self-forgetting

Example Sentences

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For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.

From MSNBC • Oct. 15, 2014

A long, patient, laborious, self-forgetting life hers has been—has it not?

From The Twa Miss Dawsons by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)

She had been in Algonquin only a little over three months but already the self-forgetting tasks she had set herself, were beginning to work their cure.

From The End of the Rainbow by MacGregor, Mary Esther Miller

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

Clodwig slept several hours, while Eric sat with the Banker, and drew refreshment from his self-forgetting sympathy.

From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Auerbach, Berthold