self-forgetting

Example Sentences

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For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.

From MSNBC • Oct. 15, 2014

As her husband looked up, her beautiful self-forgetting smile shone out and became a part of the light around him before she vanished once more through the doorway.

From The Wayfarers by Cutting, Mary Stewart Doubleday

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

By such community of life self-love is transfigured, and exalted into the purest self-forgetting.

From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by Findlay, G. G.

We thank Thee for all those who by patient toil and self-forgetting effort have made life as sweet and precious to us as it is.

From The Optimist's Good Morning by Perin, Florence Hobart