Example Sentences

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“During the Victorian period, the idea of female passionlessness came to identify ideal womanhood,” Carolyn Bronstein, associate professor at DePaul University, told me during a 2012 interview.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 26, 2016

Men, driven on by thirst, run about like a snared hare; let therefore the mendicant drive out thirst, by striving after passionlessness for himself.

From Dhammapada, a collection of verses; being one of the canonical books of the Buddhists by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)

The gentleness, the dreamy passionlessness of those features—the immense repose of the whole figure—are full of beauty and charm.

From The Empire of the East by Montgomery, H. B. (Helen Barrett)

The apathy or passionlessness of the sage is another of his most salient features.

From Guide to Stoicism by Stock, St. George William Joseph

The Stoic extreme of passionlessness is almost as false as the Epicurean hedonism, and the mean between them is the ideal Jewish life, in which godliness and humanity are blended.

From Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria by Bentwich, Norman