But while moral judgment remains a distant notion to von Schirach the storyteller, there is another von Schirach — the narrator who stands in legal defense of some of the other characters, and he is marginally less dispassionate than the author.
In richly detailed, almost dispassionate prose, the authors present a damning indictment of the Bush administration's national security team.
In startlingly clinical and dispassionate terms, the authors of the newly-released torture memos describe and then rationalize why the devastating techniques the CIA sought to employ on human beings do not violate the Torture Statute (18 U.S.C. sec. 2340).
The authors believe economics provides dispassionate, logical solutions to the complex domestic disputes that blight many an otherwise happy union.
This allows the authors to take a relatively dispassionate look at who makes the decision to employ slave labour.
"We have observed," begins the note from Johan van Benthem, Vincent F. Hendricks and John F. Symons, the journal's editors, "that some of the papers in this issue employ a tone that may make it hard to distinguish between dispassionate intellectual discussion of other views and disqualification of a targeted author or group".
As a longtime pop culture buff and dispassionate observer of screen kisses, while I may agree with the author's observation of Shah Rukh Khan's lips historically tending toward those of his heroine's but never quite getting there, like the limit of a function, I firmly dispute the notion that Mr. Khan's tepid liplock has given the kiss the acceptability it did not have before.
Rather, the accomplishment of "A Woman in Berlin" is to tell its story — much as the author of the original diaries did — with a combination of dispassionate clarity and complex human feeling.
In "The Messenger: The Rise and Fall of Elijah Muhammad, Karl Evanzzz, an editor at The Washington Post and the author of "The Judas Factor: The Plot to Kill Malcolm X," offers a dispassionate, just-the-facts chronology of the life of the man who presided over the Nation of Islam from 1934 to his death in 1975.
Nor could a dispassionate reader of Mr Morris's measured book agree with Mr Karsh that its author was determined to portray the Zionist movement as colonial and aggressive.
