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

Their grim veracity; the creative sympathy and steady dispassionateness of their portrayal of mankind; their constancy of motive, and their sombre earnestness, have been surpassed by none.

From Confessions and Criticisms by Hawthorne, Julian

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 Glaspell, Susan

She looked at him with an odd dispassionateness.

From The Keeper of the Door by Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)

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