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
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
She spoke with her monstrous dispassionateness, and I felt a shiver pass down my spine, very distinctly.
From The Inheritors by Joseph Conrad
Like this is the conduct of those who resolve to treat the Almighty with dispassionateness, a judicial temper, clearheadedness, and candour.
From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by John Henry Newman
"I shouldn't mind about the soot myself," said the baronet, with that dispassionateness which belongs to the potential mood.
From Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
