Hudson is part dispassionate money man, part tough guy.
If the movie's cool assessment of the human condition implies the dispassionate overview of a man who has seen it all, the energy that crackles from the screen suggests the clear-sighted joie de vivre of an artist still deeply engaged in the world.
Nonetheless, to forge a long, dispassionate film about a man lit by passion above all else is a curious enterprise; Roberto Rossellini was not far from this, in his bio-pics of Pascal and St. Francis of Assisi, but he was a man with "Stromboli" and "Rome, Open City" to his credit, so his acquaintance with the anatomy of the passions was well attested.
This theme -- of civilized men doing dispassionate analysis for a rather less civilized leadership -- runs strong.
But I couldn't stand by, in the role of a dispassionate educator, and let this man hurt himself.
Still, Peskin said he finds it difficult to believe that a teenage girl would be infatuated with a man for being dispassionate.
The men were remarkably relaxed, dispassionate; and the slowness acquired its own cool rhythms.
But of all team sports, baseball, with its graceful intermittences of action, its immense and tranquil field sparsely settled with poised men in white, its dispassionate mathematics, seems to me best suited to accommodate, and be ornamented by, a loner.
The Westminster coroner Dr Paul Knapman told the six women and five men they must be "dispassionate" when deciding how the divorce lawyer, who was armed with a shotgun, came by his death.
Their interest in the "natural"—that is, natural morality, religion, economy, or education, in contrast to the merely conventional and historically derived sprang as much from the desire to hold a glass up to a surrounding society that they disliked as from any dispassionate urge simply to find out what man and society are made of.
