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
There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
From Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
He brought to the particular measure largeness of view, dispassionateness of temper, and the philosophic mind; and his work came to have cultural significance and quality.
From Essays on Work and Culture by Hamilton Wright Mabie
Her father mistook her dispassionateness for a veil of politeness over a sense of ill-usage.
From A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy
"I shouldn't mind about the soot myself," said the baronet, with that dispassionateness which belongs to the potential mood.
From Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
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