self-forgetting
Example Sentences
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For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.
From MSNBC ● Oct. 15, 2014
The intoxication of an ideal and self-forgetting trust—a merger of all else in tenderness—flooded their souls and passed back and forth between them in their mutual glances.
From The Panchronicon by Harold Steele MacKaye
No common-place woman, with brush or needle in hand, could be more simple and winsome, no genius could be more self-forgetting.
From Camilla: A Tale of a Violin Being the Artist Life of Camilla Urso by Charles Barnard
Those letters, although written to a man in whose heart romance must long ago have been dead, showed how complex was her character, how fervent, enthusiastic and self-forgetting her love.
From The Seven Secrets by William Le Queux
In this self-forgetting insurrection of the human heart against deified Inhumanity there is an expression of the inarticulate wrath of humanity against continuance of the same wrong.
From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England by Moncure Daniel Conway
