How To Use Disinterested In A Sentence
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Moreover, Mr Webb's point about what he calls disinterested management -- that is to say, the management of banks by officers whose remuneration bears no relation to the profit made on each piece of business transacted -- is one of the matters in which English banking seems likely at least to be modified.
War-Time Financial Problems
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People were gulping down sundowners, women seemed to be, rather disinterestedly, sipping their drinks and picking up a bite.
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Instead, his dull eyes flicked disinterestedly from ice house to ice house, noting the plume of smoke drifting from each.
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Small wonder younger people are so disinterested in serving the community.
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An adjudicator must be, and must be seen to be, disinterested, unbiased and impartial.
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He was totally without ostentation or pretension and totally disinterested in wealth, honours or managerial power.
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Kant defined "disinterestedness in aesthetic appreciation" as fundamental and important characteristics in "Critique of Judgment", which was also seen as the "quality" in beauty.
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With this new and bold initiative, we have shown to the world that Indian women are not politically passive or disinterested in public life.
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If, however, we include in the term morality the transitory display of certain qualities such as abnegation, self-sacrifice, disinterestedness, devotion, and the need of equity, we may say, on the contrary, that crowds may exhibit at times a very lofty morality.
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
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Her deportment was the subject of reams of scurrility in prose and verse: it lowered her in the opinion of some whose esteem she valued; nor did the world know, till she was beyond the reach of praise and censure, that the conduct which had brought on her the reproach of levity and insensibility was really a signal instance of that perfect disinterestedness and selfdevotion of which man seems to be incapable, but which is sometimes found in woman.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2
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The peculiarly disinterested institution of science develops only in special circumstances and remains constantly vulnerable.
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So, there's been no break, no lull for people to get disinterested in it.
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Well, in situations like this, i'll just push my hand through and grab the pole, and then look away disinterestedly as the person who is leaning on the pole turns around to look at me.
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Felix, though an offshoot from a far more recent point in the devolution of theology than his father, was less self-sacrificing and disinterested.
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Hitchcock seems disinterested in the relationship, tacking it on to fulfill audience expectations.
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A kickball fell from her finespun fingers, bouncing disinterestedly away at an oblique angle, a distant shadow from a 767 drifting across its path.
Again
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_spavin_, during the last hunting season, he was sold for a __machiner; but being since fired and turned out, he had come up all right, and was now, according to coachee's disinterested opinion, one of the best hunters in the kingdom.
The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life
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He seemed disinterested in what I was saying.
Times, Sunday Times
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She has often interpreted the unexpressive and disinterested look on my face to mean I don't care about her - when that is not true.
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He seemed disinterested in what I was saying.
Times, Sunday Times
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Worst of all, he seemed disinterested.
The Sun
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He will be able to pick serious and competent people who will do a disinterested and professional job as UN rapporteurs.
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Several scholars have argued that the CLC was either unaware or genuinely disinterested in constitutional issues and therefore did not play an important role in the patriation debate.
Archive 2007-04-01
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In conclusion, fellow citizens, allow me to invoke in behalf of your deliberations that spirit of conciliation and disinterestedness which is the gift of patriotism.
State of the Union Address (1790-2001)
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They used the funds placed at their disposition in ways that were hardly conspicuous for spiritual disinterestedness.
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I wanted to ask him how he keeps doing what he does every day, even when his students seemed completely disinterested in the things that light him up.
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His lips curved into a knowing smile though Georgia tried to keep her expression as disinterested as possible.
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If, however, we include in the term morality the transitory display of certain qualities such as abnegation, self-sacrifice, disinterestedness, devotion, and the need of equity, we may say, on the contrary, that crowds may exhibit at times a very lofty morality.
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
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Many outsiders conclude from this teaching that the conception of the world as something unreal lies at the root of the so-called disinterestedness preached in India.
Sadhana : the realisation of life
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What is morally odious is the cool and disinterested way in which the commentariat is discussing what might fairly be described as racial cleansing.
