self-forgetting

Example Sentences

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For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.

From MSNBC • Oct. 15, 2014

But what he could not easily do was easy for the dogs; Roland became the self-forgetting child again, when he was with the dogs, who had grown so astonishingly in a few days.

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

The reformers were a self-forgetting, passionate, often a frenzied party, and as a rule, firebrands do not follow icebergs.

From Body, Parentage and Character in History Notes on the Tudor Period by Jordan, Furneaux

There is something indeed quite Quixotic, in the better sense, about the utterly disinterested and self-forgetting eagerness with which Herbert Spencer will set himself to see right done, even in the most trivial of cases.

From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by McCarthy, Justin

In business as in society, one needs to carry the white shield of a noble purpose or a self-forgetting love, to escape the dripping of the deadly upas tree that branches above all humanity.

From The Sword of Damocles A Story of New York Life by Green, Anna Katharine