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
Dr. Johnson's reaction to Shakespeare's tragedies is a curious one, compounded as it is of deep emotional involvement in a few scenes in some plays and a strange dispassionateness toward most of the others.
From Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies by Arthur Sherbo
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
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
