self-forgetting
Example Sentences
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For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.
From MSNBC ● Oct. 15, 2014
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 Conway, Moncure Daniel
These States have had a force of excellent speakers in the field, who, with rare self-forgetting, have worked as only those can who work with whole-hearted faith for immortal principles.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
No, the sum of his wide and hard experience of life, of his sorrows, joys, and disappointments was expressed in that beautiful, anxious, self-forgetting dream of the coming happiness of others.
From Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov by Bunin, I. A.
Eyes, voice, and gesture expressed the most absolute, self-forgetting enthusiasm.
From A Charming Fellow, Volume I (of 3) by Trollope, Frances Eleanor
