dispassionateness

Example Sentences

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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

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 Conrad, Joseph

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

She spoke with her monstrous dispassionateness, and I felt a shiver pass down my spine, very distinctly.

From The Inheritors by Conrad, Joseph