A warrant is necessary, he said: "a policeman can get a little carried away", requiring the intervention of a "third dispassionate mind".The nine dispassionate minds at work on Wurie and Riley have a tough task before them.
An intelligent, dispassionate first novel that constructs and deconstructs a somewhat off-center Jewish family whose lives change when a hitherto ordinary fifth-grade daughter turns out to be an all-American spelling champ.
An intelligent, dispassionate first novel that constructs and deconstructs a somewhat off-center Jewish family whose lives change when a hitherto ordinary fifth-grade daughter turns out to be an all-American spelling bee champ.
This is something that he asks himself, noting that he often thinks of himself in the third person — a dispassionate observer.
I thought, for instance, of the dispassionate first-person narrators in Kazuo Ishiguro's novels; of Chang-rae Lee's similarly evasive, if not entirely affectless, speaker in his novel "A Gesture Life"; of Ed Park's office novel "Personal Days," which features a distinctively impersonal first-person plural voice.
We can no longer afford the luxury of accommodating what any reasonable and dispassionate third party observer would call insane views on the side of the opposition.
As a drug lord, he rules with a cool, dispassionate iron first and has a small army of loyal guys willing to take a bullet for him.
She undergoes a transformation from a nice girl with a pretty face to an intellectually shrewd, possibly "near-criminal mastermind," the planner and executor of elaborate schemes that have both students and faculty following her lead, all conveyed by way of a witty third-person narrator, whose dispassionate tone gives this novel its delicious, deadpan sense of humor.
Millar has been able to watch the action in the first week from a relatively dispassionate viewpoint.
Great quantities of dispassionate imagery must first be traveled, and many a taciturn sequence hinting at vague depths of ennui.
