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

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

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)

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