare creative soul,” A. O. Scott wrote in The Times. What’s on TV Monday: ‘A Bigger Splash’ and ‘Every Brilliant Thing’ 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z

Particularly in black and white, it's an unsentimental, melancholy portrait of a decaying American heartland - its drab bars, roadside motels and paint-chipped farm houses. Payne back on the road with 'Nebraska' at Cannes 2013-05-23T17:02:09Z

The interesting thing about that scene -- played with unsentimental bluntness by Cryer -- was how it resonated. Why Charlie Sheen is still winning 2011-09-20T16:20:00Z

He also has an unsentimental, sometimes chilly sense of the ways that ordinary human amorality, ethical confusion and sexual longing can turn banal circumstances into the stuff of high comedy. Movie Review: Death and Desire in ‘Stranger by the Lake’ 2014-01-23T23:17:56Z

But the highlight is Julia Darling's hilariously unsentimental testimony to the women who worked in the shipyards: "Oh, it was primitive," they recall. Tyne – review 2013-07-03T11:45:01Z

The Grill is confident, theatrical, retro, unsentimental, sharp and New Yorky. The Grill Is Confident, Theatrical, Sharp and New Yorky 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z

Before she talked about cancer onstage, her comedy was unsentimental and formally experimental in a way that drew attention to its own artifice. Going Topless, Tig Notaro Takes Over Town Hall 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

Mr. Rock also related to the material, which is unsentimental about addiction, and in which every character is hiding big secrets they’re afraid will unravel their tenuously held together lives. Comedian, Rebranded 2011-03-03T17:41:44Z

His unsentimental landlady wonders why he bothers with them, since nowadays everything is done “with machines.” Movie Review: In Remote Corner of Portugal, a Photographer Finds More Than He Expects 2010-12-28T23:04:34Z

There is nary a misstep in the cleareyed, unsentimental portrait of a determined woman’s sacrifice for her children. Movie Listings for Sept. 2-8 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

"The Knick" is novel not just for its decidedly unsentimental view of the recent past. 'The Knick' is a new twist on the TV doctor show 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

All the same, he is unsentimental about the revolutionaries, some of whom turn to score-settling and extortion. I witness 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

A disaffected, thoroughly unsentimental loner who begins the film behind bars, Bowman falls hard and fast for his new vocation, which offers him an ideal balance between adrenaline and tranquillity. My streaming gem: why you should watch Pit Stop 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

When Hopper turns to Paris’s iconic sights, they are distant, unsentimental. Perspective | In Hopper’s early Paris paintings, reflections of today’s strange, desolate cities 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

I do think that you don't become cynical or 'unsentimental' unless there's a core of romanticism or sentiment that's had a few chips nicked into it. 'Sleepless in Seattle' writer Nora Ephron dies at 71 2012-06-27T01:41:54Z

She is a woman of fine taste and unsentimental spirit. Get over it! “Atomic Blonde” doesn’t need to be the female Bond 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z

A warped family dynamic leads to breakdown and tragedy in this unsentimental drama, as Dequenne's initial married bliss becomes an escalating battle of wills with her overbearing father-in-law. Star Trek Into Darkness, Mud, A Hijacking: this week's new films 2013-05-11T05:00:12Z

If any one idea forms the core of Cage’s unsentimental composition, which he wrote in 1949, it’s that, quite simply, “here we are.” Dance Review: Eszter Salamon Dances at MoMA 2014-01-22T18:56:55Z

But in this staging, Sowerby’s unsentimental drama, which the Mint first produced in 2001, remains a static and slightly musty affair. Theater Review: ?Rutherford & Son? at Mint Theater 2012-02-29T00:18:13Z

In the most jarring part of the show, he discussed the death of his mother in June in a remarkably unsentimental aside. Louis C.K. Doubles Down on the Value of Saying the Wrong Thing 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z

As for the actors: How can they be critiqued when Brecht wrote an unsentimental play with characters who aren’t meant to be empathized with, who don’t appeal to our hearts but our minds? ‘Mother Courage’ Review: Selling Her Wares Amid the Havoc of War 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z

Kevin R. Kelly, a likeable but unsentimental George Bailey, really does seem to fall apart and then find himself that fateful night in Martini's bar. 'It's A Wonderful Life' is a warm tradition 2010-12-14T06:00:00Z

When the photographer Heji Shin began taking unsentimental photographs of babies at birth, “I looked at them and I was like, This is literally ‘The Exorcist,’” she told T Magazine. When Motherhood Is a Horror Show 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

That film made a splash at the South by Southwest festival with its honesty and unsentimental sense of humor, and she has channeled that spirit into “Girls.” Television: Lena Dunham on ?Girls,? Her New HBO Comedy 2012-03-04T04:09:07Z

“Voroshilovgrad” is an unsentimental novel about human relationships in conditions of brutality in which there is not a single act of betrayal. The Bard of Eastern Ukraine, Where Things Are Falling Apart 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z

It’s a shockingly unsentimental moment to find in a Spielberg movie, one in which the young version of himself learns that pleasing the crowd might require turning an antisemite into the hero. When Jewish Artists Wrestle With Antisemitism 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

I'm expecting acerbic wit, unsentimental tenderness and a Black Country setting – what could be better? Best holiday reads 2013 2013-07-14T07:00:00Z

She professed not to miss singing at all, and was unsentimental when reviewing her career. Margaret Price Dies at 69, Soprano With Rich Voice 2011-02-01T06:51:50Z

“It’s a funny, even-tempered, unsentimental drama about people in particular transit,” Vincent Canby wrote in a review in The New York Times. Leon Ichaso, Whose Films Explored Latino Identity, Dies at 74 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z

At its knotty core, amazingly, is perhaps the finest and most unsentimental love story of the new decade. ‘Preparation for the Next Life’ by Atticus Lish 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z

Darling is 10 when we first meet her, and the voice Ms. Bulawayo has fashioned for her is utterly distinctive — by turns unsparing and lyrical, unsentimental and poetic, spiky and meditative. Books of The Times: ‘We Need New Names,’ by NoViolet Bulawayo 2013-05-15T21:11:04Z

Shown in the 2009 New York Film Festival, “To Die Like a Man” changes back and forth from an unsentimental examination of an insular nightclub world to a surreal phantasmagoria sprinkled with enigmatic symbols. | 'To Die Like a Man': The Anguish of Identity 2011-04-07T20:55:54Z

It is, like its Beckett source, tender, transparent, unsentimental and unsparing. The Best Classical Music of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

It's a very sensitive but unsentimental exploration of war, friendship and mortality. Guardian first book award 2012 goes to Kevin Powers 2012-11-29T19:59:01Z

Ms. Hedlund is a mellow artist, not given to rhapsodic flights or folksy flair, but her unsentimental approach was effective in “Valse Lente.” Music Review: Linda Hedlund at Scandinavia House - Review 2011-11-22T23:59:47Z

Anderson expresses a fan’s zeal and a collector’s greed for both canonical works and weird odds and ends, a love for old modernisms that is undogmatic and unsentimental. ‘The French Dispatch’ Review: Remember Magazines? 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

The moment can produce a big emotional payoff for audiences, but Mr. Mantello told Mr. Wolfe that a warm-and-fuzzy embrace did not seem of a piece with the stripped-down, unsentimental tone of the production. A Return to Acting That?s From the Heart 2011-05-25T15:10:50Z

The album strikes a balance with a few new songs, including Haggard's "The Only Man Wilder Than Me" and "Missing Ol' Johnny Cash," an honest but unsentimental ode to their mutual friend. Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard are country kin on 'Django and Jimmie' 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

Delusions aside, this is subtly uplifting, celestial and – most importantly – unsentimental. Six Songs of Me: John Burns of Juan and Only 2012-08-24T08:55:00Z

But unlike his pope, who mourns “the inexhaustible imperfection of the world,” Malkovich was unsentimental about his own life’s work. ‘The New Pope’ Looks a Lot Like John Malkovich 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

The child savers’ rhetoric of benevolence, backed up by unsentimental interventionism, set the stage for what followed. Criminal justice reform in the U.S. has a long history of repressive outcomes 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z

The lovely, unsentimental, heart-affirming ending of Quichotte, that “sane man,” is the aslant answer to the question of what is real and what is unreal. Salman Rushdie Updates ‘Don Quixote’ for the Digital Age 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z

Later in the episode, Don will make a convincing hard sell to Belle Jolie by being unsentimental about whether they like the pitch or not. ‘Mad Men’ and Its Love Affair With ’60s Pop Culture 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

The story is told through the eyes of 10-year-old Felix, and the mix of innocence and horror is unsentimental and often heartbreaking. Morris Gleitzman's 'friendship books' 2010-10-01T12:04:00Z

Anchored by its two excellent leads, the movie is sympathetic and, for the most part, unsentimental. ‘J.T. LeRoy’ Review: Unpeeling the Layers of an All-American Hoax 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

He shows Mark Haddon's tale of Christopher Boone – a boy who finds it easy to make sense of numbers but hard to react spontaneously to human beings – as both unsentimental and heartfelt. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; Philadelphia, Here I Come!; Playing the Games: Taking Part/After the Party – review 2012-08-04T23:06:09Z

“It was incredibly powerful and unsentimental. It really showed the musical in an entirely fresh light.” ‘Oklahoma!’ Is Reimagined at Bard College’s SummerScape Festival 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

Somehow, it captures the unsentimental, exuberant energy of the film, which is a treasury of ideas and provocations — a pocket full of possibilities. ‘Neptune Frost’ Review: Unanimous Gold Mine 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

Pragmatic, clear-eyed and unsentimental, Maeve is nevertheless possessed by the Dutch House. Review | 'The Dutch House,' by Ann Patchett book review 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

And yet he unflinchingly depicts the abuse suffered by enslaved black people in an unsentimental way. The Most Important Decade for Movies About Black Lives 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z

It seems to exist precisely for a short set in a small club, through stylish and unsentimental tunes that open with a bang, get straight to the fizz and close without ceremony. Review: The Rio 65 Trio Resurrects the Barreling Sounds of a Samba-Jazz Band 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z

She was unsentimental and yet her words went deep to a place that both hurt and changed me. The sin I couldn’t give up: What led me away from my strict Christian commune and back to the world 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z

It's entirely unsentimental, but it's there and you feel it. Lily Rabe waited 15 years to make her directorial debut: "It's not the arena for playing it safe" 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z

Mantel was unsentimental, forthright, unafraid of stating her sometimes fierce views. A Writer Who Stared Down Her Past, and the World’s, With Steely Resolve 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z

His films, nominated for more than 50 Oscars, typically were unsentimental and extremely well crafted, exploring intelligent and complicated themes. Sidney Lumet, director of classic films, dies: report 2011-04-09T15:44:15Z

Its companion piece was Dvořák's Cello Concerto, in a similarly unsentimental performance. Prom 8: BBCSO/B?lohl?vek ? review 2011-07-21T10:00:34Z

“Meek’s Cutoff” is as unsentimental and determined as Ms. Williams’s character, its absolutely believable heroine. | 'Meek?s Cutoff': Out on the Frontier, Bringing All That Baggage With Them 2011-04-07T22:33:01Z

It’s totally unpretentious, and totally unsentimental — there’s this inevitability about it, without it being too direction-oriented. Schubert’s Final Acceptance, Rueful as Always 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z

"Empire" is unsentimental in its portrayal of the brutality dispensed by both sides in the Indian wars, but it vividly re-creates the sights, smells and heartbreak of a long-ago era. What our writers love this week 2011-05-04T20:56:05Z

She was referring to George Balanchine, the choreographer who established New York City Ballet, molding it around his fleet, clear, unsentimental style. At City Ballet, Jamar Roberts and Dancers Find a Common Language 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z

She writes with unsentimental beauty about the labor her parents devoted to feeding their family. “Burn the Place” Is a Thrilling, Disquieting Memoir of Addiction and Coming of Age 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

Yes, all is well, until suddenly it isn't, and Roth – with unsentimental terseness – brings the long-prepared catastrophe down. Nemesis by Philip Roth 2010-10-02T09:03:00Z

To take the tone first: Richler's novel is, above all, bracingly and relentlessly unsentimental. Good book, great film 2011-04-01T10:08:52Z

The Florida Project is both radiant and unsentimental. Review: 'The Florida Project' Is a Magical Ode to Childhood 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

"We Are Not Ourselves" is a solid first novel, unsentimental, multilayered, evocative of a lost world. Small things add up in Matthew Thomas' 'We Are Not Ourselves' 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

Since no one, not even Cale, is more laid-back than Willie Nelson, on “Songbird” he doesn’t need to concede any ground to paying homage, and presents the touching yet unsentimental lyrics with spare, masterly clarity: Eric Clapton Gathers Stars for a J. J. Cale Tribute Album 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

The first movement — undulant, rippling and unsentimental — led to the playful yet melancholic Allegretto, which segued into a whirlwind account of the turbulent finale. Music Review: A Beethoven Warm-Up and a Liszt Workout 2010-11-21T22:53:00Z

This was no kitschy "crossover" event, but a nice balance of unsentimental nostalgia and unapologetic joy. Last night's Prom 2010-08-31T11:44:00Z

The sweet yet unsentimental scenes between them are some of the novel’s most powerful. Surviving, and Thriving, in Middle School Hell? Three New Novels Say It’s Possible 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

Ms. Strayed’s book, while unsentimental at its core, is the kind of story of resilience and self-invention that Ms. Winfrey has championed. Media Decoder Blog: The Return of Oprah's Book Club 2012-06-01T22:03:03Z

And here the show becomes something useful: a frank and unsentimental depiction of the fallout after suicide. Please Like Me raised the bar for Australian TV comedy. It also tore my heart out | Benjamin Law 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z

A tug of war of toxicity between two of Memphis’s finest rappers, “On Wat U On” is unsentimental and testy. Everything But the Girl’s Long-Awaited Return, and 12 More New Songs 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z

But in the midst of its clear-eyed and unsentimental exploration of the Jewish past in England, there is that recurring tension. Museum Review: Where the Jewish Star Meets the Union Jack 2010-03-16T22:18:00Z

By contrast, Fireflies follows siblings struggling to survive the second world war with unsentimental realism. The Hangover Part III, Something In The Air, Epic 3D: this week's new films 2013-05-25T05:00:09Z

Usually, though, Kitson's unsentimental honesty feels like a gift and is oddly inspiring. Daniel Kitson – review 2013-05-20T17:05:47Z

She does so with an unsentimental, appraiser’s eye, as if they were racehorses or hunting dogs, and deems them, with a perfect deadpan, “unwieldy.” It’s the Ultimate TV Prize: An Unscripted Queen Elizabeth 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z

It’s a lovely miniature, capturing its subject – a 13-year-old African American girl who happens to be a prodigious Little League baseballer – with unsentimental affection. Streaming: curate your own Spike Lee season 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z

Ms. Eason, the author of “Sex With Strangers,” seen off Broadway last summer, draws an affectionate but unsentimental portrait of this makeshift family as it undergoes a period of sudden stress. Review: ‘The Undeniable Sound of Right Now,’ a Lament for a Dying Rock Club 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

His style was wry, dry, sinewy and unsentimental, in the manner of the older bluesman Lowell Fulson, a friend and collaborator, but these are not fashionable virtues with the clientele of most blues clubs today. Phillip Walker obituary 2010-08-10T17:18:00Z

In 1983 she published “Marrying Up: An American Dream — and Reality,” an unsentimental look at the possibilities for women to improve their lot through a husband. Joanna T. Steichen, Managed Work by Edward Steichen, Dies at 77 2010-08-07T05:04:00Z

But then he says he's ruthlessly unsentimental about the past, about his own personal history. Woody Allen: 'My wife hasn't seen most of my films... and she thinks my clarinet playing is torture' 2011-03-13T00:05:42Z

Maybe one of my contributions is to act as much as I can with a certain distance, which allows space for not necessarily a laugh, but for something very unsentimental. Isabelle Huppert Doesn’t Watch Her Past Films, but She Will Discuss Them 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z

Irish republicanism is wreathed in myths, but in this clear-headed, unsentimental play, Bean suggests one of the few fixed truths is that the cause's adherents sell their soul for a lifetime of pain. The Big Fellah 2010-09-27T20:29:00Z

The director is probably best known for his starkly unsentimental 2008 film “Gomorrah,” which explores Neapolitan organized crime and which a Times critic described as being “a snapshot of hell.” A New Pinocchio Film Returns to the Tale’s Dark Origins 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

Her delineation of Vera’s frustration at the hands that no longer stay steady, the failing senses and the words vanishing from her grasp is both unsentimental and heartbreaking. | '4000 Miles': Young and Old, With No Particular Place to Go 2011-06-21T02:01:26Z

The portrait she took of him is hauntingly unsentimental. The Long, Vital History of Bystander Recordings 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

Allen is so unsentimental that he never watches his films once they are finished and derides ceremonies honoring his past films as "living in the past in the gloomiest way." Woody Allen wows critics, just don't call him soppy 2011-06-09T18:39:01Z

While Chris Jones, , describes them as "likable, disciplined and wisely unsentimental performances". Rocky makes strong debut on Broadway 2014-03-14T10:12:48Z

The Bach is, of course, gorgeous, but at the close of a challenging, complex afternoon it felt a little pat, an overly consolatory ending to an exciting, refreshingly unsentimental concert. Music Review: East Coast Chamber Orchestra at Tishman Auditorium 2012-02-07T23:35:30Z

But an unsentimental toughness lies just beneath Ms. Burke’s disarmingly scattered sunniness, itself a perfect foil for avant-garde self-seriousness. Review: ‘Imagining the Imaginary Invalid,’ About Absence and Art Making 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

Its unstinting vigor and empathetic but unsentimental nuance mark it as a distinctive and exceptional political film. “The Hate U Give,” Reviewed: An Empathetic, Nuanced Portrait of a Teen’s Political Awakening 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

Mr. Beck offered a thoughtful and suitably unsentimental rendition, the moments of harmonic acidity emerging with sharp edged clarity. Music Review: Finding Poetry in Schoenberg?s Hurdles 2010-08-29T23:13:00Z

There could hardly be a more poignant symbol for this film's unsentimental and yet fully engaged approach to the natural world: poisoning trees. Joe review – these woods are lovely, dark and deep 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

And a ballad called “Plainchant,” by Mr. Sperrazza, nicely captures the group’s dynamic of approachable rigor and unsentimental beauty. New Music: Kid Rock’s ‘Rebel Soul,’ and Alicia Keys’s ‘Girl on Fire’ 2012-11-26T23:07:45Z

What she does is traumatic but controlled, unsentimental but not uncaring. Music Review: St. Vincent Sings at Metropolitan Museum of Art - Review 2011-08-26T23:18:13Z

“Avilés approaches Eve’s inner life with frank and tactful sympathy, and depicts her circumstances with unsentimental clarity,” he added. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘The Mandalorian’ and ‘The Chambermaid’ 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z

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. Fiora Corradetti Contino, Opera Maestra, Dies at 91 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

Both the stage musical and the film filtered the 1950s through the prism of the 1970s, offering an often frank, funny and unsentimental view of sex, class and gender at an American high school. In This ‘Grease’ Prequel Series, Pink Is the Word 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z

This is a sharp, elegant, unsentimental picture in which Stewart plays a character who is often gloomy and downright unsympathetic. The Shop Around the Corner ? review 2010-12-09T22:02:00Z

Like her friends Elizabeth Bishop and Susan Sontag, Hardwick made her literary name in a man’s world that was tough and unsentimental, and she was initially suspicious of second-wave feminism. The Cutting Mind and Romantic Heart of Elizabeth Hardwick 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z

Something I appreciate about “Ladies,” though, is her unsentimental understanding that plenty of these olive branches will be ignored: “Yet another woman to whom I won’t get through,” she sighs. Fiona Apple Is Back and Unbound: Let’s Discuss 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

And there seemed to be something in Mr. Pagetti’s direct, unsentimental images that fit the bill. Franco Pagetti Returns to Fashion Photography 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

That simplistic history lesson had already been bested by Don Bluth’s “An American Tail,” the most unsentimental cartoon to ever star a singing mouse. The Best Thanksgiving Movies to Stream 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z

She recognizes the weak and the lonely, and in her staunch, unsentimental way, comforts them. What We're Reading: DeLillo, 'The Examined Life,' 'Olive Kitteridge' 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z

