No man ever preached the impersonality of art so well; no man ever preached the impersonality of art so personally.
To his impersonality in his books and addresses, Emerson owes perhaps a large measure of his extraordinary influence.
If the multiplicity of her information constituted mental wealth, its impersonality constituted mental poverty.
Cousin's doctrine of spontaneity in volition can hardly be said to be more successful than his impersonality of the reason through spontaneous apperception.
And how is thisimpersonality or absoluteness of the conditions of knowledge to be established?
The office of ruler was divine; the man that held it was kept an impersonality as much as possible.
It is this entire purity from all taint of personal religion; this distaste for prayer and unrelish for soul-salvation; this sweet clean impersonality of God and man, that makes the missionary writers find him so cold and lifeless.
But Augustus is hidden; the real man is covered by that dispassionate impersonality that saved Rome.
She exposed to him the dogma of impersonality in such fine terms, that more than one bourgeois poet might profit by what she said.
She said, several times over, that the age ofimpersonality had arrived for her.
Now such a prevalence of artistic feeling implies of itself impersonality in the people.
Now if individuality be the natural measure of the height of civilization which a nation has reached, impersonality should betoken a relatively laggard position in the race.
The same impersonalityreappears in the matter of number.
But impersonality has prevented the Far Oriental from having much amour propre.
We have seen, then, how in trying to understand these peoples we are brought face to face with impersonality in each of those three expressions of the human soul, speech, thought, yearning.
That impersonality is not man's earthly goal they unwittingly bear witness; for they are not of those who will survive.
There you will find gems of art for whose sake only the most abnormal impersonality can prevent you from breaking the tenth commandment.
That politeness should be one of the most marked results of impersonality may appear surprising, yet a slight examination will show it to be a fact.
These two occasions celebrated the coming of humanity into the world with an impersonality worthy of the French revolutionary calendar.
Such a glance will suggest the peculiar atmosphere ofimpersonality that pervades the people.
With a certain poetic fitness, misery and impersonality were both present in the occasion that gave the belief birth.
From out each of these three subjects in the Far East impersonality stares us in the face.
I was approaching twenty and she was scarcely sixteen at this time, and my air of determined impersonality successfully piqued her curiosity, roused her resentment, and finally drew her to me in impulsive trust.
Yet, as I said this, I had a sudden weak feeling of intruding, and I looked away from her for fear she would read beneath the studied impersonality of my tone.
She had retreated behind a barrier of impersonality,--an impersonality as stiff and starched and forbidding as the outward form.
She might have been a woman overtaken by a mental paroxysm in the cold impersonality of a railway station.
A letter--there could be no saving impersonality here--to Fanny was more difficult.
From an early time in his stay in Japan he had been impressed by what he called the impersonality of the people, the comparative absence, both in aspiration and in conduct, of diversified individual self-expression among them.
After living in Japan Hearn came to different conclusions about Percival’s ideas on the impersonality of the Japanese, but he never lost his admiration for the book or its author.
It was a mark of the old man's impersonality that, in spite of the interest he inspired, Garnett had never got beyond idly wondering who he might be, where he lived, and what his occupations were.
Impersonality is a deeper character than the preceding.
The moment of inspiration is ruled by a perfect and spontaneous unity; its impersonality approaches that of the forces of Nature.
Massingale, scarcely forty, had an intellectual aristocracy about him that lay in the impersonality of his amused study of others.
The real reason she could not avow--that she resented this immovable impersonality of his attitude.
Standardization and Impersonality of the Great Society.
He sees in a "pronounced impersonality the most striking characteristic of the Far East", "the foundation on which the Oriental character is built up.
The main difference lies in the impersonality of the primitive epic, whose author has so skillfully hidden himself behind his work that, as some one has said of Homer, "his heroes are immortal, but his own existence is doubtful.
Impersonality and fatalism, the Eastern Proteus, in the grip of self-insistence and idealism, the British Hercules.
But a certainimpersonality in his admiration, his fits of reverie, the ascendancy of music over his mind, made her come to regret her more masculine lovers.
The impersonality of Japan was as restful to him as it is aggravating to a European.
If impersonality is a good, why am I not consistent in the pursuit of it?
This sort of confident effrontery is beyond me: my whole nature tends to that impersonality which respects and subordinates itself to the object; it is love of truth which holds me back from concluding and deciding.
Prins observed, with the absolute impersonality of modern justice, allow their sentences to fall upon unhappy wretches as a tap allows water to fall drop by drop upon the ground.
There is no upholder of impersonality but experiences a feeling of fatigue for a work of the utmost exactitude in the reproduction of reality in its empirical sequence, or of industrious and apathetic combination of images.
Within these limits, the opposition of the upholders of the theory of impersonality was most reasonable.
The theory ofimpersonality really coincides with that of personality in every point.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "impersonality" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
