How to Use impersonal in a Sentence

impersonal

adjective
  • We discussed the weather and other impersonal topics.
  • He maintained an impersonal, professional attitude.
  • But that would be way too impersonal for coach Tim Corbin and his staff.
    Evan Grant, Dallas News, 16 July 2021
  • The movies gave us common ground that was impersonal, less fraught.
    Outside Online, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Rameau said the tone of the message was impersonal, detached and did not sound like Knezevich.
    Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Even the pictures that emerged from Covid rooms felt impersonal.
    Andrew Joseph, STAT, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Any bigger, Clark said, and groups start to feel impersonal.
    Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2021
  • If the lake seemed too small-scale, the canyon is the opposite — too massive, almost impersonal.
    New York Times, 12 May 2022
  • Does anything feel more impersonal than an email that asks you not to reply?
    Gareth Parkin, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
  • At the same time, his work was cynical, impersonal, lazy and, at times, slipshod.
    Victoria Dalkey, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024
  • On the flip-side, a lack of empathy can lead to a disconnection from your team and a work culture that feels cold and impersonal.
    Alexander Puutio, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2023
  • But most of the victims die in intimate ways — a knife to the throat is perhaps the most common one — rather than in impersonal explosions.
    Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The world of business used to be a little too slow-moving, complex and impersonal for that kind of narrative.
    Peter C. Baker, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Corriveau said many of the county’s seniors are wary about the vaccines’ safety and have been unwilling to get the shots at large, impersonal sites.
    Ryan Gabrielson, ProPublica, 30 Apr. 2021
  • But the Cheers of Tex-Mex had become impersonal and its loyalists weren’t happy.
    Cheryl Hall, Dallas News, 16 June 2023
  • Meeting your photographer the day of feels impersonal, and, as a result, so will the photos.
    Carrie Goldberg, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Oct. 2021
  • The risk of their firm becoming impersonal and not dedicating the same face-to-face time with clients was never part of the business model.
    Georgann Yara, The Arizona Republic, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Karen said that legal divorce had felt cold and impersonal.
    Maggie Mertens, The Atlantic, 9 Nov. 2022
  • What evolves in that office belies the impersonal surroundings, but not in the soapy ways a writer of lesser gifts might contrive.
    Peter Marks, Washington Post, 27 May 2022
  • Software audit tools are good to use but very impersonal.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Money can feel impersonal, and children and adults alike are buried in gift cards on birthdays and holidays.
    Hunter Boyce, ajc, 4 May 2022
  • That’s what makes the impersonal aspect of the record disappointing.
    Jayson Buford, Rolling Stone, 4 Feb. 2023
  • The dining room itself, though, can feel a little impersonal.
    Pete Wells, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2023
  • This impersonal megablockbuster became central to the lore of a podcast about reviewing new Taco Bell menu items.
    Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 19 July 2021
  • And anyway, back then, Angela had a different scale of exploration in mind: Italy, the Alps, something vast and impersonal.
    Clare Sestanovich, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The dystopian scenario is easy to picture: impersonal chains pushing fake meat.
    Melissa Clark, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Yet to consider Lincecum’s career through the cold and impersonal lens of modern metrics and the length of his peak and other such measurables is to largely miss the point of his impact on the game.
    Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Because registries stripped the gift-giving process of sentiment, they were often seen as crass and impersonal.
    Megan Buerger, Washington Post, 18 May 2022
  • Some of its huge, militaristic battles risk striking an oddly impersonal note in the midst of a movie whose stakes are carved out in such personal terms.
    Mark Olsenstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Understand, this was in no way personal, not with the impersonal manner that such postgame interviews have been handled over Zoom the past year.
    Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 31 May 2021

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