unflinching, elegiac, perceptive, dispassionate, nuanced, wry, sardonic, introspective, unsparing, mordant, unshowy, poignant, trenchant, droll, engrossing, eloquent, reverent, unvarnished, unemotional, artless, uncompromising, unblinking, pitiless, sentimental, poetic, thoughtful, insightful, pragmatic, unflashy, guileless, revelatory, empathetic, undemonstrative, warmhearted, rueful, melancholy, steely, idiosyncratic, novelistic, ruminative, stolid, witty, forthright, unmannered, maudlin, riveting, overdetermined, stoical, uninflected, impressionistic, iconoclastic, melancholic, mawkish, heartfelt, bighearted, beguiling, acerbic, scrupulous, unpretentious, taciturn, tuneful, meticulous, rhapsodic, amoral, wistful, openhearted, unaffecting, masterly, unsensational, tenderhearted, unapologetic, unadorned, unheroic, nihilistic, aphoristic, shavian, melodramatic, lugubrious, evocative, autobiographical, stoic, undramatic, humanistic, austere, moralistic, insouciant, glib, unlikable, incisive, flinty, lyrical, unostentatious, brusque, gruff, dutiful, coldhearted, straightforward, fearless, laconic, idealist, contemplative, polemical, unromantic, fact, prosaic, commonsensical, sober, circumspect, truthful, whimsical, compassionate, forgiving, friendlier, businesslike, flippant, indulgent, intellectualized, motherly

unsentimentally

tough, tough-minded