matter-of-fact
There is a cool matter-of-factness to his work.
The matter-of-factness with which he approached the whole thing was surprising.
It is his matter-of-factness and honesty that is particularly refreshing.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Not showing or feeling emotions
anodyne
anti-sentimental
belie
bite
bite your lipidiom
frozenly
glaze
hard-bitten
hardened
icily
poker face
reserved
reservedly
sphinx-like
stiff upper lip
unmoved
unprocessed
unresponsive
unresponsively
unresponsiveness

Examples of matter-of-factness

matter-of-factness
The only sign of excitement there was in the girl's voice when she answered, was a sort of exaggerated matter-of-factness.
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I demanded, determined that he shouldn't elbow me out of my matter-of-factness.
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She knew him better, and, too, he was the sort, for all his matter-of-factness, that understands.
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The average man tends to become matter-of-fact, the average woman finds in matter-of-factness the death of love.
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His soul soared, lark and hawk in one, triumphant over the matter-of-factness of daily life.
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Such apathy, such matter-of-factness was new to him.
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At parting, all her matter-of-factness deserted her; for a few seconds she felt like a prisoner half awakened from an idyllic dream.
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Her cheerful matter-of-factness her competent sanity, restored his belief in a world that had seemed only chaos and death.
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I felt quite mellowed by all the beauty, and he, in spite of a certain matter-of-factness, is always appreciative.
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But, for all the cheerful matter-of-factness of the man, he, too, has seen visions.
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But presently, being savages, they accepted it with the matter-of-factness of children.
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But this affected matter-of-factness doesn't suffice to shake off the blessings of his pensioners.
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In the legal struggle everything of the kind is excluded by the matter-of-factness with which the contention, and absolutely nothing outside the contention, is kept in view.
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