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

Restraining our emotions as much as possible, let us endeavor to analyse that power with mathematical dispassionateness.

From Manhood of Humanity. by Korzybski, Alfred

"I shouldn't mind about the soot myself," said the baronet, with that dispassionateness which belongs to the potential mood.

From Daniel Deronda by Eliot, George

We look at his works with the same detachment and dispassionateness as we look at the Parthenon or on the Venus of Milo.

From The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry by Austin, Alfred

Franklin had once said of himself, with comic dispassionateness, that he looked like a cheap cigar, and the comparison was apt.

From Franklin Kane by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas