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

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

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

From Manhood of Humanity. by Korzybski, Alfred

She looked at him with an odd dispassionateness.

From The Keeper of the Door by Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)

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