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

The prime qualifications of a historian, dispassionateness and thoroughness, are everywhere manifest in the splendid work of the Count of Paris.

From The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 5 by Various

In this, too, the want of dispassionateness in his nature revealed itself.

From Reminiscences of Tolstoy by Calderon, George

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