He seemed another creature, all steel and fire, not an impersonal thing speaking out of the dark.
Peter stood thoughtfully regarding her in a very impersonal way, as if he debated how she could be moved.
At least, since he was impersonal and remote, she could ask him anything.
He laughed at the notion of this, with that impersonal relish which seemed to me singularly characteristic of the self-consciousness so marked in him.
He praised my sketch, which he said he had read without the least notion who had written it, and he wanted me to feel the full value of such an impersonal pleasure in it.
He has therefore not died, as some men die, the remote impersonal sort, but he is yet thrillingly alive in every page of his books.
This may have been from the impersonal habit of his mind, but I believe it was also the effect of principle, for he would do what he could to arrest the delivery of judgment from others, and would soften the sentences passed in his presence.
He liked the large, impersonal topics which could be dealt with on their human side, and involved characters rather than individuals.
He did not recognize me, but he gave me at once a greeting of great impersonal cordiality, with "How do you do?
Man builds institutions and administers them by more or less rigidimpersonal rule.
Nothing shows as more impersonal than a crystal; cold, hard, senseless, motionless.
And here was seen, at once, the threat of a grave and an increasing diversion from that purely political outlook of men, which should be impersonal in issue, broad in enterprise.
And that Inorganic elements are very far from being the impersonal things they seem, but are linked by subtle correspondences to living Mind and vital powers, is shown by their effects on living processes and consciousness.
Hence the actions of both the outward and inward organs of the body, are as passive and impersonal as the body itself).
There is the spirit of the inscrutable and impersonal Brahma, immanent in this vacuity and becomes apparent in the personality of Brahma, in the manner of the audible sound issuing out of the empty air, which is its receptacle and support.
Thus the impersonal soul being imbibed with the idea of its personality, tries to preserve its egoism for ever; it enters into many bodies of different kinds, and creates new ones for its abode upon the loss of the former ones.
But the more impersonal process which More himself had observed (as noted at the beginning of this chapter) is more clearly defined, and less clouded with controversies, in the second of the two parts of Henry's policy.
Thus, Arthur is made utterly impersonal because all legends are lies, but somebody of the type of Hengist is made quite an important personality, merely because nobody thought him important enough to lie about.
His seizure of personal power, which destroyed an impersonal and ideal government, had something English in its very unreason.
The East as an environment, as an impersonal glamour, certainly stimulated the Western mind, but stimulated it rather to break the Moslem commandment than to keep it.
Henry of Anjou, who brought fresh French blood into the monarchy, brought also a refreshment of the idea for which the French have always stood: the idea in the Roman Law of something impersonaland omnipresent.
The one thing that the English have never understood about Napoleon, in all their myriad studies of his mysterious personality, is how impersonal he was.
Lovers of Emerson could wish that the impersonal editor of these memoirs had omitted the account of this victory.
And no one is more smilingly tolerant of the irresistible progress of young Edward Bok in making friends and money than Edward Bok the impersonal author of the book.
The passing astonishment, the half-impersonal curiosity that had previously tinged their relationship, was cast aside, never to be reassumed.
Like many men who possess eloquence for an impersonal cause, he was brusque, even blunt, in the stating of his own case.
That law is no mere utterance of cold impersonal duty,--a thought which may make men slaves, but never makes them good.
Above all, be impersonal in them as soon as possible.
Vacare in general does not seem to occur with an expressed impersonal subject.
A long and careful study of the differences between male and female intellect has finally convinced me that the latter is incapable of generalities, of completely impersonal discussion.
And if all were to throw themselves more recklessly into the impersonal spirit of formation, we'd be done with age and illness, with fears and frets and muddle and blind gropings.
I was rather sorry for her, in a vague, impersonal way; for to love Robert Lorillard and lose him would hurt.
But it was purely impersonal interest, as if to say, "There's a man!
Mr. Carey, on his side, had a genuine liking for Anstice, whose skill he admired with the impersonal admiration which a specialist in one profession accords to an expert in another vocation.
The logic of the handicraft system took the impersonal agencies for granted; the machine industry takes the skill, dexterity and judgment of the workmen for granted.
And herein appears to lie the decisive difference between those peoples whose patriotic affections center about the fortunes of an impersonal commonwealth and those in whom is superadded a fervent aspiration for dynastic ascendency.
The organisation of the forces engaged and the constraining rules according to which this organisation worked, were of the nature of personal relations, and the impersonal factors in the case were taken for granted.
Little by little she was becoming acquainted with the personnel of the gang--in an impersonal way, mostly.
It was as though, instead of anger, impersonal anger, at this low, miserable act of his, she felt ashamed of him.
It was vital, necessary, that she should know them all, and more than in that impersonal way, if she counted upon ever freeing herself of the guilt attributed to her.
There is no attempt made at an impersonal and objective analysis of the common aspects of all existing things, the elements underlying all nature.
The cosmic process is not a necessary and impersonal flow or radiation but a voluntary activity having a purpose.
Some dim suspicion of the why of this impersonal letter gently flattered the winged hopefulness of love.
Rare letters came from John Penhallow to his aunt, who sent no replies, and to Leila, who wrote impersonal letters, as did John.
There the Supreme Being figures as a characterless, impersonal essence, the mere residuum of intellectual analysis, pure unity, pure simplicity.
It is the personal gods of Hindu polytheism and not the impersonal principle of Hindu pantheism that the Hindu people worship.
It never seemed real before--it's been only a slice of impersonal and rather dull history.
If the writer takes the position of an impersonal observer, to whom the souls of all characters are open, he can write pretty much as he wills.
The impersonal relator is omniscient, but his omniscience is not so obtrusive as in the story that touches on the facts of the soul.
In his own daily life the reader is accustomed to a one-sided presentation of the social spectacle, and complete omniscience on the part of the impersonal relator of a fiction has the taint of artificiality, or even of bare exposition.
At the last of it, readers are so thoroughly habituated to the impersonal viewpoint that a writer does not gain much in power to convince by adoption of the other.
Narration must be in the first or third person, but the two fundamental types are personal and impersonal narration, and the line between them is not drawn by the pronouns I and he.
And the best Action Film is impersonal and unsympathetic even if it has no scratching pins.
In like manner it can put on the screen great impersonal mobs of men.
For this joy is thoroughly impersonal and general: it is the wild rejoicing of humanity, anent the hidden relationship and progress of all that is human.
Wherever he turns, the individual realises only too clearly his own shortcomings, his insufficiency and his incompetence; what courage would he have left were he not previously rendered impersonal by this consecration!
The delicate deference of his manner toward Mr. Wade, the pleasant camaraderie which he showed to Hastings, the impersonal politeness with which he recognized Richards' existence, were all points in his favor.
