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

He holds the mirror up to nature, and is content to do so, showing it with all its beautiful and all its ugly features, and with perfect dispassionateness.

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

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

From Manhood of Humanity. by Korzybski, Alfred

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

There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.

From Lord Jim by Conrad, Joseph