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The whole side of life of which art is the flower requires something which may be called disinterestedness, a capacity for direct enjoyment without thought of tomorrow's problems and difficulties.
Proposed Roads to Freedom: Socialism, Anarchism and Syndicalism
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Mr. Albert led the slouchy, disinterested crowd in a round of applause for Holly.
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Who better to instigate this investigation than a disinterested neutral party like the Sierra Club?
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Addressing an audience that was torn between the demythologizing heritage of the enlightenment on the one hand, and attempts to reassert traditional moral and religious principles on the other, Scott combines the economic amoralism of progressive historical discourse with the romance of disinterested personal virtue.
Walter Scott, Politeness, and Patriotism
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I'd say that's about as far from a disinterested, objective party as you could possibly find to provide analysis.
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They will be bored by the exposition, disinterested in "geeky" rationalisation, by diagrams and equations and dates and places laid out in tiresome detail.
Archive 2006-07-01
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I paid my bill there, which was imagined with scrupulous fullness to the last possible _centimo, _ and so I may disinterestedly declare that the Eitz is the only hotel in Madrid where you get the worth of your money, even when the money seems more but scarcely is so.
Familiar Spanish Travels
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We've all perfected the wasp-wave; you flick your hand with a disinterested languor - just think Oscar Wilde dismissing a jejune insult - and the wind distracts the wasp for a second or two.
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But I just had to get over it, and the crew is totally disinterested.
The Sun
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I was determined to remain a disinterested, objective observer in order to respond to student questions or problems.
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Completely disinterested in it.
Times, Sunday Times
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That the ideal in scientific inquiry would posit the existence of a disinterested, detached, neutral observer is itself reflective of the androcentric nature of knowledge creation.
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The first of these defines aesthetic appreciation as _disinterested interest, _ gratuitously identifying self-interest with the practical pursuit of advantages we have not yet got; and overlooking the fact that such appreciation implies enjoyment and is so far the very reverse of disinterested.
The Beautiful An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics
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The problem with sorting out proposed educational reforms is that the nostrums, strictures, and recommendations too often reflect personal dispositions more than disinterested analysis.
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He was really ‘above it all’ you might say, with a very disinterested, unprejudiced mind.
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It's hard to think of a performance by an actor billed as the star of the picture that is any worse than the muttered, uncharismatic, disinterested effort delivered by Ice T in this film.
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Her advice appeared to be disinterested.
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He was totally disinterested in us.
The Sun
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Now, this notion of disinterested advice may also repay a claimant's examination.
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It will form here-after a pleasing incident in the annals of our Union, giving to real history the intense interest of romance and signally marking the unpurchasable tribute of a great nation's social affections to the disinterested champion of the liberties of human-kind.
State of the Union Address (1790-2001)
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If you make too little eye contact you may seem disinterested.
Banish Anxiety - how to stop worrying and take charge of your life
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When a comely woman flirts with him at a bar, he acts distracted and disinterested.
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He is no disinterested career diplomat - he's a pro-Saudi, leftist partisan with an ax to grind.
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There are no disembodied brains, divorced from human emotions, hormonal urges and fleshly thoughts, engaged solely in disinterested play of the mind on the eternal verities.
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A disinterested party on orders from the commander must inventory the narcotics monthly.
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Self seeking is totally disinterested in serving.
Christianity Today
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A solicitor can give you disinterested advice. However, in speech it is sometimes used instead of uninterested, although this is thought to be incorrect.
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Antsy for success, too much in her head, she considers defection with Merce (Kat Primeau), the singer, sultry and cool, seemingly disinterested, not beyond considering a side deal (or at least a tryst) with a label guy.
James Scarborough: Hollywood Fringe: The Dumb Waiter, Vespertine Productions & Girl Band in the Men's Room, Dirty Blonde Productions
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Both critiques centre on unmasking the supposed disinterestedness of the academic establishment by contending that.
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His action was not disinterested because he hoped to make money out of the affair.
