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

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

"I shouldn't mind about the soot myself," said the baronet, with that dispassionateness which belongs to the potential mood.

From Daniel Deronda by Eliot, George

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 Shaw, Bernard

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