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• I prefer missionary 'cause hitting it from the back feels so impersonal.From the entry hit it from the back
• The service in that restaurant was brisk and impersonal.From the entry brisk
• Bath salts seemed ordinary, a record or book-token impersonal, a pot-plant unimaginative.2015, Margaret Yorke, No Fury, →ISBN. From the entry book-token
• Unlike periphrastics, however, catenatives combine certain verbs (e.g., impersonal δεῖ) with an infinitive.2010, Stanley E. Porter, Jeffrey T. Reed, Matthew Brook O'Donnell, Fundamentals of New Testament Greek, page 351. From the entry catenative
• ' Finally, repletive elements are also frequently employed in impersonal passives.2010, Anna Siewierska, Constituent Order in the Languages of Europe, page 94. From the entry repletive
• The texts say to vousvoyer (use impersonal) most of the time.2003 July 22, Marcel Beaudoin, “OT: air conditioning, or lack”, in rec.pets.dogs.behavior (Usenet). From the entry vousvoyer
• A cold and impersonal doctor, unless he's just a mechanical implanter, can't work successfully with these patients.1988 April 8, Judith Moore, “Health: It's Not Easy Being Hard”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry implanter
• At one a voice rang out, impersonal, repetitive: the sound of a recordimal.1984, John Brunner, The Crucible of Time. From the entry farspeaker
• Then as now this impersonal vastness was the public face of Russia.1983, Colin Thubron, “Leningrad”, in Among the Russians, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, page 74. From the entry net
• His voice, even when he spoke in hate, was precise and impersonal.1936 March, John Cheever, “In Passing”, in The Atlantic Monthly. A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, Boston, Mass.…. From the entry talk like a book
• "I want to emphasize: Washington is so impersonal," she said.2018, Jeanne Marie Laskas, To Obama, With love, joy, hate and despair, →ISBN, page 226. From the entry sausage making
• To The Prof, everything is objective and impersonal.2010, Meryl Runion, How to Restore Sanity to Our Political Conversations. From the entry brainlet
• To do so is considered egotistical, so instead they refer to themselves as "this one", or the impersonal "it".2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Hanar Codex entry. From the entry first person
• She does not transmute impersonal evidence into personal evidence to create a personality for Shakespeare as Schoenbaum does.2001 March 3, Pat Dooley, “Re: Re: Susanna Hall's Signature”, in humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare (Usenet). From the entry factify
• Impersonal societies dehumanize themselves, maybe even deanimalize themselves.1970, Oscar G. Mink, Bernard A. Kaplan, America's Problem Youth, page 82. From the entry deanimalize
• He was then asked an impersonal question.1955, Robert S. Ramsay, Fatigue as a Function of Situational Variables, page 75. From the entry tiringness
• It is a purely impersonal mater—except to the decapitee.1933 August 2, Marshall Evening Messenger, fifty-seventh year, number 39, Marshall, Tex., page four. From the entry decapitee
• Iron-bound, impersonal ethics, the procrustean bed of rules, he soon saw at their true value as the deification of averages.1901 [1887], Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter IV, in Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. From the entry procrustean bed
• Homeowners are clearly more than ready for an alternative to the huge, impersonal "starter castles" that are filling our new suburbs and developments.2002, Sarah Susanka, Creating the Not So Big House, page 2. From the entry starter castle
• Now, at school, I was forced to sit in classes, to take notes and exams, to use textbooks that were flat, impersonal, deadly.2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood. From the entry deadly
• Now we have these new theologians who say God’s inside here not up there or he’s an impersonal noosphere and the anthropomorphic image is out.1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers, page 573. From the entry noosphere
• McConnell's evidence for this controversial interpretation seems to be based mainly on a consciousness of an unhumanity which the final triumph of impersonal perception implies.1978, Laxmi Parasuram, Virginia Woolf: The Emerging Reality, page 151. From the entry unhumanity
• A sunflower, bending its head, peered at us with its round, polyphemic, impersonal eye, the long yellow lashes half-curled over the great black pupil.1944, Curzio Malaparte, translated by Cesare Foligno, Kaputt. From the entry polyphemic
• He also understood reciprocal paternalistic obligation as more important than the impersonal alienations of contract or law—something an older generation of Texans, or Tejanxs, might have appreciated.2021, Ethan Blue, The Deportation Express: A History of America Through Forced Removal, Oakland: University of California Press, →ISBN…. From the entry Tejanx
• “A grand scale is impersonal, and my thing, as you call it, is real and right here, right now, not some secondhanded satisfaction lording it over the flies."2014, Warren R. B. Dixon, The Copenhagen Interpretation, →ISBN. From the entry secondhanded
• Marxisation was seen as a regression to a more impersonal and large scale level of analysis in which the radicalism of labelling theory's break with positivism was lost.2010, Eugene McLaughlin, Tim Newburn, The SAGE Handbook of Criminological Theory, page 161. From the entry Marxisation
• Nothing great is achieved without passion, but underneath the passion there should always be that large impersonal survey which sets limits to actions that our passions inspire.1954, Bertrand Russell, History as an Art, page 197. From the entry cocksure
• Certain forms of liberal theology extol the fatherhood of God but (like Islam) reduce Jesus to the status of a prophet and regard the Holy Spirit as an impersonal force.2009, Timothy George, Is the Father of Jesus the God of Muhammad?. From the entry Jesusanity

Meaning of impersonal

1. adjective Not personal; not representing a person; not having personality.
2. adjective Lacking warmth or emotion; cold.
3. adjective Not having a subject, or having a third person pronoun without an antecedent.

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How do you use impersonal in a sentence?

Impersonal is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “She sounded impersonal as she gave her report of the Nazi death camps.”

What is a short sentence with impersonal?

“He was then asked an impersonal question.”

What does impersonal mean?

Impersonal means not personal; not representing a person; not having personality.