dispassionateness

Her father mistook her dispassionateness for a veil of politeness over a sense of ill-usage.

A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006

Burke's usual objectivity and dispassionateness de - part when he ponders the effect of darkness on human imagination.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas MARJORIE HOPE NICOLSON 1968

The Taoist theory of prolonging life by quietism and dispassionateness, by regulating one's breath, and using medicines is untenable.

Lunheng 1962

He must hear her confession, not as man, but as God; he must pronounce his judgments with a divine dispassionateness.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various

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."

The Judge Rebecca West 1937

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.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton Maisie Ward 1932

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.

Balloons Elizabeth Bibesco 1921

For the sullen steadiness, dispassionateness, detachment with which it was said made it more real than it had been at the water's edge.

The Visioning Susan Glaspell 1915

In this, too, the want of dispassionateness in his nature revealed itself.

Reminiscences of Tolstoy 1914

Restraining our emotions as much as possible, let us endeavor to analyse that power with mathematical dispassionateness.

Manhood of Humanity. Alfred Korzybski 1914