self-forgetting

Example Sentences

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For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.

From MSNBC • Oct. 15, 2014

No fierce and irascible Achilles disturbs the sympathy of the reader with the conquerors; no self-forgetting, but country-devoted Hector enlists our sympathies on the side of the vanquished.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various

Too much praise we have already lavished on one who was ever simple and self-forgetting.

From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Palmer, Alice Freeman

But what he could not easily do was easy for the dogs; Roland became the self-forgetting child again, when he was with the dogs, who had grown so astonishingly in a few days.

From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Auerbach, Berthold

But with all her cheerfulness, and self-forgetting, heroic courage, Mary was not proof against danger and disease.

From Memoir of Mary L. Ware, Wife of Henry Ware, Jr. by Hall, Edward B.