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Leger's Three Women, 1921, is as self-consciously a masterpiece as any salon painting up to and including Seurat's Grande Jatte, and its nudes have the perfect dispassionateness of ancient kouroi.

From Time Magazine Archive

She had laughed her way through life and had prided herself on the dispassionateness of her point of view.

From Mistress Anne by Wilson, F. Vaux (Francis Vaux)

"I shouldn't mind about the soot myself," said the baronet, with that dispassionateness which belongs to the potential mood.

From Daniel Deronda by Eliot, George

Dispassionateness of judgment will also lead to dispassionateness of speech.

From The Limits Of Atheism Or, Why should Sceptics be Outlaws? by Holyoake, George Jacob

She looked at him with an odd dispassionateness.

From The Keeper of the Door by Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)