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

"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

Like this is the conduct of those who resolve to treat the Almighty with dispassionateness, a judicial temper, clearheadedness, and candour.

From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by Newman, John Henry

Now the judicial faculty, if it is not altogether a legal fiction, is at all events pretty rare even among men whose ordinary pursuits tend to cultivate it, and to train them in dispassionateness.

From The Admirable Bashville or, Constancy Unrewarded by Shaw, Bernard

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