Her songs have a modern woman’s bent filled with unsentimental and complicated emotions. 14 Musical Acts To Watch in 2014 2013-11-13T10:45:09Z

Ms. Weymouth, mindful of her past yet unsentimental about it, seems unconcerned. Katharine Weymouth Takes Charge at the Washington Post 2013-08-02T20:48:16Z

Stephen Sondheim, a famously unsentimental writer, wrote these lyrics to be heard in the one place he knew they would ring most true. Why Hillary Clinton's next big stage should be at the Tony Awards 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z

“The Inspection,” which follows Ellis through his training, is therefore in some respects a love story, and a love letter — ambivalent, unsentimental, but utterly sincere — to the Corps. ‘The Inspection’ Review: Boot Camp, a Love Story 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z

But Eileen also is an unsentimental pragmatist, unimpressed by the males who flock to her. In Praise of Ruth McKenney 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

Gunsmoke and wagons aside, "Hell on Wheels" also casts an unsentimental eye on a key turning point in the forging of the United States, the ravaging of Native American land and the price of progress. Westerns saddle up for TV comeback 2011-11-03T12:33:02Z

These exercises were necessary, Nivola said, because the film is so unsentimental in how it depicts the relationship between Dickie and Tony. Michael Gandolfini and the Riddle of Tony Soprano 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

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. Robert Frank Revealed the Truth of Postwar America 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z

From its visual artistry to its unblinking, unsentimental depiction of connection and loss to its well-placed moments of levity, “Primal” feels like a natural evolution for Tartakovsky’s style and writing following “Samurai Jack.” Where Does ‘Unicorn: Warriors Eternal’ Rank in the Tartakovsky Canon? 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z

Ms. Gheorghiu, a familiar presence from movies like “The Death of Mr. Lazarescu,” maintains a corrosive, unsentimental grip on this film throughout. Movie Review: ‘Child’s Pose,’ a Family Drama Set in Romania 2014-02-18T22:25:20Z

Despite the difficulties that inhere in Holocaust memoir — we believe we know this history, and its subject matter defies language — “Mala’s Cat” is fresh, unsentimental and utterly unpredictable. A Memoir of a Young Girl’s Survival Amid Mounting Horrors 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z

Perhaps the most radical updating of “Manon Lescaut” would be one that, with an unsentimental and historically informed eye, returns it to the 18th century. ‘Manon Lescaut’ at the Met Opera: A Courtesan in Need of Context 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

And yet the unsentimental rendering of worm-eaten pages, and the absence of text on them, reminds us that books are just paper; or as Mr. Ruscha might say, it all ends up in the trash. Art Review: Ed Ruscha at Gagosian Gallery in Chelsea 2012-12-27T23:01:26Z

As a disability-rights activist, whose mother died giving birth to him, he knew he would need an unsentimental collaborator. Girl X: An actor? In a wheelchair? 2011-04-11T20:59:01Z

Reflecting on this “paradox of opportunity” for the outsider who becomes an insider, Brown-Nagin honors her subject by being resolutely direct and unsentimental — steely, if you will. ‘Civil Rights Queen,’ the Story of a Brave and Brilliant Trailblazer 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z

The result is the compact and unsentimental “Franca: Chaos & Creation,” which is scheduled to open in the United States later this year. Filmmaker son of longtime Vogue Italia editor focuses his lens on her provocative work, life 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

“Never. Mr. Leigh’s wry and magnanimous intelligence keeps ‘Secrets & Lies’ determinedly unsentimental, helped immeasurably by Cynthia’s fine, tough resilience and idiomatic verve.” What’s on TV Friday 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

In this engaging unsentimental tale of human decency and solidarity, the little orphan finds home and family with circus folks in a trailer park on the outskirts of Rome. New Directors/New Films Series Sets Lineup 2010-02-25T17:48:00Z

It attracted a record audience for a one-off TV and is a sombre, sober, unsentimental work about chance fate, the arbitrary horrors of war and people trapped in a bureaucratic machine. The Execution of Private Slovik 2012-05-26T23:05:31Z

Ogawa’s unsentimental play eschews bitterness in favor of kindness, humor and emotional complexity. What to Do With an Absent Father? Cast Him as a Character Onstage. 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z

It's a sweet but unsentimental tale of a son giving his father a sense of decency late in life. Cannes: Dern a leading man again in 'Nebraska' 2013-05-24T19:51:12Z

It's a fine and unsentimental piece, and an unblinking commentary on the dancer's lot. Dublin dance festival 2013: Stravinsky Evening – review 2013-05-18T23:05:46Z

He was the very image of the quintessential American hero — loyal, unsentimental, plain-spoken. Books of The Times: Talent Is What Made Him Dangerous 2011-02-14T23:29:12Z

Her mother, Anouk, is a celebrated stage actress with an unsentimental, unconventional approach to motherhood. A Teenager Plays With Fire and Family Secrets in ‘The Margot Affair’ 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

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. Review: ‘Cash Only’: Repaying a Crook, When Things Turn Gritty 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

"Politically incorrect, shockingly unsentimental and ... sardonically twisted," said the New York Times, no less. Billy the Mime – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-06T10:36:24Z

“It shouldn’t have taken this long,” the Los Angeles Times judged last year, calling it “a sophisticated knockout, a musical for those who like their razzle dazzle with a radical, unsentimental edge.” Two noted and nomadic musicals destined for D.C.?

It is a moving but unsentimental novel about human consciousness, about landscape, about horses and about the displacements involved in America’s movement westward. A Guide to Cormac McCarthy’s Books 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z

“Mr. Turner” is a mighty work of critical imagination, a loving, unsentimental portrait of a rare creative soul. ‘Mr. Turner,’ About the Life of the Artist J. M. W. Turner 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

The far-north location sets the temperature for the novel as a whole: it's a beautifully chilly, ruthlessly unsentimental creation. A life in writing: Vendela Vida 2011-07-08T21:55:12Z

Mungiu films it all with unsentimental harshness: his is as bleak a vision as they come. The best films of 2017 … that you didn't see 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z

The play, while starkly unsentimental about the reality of addiction, tells a story that is so much larger than the recovery of one woman learning to coexist with her shame. Denise Gough: From feral brilliance in 'People, Places & Things' to a Broadway debut in 'Angels in America' 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

He continued: “At its knotty core, amazingly, is perhaps the finest and most unsentimental love story of the new decade.” Atticus Lish Wins PEN/Faulkner Prize 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

Treading warily into territory that few dramas dare to explore, “Fly Away” is a defiantly unsentimental look at the complex codependency between a harried single mother and her severely autistic daughter. | 'Fly Away': A Difficult Family Relationship 2011-04-15T06:15:44Z

Wink’s powers are stunning when he describes in crisp, unsentimental prose the physical world framing August’s journey: the breath of cattle on a midwinter day, the taste of raw milk from a Mason jar. What Wins in the Heartland, Machismo or Intellect? 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z

Ms. Taylor’s “Schmaltz for Two” — a funny title for such a dramatic but unsentimental dance — woke up the space. Ballet Finds Itself on Higher Ground, Overlooking Lincoln Center 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z

Mr. Guido, who gives a sympathetic, unsentimental portrayal of the uncompromising Castle, is deaf. Review: Reanimating an Autistic Artist With ‘Soot and Spit’ 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

But unexpected and unsentimental change at the top has become something of a pattern at Kering. Major Gucci Shake-Up as Designer Steps Down 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z

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. David Budbill, a Poet of Small-Town Vermont, Dies at 76 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

But if Mr. Radcliffe is the chief draw to the production, nominated for a Tony Award as best revival of a play, these women are its unsentimental heart. Broadway’s ‘Aunties’ Enjoy Their Downtime 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

Unruly, unrelenting and unsentimental, Mr. McKay’s movies sometimes seem not written at all, but shot in real time over 90 minutes of hit-or-miss improvisation. Film: Adam McKay Directs Cops Under Arrested Adolescence 2010-08-01T01:53:00Z

As with much of his Mahler, his interpretation was hard-edged and fiercely unsentimental. RLPO/Petrenko – review 2013-03-24T17:59:19Z

By contrast, my mother never cried, never expressed any doubt, and never asked us how we felt about being there when she ended her life: She maintained a stoic, unsentimental attitude right to the end. What assisted suicide really looks like 2011-05-25T15:01:00Z

In the event, however, it was a spare, careful, unsentimental untangling of the man's life that was illuminating, moving and altogether rather wonderful. TV review: Who Do You Think You Are?; Jet! When Britain Ruled the Skies; John Barrowman's Dallas 2012-08-29T22:10:01Z

His sympathy for these leaders is not that surprising, given his descriptions of them as practitioners of the same sort of unsentimental power politics he is famous for himself. Books of The Times: An Insider Views China, Past and Future 2011-05-09T19:59:38Z

If you like unsentimental cop shows, ensemble dramas, realism or overlooked gems, this is a show for you. What You Should Watch This Weekend: ‘All in With Cam Newton,’ ‘Jurassic Park’ and ‘Southland’ 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

For all its cloying sweetness, “La Promenade” is quite unsentimental about the custom of showing off your well-dressed children in public. Art Review: Renoir?s Full-Length Paintings at the Frick Collection 2012-02-09T13:00:00Z

Well-read, sensitive, and highly intelligent rather than intellectual, he was unsentimental in dealing with people. The Earl of Harewood 2011-07-11T18:26:50Z

On the subject of why English football doesn't produce outright geniuses, he is surprisingly unsentimental about Paul Gascoigne, one of English football's great lost talents and his fellow breakout star of Italia 90. World Cup 2014: why Gary Lineker is a man of two halves 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

Stark and minimalist — except for a fantastical bureau drawer — Debra Booth’s set hits the right notes of unsentimental modernity while allowing the play to pursue space-time-flouting twists. Review | ‘Sooner/Later’ weaves rom-com premise into bittersweet family portrait 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

Will le Fleming's gloriously unsentimental debut follows Holly's attempts to right her life as misfortune flexes its muscles around her. Central Reservation by Will le Fleming – review 2013-06-21T17:39:00Z

This sets the mood for a harsh, unsentimental narrative of redemption and putting one's life in order as a prelude to death. Biutiful 2011-01-30T00:05:53Z

As Israeli settlements expand deeper into the West Bank and East Jerusalem, a Palestinian state looks even more like a bitter deception, and an unsentimental British line with the Netanyahu-Lieberman regime seems essential. Advice for a new government 2010-05-07T23:07:00Z

She has grown up to be a practical, independent Madrileña, warmhearted but unsentimental. ‘Parallel Mothers’ Review: Almodóvar’s Brutal, Beautiful World 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z

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. Herschell Gordon Lewis, a Pioneer of Gore Cinema, Dies at 90 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z

This is a stark, unsentimental vision of the play that argues, as Brecht did, that no individual is indispensable: Coriolanus ends up shot full of lead and conspicuously unmourned. Coriolan/us – review 2012-08-10T17:08:20Z

Casting presents all-too-real issues, and the black student’s unsentimental view is one we don’t hear often, but the show is burdened by hackneyed writing and uneven performances. FringeNYC, a Grab Bag That Calls for Intuition, Not to Mention Dumb Luck 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

Ms. Kakutani called the stories in “The Other Language” “magical” and “fleet-footed,” saying they showed off Ms. Marciano’s “sympathetic, but wryly unsentimental knowledge” of her characters. Lorrie Moore Among Finalists for Story Prize 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

Aiken’s unsentimental accounting begins to acquire a glow of magic. The Practical Magic of Joan Aiken, the Greatest Children’s Writer You’ve Likely Never Read 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

She was an exceptional person – a versatile professional with a direct, unsentimental manner. We were married. But there was no sexual attraction 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z

The best moments of the film involve Diana’s unsentimental alliance with Chin, the orphan who offers her more protection than she’s able to afford him. ‘Dark Glasses’ Review: She Wears Her Shades at Night 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z

We saw the middle Baratheon brother prepared to fight to the death and capable of making unsentimental decisions in time of war. Game of Thrones: season two, episode nine – Blackwater 2012-05-28T18:08:00Z

“A sensuous approach is exactly what the unsentimental Mr. Gielen is unprepared to give,” he added. His Conducting Wasn’t Always Pleasant. But It Was the Truth. 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

They revere Williams’s artistry as a writer of restrained, unsentimental prose that carries great emotional weight. Classic ‘Stoner’? Not so fast. 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

In a brief and perceptive introduction, Sadie Stein describes Comyns’s style as “unsentimental magical realism” that is “uncanny yet matter-of-fact, spooky yet gentle.” Evil Stepmother, Reimagined 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

Harron says Atwood’s “very incisive, clear-eyed, unsentimental look at how society works” gives readers and viewers some sense of how stuck these women felt. ‘Alias Grace’ is the second Margaret Atwood TV series, with more on the way. Why now? 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z

The fact that Sam was so unsentimental about these songs, that I saw as sort of children, which is inevitable for a songwriter, I thought that was really great, and I really appreciated that. "I went full Christmas": Rhett Miller on writing holiday songs for now and for the ages 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z

This unsentimental approach is more controversial than it might seem. You can admit you’ve moved on: It’s not a betrayal to outgrow your one-time favorite band 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

His films, nominated in a variety of categories for more than 50 Oscars, typically were unsentimental and well-crafted, exploring intelligent and complicated themes. Prolific American film director Sidney Lumet dies 2011-04-10T00:09:53Z

The group’s glowing sound, combined with brisk, unsentimental tempos, create readings of unusual freshness and discovery. My Favorite String Quartet 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z

Only come final bows, Warchus didn't feel he'd heard the subtlety of emotion that would be necessary to capture the essence of Dahl's knotted and unsentimental children's book. Tim Minchin: the man who waltzed Matilda 2013-03-31T00:06:26Z

The author is proud of his Gypsy heritage, and he is an unsentimental but affectionate observer of his people’s ways. Books of The Times: ?Gypsy Boy,? a Memoir by Mikey Walsh 2012-02-16T15:29:02Z

If her artist-lovers wanted to go she would accompany them, but she didn’t hanker for a bellini at 6pm, like everybody else – she was far too unconventional, unsentimental and progressive for that. The day I shared a gondola with Peggy Guggenheim 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z

And yet some passages are breathtaking, particularly the precise, unsentimental details of a goat's dismemberment and an account of a violent attack – Shaw knows how to balance beauty and terror. The Man Who Rained by Ali Shaw ? review 2012-02-10T22:55:03Z

Amid the guitar strumming, they stay unsentimental; there’s far more banter than romance. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-08-29T21:53:00Z

The unsentimental focus is evident from the clarity of the first movement argument, and the outbursts of the Rondo-Burleske are terrifyingly direct. Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra/Roger Norrington: Mahler, Symphony No 9 2010-06-12T23:07:00Z

The result is her most nuanced and unsentimental novel to date. Books of The Times: ?The Lake Shore Limited,? Sue Miller?s Latest Novel 2010-04-22T22:31:00Z

To portray a family in good emotional shape in a way that is unsentimental and holds the attention takes real skill and judgment. Binny for Short by Hilary McKay – review 2013-03-01T17:16:01Z

Dan is analytical and unsentimental, “a distance man,” as his clandestine supervisor calls him, but also prone to loneliness and, on occasion, to self-destructive acts. ‘High Dive’ review: A bomb is ticking under the prime minister 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

McCullin emerges as an unsentimental, plain-speaking, thoughtful man, disgusted at the inhumanity of war – and yet candid about how he is also personally and professionally drawn to its drama. McCullin – review 2012-12-28T21:40:03Z

It’s a hard-core work, spiritual yet unsentimental, and it gets to the heart of Bilbao’s art. | Diamond in the Rough 2013-05-08T17:01:53Z

His technique is impeccable in both works, with a sweet-toned and unsentimental approach to the Mendelssohn. Classical Playlist: Bach, Biber, Gottschalk and More 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z

Longer, sweeter melodies were no less well served, Mr. Pollini’s unsentimental approach warding off triviality. Music Review: Maurizio Pollini Honors Chopin Landmark at Carnegie 2010-04-19T21:51:00Z

Given the soloist’s concentrated, unsentimental account, especially in the sustained lyricism of the central Romanze, the applause after each of the three movements was well deserved. At the Hollywood Bowl, breathing life into the most famous symphony ever written 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z

And in these Aldeburgh readings he was masterful, with an incisive brilliance and relentless focus that acknowledged how the music marries rigorous complexity with childlike innocence, unsentimental clinicism with romantic charm. Review: A Pianist Pays Homage to Birdsong 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z

Thúy's fictionalised memoir adopts a similarly unsentimental attitude to a life of extremes. Ru by Kim Thúy, translated by Sheila Fischman - review 2012-06-12T11:30:01Z

As much as she understood the power of words, Malcolm was resolutely unsentimental about them. Janet Malcolm, a Writer Who Emphasized the Messiness of Life With Slyness and Precision 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z

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. Review: ‘Aferim!’ Traverses an Unforgiving Romania in the 1800s 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

Ryan Gosling as the charismatic, lawless Luke in The Place Beyond the Pines: ‘a moving, unsentimental performance’. The Place Beyond the Pines – review 2013-04-13T23:07:32Z

She was a strong-willed, unsentimental professor emeritus of psychology at Cornell. Suicide tourists flock to Switzerland 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z

It’s the kind of unsentimental yet passionate tribute a musical legend and family cornerstone would surely appreciate. Life and death shape North Mississippi Allstars' latest offering 2011-01-31T21:52:15Z

And Grammer is so completely Frasier — a deceptively unsentimental character in a basically sentimental show — that the new edition, for all its innovations, wraps itself comfortably around him. Review: The new 'Frasier' is classic and contemporary. And it's quite good 2023-10-09T04:00:00Z

One critic described his performance as "unsentimental, dangerous and immensely powerful" and it was reported that his fellow cast members clapped him back to the dressing room. Obituary: Sir Michael Gambon, star of The Singing Detective and Harry Potter 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z

Though it lasted only a single season, its 13 episodes describe a satisfying emotional yet unsentimental arc that does not oversell any lessons that might have been learned along the way. Hurricane Hilary: 13 movies, TV shows and more to hunker down with 2023-08-20T04:00:00Z

“As unsentimental and boring as a coffee table is, there’s an acknowledgment that someone loved this item in their home and it is now in mine. I’m giving it a second life,” she added. How to foster connection through hand-me-down furniture 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z

McCarthy explored the dark side of human nature in a dozen novels that were lean and poetic, poignant yet unsentimental. This week’s passages 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z

The Hollywood Reporter summarized the "striking" film as "a quiet stunner" while The Guardian newspaper gave it four out of five stars, calling it "an interestingly unsentimental film, without the coming-of-age cliches." 'How to Have Sex' wins Cannes' 'Certain Regard' competition 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z

Won’t it always be “too soon”? Because the queens themselves are so clearly over what happened to them, and so unsentimental, they give us permission to take it all lightly too. Review: Musical 'Six,' about Henry VIII's wives, is unapologetically revisionist. That's why it's successful 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z

Their decision in the end was as swift and unsentimental as the two-paragraph statement the network sent in announcing his dismissal: “We thank him for his service.” On Eve of Trial, Discovery of Carlson Texts Set Off Crisis Atop Fox 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

The last chapters lead up to an impeccably calibrated, unsentimental ending that’s equal parts bitter and sweet. The Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf: Fiction 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z

Spurred by a coronavirus crisis and economic pressure at home, he reemerged on the world stage in November with a message of unsentimental cooperation. After the balloon, China works on fixing U.S. ties while still looking tough 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z

They are individual and odd, enfolded in a natural world Harding depicts with the same unsentimental reverence he employed in his Pulitzer Prize-winning debut, “Tinkers.” Review | In ‘This Other Eden,’ an island refuge is destroyed by good intentions 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z

It’s an emotional and romantic roller coaster that the guys manage to keep under wraps — through evasion and deception — until the inevitable occurs and the largely unsentimental script shifts into melodrama. Review: Rugby romance 'In From the Side' struggles with deeper issues 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z

Ditlevsen also wrote candidly about her death wish, with unsentimental emotional force. Overlooked No More: Tove Ditlevsen, Danish Writer of Confessional Autofiction 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z

Indeed, the most Swedish thing about her books is her tone, which she captures when she describes the nationality as “quite blunt, clear-eyed, and unsentimental.” Review | Chocolate, gin and cats: An octogenarian on growing old gracefully 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z

