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

Dr. Johnson's reaction to Shakespeare's tragedies is a curious one, compounded as it is of deep emotional involvement in a few scenes in some plays and a strange dispassionateness toward most of the others.

From Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies by Sherbo, Arthur

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

From The Inheritors by Conrad, Joseph

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

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)