This unsentimental better-safe-than-sorry approach was not what Mr. Gorbachev or the world's detenteniks wanted to hear.

Indeed, this unsentimental and even ruthless approach to foreign policy is identical to what Harry Truman proposed in 1941.

Another obstacle for the Registry Stores is that they might be seen as taking an unsentimental approach to gift giving.

Yet Mr. Gatti's unsentimental approach to the music was refreshing.

But they both have a very unsentimental approach to human nature.

It's a terse, unsentimental approach that prevents the audience from finding the kind of emotional anchor that a teenage romance might provide.

But Japan says it must take an unsentimental approach to its neighbors, especially China and the Soviet Union.

Roger Ebert praised the film for its unsentimental approach to Chanel's early years.

The Barbary pirates were not the only ones to take an unsentimental, businesslike approach to the job.

A particular beauty of Mr. Herreweghe's reading was his compassionate yet unsentimental approach to those chorales.