Unlike many of his younger teammates, Jackson is independent, unsentimental and self-aware enough to appreciate where football fits into his world. Ex-Navy SEAL makes big impression on Buffalo football team 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z

Clear-eyed and unsentimental, with a nod to women’s political empowerment, Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi showed the skills that make her a historic figure. Column: 'There’s this very toxic energy circulating.' Alexandra Pelosi on her mom, dad and a new documentary 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z

Chopra writes in a prose style that is unflinching and unsentimental. Review | The way we tell #MeToo stories is changing 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z

But for those with an open mind, the production revealed just how unsentimental about the American myth this chestnut can be. Best theater of 2022: So many L.A. bright spots in a challenging year 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z

But others criticized his unsentimental approach to decisions, saying it could come across as overly clinical. Kareem Daniel and the rise and fall of the Disney executive who helped define the Bob Chapek era 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

“I remember saying goodbye to my grandfather in a very unsentimental way. I didn’t contemplate his mortality at all. I remember waving and saying ‘Goodbye, grandpa,’ and then I never saw him again.” For Anthony Hopkins, a grandfather role with personal echoes 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z

Lubricated by an unsentimental disregard for historic rivalries, this arrangement should at long last silence the increasingly ludicrous pretense that college football’s premier programs are anything other than entertainment behemoths. Opinion | Sometimes, as with the college football conference upheavals, worse is better 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z

And, in the center with an eternal flame, would be a simple stone marker as spare and unsentimental as Ivana’s: Opinion | The latest Trump grift? Burying Ivana at their golf club. 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z

The worry is that at some point, perhaps soon, this noble impulse will collide with the unsentimental imperatives of running a business. The Economy Putin Didn’t Actually Ruin 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z

And despite his reputation for being unsentimental, Adams can be the most sentimental of photographers, a license he allows himself so sparingly that when he does, the effects are heartbreaking. Review | Robert Adams looked past despair and found the truth of America 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z

It’s a lovely, unsentimental scene beneath a soft, gray autumn light, with Hopkins sitting on a park bench. For Anthony Hopkins, a grandfather role with personal echoes 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z

Brown’s bestselling “The Diana Chronicles” was an empathetic but unsentimental biography that subjected the Firm to a forensic examination of its limitations. Review: Tina Brown's prescription for the royals: Never mind Meghan, don't ever change 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z

Florence and Josephine, strong-minded women who did not always see eye-to-eye, found common ground in their unsentimental appraisal of Alaska as a malign influence, a land of grandiose and thwarted dreams. How a family secret (or two) led a Seattle attorney to his grandfather’s Alaskan ghost town 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

Party stalwart Henry Clay longed for the nomination, but unsentimental power brokers realized that his enemies were too numerous and chose William Henry Harrison instead. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z

And it would be a mistake not to cast a cold, unsentimental eye at the Ukraine crisis before it damages the world irreparably. Opinion | Watching Russia’s military failures is exhilarating. But a cornered Putin is dangerous. 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

Rather, our unsentimental assessment of relations between gentile Blacks and white Jews provides some context to think through today's challenges, like the battle to re-secure voting rights. How the Black-Jewish alliance changed America — and today's struggle for voting rights 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z

A rustling of unexpected sadness occasionally crept into the paintings after that initial leaping rush of joy — an unsentimental nostalgia for a bygone era or some long lost love. Wayne Thiebaud, Playful Painter of the Everyday, Dies at 101 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z

For all the backslapping and Irish charm, he is quite unsentimental. Opinion | Biden’s foreign policy: The tough guy vs. the pussycat 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z

A lot could happen before then and it may never amount to more than talk, but the party is famously unsentimental about ditching leaders that start to be seen as a liability at the polls. North Shropshire by-election: Has Boris Johnson lost his winning touch? 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

All of Degas’s ironic, morose and unsentimental intelligence is on display in these sentences. Think Degas was a misogynist? Take another look.

In this performance she revealed the lyric, melancholic, ever-so-Russian saxophone solo in the first movement of the Variations to be unsentimental, ever-so-not-Russian and sonically clear as spring water. Review: With Susanna Mälkki and Leila Josefowicz at the helm, John Adams' Violin Concerto soars 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z

A cutthroat, unsentimental style in which every last ounce of a roster is optimized like an orange going through an industrial juicer? Atlanta flirts with no-hitter in World Series Game 3 win over Astros 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

“The Strategy of Denial” presents a particularly unsentimental version of what a lot of people bidding to shape a post-9/11-era foreign policy believe — and not just younger Republicans like Colby. Opinion | What Comes After the 9/11 Era? 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z

Mr. Husband was unsentimental about the Lee statue coming down, more interested in real change that would improve the lives of Black people. Virginia Removes Robert E. Lee Statue From State Capital 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z

These futures are revealed as Garrett, a famously unsentimental employee who was pessimistic about keeping in touch with coworkers, delivers closing remarks that echo the feelings of the “Superstore” cast and crew. How the emotional ‘Superstore’ series finale came to be 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

General Ford joins the team because of his reputation for unsentimental ferocity, born of his mass murder of millions of human colonists who once rebelled against their Alliance. Review: More Bruce Willis isn't necessarily better in low-energy sci-fi actioner 'Cosmic Sin' 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

For an actor so intense, so rigorously unsentimental, this is his Lear. Review: In ‘The Father,’ the disorientation of dementia 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

It’s happy and sad; soaring and earthily unsentimental. Review | Frances McDormand wows (again) in the earthbound yet expansive ‘Nomadland’ 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

The Japanese author's novella is evocative but breezy, conversational and unsentimental. BBC presenters share their lockdown entertainment tips 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z

We didn’t go in for a lot of explanation, which is one reason the film’s so unsentimental.” Ronald Harwood, Oscar-winning screenwriter of ‘The Pianist,’ dies at 85 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z

A very different musical experience could be found in “The Disciple,” a contemplative, moving and bracingly unsentimental drama from the gifted Indian director Chaitanya Tamhane. The ups and downs of having the Toronto Film Festival at your fingertips 2020-09-20T04:00:00Z

An extended standing ovation brings a tear to my unsentimental eye. Diary of a socially distanced director: how I staged a play in Tokyo – from London 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z

Yet, her first blogs, delving frankly into sex, family and womanhood, were devoured by fans hungry for an unsentimental and new female voice that didn’t condescend. Mieko Kawakami: 'Women are no longer content to shut up' 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z

Well-liked by his workforce, Albence was known for his fierce defense of the agency and his unsentimental views on immigration enforcement. Matthew Albence, Trump’s top ICE official, announces retirement 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z

That personal connection is ever-present in Sellers’ sturdy, unsentimental portrayal of a country mouse forced to transform, fully aware of what he’s losing and gaining in the process. Review: 'Mr. Topaze,' Peter Sellers' directing debut, emerges from the star's vault 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z

The spirit of the Silk Road, I could now see, was all movement, mercantile and unsentimental. In Uzbekistan, Coming to Terms With the Country’s Dazzling History 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z

New York’s reputation for being tough and unsentimental is well-earned; connections between people are tenuous, provisional. I Left My Troubled City Behind. Now I Feel Guilty. 2020-05-16T04:00:00Z

Toren’s grandson, Ben, said his grandfather pursued the art collection in retirement with the same “unsentimental” focus and tenacity as he did in his law career. Lives Lost: Holocaust survivor reclaimed Nazi-looted artwork 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z

Self-becoming is an unsentimental business, from which you emerge bruised but fortified, ready to relate to the renewing terrors of the world with a kind of leathery compassion: character. Slow days, quiet healing: what trauma taught me about surviving a pandemic | Geoffrey Mak 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z

Stewart Jackson, a former Conservative lawmaker, wrote in the Daily Telegraph on Tuesday that Raab may be an “anti-Boris,” but he’s also “clever, self-assured and even tempered yet also cautious, managerial, unsentimental and taciturn.” Who is Dominic Raab, the man standing in for Boris Johnson? 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z

He focused an unsentimental eye on everything he wrote, including his own mortality in the wake of his brushes with death from cancer. John Prine, revered singer-songwriter, dies of COVID-19 complications at 73 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z

It is both unsentimental and heart-melting, and I read it every year. Elizabeth Gilbert: ‘Don’t we all wish we’d written Wolf Hall?’ 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z

Director Kitty Green wanted her film, about a low-level employee’s day at a film company run by a sexual oppressor, to be as realistic and unsentimental as possible. Tamar-kali mixes Afropunk, Gullah sounds and classical music in her film scores 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z

Mr. Bloomberg is offering audiences an unsentimental bargain, in some ways, pitched less at the heart than the gut. Billions of Targets on His Back, Bloomberg Joins the Debate Fray 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

Yet Nemens makes us care about even the worst of them, a neat trick of unsentimental empathy and a testament to the power of careful, almost loving, observation. Review: Chasing homers, ballplayers and dreams 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z

Written in the 1980s, this is a gorgeous yet austere, unsentimental book, which offers a prescient warning about human complacency towards Earth’s remaining wilderness. From polar explorers to frozen dystopias: the best books about ice 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z

He seemed unsentimental about the prospect that a way of watching TV was on the wane. Netflix Was Only the Start: Disney Streaming Service Shakes an Industry 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z

This, in Morgan’s unsentimental vision, is the real point of the monarchy, if it can be said to have one anymore. How the Man Behind ‘The Crown’ Made the Monarchy Relevant Again 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

In dividing marital property, judges don’t consider where your TV wants to live, and they’ve been similarly unsentimental about what might be in the best interests of “companion animals.” Opinion | After a Divorce, Who Gets the Dog? 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

“The Liberation of Paris” is a slender book: terse, authoritative, unsentimental. Review | The Allies who liberated Paris, and the Nazi who saved it 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

It was indicative of Mr. Obama’s unsentimental approach that his personal favorite, Mr. Kaine, finished third. Obama and Biden’s Relationship Looks Rosy. It Wasn’t Always That Simple. 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z

Females are unsentimental enough to devour their own freshly hatched offspring. Here There Be Dragons. But Can They Survive an Invasion of Tourists? 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z

“Our job is to enforce the law,” said Albence, who is popular at the White House and within his agency for his tough-cop demeanor and uncomplicated, unsentimental view of the job. ICE Air: Shackled deportees, air freshener and cheers. America’s one-way trip out. 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z

Both Johnson and Trump will talk up the possibilities of a US-UK free trade agreement post-Brexit, but the realities of the negotiations are likely to be unsentimental at best. How will the US-UK relationship evolve with Boris Johnson in No 10? 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z

Ginzburg became famous for her ability to conjure up a mixed emotional atmosphere, poignant yet unsentimental. Rediscovering Natalia Ginzburg 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z

Told from an infantryman’s necessarily narrow perspective, this account of his war – its title lifted from Kipling – is starkly unsentimental. Top 10 books about Burma 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z

The magazine article, Janny Scott writes, “was humorous, elegiac, and tinged with melancholy,” words that also are exactly right for “The Beneficiary,” her engrossing, lovely but wholly unsentimental portrait of her family and her father. Review | The rise and fall of a small American fortune 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z

The Moscow intelligentsia were enraptured by Osipov’s unsentimental yet tender account. A Village Doctor’s Literary Calling 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z

When Bolton took over, he quickly demonstrated an unsentimental style: he told Trump that he could not work with McMaster’s former aide Keith Kellogg, a seventy-three-year-old veteran who had won a Silver Star in Vietnam. John Bolton on the Warpath 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

Anchored by its two excellent leads, the movie is sympathetic and, for the most part, unsentimental.” Indie Focus: Getting ready with Summer Movie Sneaks

Mr. Ashlock is unsentimental about the cab companies of the past. He Has Driven for Uber Since 2012. He Makes About $40,000 a Year. 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

The Daily Mail's Jan Moir dubbed it "absolutely the perfect ending", adding that Waller-Bridge "gave us a finale that was redemptive, unsentimental and beautiful". Fleabag finale praised as 'perfect' by critics 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z

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. The Flashy Pleasures of “Billions” 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

Unlike the cinematic version of the sport, actual boxing is unsentimental and unsparing. Mikey Garcia faces harsh truth in welterweight division 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z

It’s easy to admire Franklin’s unsentimental commitment to her work and her refusal to cater to bigots’ expectations, but we don’t learn much else about her. Review: She helped discover DNA. History may have forgotten her, but ‘Photograph 51’ does not 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

It’s a poignant throwaway line that nonetheless speaks to Petzold’s own doomy romanticism, even if his tightly constructed, rigorously unsentimental movies don’t melt so much as they slowly, brilliantly incandesce. Review: Christian Petzold’s thriller ‘Transit’ is hauntingly suspended between past and present 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

Bernstine’s Mary is proud, amusing, self-aware, and unsentimental—“droll,” the script says—with authoritative hand gestures and a Jamaican accent. Jackie Sibblies Drury on the Work of Caregiving and Taking 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z

“To win against anybody is satisfying,” Quick said in his typical unsentimental fashion. Kings and Blackhawks turn back the clock in 6-3 L.A. victory 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z

Pam Tanowitz has been making dances for more than two decades, but only lately has her intelligent, unsentimental style found a wider audience. Spring Dance Preview 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

To begin to repair our country’s flaws, we have to be clear-eyed about them and unsentimental in our patriotism, and that is actually a hopeful task. Revisiting the American Nazi Supporters of “A Night at the Garden” 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z

Prine’s skilled use of humor, inventive turns of phrase and unsentimental poignancy while examining the human condition have earned him praise over the years as a modern-day musical Mark Twain. Americana artists salute John Prine at annual pre-Grammy Awards gathering at the Troubadour 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z

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. Celebrate Star Trek: Discovery’s return with the Animated Series 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z

"The American people are very unsentimental in their judgments," he says. What makes a one-term president? 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z

The show’s treatment of Josh’s sexual adventures, like its treatment of mental illness, is idiosyncratic and unsentimental, romantic without dipping into formula. The Home-Cooked Pleasures of “Please Like Me” 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

She “grows,” she comes of age, but the journey will strike most readers as a distinctly unsentimental education. The 9/11 Novel That Finally Understands the Fulfillments of Faith 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z

Analysts see several fast, brutally unsentimental changes needed to restore the company’s credibility with Wall Street and to stanch the decline in the stock price, which was halved in Flannery’s 14 months as CEO. Larry Culp’s long to-do list to fix GE 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z

Smarsh is a product of matriarchy, descended from a line of nomadic women who wield unsentimental power earned through struggle and grit. Review | One woman’s story of poverty and hard work in America’s fly-over country 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

By savviness, he meant the quality of being knowing, ironic, perceptive, shrewd and unsentimental. How a disastrous change in perspective disempowered the left and let the right rise | Jeff Sparrow 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z

Hurricanes are an unsentimental force, the ultimate man versus nature narrative. 'This one feels different': Hurricane Florence can start a new conversation 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z

Far from exaggerating our depth of feeling for others, the modesty and simplicity of such ceremonies has an unsentimental honesty. It’s right to lower the flag for John McCain. Rituals of grief help us all | Julian Baggini 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z

Hywood was unsentimental about the end of the Fairfax name and said the important thing was that the mastheads remain open and the business survives. Fairfax Nine takeover: Australia’s oldest media empire ends with $4bn merger 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

The unsentimental gift shop stocks cheeky T-shirts, mugs, needlepoint and barware, as well as artistically crafted soaps and jewelry. Hop on the Train to Long Beach for a Summer Escape From New York City 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

After her debut, a Time magazine critic described her work as having “the daintiness of miniatures, the vivid reds and yellows of Mexican tradition and the playfully bloody fancy of an unsentimental child.” Frida Kahlo and the birth of Fridolatry 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

New York, a city unsentimental about its past, endlessly, relentlessly revises itself. A story of survival: New York’s last remaining independent bookshops 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z

Sensing this, she parted from me with words spoken with unsentimental fellow feeling: "Get some rest." My disastrous tea with Glenda Jackson 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

But what impresses me most about the series is how completely unsentimental Neuvel is about the status quo. Today is World Book Day — here’s what we’re reading 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z

But Zhao's restrained, unsentimental style is the opposite of preachy, which makes it all too easy to underappreciate the sublimity of her achievement. Chloé Zhao's cowboy drama 'The Rider' is a moving, lyrical tale of loss and recovery 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z

But the film doesn’t convey the privation that haunts Walls’ book, and turns an unsentimental account of growing up poor into a maudlin movie about father-daughter relationships. Where all the films about poor Americans? | Stephen Pimpare 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z

Considering he grew up in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, weathered a U.S.-led invasion, endured the country’s rampant corruption and steeled himself as a security specialist for foreign VIPs, it’s easy for him to be unsentimental. Wars’ other veterans rebuild in Washington state 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

He buys and sells artifacts for a living, after all, and is unsentimental, even when he goes to help his sister clean out his childhood home. Review: ‘Nostalgia’ is an unrushed poem with a great cast 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z

But that is the unsentimental world of planned obsolescence. What I Learned from Watching My iPad’s Slow Death 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z

I think because it's a human story and it represents a community and it deals with some issues of family and human relations, in a very direct, unsentimental and, sometimes, joyous way. Willem Dafoe stayed ‘fluid’ for Oscar-nominated ‘Florida Project’ role 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z

The actor is a captivating performer — able to convey the deeply human in unsentimental ways. A Mexican actor became a worker making less than $5 a day for art, theater and understanding poverty – LA Times 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z

"I wonder if that's why Ridley related to her, because Ridley is a real unsentimental dude." Michelle Williams found big challenges and even bigger opportunities in 'All the Money' – LA Times 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z

Yet he also encounters the unsentimental, occasionally grudging kindness of ordinary Finns. ‘The Other Side of Hope’: an honest, humorous take on refugee crisis in Finland 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

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. ‘Nobody Thought It Would Come to This’: Drug Maker Teva Faces a Crisis 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z

Even by the unsentimental standards of corporate America, it was an abrupt transition. Inside the Revolution at Etsy 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z

It isn't possible to describe the power, sadness, and the tenderness, that at times comes across, if it's possible, as unsentimental reportage. Opinion | The Magic and Moral of Joan Didion 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

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. The Superweirdo Behind ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z

“I’m horribly unsentimental about moments in my life,” she says. Celebrity stylist Karla Welch on getting stars ready for the Emmys: 'May the best dress win' 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

Stark, specific and unsentimental, its few simple lines convey profound loss, both for Alzheimer’s sufferers and those who love them. Glen Campbell dies at 81; country-pop singer battled with Alzheimer's 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z

The New York Times said the "unsentimental, deeply poignant book" gives "readers an unsettling and visceral understanding of how discrimination, segregation and stereotypes have endured throughout the second half of the 20th Century and today". 'Untouchable' New York subway worker's memoir makes waves - BBC News 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z

In a film that otherwise belabors its backward glances, to little effect, these fiercely unsentimental scenes cut deep. A fine Ciaran Hinds stars in 'The Sea,' which struggles with its literary roots 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

The craft is a weird mix of being extremely vulnerable, technically nimble and completely unsentimental all at once. How a podcast is changing minds on songwriter pay and recognition in the streaming era 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

Mr. Flannery on Monday played down the idea that he was simply an unsentimental deal maker. A Lifer at General Electric, John Flannery Is Named Chief Executive 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z

On the album, it lasted more than eight minutes, but unsentimental record executives trimmed it to three and a half, and the edited version found a home on U.S. radio stations. The Persistence of Prog Rock 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z

In the unsentimental way of nature, the answer to “What good are they?” is an unwavering “Well, they survive and they reproduce.” Dog Ticks, the Zombies of the Woods 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

“The Purple Swamp Hen,” the title tale in a new short-story collection by leading British author Penelope Lively, is remarkable for its economy and unsentimental empathy. ‘The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories’: A lively return to short fiction 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

Once a civil servant, Ahmed served here for in the 1950s and his spare, unsentimental stories have the unmistakable ring of truth. Top 10 novels about Pakistan 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

Her style is amused and unsentimental, and she has a strong Long Island accent. What Makes a Parent? 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

If there was regret and sadness — and there was — these are the measures of a lived life and deserving of our unsentimental regard. Richard Ford's memoir 'Between Them' captures the 'infinite remoteness' between us 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

Peggy was unsentimental in eradicating the rest of Doris’s presence, stripping out the luxurious decorations and converting her black marble bathrooms into galleries. Sex and art by the Grand Canal: how Peggy Guggenheim took Venice 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

