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

The prime qualifications of a historian, dispassionateness and thoroughness, are everywhere manifest in the splendid work of the Count of Paris.

From The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 5 by Various

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

If marriage was to come in question, his dispassionate judgment could name women clearly more suitable; but now dispassionateness was a professor's mean thumb-rule, too far below to consider.

From V. V.'s Eyes by Harrison, Henry Sydnor

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

From Reminiscences of Tolstoy by Calderon, George