Meanwhile, Ms. Payne's unblinkered, unsentimental but nonetheless affectionate portrait of India gives her book atmospheric power.

Ms. Seretean's success has a special poignancy, considering the difficult reality faced by the people in her unsentimental yet loving portrait.

But to the Western reader at least he offers an affectionate but unsentimental portrait with the taste and smell of authenticity.

Mary, writhing in ecstatic laughter, vividly realizes Schiller's ambition to draw an unsentimental portrait of a woman whose destiny is "to experience and enkindle only violent passions."

Podhoretz begins his book with a rich, unsentimental portrait of the harsh lives of his grandparents.

The artist offers an unsentimental portrait of his father, an obstinate old man in Rego Park, Queens.

This bleak, unsentimental portrait of a poor inner-city couple is the kind of song that is almost never heard in contemporary pop.

Both of Ms. Farmiga's roles are notably unsentimental portraits of motherhood.

She frequently painted them whilst they were otherwise absorbed in their own pursuits, creating tender yet unsentimental portraits, typically in watercolour.

It is a spare, unsentimental portrait of one woman's life that illuminates the experience of an entire generation of women.