self-forgetting
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.
From MSNBC • Oct. 15, 2014
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 Barnard, Charles
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 Le Queux, William
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
A long, patient, laborious, self-forgetting life hers has been—has it not?
From The Twa Miss Dawsons by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)