She was a funny, spirited woman who was guarded, cool and singularly unsentimental, except when she talked about her parents, both bakers by trade. Baking Is All in the Hands 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

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. Tucker Carlson’s Fighting Words 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

The Queen, by all accounts a practical and unsentimental person, understands the theatrical power of the crown. Operation London Bridge: the secret plan for the days after the Queen’s death 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

Stirring yet unsentimental, “Red Dawn” is an action-packed movie about kids who face hard choices and psychological damage as they’re forced to become lethal defenders of the American ideal. New video: 'Fences' is a must-see for fans of master-class level acting 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z

Dredd's unbending, unsentimental approach satirised right wing approaches to law enforcement, while also injecting a large dollop of humour. Judge Dredd: 2000 AD's futuristic lawman turns 40 - BBC News 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z

She grew up in the Bronx during the Great Depression, and she took an unsentimental view of her childhood. Mildred Dresselhaus, physicist dubbed ‘queen of carbon science,’ dies at 86 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

For each new generation introduced to his Fungus the Bogeyman, or Father Christmas, there lies in store a lifetime of literary and artistic discoveries produced by the unsentimental, but sympathetic hand of Raymond Briggs. Raymond Briggs: Lifetime award for The Snowman creator - BBC News 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

Van Assen – who is 44, tall and rangy, with a mop of greying, curly hair – approaches his work with relentless, unsentimental practicality. The high-tech war on science fraud 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z

Egan’s passion for this corner of the world lives and breathes in his writing, but he is unsentimental about our region’s challenges. A new-to-Seattle reading list, part 2: The nonfiction edition 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

So while he says today’s FA Cup third-round tie is not about him – and he is a fascinatingly unsentimental man - deep down he knows it is. Manchester United v Reading: FA Cup third round – live! 2017-01-07T05:00:00Z

Younger, the director of “Boiler Room” and “Prime,” films Vinny’s journey in a laudably unsentimental approach. Review: In ‘Bleed for This,’ a comeback times two 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

Despite its cutesy appearance, the game is surprisingly detailed and utterly unsentimental. Virtual realty: can a computer game turn you into an ‘evil’ property developer? 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

His book is also bracingly unsentimental about male desire and male failure. Nine Tales of Crises in “All That Man Is” 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z

In its origins, European unity was an unsentimental exercise in geopolitics. Europe Needs Its Realist Past 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

In a nuclear world, unsentimental and often counterintuitive analysis is necessary. The Gathering Nuclear Storm 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

The author and her partner, Tony Wilkinson, were, she admits early in this unsentimental memoir, “the most implausible couple I have ever known.” Briefly Noted Book Reviews 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

The next logical step then was to explore this new unsettling and unsentimental view of the crime narrative with real cases. Why TV's true-crime spree is so troubling ... and important 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

What they do, at best, is offer honest, unsentimental assessments of whether policies are working. Don’t be fooled — Donald Trump’s foreign policy is as scary as ever 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

Her scenes with Krasinski are warm, funny and utterly natural, and she saves her character from potential martyrdom by infusing her with wised-up, unsentimental directness. ‘The Hollars’ takes another spin around Dysfunctional Family Circle 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

That was the paradox of this strong, unsentimental performance. They had the beat: The Go-Go's say goodbye at the Greek 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

But when the hard-nosed and unsentimental scientist demands proof, persuasive evidence is hard to find. We all want our doctors to be kind. But does kindness actually help us get well? 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

If “Anthropoid” owes a debt to any World War II movie, it’s Jean-Pierre Melville’s masterful “The Army of Shadows,” a stark portrait of the French resistance that’s as gut-wrenching as it is unsentimental. ‘Anthropoid’: A World War II thriller that stands out from the pack 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

Laila Soueif is a tough, unsentimental woman, and if she harbored any pride — or, in light of what was to come, regret — over her children’s turn to activism, she didn’t let on. Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

Moore dismissed that out of hand, though he remains unsentimental about the city’s ghost subway. The secret history of Cincinnati's ghost subway 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

If this film portrait stirs deep emotions, they spring from a breathtakingly unsentimental embrace of life at its most challenging. Stirring 'Gleason' documents an unsentimental embrace of life, but you'll still cry 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

Yet part of the reason Armstrong and his management team have been successful is that they have been "unsentimental," said Kevin Werbach, a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Verizon’s mixed quarter shows why it needs AOL and Yahoo 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z

The film packs such a wallop partly because the Gleasons are themselves so unsentimental. In ‘Gleason,’ a football star with ALS finds a new purpose 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

The Thompsons adhere to a traditional Christian understanding of the afterlife, but they have prepared for their own deaths with unsentimental pragmatism. At a Funeral Home in Brooklyn, the Hard Business of Goodbye 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

First penned in Yiddish, the harrowing yet unsentimental account based on Wiesel’s year in the death camps was published in French in 1958 and eventually printed in more than 30 languages. Elie Wiesel dies at 87; Nobel Peace Prize laureate and renowned Holocaust survivor 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z

Throw in the fact that Karolyi is not taking the past into account and it’s a decidedly unsentimental process. Simone Biles leads at championships 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

An unsparing observer of the human condition, Francis Bacon was as unsentimental about death as he was about life. Francis Bacon: creating order from chaos 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

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. Key Piece to Yankees’ Pitching Puzzle, C.C. Sabathia, Returns 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

Between shots of home-brewed rice wine, Tu gave an unsentimental assessment of the Vietnamese legend and said that species' peril is just a matter of nature taking its course. Turtle is legendary in Vietnam, but it's on the verge of extinction 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

They are a tough, unsentimental lot, these tennis players. Fitness fears grow over Roger Federer’s participation in French Open 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

Humans, especially us dog lovers, anthropomorphize the pain and suffering of animals forgetting that nature's way is brutal, calculating and most certainly unsentimental. The World Is Full of Dogs Without Collars 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

But in an unsentimental turn befitting Bowie, few performers went for the heartstrings. As Cyndi Lauper, Perry Farrell and Michael Stipe sang, David Bowie's spirit hovered 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z

Out of that hardship, Staples emerged as a streetwise Everyman whose lyrics and musical production are uniformly lean and unsentimental. 25 Songs That Tell Us Where Music Is Going 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

Finally, and perhaps most important, of all the three top contenders, “Spotlight” provided the most satisfyingly emotional experience, and it was honestly earned, unsentimental feeling at that. Three reasons why 'Spotlight' walked away with the Oscar for best picture 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z

Few American cities have the accrued historical sediment of New York, but few are as unsentimental about the past. Awakening the Bowery’s Ghosts 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z

"Spotlight" is a favorite for top honors for its unsentimental account of the Boston Globe's investigation of the Catholic Church's sex abuse scandal. Topical films like 'Spotlight' want to start conversations, but finding audiences isn't easy 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z

Dr. Packer is surprisingly unsentimental about the species he studies. A Lion Expert Who Isn’t Inclined to Turn Tail 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z

We reach this point near the end of the book, when Hare’s detailed account of his artistic evolution has given us an intelligent, unsentimental glimpse inside the creative process. David Hare: Evolution of a political playwright 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z

It’s also unsentimental: next season, Murphy, a free agent, will probably be playing for someone else. The Best Eleven Minutes in Sports in 2015 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z

But the longer she worked at Pacific Interment the more she found her own attitude toward the dead body at odds with Mitford’s approach, which struck her as unsentimental to the point of callousness. The Rise of the Artisanal Funeral 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z

He seems to view most of human life as a series of transactions and in the unsentimental, Darwinian universe he inhabits, the deals are always zero-sum. The Presidency as the Art of the Deal 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z

And unsentimental investors remember his advice today, buying into defence stocks today on anticipation of more military action in Syria. French stock market resilient as Buffett rules out selling shares - live updates 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

Mr Starace is unsentimental about shedding bits of Italy’s industrial history. Anyone want a power station? 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

But to get an unsentimental look at the market for such cases erodes the beguilement of a client base of “plain, ordinary, simple people.” Testimony at Sheldon Silver’s Trial Suggests How Lucrative Mesothelioma Was 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

The 36-year-old fashionista has honed her craft over the years, developing a tough-minded, unsentimental approach to what her customers want and when they want it. Current Boutique puts the glam in secondhand 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z

Smart and unsentimental, she made the most of her hardship, gathering her experiences like fabric for future designs. How Poverty Shaped Coco Chanel 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

Although they branded themselves as iconoclasts, the Bolsheviks understood the value of icons to others in unsentimental pecuniary terms. Selling Iraq's History to the Highest Bidder 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

Free speech, in Fish’s unsentimental account, was a “political prize,” a tag awarded by politically powerful groups to whatever forms of expression they approved of. Who’s Fighting Free Speech? 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z

Many people give to charities to which they feel a personal connection, but effective altruists are passionately unsentimental, seeking to send their cash where they think it will do the most objective good. Young, smart and want to save lives? Become a banker, says philosopher 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z

"There's an unsentimental side of me that says I'm just being silly and superstitious, but it does feel significant. And I'd like to suppress that. It feels like an ending, which makes me nervous." Fashion designer Rick Owens is ready to tap L.A.'s gritty side again 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z

