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 Anne Douglas Sedgwick
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
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
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 Maisie Ward
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