self-forgetting

Example Sentences

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For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.

From MSNBC • Oct. 15, 2014

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

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)

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.

As her husband looked up, her beautiful self-forgetting smile shone out and became a part of the light around him before she vanished once more through the doorway.

From The Wayfarers by Cutting, Mary Stewart Doubleday