dispassionateness

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Leger's Three Women, 1921, is as self-consciously a masterpiece as any salon painting up to and including Seurat's Grande Jatte, and its nudes have the perfect dispassionateness of ancient kouroi.

From Time Magazine Archive

He talked about his experiences with the calm dispassionateness of one describing commonplace things, quite uncomplainingly, very sensibly, and without the least trace of egotism.

From Leaves in the Wind by Gardiner, A. G. (Alfred George)

In this, too, the want of dispassionateness in his nature revealed itself.

From Reminiscences of Tolstoy by Calderon, George

For the sullen steadiness, dispassionateness, detachment with which it was said made it more real than it had been at the water's edge.

From The Visioning by Glaspell, Susan

Now the judicial faculty, if it is not altogether a legal fiction, is at all events pretty rare even among men whose ordinary pursuits tend to cultivate it, and to train them in dispassionateness.

From The Admirable Bashville or, Constancy Unrewarded by Shaw, Bernard