To a brooding piano score by Mr. Attaway, Theodora M. Fredericks portrayed a woman who took an unsentimental look at her life.

The film, which opened on Friday, is a moving but unsentimental look at the thorny bond between a grown brother and sister who were orphaned as children.

But beneath the work's veneer of cute furry critters and rough-hewn rustics is a sober, unsentimental look at the cycle of life, death and renewal.

It provides a clear, unsentimental look at a police investigation, and even the language reflects the way cops (and the rest of us) talk.

"Sunset" provides, in its simple-seeming and gentle way, an unsentimental look at the horror of war.

It is instead an intimate, unsentimental look at the curveballs life can throw our way.

She sat down in the command chair and took a short, unsentimental last look at the three blunt silver ships, squatting possessively over their little prize.

The New York Times wrote: "A defiantly unsentimental look at the complex codependency between a harried single mother and her severely autistic daughter."

The marriage of counterculture and capitalism is hardly a new subject, but Frank does provide a refreshingly unsentimental look at it.

Scafidel's 1975 essay on Sue King's use of realism praised "Old Maidism" for its "realistic, unsentimental look at one of the institutions of society."