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 Anne Douglas Sedgwick
For the sullen steadiness, dispassionateness, detachment with which it was said made it more real than it had been at the water's edge.
From The Visioning by Susan Glaspell
He holds the mirror up to nature, and is content to do so, showing it with all its beautiful and all its ugly features, and with perfect dispassionateness.
From The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry by Alfred Austin
Now the judicial faculty, if it is not altogether a legal fiction, is at all events pretty rare even among men whose ordinary pursuits tend to cultivate it, and to train them in dispassionateness.
From The Admirable Bashville or, Constancy Unrewarded by Bernard Shaw
