dispassionateness

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Leger's Three Women, 1921, is as self-consciously a masterpiece as any salon painting up to and including Seurat's Grande Jatte, and its nudes have the perfect dispassionateness of ancient kouroi.

From Time Magazine Archive

Franklin had once said of himself, with comic dispassionateness, that he looked like a cheap cigar, and the comparison was apt.

From Franklin Kane by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas

Other journalists were fighting him; but truly enough, though with a rare dispassionateness, he realised that this meant a need for Daily bread in others similar to his own.

From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Ward, Maisie

We look at his works with the same detachment and dispassionateness as we look at the Parthenon or on the Venus of Milo.

From The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry by Austin, Alfred

Like this is the conduct of those who resolve to treat the Almighty with dispassionateness, a judicial temper, clearheadedness, and candour.

From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by Newman, John Henry