self-forgetting

Example Sentences

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For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.

From MSNBC • Oct. 15, 2014

Those letters, although written to a man in whose heart romance must long ago have been dead, showed how complex was her character, how fervent, enthusiastic and self-forgetting her love.

From The Seven Secrets by Le Queux, William

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

Let this be a day of self-forgetting ministry for Christ and others.

From Days of Heaven Upon Earth by Simpson, A. B. (Albert B.)

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.