dispassionateness

Example Sentences

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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

"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

Her father mistook her dispassionateness for a veil of politeness over a sense of ill-usage.

From A Pair of Blue Eyes by Hardy, Thomas

She had laughed her way through life and had prided herself on the dispassionateness of her point of view.

From Mistress Anne by Wilson, F. Vaux (Francis Vaux)

She spoke with her monstrous dispassionateness, and I felt a shiver pass down my spine, very distinctly.

From The Inheritors by Conrad, Joseph