self-forgetting
Example Sentences
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For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.
From MSNBC • Oct. 15, 2014
We can repay our debt to our noble forefathers only by a like magnanimity, by a like self-forgetting care for the moral and material interests of our own posterity.
From Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by Marsh, George P.
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.
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
It is labor for his wife and children and for all his group fellows, and therefore is involved in his holiest, most self-forgetting feelings.
From The Evolution of the Country Community A Study in Religious Sociology by Wilson, Warren H. (Warren Hugh)
