Can this be double-distilled treachery? — or can it be what men call disinterestedness? —. From Wordnik.com. [Count Robert of Paris] Reference
Judgment requires, above all, what Kant called disinterestedness and what Arendt called enlarged mentality, seeing the question from another's point of view. From Wordnik.com. [Democracy Journal] Reference
Many outsiders conclude from this teaching that the conception of the world as something unreal lies at the root of the so-called disinterestedness preached in India. From Wordnik.com. [Sadhana : the realisation of life] Reference
Hence the birth of the celebrated criterion of "disinterestedness" for aesthetic enjoyment. 2. From Wordnik.com. [Tastes and Pleasures] Reference
Its great corresponding defect -- and this is immeasurable -- is its loss in form, in universality, in that disinterestedness which is essential to art. From Wordnik.com. [Personality in Literature] Reference
Erudition, when it is humane, and even when it is merely academic, has, at any rate, always that disinterestedness which is essential alike to science and art. From Wordnik.com. [Personality in Literature] Reference
In conclusion, fellow citizens, allow me to invoke in behalf of your deliberations that spirit of conciliation and disinterestedness which is the gift of patriotism. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
Perhaps, to call it "disinterestedness" comes nearest. From Wordnik.com. [A Writer's Recollections — Volume 2] Reference
Conservative talk of "disinterestedness" leaves such hunger unsatisfied and leaves such love cold. From Wordnik.com. [Argent by the Tiber] Reference
In the age of "disinterestedness" it has become an old canard to say, "You only think such-and-such is true because you want it to be true.". From Wordnik.com. [Argent by the Tiber] Reference
"disinterestedness" which he claims to have attained from his study of. From Wordnik.com. [The Youth of Goethe] Reference
“Why will you exact so severe a proof of my disinterestedness, a disinterestedness which is not consistent with love?. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of the Forest] Reference
She absolved herself because of her disinterestedness. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The marriage contract will prove his disinterestedness. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
Louis Napoleon's alleged disinterestedness in the interests of peace. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
Each of them alleged his own disinterestedness, his zeal, and his fidelity. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
She admired his disinterestedness, returned to Jerusalem, and died shortly after. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
They seem to know nothing of disinterestedness, except among persons nearly related. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years on the Plains Observations of Indians, 1867-1870] Reference
This show is merely 41 records of one man's celebrated disinterestedness in making art. From Wordnik.com. [Portrait of an Artist's Hype] Reference
His fusing of scholarly disinterestedness and live intellectual curiosity was hard and rare. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Frank Kermode obituary] Reference
But, dear, don't you see that it proves the reality, the disinterestedness of your love for him?. From Wordnik.com. [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference
These reports, which seemed to be dictated by disinterestedness and fidelity, again inflamed Bohetzad. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
The calm disinterestedness which marks the career of Washington was wholly wanting in the Swedish king. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
His disinterestedness, his liberal pursuit of the Law, that is, of knowledge, made him confidently say. From Wordnik.com. [The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915] Reference
Now, whatever men may talk of justice, who can say that disinterestedness has altogether abandoned the earth?. From Wordnik.com. [A Sketch of the Life of the late Henry Cooper Barrister-at-Law, of the Norfolk Circuit; as also, of his Father] Reference
To the details of this interview are added others, which somewhat reflect upon the disinterestedness of Lochiel. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.] Reference
Vanity, abnegation, pride, and disinterestedness are united together, and man in his entirety appears in the papa. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
It took three days to obtain a jury of proper qualification and sufficient disinterestedness to satisfy both sides. From Wordnik.com. [An American Suffragette] Reference
For the loftiest friendships have no commercial element in them: they are founded on disinterestedness and sacrifices. From Wordnik.com. [For Auld Lang Syne] Reference
She had a room in the house of Isaac Hopper, -- "a house where disinterestedness and noble labor were as daily breath.". From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1886, Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 6, June, 1886] Reference
Sister Scudder adjusts her spectacles, and, in mildest accents, says, "The Lord will indeed reward such disinterestedness.". From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
Nothing illustrates better the sincerity and disinterestedness of John Bright than his conduct in these last decisive months. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
I almost wish the rascal would become penniless tomorrow, in order to afford me an opportunity of showing him the disinterestedness of my friendship. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
And Lionel Payne, open and manly himself, and seeing no trace of the serpent in the seeming disinterestedness of Arthur, introduced him proudly into his happy home. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
Gordon well deserves the favours of your Majesty for the skill and courage he has shown, his disinterestedness has elevated our national character in the eyes of the Chinese. From Wordnik.com. [General Gordon Saint and Soldier] Reference
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