self-forgetting

Example Sentences

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For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.

From MSNBC • Oct. 15, 2014

Eyes, voice, and gesture expressed the most absolute, self-forgetting enthusiasm.

From A Charming Fellow, Volume I (of 3) by Trollope, Frances Eleanor

Clodwig slept several hours, while Eric sat with the Banker, and drew refreshment from his self-forgetting sympathy.

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

By such community of life self-love is transfigured, and exalted into the purest self-forgetting.

From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by Findlay, G. G.

There is something indeed quite Quixotic, in the better sense, about the utterly disinterested and self-forgetting eagerness with which Herbert Spencer will set himself to see right done, even in the most trivial of cases.

From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by McCarthy, Justin