Adjective : a dispassionate critic. From Dictionary.com.
Burke's usual objectivity and dispassionateness de - part when he ponders the effect of darkness on human imagination. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
The Taoist theory of prolonging life by quietism and dispassionateness, by regulating one's breath, and using medicines is untenable. From Wordnik.com. [Lunheng] Reference
His presentation of things lacks dispassionateness. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
Yet without this very dispassionateness no history can be authentic. From Wordnik.com. [The new man : twenty-nine years a slave, twenty-nine years a free man,] Reference
In this, too, the want of dispassionateness in his nature revealed itself. From Wordnik.com. [Reminiscences of Tolstoy] Reference
Her father mistook her dispassionateness for a veil of politeness over a sense of ill-usage. From Wordnik.com. [A Pair of Blue Eyes] Reference
She had laughed her way through life and had prided herself on the dispassionateness of her point of view. From Wordnik.com. [Mistress Anne] Reference
Restraining our emotions as much as possible, let us endeavor to analyse that power with mathematical dispassionateness. From Wordnik.com. [Manhood of Humanity.] Reference
For the sullen steadiness, dispassionateness, detachment with which it was said made it more real than it had been at the water's edge. From Wordnik.com. [The Visioning] Reference
There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery. From Wordnik.com. [KIKO'S HOUSE] Reference
He brought to the particular measure largeness of view, dispassionateness of temper, and the philosophic mind; and his work came to have cultural significance and quality. From Wordnik.com. [Essays on Work and Culture] Reference
Other journalists were fighting him; but truly enough, though with a rare dispassionateness, he realised that this meant a need for Daily bread in others similar to his own. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] Reference
Their grim veracity; the creative sympathy and steady dispassionateness of their portrayal of mankind; their constancy of motive, and their sombre earnestness, have been surpassed by none. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions and Criticisms] Reference
If marriage was to come in question, his dispassionate judgment could name women clearly more suitable; but now dispassionateness was a professor's mean thumb-rule, too far below to consider. From Wordnik.com. [V. V.'s Eyes] Reference
He looked at her with the dispassionateness which comes to men who have lived much in countries where nakedness offers itself unashamed to the sunlight, and said to himself, "I should like to see her run.". From Wordnik.com. [The Judge] Reference
Dr. Johnson's reaction to Shakespeare's tragedies is a curious one, compounded as it is of deep emotional involvement in a few scenes in some plays and a strange dispassionateness toward most of the others. From Wordnik.com. [Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies] Reference
My poor child, "he added, gently drawing her to sit down by him, and looking at her with the strange, solemn dispassionateness of dying people, who already begin to feel that they are of another sphere, –" my poor dear little girl!. From Wordnik.com. [Oldtown Folks] Reference
And, in Miss St. Quentin's case, exasperation was by no means lessened by the fact that candour compelled her to admit doubt not only as to the actuality of her own dispassionateness, but, as has already been stated, to the wisdom of her mental attitude generally. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance] Reference
By the very nature of their occupation booksellers are broad-minded; their association with every class of humanity and their constant companionship with books give them a liberality that enables them to view with singular clearness and dispassionateness every phase of life and every dispensation of Providence. From Wordnik.com. [The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac] Reference
I have lived without forethought or arrière pensée -- without the weakness of regrets or the stinginess of precautions, 'and then he turned to me -- his eyes were half shut and his voice was muffled as if a flood were battering on the door of his dispassionateness,' I have had everything in life except you, 'he said. From Wordnik.com. [Balloons] Reference
It was just after the Lords had thrown out the Reform Bill: that explains how Mr. Cadwallader came to be walking on the slope of the lawn near the great conservatory at Freshitt Hall, holding the "Times" in his hands behind him, while he talked with a trout-fisher's dispassionateness about the prospects of the country to Sir James. From Wordnik.com. [Middlemarch] Reference
It was just after the Lords had thrown out the Reform Bill: that explains how Mr. Cadwallader came to be walking on the slope of the lawn near the great conservatory at Freshitt Hall, holding the "Times" in his hands behind him, while he talked with a trout-fisher's dispassionateness about the prospects of the country to Sir James Chettam. From Wordnik.com. [Middlemarch] Reference
‘And therefore we won’t do nothing at all,’ said Latimer, with complete dispassionateness. From Wordnik.com. [Wessex Tales] Reference
It was a time, according to a noticeable article in the "Pioneer," when the crying needs of the country might well counteract a reluctance to public action on the part of men whose minds had from long experience acquired breadth as well as concentration, decision of judgment as well as tolerance, dispassionateness as well as energy -- in fact, all those qualities which in the melancholy experience of mankind have been the least disposed to share lodgings. From Wordnik.com. [Middlemarch] Reference
It was a time, according to a noticeable article in the "Pioneer," when the crying needs of the country might well counteract a reluctance to public action on the part of men whose minds had from long experience acquired breadth as well as concentration, decision of judgment as well as tolerance, dispassionateness as well as energy -- in fact, all those qualities which in the melancholy experience of mankind have been the least disposed to share lodgings. From Wordnik.com. [Middlemarch: a study of provincial life (1900)] Reference
She looked at him with an odd dispassionateness. From Wordnik.com. [The Keeper of the Door] Reference
Patience, joy, prosperity, satisfaction, brightness of all faculties, happiness, purity, health, contentment, faith, liberality, compassion, forgiveness, firmness, benevolence, equanimity, truth, acquittance of obligations, mildness, modesty, calmness, external purity, simplicity, observance of obligatory practices, dispassionateness, fearlessness of heart, disregard for the appearance or otherwise of good and evil as also for past acts, -- appropriation of objects only when obtained by gift, the absence of cupidity, regard for the interests of others, compassion for all creatures, -- these have been said to be the qualities that attach to the attribute of Sattwa. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
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