Sentence examples for businesslike without from inspiring English sources

It's businesslike without being boring, smart without being insider.

Sturgeon is in her element – friendly without being cloying, businesslike without being cynical.

"The new Administration has striven to be businesslike without being bureaucratic...and yet there's something here that chills the heart....we wish that the nation's chosen leader could have forsaken principle this time and taken from an old man what was so gently meant".

Hers is a pretty account, to be sure, but businesslike and without the zest that animates Mr. Bell's conception.

More than six hours of talks were held behind closed doors, even when the delegations moved around the famous horse-shoe-shaped table, but diplomats said all the discussions proceeded in a businesslike manner without heated rhetoric.

Such shirts look jaunty but businesslike with or without a tie.

The violence is ugly, stark, almost businesslike and is largely presented without music cues or any obvious filmmaking commentary.

The mythology was rocked during the late 1990's by the board's desire to make the institute more businesslike and capable of surviving without Mr. Lovins.

Certainly, he has none of the bad habits that often afflict singers in his position and has described himself, without apology, as having a "businesslike" approach to his work.

Earlier, Jimmie Vaughan had turned in a businesslike opening set, demonstrating several facets of bluesmanship without once feeling the need to start impersonating Eric Clapton or Hear'Say.

Mrs. Wilkinson, clinging to the frayed edge of middle-class respectability, harbors a lifetime of compromise and frustration behind her businesslike demeanor, and Ms. Walters gets it across without a wasted word.