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If any American has ever, for a moment, admitted the idea of consenting to a separation of the Union, let him read the burning words of this enlightened and disinterested foreigner, and blush for his want of comprehension of the true interests and glory of his country.
The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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DID not get in many scoring positions, looked disinterested at times.
The Sun
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‘Simple semantics may help quell patients' fears that they will be seen by a scruffy, disinterested youth who may well later report their intimacies in the bar,’ he writes.
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– Such is the foundation on which stands his pretensions to disinterestedness, which were only assumed to conceal the deep-laid projects of his ambition, and to deceive those whom he afterwards meant to enslave.
Moniteur/Morning Chronicle
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Smitten by her disinterestedness as well as by her beauty, Lord Clavering would gladly marry her, but is bound by his word plighted to Lord Dunbar's daughter.
Balzac
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A solicitor can give you disinterested advice. However, in speech it is sometimes used instead of uninterested, although this is thought to be incorrect.
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Now suppose that voters behave as unselfish, disinterested judges of what is best.
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A lawyer should provide disinterested advice.
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He came on for England against Malta and looked disinterested.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was disinterested, couldn't engage with people from all walks of life in Tasmania.
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It's their one semicommercial riff, and it has always sounded sluggish and disinterested.
Sonic Youth Gets Back, Public Enemy Gets Gamy
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For this disinterested behaviour their reward has been a campaign of vilification and innuendo which has left both of them feeling angry and betrayed.
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These "antirealist" doctrines undermine confidence in the value of disinterested efforts to determine what is true and what is false, and even in the intelligibility of the notion of objective enquiry.
The Acorn
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That part is selfless, both in the sense of being disinterested and in the sense of being detached from personal feeling.
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Generous, too, he appeared to her, in forbearing to apply to Sir Hugh, without her permission; disinterested, in declaring he did not wish for her hand without her heart: and noble, in not seeking her in a clandestine manner, but referring every thing to
Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
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Similarly the agent in demand can act in ways which seem disinterested or illogical when he is the one that has the top contacts and knows it.
The Secrets of Musical Confidence
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Law's, and literature's, preference for this form of organization are not, however, disinterested and certainly not gender-neutral.
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Can this be double-distilled treachery? — or can it be what men call disinterestedness? —
Count Robert of Paris
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“Real intellectuals,” Said writes, “are never more themselves than when, moved by metaphysical passion and disinterested principles of justice and truth, they denounce corruption, defend the weak, defy imperfect or oppressive authority.” (p. 6) Said is uninterested in allying with the victors and the rulers whose very stability he sees as a kind of “state of emergency” for the less fortunate; he chooses instead to account for “the experience of subordination itself, as well as the memory of forgotten voices and persons.” (p. 35)
June « 2006 « Bill Ayers
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When those people find themselves on the spot where news is breaking, their diarising is temporarily elevated to the rank of amateur, supposedly disinterested, eyewitness reporting.
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Its great corresponding defect -- and this is immeasurable -- is its loss in form, in universality, in that disinterestedness which is essential to art.
Personality in Literature
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She even considered a discreet retreat to her own lair, but recognised that she lacked such disinterested nobility.
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There is no reason why the relevant disinterested person should not be found elsewhere within the company or, indeed, outside it.
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As a long-time reader/fan of your insights into policy and (dare I say the word) planning, I am always surprised at how disinterested you seem in this issue.
Matthew Yglesias » Wieseltier on the Journalistic Proletariat
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The range of emotions stretched from bored to pensive to disinterested as he took the blows.
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The classical approach emphasizes scholarly disinterestedness and detachment.
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It turns out Wilson wasn't a disinterested nonparticipant, a kindly and even chivalrous guy who was just trying to help out the ladies.
Susan Kim: Menopause: Marketing Fear
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He came on for England against Malta and looked disinterested.
Times, Sunday Times
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This view must surely add to growing pressure for a rethink of this process of giving disinterested information to people.
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A solicitor can give you disinterested advice. However, in speech it is sometimes used instead of uninterested, although this is thought to be incorrect.
