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

"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 had laughed her way through life and had prided herself on the dispassionateness of her point of view.

From Mistress Anne by Wilson, F. Vaux (Francis Vaux)

Her father mistook her dispassionateness for a veil of politeness over a sense of ill-usage.

From A Pair of Blue Eyes by Hardy, Thomas

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