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

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

The prime qualifications of a historian, dispassionateness and thoroughness, are everywhere manifest in the splendid work of the Count of Paris.

From The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 5 by Various

"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

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

From The Inheritors by Conrad, Joseph