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Mr.P. Cunliffe Owen, familiar with all the minutiæ of previous expositions, declares them supreme "in thoroughness of plan and energy of construction" -- a judgment designed to coyer the whole conception and administration of the exhibition, and one which, coming from a disinterested and competent foreign observer, may be cited as an amply expressive tribute to the zeal and fidelity of those in control.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876
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His action was not altogether disinterested.
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Teaching" universities completely disinterested in competitive research can hire absolutely brilliant professors and then overtax them by not giving them support.
Snobby-Nosed Nonsense
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Governments in Australia need to be interested in productivity but they appear fundamentally disinterested.
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To Gaston there was a kind of fascination, an actually aesthetic beauty, in the spectacle of that keen-edged intelligence, dividing evidence so finely, like some exquisite steel instrument with impeccable sufficiency, always leaving the last word loyally to the central intellectual faculty, in an entire disinterestedness.
Gaston de Latour; an unfinished romance
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Responding to the concern that the courts had placed too rigid a test on whistleblowers -- a key precedent demands that an employee have access to "irrefragable proof" before being eligible for protection -- the 111th Congress revised the act so that the test is "whether a disinterested observer with knowledge of the essential facts" could conclude with the whistleblower that the alleged violations were made.
Feisal G. Mohamed: "See Something, Say Something" And Impunity for Profiling
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An adjudicator must be, and must be seen to be, disinterested, unbiased and impartial.
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Visual sensibility is a prerequisite of art appreciation, and a genuine aesthetic experience is both self-sufficient and disinterested.
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His action was not disinterested because he hoped to make money out of the affair.
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Suppose that they had seriously endeavored, and had succeeded in the endeavor, to banish the word disinterestedness from the language; had obtained the disuse of all expressions attaching odium to selfishness or commendation to self-sacrifice, or which implied generosity or kindness to be any thing but doing a benefit in order to receive a greater personal advantage in return.
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
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DID not get in many scoring positions, looked disinterested at times.
The Sun
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The judgments of disinterested outsiders are likely to be more useful.
Times, Sunday Times
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But I just had to get over it, and the crew is totally disinterested.
The Sun
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In any event, his estate seems singularly disinterested in pursuing it.
The LNN interviews Paul Blake from ToyVault : The Lovecraft News Network
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Ray McKinnon, who had looked disinterested for much of the first half, began to boss the midfield and a winner for the home side didn't look impossible.
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I phone roughly 150 people and get one ‘maybe’ from a rather disinterested member.
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The Fourth Amendment does not contemplate the executive officers of Government as neutral and disinterested magistrates.
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Volsci and Samnites, they were, we are told, men disinterested and virtuous.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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But if the preliminary declarations of the article (which would formerly have been called the exordium) are so markedly disinterested, what follows is generally much less so.
Time Regained
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It does mean that he is completely blind to the notion of gentile privilege, is completely disinterested in viewing things from a Jewish perspective or taking our voice and experience seriously as something as valuable, and views it as an affront if anyone calls him on it or attempts to inform him that his views are not unimpeachable on the subject.
The Debate Link
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He was totally disinterested in us.
The Sun
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Similarly the agent in demand can act in ways which seem disinterested or illogical when he is the one that has the top contacts and knows it.
The Secrets of Musical Confidence
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One has to establish the credibility of the evidence; and the credibility of witnesses always depends on their disinterestedness.
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They manoeuvred against the NHS until Nye Bevan "stuffed their mouths with gold", and doctors should not be mistaken for disinterested observers of the service.
National Health Service: Dogma, democracy and the doctors | Editorial
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First impressions are that it is a joyless, characterless pub, staffed by disinterested graduate students and other ingrates, with bizarrely obscure (but not in a good way) range of beers.
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Critical disinterestedness was more the exception than the rule.
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Only the terminally disinterested, which is to say a vast swath of the "booboisie", march lock step to the mainstream medias pied pipers.
