The actresses who play the Beales seem more dispassionate about the characters.
Hudson is part dispassionate money man, part tough guy.
He gave me a brief, dispassionate breakdown of the character of the driving judges, who were joined together by pride of office.
She is a dispassionate chronicler of her characters' faults, sometimes to the point of cruelty.
Although Rendell seems to be taking a dispassionate view of her characters' perverse behavior, she's a sly one, showing more sympathy for their pathetic fixations than for the prevailing social attitudes that condemn them.
The depiction of Valentine's plan as a throwback to a less serious era of spy movies is revealed as a feint, with the ulterior motive of undermining environmentalists: not only is the character amoral and dispassionate, but his methods are buffoonish, the doomed-to-fail scheme of a lisping, squeamish eccentric.
In Exposure, she dissects her characters with eloquent, dispassionate attention to detail.
Pitched somewhere between allegory and documentary, the film looks at its characters in a dispassionate, almost deadpan way.
Now and then Mr. Porterfield's off-screen voice is heard asking the actors basic questions about their characters in a dispassionate, almost hard-boiled tone.
Mr. McCall, who has worked as a choreographer, an actor and a theater director, makes use of all of these skills in "Stark Weather," which is economically and smoothly constructed from detailed gesture, infrequent flurries of larger-scale movement and voice-over narration, telling the tale of the characters and the murders with dispassionate detail.
As for those "human interactions," I mean them strictly in the most dispassionate sense, nothing that would imply emotion, credible characters or engaging drama.
