A scientist should dispassionately study the forces at work.
Journalists should keep a certain distance, yes, but that doesn't mean that we dispassionately chronicle the death of a starving mother and her children.
Such is the continuing rancour about the decision to invade Iraq in the first place that it is almost impossible to debate this question dispassionately.
But he is true to his roots: his memoir reads like a brief designed to bring the public up to speed as quickly and dispassionately as possible with the life of a powerful oil executive.
Look dispassionately at Japan's economic performance over the past ten years, though, and "the second lost decade", if not the first, is a misnomer.
He sets out the facts coolly and dispassionately.
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