self-forgetting

Example Sentences

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For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.

From MSNBC • Oct. 15, 2014

She had been in Algonquin only a little over three months but already the self-forgetting tasks she had set herself, were beginning to work their cure.

From The End of the Rainbow by MacGregor, Mary Esther Miller

The reformers were a self-forgetting, passionate, often a frenzied party, and as a rule, firebrands do not follow icebergs.

From Body, Parentage and Character in History Notes on the Tudor Period by Jordan, Furneaux

I want you to observe that in what I did there was simply the spontaneous wisdom of love—love, not fondness, not desire of reciprocation, but self-forgetting and reverent of its object.

From Education in The Home, The Kindergarten, and The Primary School by Peabody, Elizabeth P. (Palmer)

The intoxication of an ideal and self-forgetting trust—a merger of all else in tenderness—flooded their souls and passed back and forth between them in their mutual glances.

From The Panchronicon by MacKaye, Harold Steele