affectless

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I'd pay good money for a grey, affectless, fact-driven newspaper that's not a magazine and not an online cocoon - would you?

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  1. adjective Having or showing no emotion; unfeeling: "Mass-culture banality is killing our souls and making everybody affectless” (New Yorker).

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  • And yet … the plonking symbolism, the contrived artsiness, the rehearsed-to-death regimentation - it's all so un-human, so totalitarian, so affectless, so … so … poshlust. —  National Review Online
  • Trapped in the middle of that shift, the affectless, zombielike Hearst was a ready-made symbol of all that seemed to have gone wrong with the sixties-the inevitable result, some said, of rampant permissiveness, feckless elitism, the loss of moral clarity, and feminism run amok. —  The Chicago Blog
  • I'd pay good money for a grey, affectless, fact-driven newspaper that's not a magazine and not an online cocoon - would you? —  Kenneth Anderson's Law of War and Just War Theory Blog
  • Whether the world would support a paper, online or on paper, devoted to entirely affectless statements of fact, sustained only on the basis that this is the news, I do not know. —  Kenneth Anderson's Law of War and Just War Theory Blog
  • It's this same deeply humane perspective -- helped along by its utterly natural and affectless cast -- that makes The Song of Sparrows the greatly satisfying parable of happenstance that it is. —  Contactmusic Ltd | Latest music streams
 

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