单词	unsentimental
例句	unsentimental Fortunately, my teachers were unsentimental about their responsibility. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Their voices were melodious and unsentimental, almost to the point where a somewhat more denominational man than myself might, without straining, have experienced levitation. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z They had to investigate the charges against me, but the assignment was their unsentimental affirmation that their belief in me was unbroken. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The honor of Chicago’s leading men, who prided themselves on their unsentimental—some might say ruthless—pursuit of maximum profit, was in peril. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z John Vorster, the new minister of justice, who had himself been detained during World War II for opposing the government’s support of the Allies, was a man unsentimental in the extreme. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z My father was a cultured man, rather unsentimental. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The Dothraki were a hard and unsentimental people, and it was not their custom to name their animals, so Dany thought of her only as the silver. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z But I guess New York City’s going to give me an abundance of opportunities to be cool and unsentimental. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z He, at fourteen, was pudgy, bespectacled, and totally unsentimental. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It had originally been a port-red color—and by lamplight, at least, still was—but it now featured a number of rather pancreas-shaped faded spots, unsentimental mementos, all, of a series of household pets. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Here, he offered gracious, unsentimental interpretations of the Barcarolle No. 3, Impromptu No. 2 and the Nocturne No. 6. Marc-André Hamelin Plays at the Keyboard Institute 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z Anna, strong, resourceful, unsentimental, is the book's heroine, but the main character is Leningrad itself. Sue Arnold's audiobook choice - reviews 2011-07-15T21:55:06Z That it’s a woman’s urge that’s being explored, in unsentimental and noncelebratory terms, makes “The Village Bike” an uncommon and revitalizing entry in mainstream theater. ‘The Village Bike’ Stars Greta Gerwig as a Woman Obsessed 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z “Fox & I: An Uncommon Friendship,” a fanciful, literate, unsentimental and yet deeply felt memoir, is her answer. Review \| In ‘Fox & I,’ a biologist finds solace in a wild animal’s friendship 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z Meeting him cadence for unsentimental cadence is Liu’s Watson, who at one point sums up not just the truth of recovery but also why it is so difficult to depict on television. ‘Elementary’ affirms its place as the smartest study of recovery on TV 2014-04-24T19:18:54Z “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.” Louise Erdrich Wins Library of Congress Award 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z The songs are gloriously unsentimental—the kind that incite physical, not emotional, catharsis. Play It Again (for the First Time) 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z Rhythm, texture, splendor of sentiment in language, unsentimental soulfulness. Maria Popova: By the Book 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Loudon is like a single, relentless glare of light: his lyrics are trenchant and unsentimental, his music plain and direct. House of Rufus ? review 2011-07-22T17:44:20Z I’ve always worked with unsentimental directors who make no attempt to make people better than they are, and this was really Chabrol’s specialty. Isabelle Huppert Doesn’t Watch Her Past Films, but She Will Discuss Them 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z Because we feed ourselves from our land, we’re unsentimental about certain creatures that thrive and multiply by consuming our crops. For a gardener, wildlife can make life a little livelier 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z And ever present is the enchantment of his voice, one that is at turns exuberant, humorous, unsentimental, imaginative, keen. The Odyssey of a Gay Black Football-Star Banker, From ‘Peasant Boy’ to the Mountaintop 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z Ordered, analytical, rigorous and unsentimental, the images were a deadpan chronicle of the built landscape, hinting at the environmental and social consequences of extracting natural resources. Hilla Becher, Photographer Who Chronicled Industrial Scenery, Dies at 81 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z Diaz's strong, unsentimental performance persuasively depicts him as a principled, incorruptible man of the people. 'Lula, Son of Brazil': An upbeat look at rise of leader for the people 2012-03-08T22:02:08Z But as one of her previous shows, “Speak Easy” demonstrated, she has the brassy, unsentimental attitude of a flapper who is nobody’s fool. Carole J. Bufford at the Metropolitan Room 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z Mary Lincoln was overcome with grief and erupted in wailing and sobbing to the point that the unsentimental Stanton banished her to the front parlor. Abraham Lincoln’s assassination: Great joy, then a gunshot 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z For the giver, who is famously unsentimental about his past, it may have seemed just a sheaf of papers that had outlived their usefulness. ArtsBeat: Dylan’s Handwritten Lyrics to ‘Like a Rolling Stone’ to Be Auctioned 2014-05-01T01:00:46Z The next three suggestions, showcasing a range of experiences in women's fiction, include a family saga, a smartly unsentimental journey set at an Ivy League school and a witty novel of random encounters in Paris. Best summer reading picks: women's fiction favorites 2011-08-05T21:59:03Z Iron Man 3 is smart, funny and spectacular – I particularly liked Stark's brutally unsentimental reaction to the news that a kid who is helping him is missing his errant dad. Iron Man 3 2013-04-22T16:28:57Z It is also deeply unsentimental about our sentimental natures, and how we perceive happiness only retrospectively. ‘Ayckbourn Ensemble,’ 3 Offerings by the British Playwright 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Perhaps their brooding distracts them from the “long string of indignities” that constitutes old age in these unsentimental tales. Unnerving short stories by Hilary Mantel, Margaret Atwood and Joyce Carol Oates The production’s sharpened focus on moral ambiguity extends even to Willow Geer’s steely, unsentimental turn as Portia, the quick-witted ostensible heroine who disguises herself as a lawyer to turn the tables on Shylock. Shylock, revisited, in Theatricum's 'Merchant of Venice' 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z Quietly brilliant, it is an unsentimental look at family life and working single mothers – blunt, warm, fascinated by the absurdity of trying to hold it all together. Pamela Adlon: ‘Better Things is about hope and love amid the darkness’ 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z On Friday, that sonata still in the audience’s ears, he closed the concert with an unsentimental, graceful version of the opening aria from the “Goldbergs.” Review: Andras Schiff Deconstructs Sonatas 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z He compared one veteran ambassador’s prose to Evelyn Waugh’s, and deemed other analyses “astute,” “unsentimental” and “hilarious.” In His First Book, Ronan Farrow Laments the Decline of Diplomacy 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z Beneath the puppies-and-peppermint cuteness lies an unsentimental take on the industry that sustains her. 'You have to bust your ass' 2010-08-06T23:02:00Z Martin’s saga is built on unsentimental honesty: thus the first season was largely about demolishing fairy-tale ideas that honor and honesty conquer all, as Ned Stark could speak to, if he could speak. Dead Tree Alert: Veep, Women in Power and Game of Thrones? Clash of Queens 2012-03-30T16:54:53Z The Quarry, nevertheless, is full of unsentimental, furiously exact unpickings of the cliches surrounding terminal illness. Iain Banks: the final interview 2013-06-15T07:07:55Z Then I read some of the original Observer pieces, which were tough and unsentimental, even caustic. “Is There Still Sex in the City?” and the Decline of a Particular Fantasy Life 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z Fascinating, too, is Fraser-Cavassoni’s fresh, unsentimental take on Dior’s inner circle, a triumvirate of women who alternately adored and exasperated him. Once Upon a Time 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z It is easy to like this Eurydice, her presence sweet yet unsentimental, but it is hard to care about her as much as we must. Review: The Met Opera’s ‘Eurydice’ Tries to Raise the Dead 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z As always, Sharp takes on potentially sentimental subjects with a tone which is almost shockingly unsentimental; never has the trope of a Victorian drawing master romancing his sheltered female pupil been rendered less romantic. In Praise of Margery Sharp 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z Apatow is one of the most deceptively conservative directors in Hollywood, and even in the female-fronted hit Bridesmaids, which he produced, the film’s theme of unsentimental female friendship saw a forgettable romantic subplot shoehorned in. Why How to Be Single is more casually progressive than Trainwreck 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z If he's no longer the bruised, idealistic firebrand of five years ago, he still dredges electrifying comedy from the badlands of unsentimental despair. Doug Stanhope 2010-09-01T21:00:00Z But the book was ultimately acclaimed as one of the most important photographic projects of the 20th century, a radical personalization of the documentary impulse into something haunted, bleakly poetic and daringly unsentimental. Perspective \| Robert Frank’s photographs captured the bleak reality we’re still living in today 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z "Bowler’s writing is direct and unsentimental. She's not saying her life is unfair or that she deserved better. She’s just telling you what happened." Bill Gates has some summer reading recommendations for you 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z Or maybe the book isn’t about love or happiness at all, but a lament about the passing of time, an unsentimental view of physical decay, a withering away. The Giving Tree at Fifty: Sadder Than I Remembered 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z And it was Michael and Steven with a voice that was irreverent, scatological, tough and unsentimental. Steven Bochco and Others on Creating ‘Hill Street Blues’ 2014-05-01T17:39:39Z The arrival of a seasonal worker from Romania triggers an unsentimental romance, played out under harsh rural skies. Summer 2017's best movies: from Scarlett Johansson's hen night to Morrissey's teen years 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z His portraits revealed the drama and comedy of the everyday, exhuming unsentimental levity from the melancholy, or hüzun, that Pamuk attributed to modern Istanbul. What Ara Güler, “The Eye of Istanbul,” Saw in His Homeland 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z “Students were often surprised by how unsentimental these female novelists are, how wide-ranging are their themes, and how frank they are about female desire,” Norich said. How Yiddish Scholars Are Rescuing Women’s Novels From Obscurity 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z An optimistic and unsentimental neighbor of mine is already hoping a Trader Joe’s will move in. Closing Up Shop on a Marriage 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z In a voice by turns exuberant, humorous, unsentimental and keen, he tells a deeply American story. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z Radically unsentimental, the first film had a gleeful apocalyptic quality that made it feel like a feature-length version of the end of “Dr. Strangelove,” in which Slim Pickens hoots his way to doomsday. Movie Review: ‘RoboCop’ Remake Arrives, Starring Joel Kinnaman 2014-02-11T23:09:06Z It is also profoundly, deeply unsentimental, a set of lines about living in the aftermath of hope. Edward Hirsch's ode to a lost son 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z That context adds a bit of weight to the song, but as ever, Williams is gimlet-eyed and unsentimental, singing in her signature growl, “No one’s brought the curtain down, maybe you should stick around.” Drake Surprises With a Kim Kardashian Sample, and 11 More New Songs 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z Rowell pulls off this impossible premise with great charm, and her depictions of the couple’s sweet courtship and their later compromise-filled marriage are equally unsentimental and knowing. The Books We Loved in 2016 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z And while being unsentimental, he was deeply moving. Pete Postlethwaite remembered 2011-01-03T19:30:01Z Let me close with a final quotation — from the finale of “Thoughts About the Person From Porlock” — that again reflects Smith’s characteristic blend of the comic and bleakly unsentimental: Michael Dirda on the misunderstood poet Stevie Smith 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z For all her devotion to the musicians she advises, Ms. Gordon describes this work in unsentimental terms. Jazz Wouldn’t Be the Same Without Them. But Few Applauded These Hidden Figures. 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z The title connotes unsentimental, amoral ruthlessness, a refusal to compromise in the pursuit of profit. ‘The Godfather’ Explained in Seven Quotes 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z In “Better Things,” Sam is a superbly capable parent, but her scrappy, unsentimental style also serves as a corrective to C.K.’s idealized view of motherhood. “Better Things,” Pamela Adlon’s Unlikely Ode to Single Motherhood 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z “The Unspeakable” included “Matricide,” her searingly unsentimental essay about her mother’s death. A Liberal Uneasy in the World of #MeToo Feminism 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z She captures the hope and pain of immigration and the terror of deportation with an unsentimental yet empathetic eye. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z Based on the evidence, Berlin audiences have a large appetite for her brash, energetic and exuberantly discomfiting work, with its unflinching and unsentimental look at women’s bodies and desires. A Splashy, Messy All-Naked Revue 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Sheasby's writing was precise, unsentimental and usually rooted in observed life, but it also had an element of fantasy. Dave Sheasby obituary 2010-04-01T17:46:00Z The first is unsentimental and empirical: baseball is made up of a series of discrete plays with a relatively small number of outcomes, which can be measured and represented probabilistically. Seven Turning Points from the Year in Sports 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z At first Carter thought it might be achieved through the pert, lean, unsentimental neo-classical idiom then in fashion. Elliott Carter 2012-11-06T03:26:13Z Yet the pas de deux, set to Mozart’s Rondo in A minor for solo piano, has a gleaming simplicity and an unsentimental feeling of sisterhood. Easy Does It: Bringing Old-School Wisdom to City Ballet 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z “I often paint my characters in broad colors, big expressive moments, whereas in reality I’m pretty direct and unsentimental.” Arts & Leisure: The Film ?Once? Becomes a New York Musical 2011-12-04T03:13:02Z There's something poignant but unsentimental about the relationship the sculpture will have with all those sombre bronze generals on the other plinths. Fourth plinth battle: the heroic child takes the cake 2010-08-19T14:44:00Z In the hands of master director Reed, Martins' tale is the story of a man's unsentimental education, of the hard road he travels in the getting of wisdom. Classic thriller 'The Third Man' screens in a new light at Landmark Nuart 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z Heartfelt but unsentimental, the film was shot in a kind of fly-on-the-wall style — a distant wall, that is. Oren Moverman hopes 'Time Out of Mind' spotlights homelessness 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z Mr. Diaz’s strong, unsentimental performance persuasively depicts him as a principled, incorruptible man of the people. \| 'Lula: Son of Brazil': ?Lula: Son of Brazil,? Directed by F?bio Barreto - Review 2012-01-12T22:38:30Z She was as unsentimental as the hardest-boiled male PIs of her era, but it was pies she had a weakness for, not scotch. Anne Holt's top 10 female detectives 2010-12-08T12:34:00Z It is an engrossing, unsentimental continuation of his work on “The Matter,” which he first presented in 1972. Best Dance of 2020 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z 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. Review: ‘Dublin Carol’ Gets Lost in Its Drink 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z 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. Review: Boris and Merzbow Make a Joint Album, With Options 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z And yet “Briggflatts” was the work of an unsentimental sixty-five-year-old, who was looking back on a life of incidents and accidents, wondering whether he could piece them all together. The Improbable Life and Prescient Poetry of Basil Bunting 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z So which is he, asks Mr Chollet: a woolly-headed liberal idealist or an unsentimental realist? Playing it long 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Her bewitching blend of humility and disdain and her unsentimental yet compassionate eye are welcome tonics for frenzied times. Review \| Joan Didion’s ‘Let Me Tell You What I Mean’ shows a writer ahead of her time 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z The ensemble’s full-blooded and unsentimental approach complemented Mr. Goto’s expressive playing, with his sweet tone particularly lovely in the Adagio. Music Review: Ryu Goto and Orpheus in Spirited Mood at Carnegie Hall 2010-05-05T22:12:00Z With his usual unsentimental eye, it examines life in a small Protestant village in Germany on the eve of World War I, while teasing out implications about the origins of fascism. 2009-12-28T16:02:00Z What we said: Coming-of-age is usually a syrupy Hollywood genre, and it’s bracing to find it given such an unsentimental expression – and to see that it applies not only to adolescents, but to adults, too. Best films of 2018 so far 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z “I had taken pride in being absolutely unsentimental with ‘My Life as a Dog,’ and this was a very sentimental story,” Mr. Hallstrom said in a telephone interview. Film Has a Dog and Two Big Names, but No Big Screens 2010-09-24T15:12:00Z But it’s a while before we get to that poignant material — which, by the way, Ms. Bocanegra presents with an admirably unsentimental lightness of touch. Theater Review: ‘Bodycast,’ at BAM, With a Lecturing Frances McDormand 2013-12-04T19:14:04Z Her sense of humor is sardonic and unsentimental enough to appeal to men, which helps explain why Judd Apatow is an executive producer. Television Review: Lena Dunham?s ?Girls? Begins on HBO 2012-04-12T18:49:02Z His grand, bleak drama of a woman's and a nation's defining ordeal is nonetheless exhilarating for the beauty of its prose and the depths of its unsentimental compassion. Laird Hunt's 'Neverhome' tears a woman and a nation in two 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z It's a gruelling, unsentimental film in a neo-realist vein, with finance from eight different countries, that follows a journey the length of Iraq made in 2003 a few weeks after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. Son of Babylon ? review 2011-02-13T00:05:28Z There is a real “Andor” feel to this unsentimental depiction of the Empire-versus-Republic dynamic, where everyone has their own agendas and is advancing them by exploiting whatever systems are in place. ‘The Mandalorian’ Season 3, Episode 3: Amnesty Intergalactic 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z She is low on cash and waits tables at a Chinese restaurant, but is humorous, unsentimental, utterly without self-pity, warm and yet vulnerable in a way that Eve isn’t. My streaming gem: why you should watch The Bigamist 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z It was rightly celebrated for its non-judgmental portrayal of those who struggle to reach Italy, and its unsentimental depiction of those already there. Fyre festival to Aretha Franklin: 12 documentaries to catch in 2019 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z 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. Review: ‘7 Days in Entebbe’ Revisits a Notorious Hijacking 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z He says flatteringly of Don that they embody Randian principles of being "completely self-interested" and "unsentimental about the people who depend on our hard work". Mad Men: season one, episode eight 2010-05-21T15:14:00Z What we’ve been missing in overlooking “Superstore” is a series that intelligently presents one of the most optimistic, unsentimental visions of American life on television. NBC’s “Superstore” challenge: Can an Olympics preview win over viewers? 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z “The Diary of a Teenage Girl” is a strong piece of cinema, human but unsentimental, stylish but not self-conscious. 'Diary of a Teenage Girl' aims for a coming-of-age rarity 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Unglamorous, unsentimental, and angry, but also humane, hypnotic, and intelligent, they seem to express something honest about the difficulties of life. Depth on the Dance Floor: The Music of DJ Sprinkles 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z Sprinkled throughout the play are scenes of Jordan visiting his beloved grandmother, played with unsentimental grace by Barbara Barrie. Review: In ‘Significant Other,’ a Young Man Pines as His Pals Pair Off 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z This unsentimental position puts her at odds with her friends. To Make Someone Be or Not to Make Someone Be 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z Their dancing — florid, continuous, unsentimental — grew larger as they explored the stage with light jumps and darting, tight spins. Silky Ballet Solos and Irresistible Tapping Toes Close Fall for Dance 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z 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. Review: Agnès Varda and JR Travel in the Present, Glancing at the Past 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z As recent recitals and this disc demonstrate, his prowess as an unsentimental, powerful interpreter is not waning. Music Critics? Picks for Chopin Bicentennial 2010-05-27T21:03:00Z The show’s look is prestige – detailed and expensive – yet crucially unsentimental; the characters’ various humiliations make their opulent mansions and perfectly tailored suits seem far more isolating, even scornful, than aspirational. Filthy rich: why the awful antics of Succession are so addictive 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z The sound and arrangements of the new songs are small and immediate, skeletal and unsentimental, like a garage band in miniature. Caetano Veloso and His Band Perform at BAM 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z An unsentimental and unpatronising portrayal of an unhappy marriage, it struck a new note of sombre and sensitive realism. Stan Barstow obituary 2011-08-01T19:06:48Z I was also moved by Schaap’s exceptional writing, which manages to be lyrical and whimsical, yet unsentimental. Stormy Fairy Tales 2020-12-12T05:00:00Z Spanning centuries, he aims to scare by presenting his vampires with an unsentimental realism that makes them seem almost human, without soft-pedaling the brutality and violence. New Plays Like ?The Little One? Put Scary Onstage 2010-06-26T02:39:00Z The subtle, unsentimental and never condescending discussions of class are a highpoint of this book. Modernity Britain: Opening the Box by David Kynaston – review 2013-06-15T07:01:01Z One hearing was enough to gather the songs’ grown-up, unsentimental kindness of spirit. ArtsBeat: The Full-Album Set Is a Plus for Fans and Bands 2011-03-18T18:56:55Z The result is an incredibly expressive yet unsentimental film that vividly captures the terrible process of a woman’s dehumanization. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z But they’re notably unsentimental about saying goodbye to the spot where their grandfather, a door-to-door fabric salesman, transformed himself into an art dealer known in the trade as “Mr. Americana” and “the Prince of Prints.” F.D.R. and Andy Warhol All Came for Art. Now the Movers Have Arrived. 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z 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. Review: ‘Mata Hari,’ a Different Kind of Queen of the Night 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Carpignano, infinitely sympathetic to these young people and studiously unsentimental about their prospects, doesn’t put a thumb on the scales. ‘A Chiara’ Review: A Mobster’s Daughter Dares to Ask Questions 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z Low key, affecting and insistently unsentimental, “Great Freedom” is a fictional story of resistance against this inhumane law, a story of salvation told one caress and sexual encounter at a time. ‘Great Freedom’ Review: Unbroken 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z It's no wonder that "A Summer at Grandpa's," a piercingly unsentimental portrait of the end of childhood, begins with a valedictory speech. Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien captures life's big, small moments 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z Whenever I teach Levy’s essay, and I teach it frequently, my students often praise it for being “unsentimental.” A Memoir of Motherhood Lost 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z The wondrous costumes he designed for the animals use everyday objects, which lend a wry, unsentimental touch to the staging. Music Review: An Impish Creature That Won?t Be Fenced In 2011-06-23T22:21:40Z But that means it's also refreshingly unsentimental: there are no Who Do You Think You Are? tears here. Burma, My Father and the Forgotten Army; The Lost Submarine of WWI: a Time Team Special – TV review 2013-07-08T06:00:08Z Derry Girls is a tonic: frank, rude, bracingly unsentimental, and very, very funny. Derry Girl Saoirse-Monica Jackson: ‘Yes, we have a harsh sense of humour’ 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z To make such a blistering, unsentimental and tough film that wasn't too bleak, out of such unlikely material is some achievement. The best film of 2012: readers' choice 2012-12-21T09:53:57Z As we will soon learn, George, a Midwestern farmer in late middle age, is stony and unsentimental, the opposite of a weeper. ‘Lunar Eclipse’ Review: A Dark, Cloudy Night of the Soul 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z But they give a sense of the fertility of his pristine, unsentimental language and the breadth of subject and form. Bertolt Brecht: Poet and Communist 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z But its speedy ending is in keeping with the show’s unsentimental spirit. ‘Derry Girls’: And Now Their Troubles Are Ended 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z A sensitive yet unsentimental portrayal of the unit's work. Great Ormond Street 2010-04-13T05:45:00Z One leaves his epic endeavor with a rich, unsentimental and jaw-droppingly thorough portrait of a man emblematic of the ideals, ambitions and ambivalences of his America, and, strikingly, ours as well. James Fenimore Cooper — not just your grandpa’s favorite author 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z His taboo-breaking starts with grammar and diction and extends to an unsentimental depiction of behavioural and moral filth: he's as troubling to mainstream Arabic literary culture as Joyce once was to the west. The Iraqi Christ by Hassan Blasim – review 2013-03-20T09:01:01Z There was a very pragmatic, very hard-headed, very unsentimental search for a bride, and the person they hit on, the sole candidate more or less, was this girl, Diana Spencer. Why the monarchy needed Diana: "She had to be a front-rank aristocrat, and she had to be a virgin" 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z 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. The Unsentimental, Darkly Elegant Stories of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z It’s “a mighty work of critical imagination, a loving, unsentimental portrait of a rare creative soul,” A. O. Scott wrote in The Times. What’s on TV Monday: ‘A Bigger Splash’ and ‘Every Brilliant Thing’ 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z Particularly in black and white, it's an unsentimental, melancholy portrait of a decaying American heartland - its drab bars, roadside motels and paint-chipped farm houses. Payne back on the road with 'Nebraska' at Cannes 2013-05-23T17:02:09Z The interesting thing about that scene -- played with unsentimental bluntness by Cryer -- was how it resonated. Why Charlie Sheen is still winning 2011-09-20T16:20:00Z He also has an unsentimental, sometimes chilly sense of the ways that ordinary human amorality, ethical confusion and sexual longing can turn banal circumstances into the stuff of high comedy. Movie Review: Death and Desire in ‘Stranger by the Lake’ 2014-01-23T23:17:56Z But the highlight is Julia Darling's hilariously unsentimental testimony to the women who worked in the shipyards: "Oh, it was primitive," they recall. Tyne – review 2013-07-03T11:45:01Z The Grill is confident, theatrical, retro, unsentimental, sharp and New Yorky. The Grill Is Confident, Theatrical, Sharp and New Yorky 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z Before she talked about cancer onstage, her comedy was unsentimental and formally experimental in a way that drew attention to its own artifice. Going Topless, Tig Notaro Takes Over Town Hall 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z Mr. Rock also related to the material, which is unsentimental about addiction, and in which every character is hiding big secrets they’re afraid will unravel their tenuously held together lives. Comedian, Rebranded 2011-03-03T17:41:44Z His unsentimental landlady wonders why he bothers with them, since nowadays everything is done “with machines.” Movie Review: In Remote Corner of Portugal, a Photographer Finds More Than He Expects 2010-12-28T23:04:34Z There is nary a misstep in the cleareyed, unsentimental portrait of a determined woman’s sacrifice for her children. Movie Listings for Sept. 2-8 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z "The Knick" is novel not just for its decidedly unsentimental view of the recent past. 