nonemotional

Worf waited through their mutual discomfort, then found a nonemotional question to ask.

War, torture, and study were relatively nonemotional issues, so this posed a new conundrum for her.

He had not expected a Dosadi exchange, pared to the nonemotional essentials.

"Dr. Tarmud is currently in his quarters," came the computer's nonemotional female voice.

An experiment was conducted that had 12 men and 12 women view an assortment of images (emotional and nonemotional).

"I'm supposed to be neutral and nonemotional," said Mr. Stansfield, who lost a friend when the twin towers collapsed.

"We are taking a pragmatic, nonmoralistic, nonemotional, nonsensational approach to the drug problem," Mr. Engelsman said.

Furthermore, test anxious persons have been found to bias their attention towards threatening and anxiety related stimuli more than nonemotional stimuli.

The Vulcan dedication to nonemotional logic, which I feared would be an obstacle to our understanding one another, has proved to be quite the opposite.

They scorn tacky landlords obsessed with getting higher rents so they can pay for nonemotional investments like furnaces.

It is also involved in assimilating information that is important to an individual and in handling interactions between emotional and nonemotional information.

Our conversations were low-key, nonemotional, just as she had wanted, and always interspersed with her comments about, observations of, and discussions with her dogs.

Beth Tunney, the senior vice president of sales for women's wear at Polo Ralph Lauren, said: "Bonnie is nonemotional.

"If you are nonemotional about it, there is no loss," said David A. Sherman, a consultant who specializes in transportation at A. T. Kearney in Hong Kong.

Nicknamed the Ice Man because of his nonemotional approach to racing (and because of his blond hair and complexion), Raikkonen was ruffled after his engine blew out.

He doesn't expect propranolol to affect nonemotional memories, which don't depend on stress hormones for their consolidation, but he said it could possibly interfere with the consolidation of highly emotional positive memories as well as negative ones.

Alberta D'Aloia Wort, who has been running the 75-year-old, family-owned Yonkers Travel Bureau for 37 years, said her nonemotional approach to the airlines' proposed commission cap means that her agency is "pretty much doing business as usual."

Emotion has been found to modulate the magnitude of the visual extinction deficit, so that items that signal emotional relevance (e.g., spiders) are more likely to be processed in the presence of competing distractors than nonemotional items (e.g., flowers).

As Dr. Kihlstrom described in the journal Science in 1987, what occurs in the "cognitive" unconscious are the nonemotional, mechanical parts of perception and activity that, for example, allow people to speak a sentence in keeping with syntactic rules they cannot explain, or move a hand with precision.