Disinterestedness

Examples

• Heroism and disinterestedness are rising up, here and there, in the earth. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• She reaped the reward to which disinterestedness is entitled, and found an agreeable companion in her niece. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Of the disinterestedness of their intentions towards Bella, I say nothing. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• And all the while the pensive, tortured woman piled up her own defences of aesthetic knowledge, and culture, and world-visions, and disinterestedness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• But his wife's expostulations awoke his half-slumbering regrets; and Tom's manly disinterestedness increased the unpleasantness of his feelings. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Your sweetness and disinterestedness are really angelic; I do not know what to say to you. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• And for your own sake too, or you are carrying your disinterestedness beyond reason. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• This abode of penury may at least prove the disinterestedness of my conduct. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I thought Mr. Jaggers glanced at Joe, as if he considered him a fool for his disinterestedness. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I never gave Ginevra a minute's or a farthing's credit for disinterestedness. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Upon my soul, you are a pretty piece of disinterestedness! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• And as men become better such theories appear more and more untruthful to them, because they are more conscious of their own disinterestedness. Plato. The Republic.
• Chivalrous feeling, disinterestedness, pride in honour, is too dead in their hearts. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• And quite a number of these Americans of the revolutionary time do seem to have displayed much disinterestedness and devotion. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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