'The Knick' is a new twist on the TV doctor show 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z All the same, he is unsentimental about the revolutionaries, some of whom turn to score-settling and extortion. I witness 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z A disaffected, thoroughly unsentimental loner who begins the film behind bars, Bowman falls hard and fast for his new vocation, which offers him an ideal balance between adrenaline and tranquillity. My streaming gem: why you should watch Pit Stop 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z When Hopper turns to Paris’s iconic sights, they are distant, unsentimental. Perspective \| In Hopper’s early Paris paintings, reflections of today’s strange, desolate cities 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z I do think that you don't become cynical or 'unsentimental' unless there's a core of romanticism or sentiment that's had a few chips nicked into it. 'Sleepless in Seattle' writer Nora Ephron dies at 71 2012-06-27T01:41:54Z She is a woman of fine taste and unsentimental spirit. Get over it! “Atomic Blonde” doesn’t need to be the female Bond 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z A warped family dynamic leads to breakdown and tragedy in this unsentimental drama, as Dequenne's initial married bliss becomes an escalating battle of wills with her overbearing father-in-law. Star Trek Into Darkness, Mud, A Hijacking: this week's new films 2013-05-11T05:00:12Z If any one idea forms the core of Cage’s unsentimental composition, which he wrote in 1949, it’s that, quite simply, “here we are.” Dance Review: Eszter Salamon Dances at MoMA 2014-01-22T18:56:55Z But in this staging, Sowerby’s unsentimental drama, which the Mint first produced in 2001, remains a static and slightly musty affair. Theater Review: ?Rutherford & Son? at Mint Theater 2012-02-29T00:18:13Z In the most jarring part of the show, he discussed the death of his mother in June in a remarkably unsentimental aside. Louis C.K. Doubles Down on the Value of Saying the Wrong Thing 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z As for the actors: How can they be critiqued when Brecht wrote an unsentimental play with characters who aren’t meant to be empathized with, who don’t appeal to our hearts but our minds? ‘Mother Courage’ Review: Selling Her Wares Amid the Havoc of War 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z Kevin R. Kelly, a likeable but unsentimental George Bailey, really does seem to fall apart and then find himself that fateful night in Martini's bar. 'It's A Wonderful Life' is a warm tradition 2010-12-14T06:00:00Z When the photographer Heji Shin began taking unsentimental photographs of babies at birth, “I looked at them and I was like, This is literally ‘The Exorcist,’” she told T Magazine. When Motherhood Is a Horror Show 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z That film made a splash at the South by Southwest festival with its honesty and unsentimental sense of humor, and she has channeled that spirit into “Girls.” Television: Lena Dunham on ?Girls,? Her New HBO Comedy 2012-03-04T04:09:07Z “Voroshilovgrad” is an unsentimental novel about human relationships in conditions of brutality in which there is not a single act of betrayal. The Bard of Eastern Ukraine, Where Things Are Falling Apart 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z It’s a shockingly unsentimental moment to find in a Spielberg movie, one in which the young version of himself learns that pleasing the crowd might require turning an antisemite into the hero. When Jewish Artists Wrestle With Antisemitism 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z I'm expecting acerbic wit, unsentimental tenderness and a Black Country setting – what could be better? Best holiday reads 2013 2013-07-14T07:00:00Z She professed not to miss singing at all, and was unsentimental when reviewing her career. Margaret Price Dies at 69, Soprano With Rich Voice 2011-02-01T06:51:50Z “It’s a funny, even-tempered, unsentimental drama about people in particular transit,” Vincent Canby wrote in a review in The New York Times. Leon Ichaso, Whose Films Explored Latino Identity, Dies at 74 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z At its knotty core, amazingly, is perhaps the finest and most unsentimental love story of the new decade. ‘Preparation for the Next Life’ by Atticus Lish 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z Darling is 10 when we first meet her, and the voice Ms. Bulawayo has fashioned for her is utterly distinctive — by turns unsparing and lyrical, unsentimental and poetic, spiky and meditative. Books of The Times: ‘We Need New Names,’ by NoViolet Bulawayo 2013-05-15T21:11:04Z Shown in the 2009 New York Film Festival, “To Die Like a Man” changes back and forth from an unsentimental examination of an insular nightclub world to a surreal phantasmagoria sprinkled with enigmatic symbols. \| 'To Die Like a Man': The Anguish of Identity 2011-04-07T20:55:54Z It is, like its Beckett source, tender, transparent, unsentimental and unsparing. The Best Classical Music of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z It's a very sensitive but unsentimental exploration of war, friendship and mortality. Guardian first book award 2012 goes to Kevin Powers 2012-11-29T19:59:01Z Ms. Hedlund is a mellow artist, not given to rhapsodic flights or folksy flair, but her unsentimental approach was effective in “Valse Lente.” Music Review: Linda Hedlund at Scandinavia House - Review 2011-11-22T23:59:47Z Anderson expresses a fan’s zeal and a collector’s greed for both canonical works and weird odds and ends, a love for old modernisms that is undogmatic and unsentimental. ‘The French Dispatch’ Review: Remember Magazines? 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z The moment can produce a big emotional payoff for audiences, but Mr. Mantello told Mr. Wolfe that a warm-and-fuzzy embrace did not seem of a piece with the stripped-down, unsentimental tone of the production. A Return to Acting That?s From the Heart 2011-05-25T15:10:50Z The album strikes a balance with a few new songs, including Haggard's "The Only Man Wilder Than Me" and "Missing Ol' Johnny Cash," an honest but unsentimental ode to their mutual friend. Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard are country kin on 'Django and Jimmie' 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z Delusions aside, this is subtly uplifting, celestial and – most importantly – unsentimental. Six Songs of Me: John Burns of Juan and Only 2012-08-24T08:55:00Z But unlike his pope, who mourns “the inexhaustible imperfection of the world,” Malkovich was unsentimental about his own life’s work. ‘The New Pope’ Looks a Lot Like John Malkovich 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z The child savers’ rhetoric of benevolence, backed up by unsentimental interventionism, set the stage for what followed. Criminal justice reform in the U.S. has a long history of repressive outcomes 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z The lovely, unsentimental, heart-affirming ending of Quichotte, that “sane man,” is the aslant answer to the question of what is real and what is unreal. Salman Rushdie Updates ‘Don Quixote’ for the Digital Age 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z Later in the episode, Don will make a convincing hard sell to Belle Jolie by being unsentimental about whether they like the pitch or not. ‘Mad Men’ and Its Love Affair With ’60s Pop Culture 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z The story is told through the eyes of 10-year-old Felix, and the mix of innocence and horror is unsentimental and often heartbreaking. Morris Gleitzman's 'friendship books' 2010-10-01T12:04:00Z Anchored by its two excellent leads, the movie is sympathetic and, for the most part, unsentimental. ‘J.T. LeRoy’ Review: Unpeeling the Layers of an All-American Hoax 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z He shows Mark Haddon's tale of Christopher Boone – a boy who finds it easy to make sense of numbers but hard to react spontaneously to human beings – as both unsentimental and heartfelt. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; Philadelphia, Here I Come!; Playing the Games: Taking Part/After the Party – review 2012-08-04T23:06:09Z “It was incredibly powerful and unsentimental. It really showed the musical in an entirely fresh light.” ‘Oklahoma!’ Is Reimagined at Bard College’s SummerScape Festival 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Somehow, it captures the unsentimental, exuberant energy of the film, which is a treasury of ideas and provocations — a pocket full of possibilities. ‘Neptune Frost’ Review: Unanimous Gold Mine 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z Pragmatic, clear-eyed and unsentimental, Maeve is nevertheless possessed by the Dutch House. Review \| 'The Dutch House,' by Ann Patchett book review 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z And yet he unflinchingly depicts the abuse suffered by enslaved black people in an unsentimental way. The Most Important Decade for Movies About Black Lives 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z It seems to exist precisely for a short set in a small club, through stylish and unsentimental tunes that open with a bang, get straight to the fizz and close without ceremony. Review: The Rio 65 Trio Resurrects the Barreling Sounds of a Samba-Jazz Band 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z She was unsentimental and yet her words went deep to a place that both hurt and changed me. The sin I couldn’t give up: What led me away from my strict Christian commune and back to the world 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z It's entirely unsentimental, but it's there and you feel it. Lily Rabe waited 15 years to make her directorial debut: "It's not the arena for playing it safe" 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z Mantel was unsentimental, forthright, unafraid of stating her sometimes fierce views. A Writer Who Stared Down Her Past, and the World’s, With Steely Resolve 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z His films, nominated for more than 50 Oscars, typically were unsentimental and extremely well crafted, exploring intelligent and complicated themes. Sidney Lumet, director of classic films, dies: report 2011-04-09T15:44:15Z Its companion piece was Dvořák's Cello Concerto, in a similarly unsentimental performance. Prom 8: BBCSO/B?lohl?vek ? review 2011-07-21T10:00:34Z “Meek’s Cutoff” is as unsentimental and determined as Ms. Williams’s character, its absolutely believable heroine. \| 'Meek?s Cutoff': Out on the Frontier, Bringing All That Baggage With Them 2011-04-07T22:33:01Z It’s totally unpretentious, and totally unsentimental — there’s this inevitability about it, without it being too direction-oriented. Schubert’s Final Acceptance, Rueful as Always 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z "Empire" is unsentimental in its portrayal of the brutality dispensed by both sides in the Indian wars, but it vividly re-creates the sights, smells and heartbreak of a long-ago era. What our writers love this week 2011-05-04T20:56:05Z She was referring to George Balanchine, the choreographer who established New York City Ballet, molding it around his fleet, clear, unsentimental style. At City Ballet, Jamar Roberts and Dancers Find a Common Language 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z She writes with unsentimental beauty about the labor her parents devoted to feeding their family. “Burn the Place” Is a Thrilling, Disquieting Memoir of Addiction and Coming of Age 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z Yes, all is well, until suddenly it isn't, and Roth – with unsentimental terseness – brings the long-prepared catastrophe down. Nemesis by Philip Roth 2010-10-02T09:03:00Z To take the tone first: Richler's novel is, above all, bracingly and relentlessly unsentimental. Good book, great film 2011-04-01T10:08:52Z The Florida Project is both radiant and unsentimental. Review: 'The Florida Project' Is a Magical Ode to Childhood 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z "We Are Not Ourselves" is a solid first novel, unsentimental, multilayered, evocative of a lost world. Small things add up in Matthew Thomas' 'We Are Not Ourselves' 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z Since no one, not even Cale, is more laid-back than Willie Nelson, on “Songbird” he doesn’t need to concede any ground to paying homage, and presents the touching yet unsentimental lyrics with spare, masterly clarity: Eric Clapton Gathers Stars for a J. J. Cale Tribute Album 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z The first movement — undulant, rippling and unsentimental — led to the playful yet melancholic Allegretto, which segued into a whirlwind account of the turbulent finale. Music Review: A Beethoven Warm-Up and a Liszt Workout 2010-11-21T22:53:00Z This was no kitschy "crossover" event, but a nice balance of unsentimental nostalgia and unapologetic joy. Last night's Prom 2010-08-31T11:44:00Z The sweet yet unsentimental scenes between them are some of the novel’s most powerful. Surviving, and Thriving, in Middle School Hell? Three New Novels Say It’s Possible 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z Ms. Strayed’s book, while unsentimental at its core, is the kind of story of resilience and self-invention that Ms. Winfrey has championed. Media Decoder Blog: The Return of Oprah's Book Club 2012-06-01T22:03:03Z And here the show becomes something useful: a frank and unsentimental depiction of the fallout after suicide. Please Like Me raised the bar for Australian TV comedy. It also tore my heart out \| Benjamin Law 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z A tug of war of toxicity between two of Memphis’s finest rappers, “On Wat U On” is unsentimental and testy. Everything But the Girl’s Long-Awaited Return, and 12 More New Songs 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z But in the midst of its clear-eyed and unsentimental exploration of the Jewish past in England, there is that recurring tension. Museum Review: Where the Jewish Star Meets the Union Jack 2010-03-16T22:18:00Z By contrast, Fireflies follows siblings struggling to survive the second world war with unsentimental realism. The Hangover Part III, Something In The Air, Epic 3D: this week's new films 2013-05-25T05:00:09Z Usually, though, Kitson's unsentimental honesty feels like a gift and is oddly inspiring. Daniel Kitson – review 2013-05-20T17:05:47Z She does so with an unsentimental, appraiser’s eye, as if they were racehorses or hunting dogs, and deems them, with a perfect deadpan, “unwieldy.” It’s the Ultimate TV Prize: An Unscripted Queen Elizabeth 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z It’s a lovely miniature, capturing its subject – a 13-year-old African American girl who happens to be a prodigious Little League baseballer – with unsentimental affection. Streaming: curate your own Spike Lee season 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z Ms. Eason, the author of “Sex With Strangers,” seen off Broadway last summer, draws an affectionate but unsentimental portrait of this makeshift family as it undergoes a period of sudden stress. Review: ‘The Undeniable Sound of Right Now,’ a Lament for a Dying Rock Club 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z His style was wry, dry, sinewy and unsentimental, in the manner of the older bluesman Lowell Fulson, a friend and collaborator, but these are not fashionable virtues with the clientele of most blues clubs today. Phillip Walker obituary 2010-08-10T17:18:00Z In 1983 she published “Marrying Up: An American Dream — and Reality,” an unsentimental look at the possibilities for women to improve their lot through a husband. Joanna T. Steichen, Managed Work by Edward Steichen, Dies at 77 2010-08-07T05:04:00Z But then he says he's ruthlessly unsentimental about the past, about his own personal history. Woody Allen: 'My wife hasn't seen most of my films... and she thinks my clarinet playing is torture' 2011-03-13T00:05:42Z Maybe one of my contributions is to act as much as I can with a certain distance, which allows space for not necessarily a laugh, but for something very unsentimental. Isabelle Huppert Doesn’t Watch Her Past Films, but She Will Discuss Them 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z Irish republicanism is wreathed in myths, but in this clear-headed, unsentimental play, Bean suggests one of the few fixed truths is that the cause's adherents sell their soul for a lifetime of pain. The Big Fellah 2010-09-27T20:29:00Z The director is probably best known for his starkly unsentimental 2008 film “Gomorrah,” which explores Neapolitan organized crime and which a Times critic described as being “a snapshot of hell.” A New Pinocchio Film Returns to the Tale’s Dark Origins 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z Her delineation of Vera’s frustration at the hands that no longer stay steady, the failing senses and the words vanishing from her grasp is both unsentimental and heartbreaking. \| '4000 Miles': Young and Old, With No Particular Place to Go 2011-06-21T02:01:26Z The portrait she took of him is hauntingly unsentimental. The Long, Vital History of Bystander Recordings 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Allen is so unsentimental that he never watches his films once they are finished and derides ceremonies honoring his past films as "living in the past in the gloomiest way." Woody Allen wows critics, just don't call him soppy 2011-06-09T18:39:01Z While Chris Jones, , describes them as "likable, disciplined and wisely unsentimental performances". Rocky makes strong debut on Broadway 2014-03-14T10:12:48Z The Bach is, of course, gorgeous, but at the close of a challenging, complex afternoon it felt a little pat, an overly consolatory ending to an exciting, refreshingly unsentimental concert. Music Review: East Coast Chamber Orchestra at Tishman Auditorium 2012-02-07T23:35:30Z But an unsentimental toughness lies just beneath Ms. Burke’s disarmingly scattered sunniness, itself a perfect foil for avant-garde self-seriousness. Review: ‘Imagining the Imaginary Invalid,’ About Absence and Art Making 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z Its unstinting vigor and empathetic but unsentimental nuance mark it as a distinctive and exceptional political film. “The Hate U Give,” Reviewed: An Empathetic, Nuanced Portrait of a Teen’s Political Awakening 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Beck offered a thoughtful and suitably unsentimental rendition, the moments of harmonic acidity emerging with sharp edged clarity. Music Review: Finding Poetry in Schoenberg?s Hurdles 2010-08-29T23:13:00Z There could hardly be a more poignant symbol for this film's unsentimental and yet fully engaged approach to the natural world: poisoning trees. Joe review – these woods are lovely, dark and deep 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z And a ballad called “Plainchant,” by Mr. Sperrazza, nicely captures the group’s dynamic of approachable rigor and unsentimental beauty. New Music: Kid Rock’s ‘Rebel Soul,’ and Alicia Keys’s ‘Girl on Fire’ 2012-11-26T23:07:45Z What she does is traumatic but controlled, unsentimental but not uncaring. Music Review: St. Vincent Sings at Metropolitan Museum of Art - Review 2011-08-26T23:18:13Z “Avilés approaches Eve’s inner life with frank and tactful sympathy, and depicts her circumstances with unsentimental clarity,” he added. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘The Mandalorian’ and ‘The Chambermaid’ 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z 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. Fiora Corradetti Contino, Opera Maestra, Dies at 91 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z Both the stage musical and the film filtered the 1950s through the prism of the 1970s, offering an often frank, funny and unsentimental view of sex, class and gender at an American high school. In This ‘Grease’ Prequel Series, Pink Is the Word 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z This is a sharp, elegant, unsentimental picture in which Stewart plays a character who is often gloomy and downright unsympathetic. The Shop Around the Corner ? review 2010-12-09T22:02:00Z Like her friends Elizabeth Bishop and Susan Sontag, Hardwick made her literary name in a man’s world that was tough and unsentimental, and she was initially suspicious of second-wave feminism. The Cutting Mind and Romantic Heart of Elizabeth Hardwick 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z Something I appreciate about “Ladies,” though, is her unsentimental understanding that plenty of these olive branches will be ignored: “Yet another woman to whom I won’t get through,” she sighs. Fiona Apple Is Back and Unbound: Let’s Discuss 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z And there seemed to be something in Mr. Pagetti’s direct, unsentimental images that fit the bill. Franco Pagetti Returns to Fashion Photography 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z That simplistic history lesson had already been bested by Don Bluth’s “An American Tail,” the most unsentimental cartoon to ever star a singing mouse. The Best Thanksgiving Movies to Stream 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z She recognizes the weak and the lonely, and in her staunch, unsentimental way, comforts them. What We're Reading: DeLillo, 'The Examined Life,' 'Olive Kitteridge' 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z Her songs have a modern woman’s bent filled with unsentimental and complicated emotions. 14 Musical Acts To Watch in 2014 2013-11-13T10:45:09Z Ms. Weymouth, mindful of her past yet unsentimental about it, seems unconcerned. Katharine Weymouth Takes Charge at the Washington Post 2013-08-02T20:48:16Z Stephen Sondheim, a famously unsentimental writer, wrote these lyrics to be heard in the one place he knew they would ring most true. Why Hillary Clinton's next big stage should be at the Tony Awards 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z “The Inspection,” which follows Ellis through his training, is therefore in some respects a love story, and a love letter — ambivalent, unsentimental, but utterly sincere — to the Corps. ‘The Inspection’ Review: Boot Camp, a Love Story 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z But Eileen also is an unsentimental pragmatist, unimpressed by the males who flock to her. In Praise of Ruth McKenney 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Gunsmoke and wagons aside, "Hell on Wheels" also casts an unsentimental eye on a key turning point in the forging of the United States, the ravaging of Native American land and the price of progress. Westerns saddle up for TV comeback 2011-11-03T12:33:02Z These exercises were necessary, Nivola said, because the film is so unsentimental in how it depicts the relationship between Dickie and Tony. Michael Gandolfini and the Riddle of Tony Soprano 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z 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. Robert Frank Revealed the Truth of Postwar America 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z From its visual artistry to its unblinking, unsentimental depiction of connection and loss to its well-placed moments of levity, “Primal” feels like a natural evolution for Tartakovsky’s style and writing following “Samurai Jack.” Where Does ‘Unicorn: Warriors Eternal’ Rank in the Tartakovsky Canon? 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z Ms. Gheorghiu, a familiar presence from movies like “The Death of Mr. Lazarescu,” maintains a corrosive, unsentimental grip on this film throughout. Movie Review: ‘Child’s Pose,’ a Family Drama Set in Romania 2014-02-18T22:25:20Z Despite the difficulties that inhere in Holocaust memoir — we believe we know this history, and its subject matter defies language — “Mala’s Cat” is fresh, unsentimental and utterly unpredictable. A Memoir of a Young Girl’s Survival Amid Mounting Horrors 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z Perhaps the most radical updating of “Manon Lescaut” would be one that, with an unsentimental and historically informed eye, returns it to the 18th century. ‘Manon Lescaut’ at the Met Opera: A Courtesan in Need of Context 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z And yet the unsentimental rendering of worm-eaten pages, and the absence of text on them, reminds us that books are just paper; or as Mr. Ruscha might say, it all ends up in the trash. Art Review: Ed Ruscha at Gagosian Gallery in Chelsea 2012-12-27T23:01:26Z As a disability-rights activist, whose mother died giving birth to him, he knew he would need an unsentimental collaborator. Girl X: An actor? In a wheelchair? 2011-04-11T20:59:01Z Reflecting on this “paradox of opportunity” for the outsider who becomes an insider, Brown-Nagin honors her subject by being resolutely direct and unsentimental — steely, if you will. ‘Civil Rights Queen,’ the Story of a Brave and Brilliant Trailblazer 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z The result is the compact and unsentimental “Franca: Chaos & Creation,” which is scheduled to open in the United States later this year. Filmmaker son of longtime Vogue Italia editor focuses his lens on her provocative work, life 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z “Never. Mr. Leigh’s wry and magnanimous intelligence keeps ‘Secrets & Lies’ determinedly unsentimental, helped immeasurably by Cynthia’s fine, tough resilience and idiomatic verve.” What’s on TV Friday 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z In this engaging unsentimental tale of human decency and solidarity, the little orphan finds home and family with circus folks in a trailer park on the outskirts of Rome. New Directors/New Films Series Sets Lineup 2010-02-25T17:48:00Z It attracted a record audience for a one-off TV and is a sombre, sober, unsentimental work about chance fate, the arbitrary horrors of war and people trapped in a bureaucratic machine. The Execution of Private Slovik 2012-05-26T23:05:31Z Ogawa’s unsentimental play eschews bitterness in favor of kindness, humor and emotional complexity. What to Do With an Absent Father? Cast Him as a Character Onstage. 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z It's a sweet but unsentimental tale of a son giving his father a sense of decency late in life. Cannes: Dern a leading man again in 'Nebraska' 2013-05-24T19:51:12Z It's a fine and unsentimental piece, and an unblinking commentary on the dancer's lot. Dublin dance festival 2013: Stravinsky Evening – review 2013-05-18T23:05:46Z He was the very image of the quintessential American hero — loyal, unsentimental, plain-spoken. Books of The Times: Talent Is What Made Him Dangerous 2011-02-14T23:29:12Z Her mother, Anouk, is a celebrated stage actress with an unsentimental, unconventional approach to motherhood. A Teenager Plays With Fire and Family Secrets in ‘The Margot Affair’ 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z 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. Review: ‘Cash Only’: Repaying a Crook, When Things Turn Gritty 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z "Politically incorrect, shockingly unsentimental and ... sardonically twisted," said the New York Times, no less. Billy the Mime – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-06T10:36:24Z “It shouldn’t have taken this long,” the Los Angeles Times judged last year, calling it “a sophisticated knockout, a musical for those who like their razzle dazzle with a radical, unsentimental edge.” Two noted and nomadic musicals destined for D.C.? It is a moving but unsentimental novel about human consciousness, about landscape, about horses and about the displacements involved in America’s movement westward. A Guide to Cormac McCarthy’s Books 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z “Mr. Turner” is a mighty work of critical imagination, a loving, unsentimental portrait of a rare creative soul. ‘Mr. Turner,’ About the Life of the Artist J. M. W. Turner 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z The far-north location sets the temperature for the novel as a whole: it's a beautifully chilly, ruthlessly unsentimental creation. A life in writing: Vendela Vida 2011-07-08T21:55:12Z Mungiu films it all with unsentimental harshness: his is as bleak a vision as they come. The best films of 2017 … that you didn't see 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z The play, while starkly unsentimental about the reality of addiction, tells a story that is so much larger than the recovery of one woman learning to coexist with her shame. Denise Gough: From feral brilliance in 'People, Places & Things' to a Broadway debut in 'Angels in America' 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z He continued: “At its knotty core, amazingly, is perhaps the finest and most unsentimental love story of the new decade.” Atticus Lish Wins PEN/Faulkner Prize 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z Treading warily into territory that few dramas dare to explore, “Fly Away” is a defiantly unsentimental look at the complex codependency between a harried single mother and her severely autistic daughter. \| 'Fly Away': A Difficult Family Relationship 2011-04-15T06:15:44Z Wink’s powers are stunning when he describes in crisp, unsentimental prose the physical world framing August’s journey: the breath of cattle on a midwinter day, the taste of raw milk from a Mason jar. What Wins in the Heartland, Machismo or Intellect? 