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

We look at his works with the same detachment and dispassionateness as we look at the Parthenon or on the Venus of Milo.

From The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry by Austin, Alfred

She looked at him with an odd dispassionateness.

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

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

Dr. Johnson's reaction to Shakespeare's tragedies is a curious one, compounded as it is of deep emotional involvement in a few scenes in some plays and a strange dispassionateness toward most of the others.

From Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies by Sherbo, Arthur