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z Ms. Taylor’s “Schmaltz for Two” — a funny title for such a dramatic but unsentimental dance — woke up the space. Ballet Finds Itself on Higher Ground, Overlooking Lincoln Center 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Guido, who gives a sympathetic, unsentimental portrayal of the uncompromising Castle, is deaf. Review: Reanimating an Autistic Artist With ‘Soot and Spit’ 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z But unexpected and unsentimental change at the top has become something of a pattern at Kering. Major Gucci Shake-Up as Designer Steps Down 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z 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. David Budbill, a Poet of Small-Town Vermont, Dies at 76 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z But if Mr. Radcliffe is the chief draw to the production, nominated for a Tony Award as best revival of a play, these women are its unsentimental heart. Broadway’s ‘Aunties’ Enjoy Their Downtime 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z Unruly, unrelenting and unsentimental, Mr. McKay’s movies sometimes seem not written at all, but shot in real time over 90 minutes of hit-or-miss improvisation. Film: Adam McKay Directs Cops Under Arrested Adolescence 2010-08-01T01:53:00Z As with much of his Mahler, his interpretation was hard-edged and fiercely unsentimental. RLPO/Petrenko – review 2013-03-24T17:59:19Z By contrast, my mother never cried, never expressed any doubt, and never asked us how we felt about being there when she ended her life: She maintained a stoic, unsentimental attitude right to the end. What assisted suicide really looks like 2011-05-25T15:01:00Z In the event, however, it was a spare, careful, unsentimental untangling of the man's life that was illuminating, moving and altogether rather wonderful. TV review: Who Do You Think You Are?; Jet! When Britain Ruled the Skies; John Barrowman's Dallas 2012-08-29T22:10:01Z His sympathy for these leaders is not that surprising, given his descriptions of them as practitioners of the same sort of unsentimental power politics he is famous for himself. Books of The Times: An Insider Views China, Past and Future 2011-05-09T19:59:38Z If you like unsentimental cop shows, ensemble dramas, realism or overlooked gems, this is a show for you. What You Should Watch This Weekend: ‘All in With Cam Newton,’ ‘Jurassic Park’ and ‘Southland’ 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z For all its cloying sweetness, “La Promenade” is quite unsentimental about the custom of showing off your well-dressed children in public. Art Review: Renoir?s Full-Length Paintings at the Frick Collection 2012-02-09T13:00:00Z Well-read, sensitive, and highly intelligent rather than intellectual, he was unsentimental in dealing with people. The Earl of Harewood 2011-07-11T18:26:50Z On the subject of why English football doesn't produce outright geniuses, he is surprisingly unsentimental about Paul Gascoigne, one of English football's great lost talents and his fellow breakout star of Italia 90. World Cup 2014: why Gary Lineker is a man of two halves 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Stark and minimalist — except for a fantastical bureau drawer — Debra Booth’s set hits the right notes of unsentimental modernity while allowing the play to pursue space-time-flouting twists. Review \| ‘Sooner/Later’ weaves rom-com premise into bittersweet family portrait 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z Will le Fleming's gloriously unsentimental debut follows Holly's attempts to right her life as misfortune flexes its muscles around her. Central Reservation by Will le Fleming – review 2013-06-21T17:39:00Z This sets the mood for a harsh, unsentimental narrative of redemption and putting one's life in order as a prelude to death. Biutiful 2011-01-30T00:05:53Z As Israeli settlements expand deeper into the West Bank and East Jerusalem, a Palestinian state looks even more like a bitter deception, and an unsentimental British line with the Netanyahu-Lieberman regime seems essential. Advice for a new government 2010-05-07T23:07:00Z She has grown up to be a practical, independent Madrileña, warmhearted but unsentimental. ‘Parallel Mothers’ Review: Almodóvar’s Brutal, Beautiful World 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z 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. Herschell Gordon Lewis, a Pioneer of Gore Cinema, Dies at 90 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z This is a stark, unsentimental vision of the play that argues, as Brecht did, that no individual is indispensable: Coriolanus ends up shot full of lead and conspicuously unmourned. Coriolan/us – review 2012-08-10T17:08:20Z Casting presents all-too-real issues, and the black student’s unsentimental view is one we don’t hear often, but the show is burdened by hackneyed writing and uneven performances. FringeNYC, a Grab Bag That Calls for Intuition, Not to Mention Dumb Luck 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z Ms. Kakutani called the stories in “The Other Language” “magical” and “fleet-footed,” saying they showed off Ms. Marciano’s “sympathetic, but wryly unsentimental knowledge” of her characters. Lorrie Moore Among Finalists for Story Prize 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z Aiken’s unsentimental accounting begins to acquire a glow of magic. The Practical Magic of Joan Aiken, the Greatest Children’s Writer You’ve Likely Never Read 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z She was an exceptional person – a versatile professional with a direct, unsentimental manner. We were married. But there was no sexual attraction 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z The best moments of the film involve Diana’s unsentimental alliance with Chin, the orphan who offers her more protection than she’s able to afford him. ‘Dark Glasses’ Review: She Wears Her Shades at Night 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z We saw the middle Baratheon brother prepared to fight to the death and capable of making unsentimental decisions in time of war. Game of Thrones: season two, episode nine – Blackwater 2012-05-28T18:08:00Z “A sensuous approach is exactly what the unsentimental Mr. Gielen is unprepared to give,” he added. His Conducting Wasn’t Always Pleasant. But It Was the Truth. 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z They revere Williams’s artistry as a writer of restrained, unsentimental prose that carries great emotional weight. Classic ‘Stoner’? Not so fast. 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z In a brief and perceptive introduction, Sadie Stein describes Comyns’s style as “unsentimental magical realism” that is “uncanny yet matter-of-fact, spooky yet gentle.” Evil Stepmother, Reimagined 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Harron says Atwood’s “very incisive, clear-eyed, unsentimental look at how society works” gives readers and viewers some sense of how stuck these women felt. ‘Alias Grace’ is the second Margaret Atwood TV series, with more on the way. Why now? 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z The fact that Sam was so unsentimental about these songs, that I saw as sort of children, which is inevitable for a songwriter, I thought that was really great, and I really appreciated that. "I went full Christmas": Rhett Miller on writing holiday songs for now and for the ages 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z This unsentimental approach is more controversial than it might seem. You can admit you’ve moved on: It’s not a betrayal to outgrow your one-time favorite band 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z His films, nominated in a variety of categories for more than 50 Oscars, typically were unsentimental and well-crafted, exploring intelligent and complicated themes. Prolific American film director Sidney Lumet dies 2011-04-10T00:09:53Z The group’s glowing sound, combined with brisk, unsentimental tempos, create readings of unusual freshness and discovery. My Favorite String Quartet 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z Only come final bows, Warchus didn't feel he'd heard the subtlety of emotion that would be necessary to capture the essence of Dahl's knotted and unsentimental children's book. Tim Minchin: the man who waltzed Matilda 2013-03-31T00:06:26Z The author is proud of his Gypsy heritage, and he is an unsentimental but affectionate observer of his people’s ways. Books of The Times: ?Gypsy Boy,? a Memoir by Mikey Walsh 2012-02-16T15:29:02Z If her artist-lovers wanted to go she would accompany them, but she didn’t hanker for a bellini at 6pm, like everybody else – she was far too unconventional, unsentimental and progressive for that. The day I shared a gondola with Peggy Guggenheim 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z And yet some passages are breathtaking, particularly the precise, unsentimental details of a goat's dismemberment and an account of a violent attack – Shaw knows how to balance beauty and terror. The Man Who Rained by Ali Shaw ? review 2012-02-10T22:55:03Z Amid the guitar strumming, they stay unsentimental; there’s far more banter than romance. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-08-29T21:53:00Z The unsentimental focus is evident from the clarity of the first movement argument, and the outbursts of the Rondo-Burleske are terrifyingly direct. Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra/Roger Norrington: Mahler, Symphony No 9 2010-06-12T23:07:00Z The result is her most nuanced and unsentimental novel to date. Books of The Times: ?The Lake Shore Limited,? Sue Miller?s Latest Novel 2010-04-22T22:31:00Z To portray a family in good emotional shape in a way that is unsentimental and holds the attention takes real skill and judgment. Binny for Short by Hilary McKay – review 2013-03-01T17:16:01Z Dan is analytical and unsentimental, “a distance man,” as his clandestine supervisor calls him, but also prone to loneliness and, on occasion, to self-destructive acts. ‘High Dive’ review: A bomb is ticking under the prime minister 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z McCullin emerges as an unsentimental, plain-speaking, thoughtful man, disgusted at the inhumanity of war – and yet candid about how he is also personally and professionally drawn to its drama. McCullin – review 2012-12-28T21:40:03Z It’s a hard-core work, spiritual yet unsentimental, and it gets to the heart of Bilbao’s art. \| Diamond in the Rough 2013-05-08T17:01:53Z His technique is impeccable in both works, with a sweet-toned and unsentimental approach to the Mendelssohn. Classical Playlist: Bach, Biber, Gottschalk and More 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z Longer, sweeter melodies were no less well served, Mr. Pollini’s unsentimental approach warding off triviality. Music Review: Maurizio Pollini Honors Chopin Landmark at Carnegie 2010-04-19T21:51:00Z Given the soloist’s concentrated, unsentimental account, especially in the sustained lyricism of the central Romanze, the applause after each of the three movements was well deserved. At the Hollywood Bowl, breathing life into the most famous symphony ever written 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z And in these Aldeburgh readings he was masterful, with an incisive brilliance and relentless focus that acknowledged how the music marries rigorous complexity with childlike innocence, unsentimental clinicism with romantic charm. Review: A Pianist Pays Homage to Birdsong 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z Thúy's fictionalised memoir adopts a similarly unsentimental attitude to a life of extremes. Ru by Kim Thúy, translated by Sheila Fischman - review 2012-06-12T11:30:01Z As much as she understood the power of words, Malcolm was resolutely unsentimental about them. Janet Malcolm, a Writer Who Emphasized the Messiness of Life With Slyness and Precision 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z 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. Review: ‘Aferim!’ Traverses an Unforgiving Romania in the 1800s 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Ryan Gosling as the charismatic, lawless Luke in The Place Beyond the Pines: ‘a moving, unsentimental performance’. The Place Beyond the Pines – review 2013-04-13T23:07:32Z She was a strong-willed, unsentimental professor emeritus of psychology at Cornell. Suicide tourists flock to Switzerland 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z It’s the kind of unsentimental yet passionate tribute a musical legend and family cornerstone would surely appreciate. Life and death shape North Mississippi Allstars' latest offering 2011-01-31T21:52:15Z And Grammer is so completely Frasier — a deceptively unsentimental character in a basically sentimental show — that the new edition, for all its innovations, wraps itself comfortably around him. Review: The new 'Frasier' is classic and contemporary. And it's quite good 2023-10-09T04:00:00Z One critic described his performance as "unsentimental, dangerous and immensely powerful" and it was reported that his fellow cast members clapped him back to the dressing room. Obituary: Sir Michael Gambon, star of The Singing Detective and Harry Potter 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z Though it lasted only a single season, its 13 episodes describe a satisfying emotional yet unsentimental arc that does not oversell any lessons that might have been learned along the way. Hurricane Hilary: 13 movies, TV shows and more to hunker down with 2023-08-20T04:00:00Z “As unsentimental and boring as a coffee table is, there’s an acknowledgment that someone loved this item in their home and it is now in mine. I’m giving it a second life,” she added. How to foster connection through hand-me-down furniture 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z McCarthy explored the dark side of human nature in a dozen novels that were lean and poetic, poignant yet unsentimental. This week’s passages 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z The Hollywood Reporter summarized the "striking" film as "a quiet stunner" while The Guardian newspaper gave it four out of five stars, calling it "an interestingly unsentimental film, without the coming-of-age cliches." 'How to Have Sex' wins Cannes' 'Certain Regard' competition 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z Won’t it always be “too soon”? Because the queens themselves are so clearly over what happened to them, and so unsentimental, they give us permission to take it all lightly too. Review: Musical 'Six,' about Henry VIII's wives, is unapologetically revisionist. That's why it's successful 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z Their decision in the end was as swift and unsentimental as the two-paragraph statement the network sent in announcing his dismissal: “We thank him for his service.” On Eve of Trial, Discovery of Carlson Texts Set Off Crisis Atop Fox 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z The last chapters lead up to an impeccably calibrated, unsentimental ending that’s equal parts bitter and sweet. The Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf: Fiction 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z Spurred by a coronavirus crisis and economic pressure at home, he reemerged on the world stage in November with a message of unsentimental cooperation. After the balloon, China works on fixing U.S. ties while still looking tough 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z They are individual and odd, enfolded in a natural world Harding depicts with the same unsentimental reverence he employed in his Pulitzer Prize-winning debut, “Tinkers.” Review \| In ‘This Other Eden,’ an island refuge is destroyed by good intentions 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z It’s an emotional and romantic roller coaster that the guys manage to keep under wraps — through evasion and deception — until the inevitable occurs and the largely unsentimental script shifts into melodrama. Review: Rugby romance 'In From the Side' struggles with deeper issues 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z Ditlevsen also wrote candidly about her death wish, with unsentimental emotional force. Overlooked No More: Tove Ditlevsen, Danish Writer of Confessional Autofiction 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z Indeed, the most Swedish thing about her books is her tone, which she captures when she describes the nationality as “quite blunt, clear-eyed, and unsentimental.” Review \| Chocolate, gin and cats: An octogenarian on growing old gracefully 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z Unlike many of his younger teammates, Jackson is independent, unsentimental and self-aware enough to appreciate where football fits into his world. Ex-Navy SEAL makes big impression on Buffalo football team 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z Clear-eyed and unsentimental, with a nod to women’s political empowerment, Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi showed the skills that make her a historic figure. Column: 'There’s this very toxic energy circulating.' Alexandra Pelosi on her mom, dad and a new documentary 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z Chopra writes in a prose style that is unflinching and unsentimental. Review \| The way we tell #MeToo stories is changing 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z But for those with an open mind, the production revealed just how unsentimental about the American myth this chestnut can be. Best theater of 2022: So many L.A. bright spots in a challenging year 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z But others criticized his unsentimental approach to decisions, saying it could come across as overly clinical. Kareem Daniel and the rise and fall of the Disney executive who helped define the Bob Chapek era 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z “I remember saying goodbye to my grandfather in a very unsentimental way. I didn’t contemplate his mortality at all. I remember waving and saying ‘Goodbye, grandpa,’ and then I never saw him again.” For Anthony Hopkins, a grandfather role with personal echoes 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z Lubricated by an unsentimental disregard for historic rivalries, this arrangement should at long last silence the increasingly ludicrous pretense that college football’s premier programs are anything other than entertainment behemoths. Opinion \| Sometimes, as with the college football conference upheavals, worse is better 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z And, in the center with an eternal flame, would be a simple stone marker as spare and unsentimental as Ivana’s: Opinion \| The latest Trump grift? Burying Ivana at their golf club. 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z The worry is that at some point, perhaps soon, this noble impulse will collide with the unsentimental imperatives of running a business. The Economy Putin Didn’t Actually Ruin 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z And despite his reputation for being unsentimental, Adams can be the most sentimental of photographers, a license he allows himself so sparingly that when he does, the effects are heartbreaking. Review \| Robert Adams looked past despair and found the truth of America 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z It’s a lovely, unsentimental scene beneath a soft, gray autumn light, with Hopkins sitting on a park bench. For Anthony Hopkins, a grandfather role with personal echoes 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z Brown’s bestselling “The Diana Chronicles” was an empathetic but unsentimental biography that subjected the Firm to a forensic examination of its limitations. Review: Tina Brown's prescription for the royals: Never mind Meghan, don't ever change 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z Florence and Josephine, strong-minded women who did not always see eye-to-eye, found common ground in their unsentimental appraisal of Alaska as a malign influence, a land of grandiose and thwarted dreams. How a family secret (or two) led a Seattle attorney to his grandfather’s Alaskan ghost town 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z Party stalwart Henry Clay longed for the nomination, but unsentimental power brokers realized that his enemies were too numerous and chose William Henry Harrison instead. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z And it would be a mistake not to cast a cold, unsentimental eye at the Ukraine crisis before it damages the world irreparably. Opinion \| Watching Russia’s military failures is exhilarating. But a cornered Putin is dangerous. 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Rather, our unsentimental assessment of relations between gentile Blacks and white Jews provides some context to think through today's challenges, like the battle to re-secure voting rights. How the Black-Jewish alliance changed America — and today's struggle for voting rights 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z A rustling of unexpected sadness occasionally crept into the paintings after that initial leaping rush of joy — an unsentimental nostalgia for a bygone era or some long lost love. Wayne Thiebaud, Playful Painter of the Everyday, Dies at 101 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z For all the backslapping and Irish charm, he is quite unsentimental. Opinion \| Biden’s foreign policy: The tough guy vs. the pussycat 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z A lot could happen before then and it may never amount to more than talk, but the party is famously unsentimental about ditching leaders that start to be seen as a liability at the polls. North Shropshire by-election: Has Boris Johnson lost his winning touch? 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z All of Degas’s ironic, morose and unsentimental intelligence is on display in these sentences. Think Degas was a misogynist? Take another look. In this performance she revealed the lyric, melancholic, ever-so-Russian saxophone solo in the first movement of the Variations to be unsentimental, ever-so-not-Russian and sonically clear as spring water. Review: With Susanna Mälkki and Leila Josefowicz at the helm, John Adams' Violin Concerto soars 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z A cutthroat, unsentimental style in which every last ounce of a roster is optimized like an orange going through an industrial juicer? Atlanta flirts with no-hitter in World Series Game 3 win over Astros 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z “The Strategy of Denial” presents a particularly unsentimental version of what a lot of people bidding to shape a post-9/11-era foreign policy believe — and not just younger Republicans like Colby. Opinion \| What Comes After the 9/11 Era? 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Husband was unsentimental about the Lee statue coming down, more interested in real change that would improve the lives of Black people. Virginia Removes Robert E. Lee Statue From State Capital 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z These futures are revealed as Garrett, a famously unsentimental employee who was pessimistic about keeping in touch with coworkers, delivers closing remarks that echo the feelings of the “Superstore” cast and crew. How the emotional ‘Superstore’ series finale came to be 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z General Ford joins the team because of his reputation for unsentimental ferocity, born of his mass murder of millions of human colonists who once rebelled against their Alliance. Review: More Bruce Willis isn't necessarily better in low-energy sci-fi actioner 'Cosmic Sin' 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z For an actor so intense, so rigorously unsentimental, this is his Lear. Review: In ‘The Father,’ the disorientation of dementia 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z It’s happy and sad; soaring and earthily unsentimental. Review \| Frances McDormand wows (again) in the earthbound yet expansive ‘Nomadland’ 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z The Japanese author's novella is evocative but breezy, conversational and unsentimental. BBC presenters share their lockdown entertainment tips 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z We didn’t go in for a lot of explanation, which is one reason the film’s so unsentimental.” Ronald Harwood, Oscar-winning screenwriter of ‘The Pianist,’ dies at 85 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z A very different musical experience could be found in “The Disciple,” a contemplative, moving and bracingly unsentimental drama from the gifted Indian director Chaitanya Tamhane. The ups and downs of having the Toronto Film Festival at your fingertips 2020-09-20T04:00:00Z An extended standing ovation brings a tear to my unsentimental eye. Diary of a socially distanced director: how I staged a play in Tokyo – from London 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z Yet, her first blogs, delving frankly into sex, family and womanhood, were devoured by fans hungry for an unsentimental and new female voice that didn’t condescend. Mieko Kawakami: 'Women are no longer content to shut up' 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z Well-liked by his workforce, Albence was known for his fierce defense of the agency and his unsentimental views on immigration enforcement. Matthew Albence, Trump’s top ICE official, announces retirement 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z That personal connection is ever-present in Sellers’ sturdy, unsentimental portrayal of a country mouse forced to transform, fully aware of what he’s losing and gaining in the process. Review: 'Mr. Topaze,' Peter Sellers' directing debut, emerges from the star's vault 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z The spirit of the Silk Road, I could now see, was all movement, mercantile and unsentimental. In Uzbekistan, Coming to Terms With the Country’s Dazzling History 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z New York’s reputation for being tough and unsentimental is well-earned; connections between people are tenuous, provisional. I Left My Troubled City Behind. Now I Feel Guilty. 2020-05-16T04:00:00Z Toren’s grandson, Ben, said his grandfather pursued the art collection in retirement with the same “unsentimental” focus and tenacity as he did in his law career. Lives Lost: Holocaust survivor reclaimed Nazi-looted artwork 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z Self-becoming is an unsentimental business, from which you emerge bruised but fortified, ready to relate to the renewing terrors of the world with a kind of leathery compassion: character. Slow days, quiet healing: what trauma taught me about surviving a pandemic \| Geoffrey Mak 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z Stewart Jackson, a former Conservative lawmaker, wrote in the Daily Telegraph on Tuesday that Raab may be an “anti-Boris,” but he’s also “clever, self-assured and even tempered yet also cautious, managerial, unsentimental and taciturn.” Who is Dominic Raab, the man standing in for Boris Johnson? 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z He focused an unsentimental eye on everything he wrote, including his own mortality in the wake of his brushes with death from cancer. John Prine, revered singer-songwriter, dies of COVID-19 complications at 73 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z It is both unsentimental and heart-melting, and I read it every year. Elizabeth Gilbert: ‘Don’t we all wish we’d written Wolf Hall?’ 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z Director Kitty Green wanted her film, about a low-level employee’s day at a film company run by a sexual oppressor, to be as realistic and unsentimental as possible. Tamar-kali mixes Afropunk, Gullah sounds and classical music in her film scores 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Bloomberg is offering audiences an unsentimental bargain, in some ways, pitched less at the heart than the gut. Billions of Targets on His Back, Bloomberg Joins the Debate Fray 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Yet Nemens makes us care about even the worst of them, a neat trick of unsentimental empathy and a testament to the power of careful, almost loving, observation. Review: Chasing homers, ballplayers and dreams 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z Written in the 1980s, this is a gorgeous yet austere, unsentimental book, which offers a prescient warning about human complacency towards Earth’s remaining wilderness. From polar explorers to frozen dystopias: the best books about ice 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z He seemed unsentimental about the prospect that a way of watching TV was on the wane. Netflix Was Only the Start: Disney Streaming Service Shakes an Industry 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z This, in Morgan’s unsentimental vision, is the real point of the monarchy, if it can be said to have one anymore. How the Man Behind ‘The Crown’ Made the Monarchy Relevant Again 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z In dividing marital property, judges don’t consider where your TV wants to live, and they’ve been similarly unsentimental about what might be in the best interests of “companion animals.” Opinion \| After a Divorce, Who Gets the Dog? 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z “The Liberation of Paris” is a slender book: terse, authoritative, unsentimental. Review \| The Allies who liberated Paris, and the Nazi who saved it 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z It was indicative of Mr. Obama’s unsentimental approach that his personal favorite, Mr. Kaine, finished third. Obama and Biden’s Relationship Looks Rosy. It Wasn’t Always That Simple. 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z Females are unsentimental enough to devour their own freshly hatched offspring. Here There Be Dragons. But Can They Survive an Invasion of Tourists? 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z “Our job is to enforce the law,” said Albence, who is popular at the White House and within his agency for his tough-cop demeanor and uncomplicated, unsentimental view of the job. ICE Air: Shackled deportees, air freshener and cheers. America’s one-way trip out. 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z Both Johnson and Trump will talk up the possibilities of a US-UK free trade agreement post-Brexit, but the realities of the negotiations are likely to be unsentimental at best. How will the US-UK relationship evolve with Boris Johnson in No 10? 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z Ginzburg became famous for her ability to conjure up a mixed emotional atmosphere, poignant yet unsentimental. Rediscovering Natalia Ginzburg 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z Told from an infantryman’s necessarily narrow perspective, this account of his war – its title lifted from Kipling – is starkly unsentimental. Top 10 books about Burma 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z The magazine article, Janny Scott writes, “was humorous, elegiac, and tinged with melancholy,” words that also are exactly right for “The Beneficiary,” her engrossing, lovely but wholly unsentimental portrait of her family and her father. Review \| The rise and fall of a small American fortune 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z The Moscow intelligentsia were enraptured by Osipov’s unsentimental yet tender account. A Village Doctor’s Literary Calling 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z When Bolton took over, he quickly demonstrated an unsentimental style: he told Trump that he could not work with McMaster’s former aide Keith Kellogg, a seventy-three-year-old veteran who had won a Silver Star in Vietnam. John Bolton on the Warpath 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z Anchored by its two excellent leads, the movie is sympathetic and, for the most part, unsentimental.” Indie Focus: Getting ready with Summer Movie Sneaks Mr. Ashlock is unsentimental about the cab companies of the past. He Has Driven for Uber Since 2012. He Makes About $40,000 a Year. 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z The Daily Mail's Jan Moir dubbed it "absolutely the perfect ending", adding that Waller-Bridge "gave us a finale that was redemptive, unsentimental and beautiful". Fleabag finale praised as 'perfect' by critics 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z 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. The Flashy Pleasures of “Billions” 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Unlike the cinematic version of the sport, actual boxing is unsentimental and unsparing. Mikey Garcia faces harsh truth in welterweight division 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z It’s easy to admire Franklin’s unsentimental commitment to her work and her refusal to cater to bigots’ expectations, but we don’t learn much else about her. Review: She helped discover DNA. History may have forgotten her, but ‘Photograph 51’ does not 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z It’s a poignant throwaway line that nonetheless speaks to Petzold’s own doomy romanticism, even if his tightly constructed, rigorously unsentimental movies don’t melt so much as they slowly, brilliantly incandesce. Review: Christian Petzold’s thriller ‘Transit’ is hauntingly suspended between past and present 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z Bernstine’s Mary is proud, amusing, self-aware, and unsentimental—“droll,” the script says—with authoritative hand gestures and a Jamaican accent. Jackie Sibblies Drury on the Work of Caregiving and Taking 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z “To win against anybody is satisfying,” Quick said in his typical unsentimental fashion. Kings and Blackhawks turn back the clock in 6-3 L.A. victory 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z Pam Tanowitz has been making dances for more than two decades, but only lately has her intelligent, unsentimental style found a wider audience. Spring Dance Preview 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z To begin to repair our country’s flaws, we have to be clear-eyed about them and unsentimental in our patriotism, and that is actually a hopeful task. Revisiting the American Nazi Supporters of “A Night at the Garden” 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z Prine’s skilled use of humor, inventive turns of phrase and unsentimental poignancy while examining the human condition have earned him praise over the years as a modern-day musical Mark Twain. Americana artists salute John Prine at annual pre-Grammy Awards gathering at the Troubadour 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z 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. Celebrate Star Trek: Discovery’s return with the Animated Series 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z "The American people are very unsentimental in their judgments," he says. What makes a one-term president? 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z The show’s treatment of Josh’s sexual adventures, like its treatment of mental illness, is idiosyncratic and unsentimental, romantic without dipping into formula. The Home-Cooked Pleasures of “Please Like Me” 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z She “grows,” she comes of age, but the journey will strike most readers as a distinctly unsentimental education. The 9/11 Novel That Finally Understands the Fulfillments of Faith 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Analysts see several fast, brutally unsentimental changes needed to restore the company’s credibility with Wall Street and to stanch the decline in the stock price, which was halved in Flannery’s 14 months as CEO. Larry Culp’s long to-do list to fix GE 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Smarsh is a product of matriarchy, descended from a line of nomadic women who wield unsentimental power earned through struggle and grit. Review \| One woman’s story of poverty and hard work in America’s fly-over country 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z By savviness, he meant the quality of being knowing, ironic, perceptive, shrewd and unsentimental. How a disastrous change in perspective disempowered the left and let the right rise \| Jeff Sparrow 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z Hurricanes are an unsentimental force, the ultimate man versus nature narrative. 'This one feels different': Hurricane Florence can start a new conversation 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z Far from exaggerating our depth of feeling for others, the modesty and simplicity of such ceremonies has an unsentimental honesty. It’s right to lower the flag for John McCain. Rituals of grief help us all \| Julian Baggini 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z Hywood was unsentimental about the end of the Fairfax name and said the important thing was that the mastheads remain open and the business survives. Fairfax Nine takeover: Australia’s oldest media empire ends with $4bn merger 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z The unsentimental gift shop stocks cheeky T-shirts, mugs, needlepoint and barware, as well as artistically crafted soaps and jewelry. Hop on the Train to Long Beach for a Summer Escape From New York City 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z After her debut, a Time magazine critic described her work as having “the daintiness of miniatures, the vivid reds and yellows of Mexican tradition and the playfully bloody fancy of an unsentimental child.” Frida Kahlo and the birth of Fridolatry 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z New York, a city unsentimental about its past, endlessly, relentlessly revises itself. A story of survival: New York’s last remaining independent bookshops 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z Sensing this, she parted from me with words spoken with unsentimental fellow feeling: "Get some rest." My disastrous tea with Glenda Jackson 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z But what impresses me most about the series is how completely unsentimental Neuvel is about the status quo. Today is World Book Day — here’s what we’re reading 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z But Zhao's restrained, unsentimental style is the opposite of preachy, which makes it all too easy to underappreciate the sublimity of her achievement. Chloé Zhao's cowboy drama 'The Rider' is a moving, lyrical tale of loss and recovery 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z But the film doesn’t convey the privation that haunts Walls’ book, and turns an unsentimental account of growing up poor into a maudlin movie about father-daughter relationships. Where all the films about poor Americans? \| Stephen Pimpare 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z Considering he grew up in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, weathered a U.S.-led invasion, endured the country’s rampant corruption and steeled himself as a security specialist for foreign VIPs, it’s easy for him to be unsentimental. Wars’ other veterans rebuild in Washington state 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z He buys and sells artifacts for a living, after all, and is unsentimental, even when he goes to help his sister clean out his childhood home. Review: ‘Nostalgia’ is an unrushed poem with a great cast 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z But that is the unsentimental world of planned obsolescence. What I Learned from Watching My iPad’s Slow Death 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z I think because it's a human story and it represents a community and it deals with some issues of family and human relations, in a very direct, unsentimental and, sometimes, joyous way. Willem Dafoe stayed ‘fluid’ for Oscar-nominated ‘Florida Project’ role 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z The actor is a captivating performer — able to convey the deeply human in unsentimental ways. A Mexican actor became a worker making less than $5 a day for art, theater and understanding poverty – LA Times 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z "I wonder if that's why Ridley related to her, because Ridley is a real unsentimental dude." Michelle Williams found big challenges and even bigger opportunities in 'All the Money' – LA Times 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z Yet he also encounters the unsentimental, occasionally grudging kindness of ordinary Finns. ‘The Other Side of Hope’: an honest, humorous take on refugee crisis in Finland 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z 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. ‘Nobody Thought It Would Come to This’: Drug Maker Teva Faces a Crisis 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z Even by the unsentimental standards of corporate America, it was an abrupt transition. Inside the Revolution at Etsy 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z It isn't possible to describe the power, sadness, and the tenderness, that at times comes across, if it's possible, as unsentimental reportage. Opinion \| The Magic and Moral of Joan Didion 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z 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. The Superweirdo Behind ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z “I’m horribly unsentimental about moments in my life,” she says. Celebrity stylist Karla Welch on getting stars ready for the Emmys: 'May the best dress win' 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Stark, specific and unsentimental, its few simple lines convey profound loss, both for Alzheimer’s sufferers and those who love them. Glen Campbell dies at 81; country-pop singer battled with Alzheimer's 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z The New York Times said the "unsentimental, deeply poignant book" gives "readers an unsettling and visceral understanding of how discrimination, segregation and stereotypes have endured throughout the second half of the 20th Century and today". 'Untouchable' New York subway worker's memoir makes waves - BBC News 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z In a film that otherwise belabors its backward glances, to little effect, these fiercely unsentimental scenes cut deep. A fine Ciaran Hinds stars in 'The Sea,' which struggles with its literary roots 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z The craft is a weird mix of being extremely vulnerable, technically nimble and completely unsentimental all at once. How a podcast is changing minds on songwriter pay and recognition in the streaming era 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z Mr. Flannery on Monday played down the idea that he was simply an unsentimental deal maker. A Lifer at General Electric, John Flannery Is Named Chief Executive 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z On the album, it lasted more than eight minutes, but unsentimental record executives trimmed it to three and a half, and the edited version found a home on U.S. radio stations. The Persistence of Prog Rock 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z In the unsentimental way of nature, the answer to “What good are they?” is an unwavering “Well, they survive and they reproduce.” Dog Ticks, the Zombies of the Woods 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z “The Purple Swamp Hen,” the title tale in a new short-story collection by leading British author Penelope Lively, is remarkable for its economy and unsentimental empathy. ‘The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories’: A lively return to short fiction 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z Once a civil servant, Ahmed served here for in the 1950s and his spare, unsentimental stories have the unmistakable ring of truth. Top 10 novels about Pakistan 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Her style is amused and unsentimental, and she has a strong Long Island accent. What Makes a Parent? 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z If there was regret and sadness — and there was — these are the measures of a lived life and deserving of our unsentimental regard. Richard Ford's memoir 'Between Them' captures the 'infinite remoteness' between us 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z Peggy was unsentimental in eradicating the rest of Doris’s presence, stripping out the luxurious decorations and converting her black marble bathrooms into galleries. Sex and art by the Grand Canal: how Peggy Guggenheim took Venice 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z She was a funny, spirited woman who was guarded, cool and singularly unsentimental, except when she talked about her parents, both bakers by trade. Baking Is All in the Hands 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z 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. Tucker Carlson’s Fighting Words 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z The Queen, by all accounts a practical and unsentimental person, understands the theatrical power of the crown. Operation London Bridge: the secret plan for the days after the Queen’s death 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Stirring yet unsentimental, “Red Dawn” is an action-packed movie about kids who face hard choices and psychological damage as they’re forced to become lethal defenders of the American ideal. New video: 'Fences' is a must-see for fans of master-class level acting 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z Dredd's unbending, unsentimental approach satirised right wing approaches to law enforcement, while also injecting a large dollop of humour. Judge Dredd: 2000 AD's futuristic lawman turns 40 - BBC News 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z She grew up in the Bronx during the Great Depression, and she took an unsentimental view of her childhood. Mildred Dresselhaus, physicist dubbed ‘queen of carbon science,’ dies at 86 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z For each new generation introduced to his Fungus the Bogeyman, or Father Christmas, there lies in store a lifetime of literary and artistic discoveries produced by the unsentimental, but sympathetic hand of Raymond Briggs. Raymond Briggs: Lifetime award for The Snowman creator - BBC News 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Van Assen – who is 44, tall and rangy, with a mop of greying, curly hair – approaches his work with relentless, unsentimental practicality. The high-tech war on science fraud 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z Egan’s passion for this corner of the world lives and breathes in his writing, but he is unsentimental about our region’s challenges. A new-to-Seattle reading list, part 2: The nonfiction edition 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z So while he says today’s FA Cup third-round tie is not about him – and he is a fascinatingly unsentimental man - deep down he knows it is. Manchester United v Reading: FA Cup third round – live! 2017-01-07T05:00:00Z Younger, the director of “Boiler Room” and “Prime,” films Vinny’s journey in a laudably unsentimental approach. Review: In ‘Bleed for This,’ a comeback times two 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Despite its cutesy appearance, the game is surprisingly detailed and utterly unsentimental. Virtual realty: can a computer game turn you into an ‘evil’ property developer? 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z His book is also bracingly unsentimental about male desire and male failure. Nine Tales of Crises in “All That Man Is” 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z In its origins, European unity was an unsentimental exercise in geopolitics. Europe Needs Its Realist Past 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z In a nuclear world, unsentimental and often counterintuitive analysis is necessary. The Gathering Nuclear Storm 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z The author and her partner, Tony Wilkinson, were, she admits early in this unsentimental memoir, “the most implausible couple I have ever known.” Briefly Noted Book Reviews 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z The next logical step then was to explore this new unsettling and unsentimental view of the crime narrative with real cases. Why TV's true-crime spree is so troubling ... and important 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z What they do, at best, is offer honest, unsentimental assessments of whether policies are working. Don’t be fooled — Donald Trump’s foreign policy is as scary as ever 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Her scenes with Krasinski are warm, funny and utterly natural, and she saves her character from potential martyrdom by infusing her with wised-up, unsentimental directness. ‘The Hollars’ takes another spin around Dysfunctional Family Circle 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z That was the paradox of this strong, unsentimental performance. They had the beat: The Go-Go's say goodbye at the Greek 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z But when the hard-nosed and unsentimental scientist demands proof, persuasive evidence is hard to find. We all want our doctors to be kind. But does kindness actually help us get well? 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z If “Anthropoid” owes a debt to any World War II movie, it’s Jean-Pierre Melville’s masterful “The Army of Shadows,” a stark portrait of the French resistance that’s as gut-wrenching as it is unsentimental. ‘Anthropoid’: A World War II thriller that stands out from the pack 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Laila Soueif is a tough, unsentimental woman, and if she harbored any pride — or, in light of what was to come, regret — over her children’s turn to activism, she didn’t let on. Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z Moore dismissed that out of hand, though he remains unsentimental about the city’s ghost subway. The secret history of Cincinnati's ghost subway 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z If this film portrait stirs deep emotions, they spring from a breathtakingly unsentimental embrace of life at its most challenging. Stirring 'Gleason' documents an unsentimental embrace of life, but you'll still cry 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Yet part of the reason Armstrong and his management team have been successful is that they have been "unsentimental," said Kevin Werbach, a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Verizon’s mixed quarter shows why it needs AOL and Yahoo 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z The film packs such a wallop partly because the Gleasons are themselves so unsentimental. In ‘Gleason,’ a football star with ALS finds a new purpose 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z The Thompsons adhere to a traditional Christian understanding of the afterlife, but they have prepared for their own deaths with unsentimental pragmatism. At a Funeral Home in Brooklyn, the Hard Business of Goodbye 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z First penned in Yiddish, the harrowing yet unsentimental account based on Wiesel’s year in the death camps was published in French in 1958 and eventually printed in more than 30 languages. Elie Wiesel dies at 87; Nobel Peace Prize laureate and renowned Holocaust survivor 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z Throw in the fact that Karolyi is not taking the past into account and it’s a decidedly unsentimental process. Simone Biles leads at championships 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z An unsparing observer of the human condition, Francis Bacon was as unsentimental about death as he was about life. Francis Bacon: creating order from chaos 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z 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. Key Piece to Yankees’ Pitching Puzzle, C.C. Sabathia, Returns 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Between shots of home-brewed rice wine, Tu gave an unsentimental assessment of the Vietnamese legend and said that species' peril is just a matter of nature taking its course. Turtle is legendary in Vietnam, but it's on the verge of extinction 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z They are a tough, unsentimental lot, these tennis players. Fitness fears grow over Roger Federer’s participation in French Open 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z Humans, especially us dog lovers, anthropomorphize the pain and suffering of animals forgetting that nature's way is brutal, calculating and most certainly unsentimental. The World Is Full of Dogs Without Collars 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z But in an unsentimental turn befitting Bowie, few performers went for the heartstrings. As Cyndi Lauper, Perry Farrell and Michael Stipe sang, David Bowie's spirit hovered 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z Out of that hardship, Staples emerged as a streetwise Everyman whose lyrics and musical production are uniformly lean and unsentimental. 25 Songs That Tell Us Where Music Is Going 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Finally, and perhaps most important, of all the three top contenders, “Spotlight” provided the most satisfyingly emotional experience, and it was honestly earned, unsentimental feeling at that. Three reasons why 'Spotlight' walked away with the Oscar for best picture 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z Few American cities have the accrued historical sediment of New York, but few are as unsentimental about the past. Awakening the Bowery’s Ghosts 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z "Spotlight" is a favorite for top honors for its unsentimental account of the Boston Globe's investigation of the Catholic Church's sex abuse scandal. Topical films like 'Spotlight' want to start conversations, but finding audiences isn't easy 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z Dr. Packer is surprisingly unsentimental about the species he studies. A Lion Expert Who Isn’t Inclined to Turn Tail 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z We reach this point near the end of the book, when Hare’s detailed account of his artistic evolution has given us an intelligent, unsentimental glimpse inside the creative process. David Hare: Evolution of a political playwright 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z It’s also unsentimental: next season, Murphy, a free agent, will probably be playing for someone else. The Best Eleven Minutes in Sports in 2015 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z But the longer she worked at Pacific Interment the more she found her own attitude toward the dead body at odds with Mitford’s approach, which struck her as unsentimental to the point of callousness. The Rise of the Artisanal Funeral 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z He seems to view most of human life as a series of transactions and in the unsentimental, Darwinian universe he inhabits, the deals are always zero-sum. The Presidency as the Art of the Deal 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z And unsentimental investors remember his advice today, buying into defence stocks today on anticipation of more military action in Syria. French stock market resilient as Buffett rules out selling shares - live updates 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z Mr Starace is unsentimental about shedding bits of Italy’s industrial history. Anyone want a power station? 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z But to get an unsentimental look at the market for such cases erodes the beguilement of a client base of “plain, ordinary, simple people.” Testimony at Sheldon Silver’s Trial Suggests How Lucrative Mesothelioma Was 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z The 36-year-old fashionista has honed her craft over the years, developing a tough-minded, unsentimental approach to what her customers want and when they want it. Current Boutique puts the glam in secondhand 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z Smart and unsentimental, she made the most of her hardship, gathering her experiences like fabric for future designs. How Poverty Shaped Coco Chanel 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z And unsentimental investors remember his advice today, buying into defence stocks today on anticipation of more military action in Syria. French stock market resilient as Buffett rules out selling shares - live updates 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z Although they branded themselves as iconoclasts, the Bolsheviks understood the value of icons to others in unsentimental pecuniary terms. Selling Iraq's History to the Highest Bidder 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Free speech, in Fish’s unsentimental account, was a “political prize,” a tag awarded by politically powerful groups to whatever forms of expression they approved of. Who’s Fighting Free Speech? 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z Many people give to charities to which they feel a personal connection, but effective altruists are passionately unsentimental, seeking to send their cash where they think it will do the most objective good. Young, smart and want to save lives? Become a banker, says philosopher 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z "There's an unsentimental side of me that says I'm just being silly and superstitious, but it does feel significant. And I'd like to suppress that. It feels like an ending, which makes me nervous." Fashion designer Rick Owens is ready to tap L.A.'s gritty side again 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z
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