Walter Cronkite: ‘We Are Mired in Stalemate,’ 1968 « Antiwar.com Blog
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Rugg, as she raised her glass to her lips in completion of it, had not happened to look at Young John; when she was again so overcome by the contemptible comicality of his disinterestedness as to splutter some ambrosial drops of rum and water around, and withdraw in confusion.
Little Dorrit
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Milan Baros, he's failed to recapture the stunning form from the start of the season and now appears disinterested and unmotivated.
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At one in the morning, the Canadian border patrol guards were bored and disinterested.
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So, when this band started, for various reasons, we'd become very disinterested in what we found to be the, you know, kind of cliched ways of playing guitar and playing drums.
Vampire Weekend: Beyond The Blogs
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If you are utterly disinterested in your neighbor's sexuality, your indifference is not oppression.
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Visual sensibility is a prerequisite of art appreciation, and a genuine aesthetic experience is both self-sufficient and disinterested.
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Barons and lords glanced furtively at each other from down the table, ladies and nobles picked disinterestedly at their food as if suspecting it had been poisoned.
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He was now playing the role of disinterested host and avuncular mentor.
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Visual sensibility is a prerequisite of art appreciation, and a genuine aesthetic experience is both self-sufficient and disinterested.
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They can also offer a disinterested discussion of the public interest, of why it matters that television is honest and truthful.
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Make it perfectly clear you are neutral and totally disinterested.
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The Welsh are now something close to a rabble, reaching a nadir a week ago with a record 50-10 defeat against a disinterested England, who were firing on a cylinder and a half.
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Even the goldfish in the pond and the birds in the hedge seem listless and disinterested.
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He had never till now called upon me to make the shadow of a return for all his disinterested love -- _disinterested_, ah, was it so?
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843
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a philanthropist, whom a true and noble woman, also a philanthropist, should have delighted to honor; whose disinterested and resolute efforts, for the redemption of poor humanity, all independent and faithful minds should sustain, since the "broadcloth" vulgar will be sure to assail them; a philosopher, worthy of the palmy times of ancient Greece;
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I
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There are so many subliminal motivational messages around this building, it's all I can do to remain disinterested and work-shy.
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Yet many people are entirely disinterested in ‘Westminster Village’ chatter.
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The key to success is the impartial, disinterested approach.
Times, Sunday Times
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The quiet weird new guy to boot, who was alternately normal and withdrawn, studious and disinterested in studies.
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We looked disinterested today and I can't explain why.
Times, Sunday Times
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Its avatars will be the notions of ‘pure’ painting and poetry, reflected, for instance, in Blanchot's view of literature as pure writing, autonomous and disinterested.
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In the one all the horror of disgusting and blood-embrued barbarism, the drunkenness of carnage, the disinterested taste, if I may say so, for destruction and death; in the other a profound sense of justice, a great height of personal pride it is true, but also a great capacity for devotion, an exquisite loyalty.
The Poetry of the Celtic Races. II.
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The problem is that the particularism of friendship is at odds with modern conceptions of virtue as disinterestedness and detachment.
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As an outside observer drawn into the Statementing process by the professionals involved, I had a neutral but not disinterested role.
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The gallants of that age, disinterested, aspiring, and lofty-minded, even in their coxcombry, were strangers to those degrading and mischievous pursuits which are usually termed low amours.
The Monastery
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But for most, in a community that is studiously disinterested in celebrity, Simpson is simply ignored.
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He was totally without ostentation or pretension and totally disinterested in wealth, honours or managerial power.
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He argued that Carson, while claiming to be a disinterested patriot, was defending the private interests of profiteering firms.
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The cynical, bored and disinterested looks on the faces of the athletes should have sent a big message.
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Managers who did encounter hostile, judgmental, or disinterested reactions from their bosses rarely initiated such interactions again.
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As for Mariana, unresisting and accommodating as the text confines her to be, she appears to experience this exploitation as ‘voluntary allegiance to disinterested virtue’.
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That you'll ask some intelligent and disinterested person to look at the two scripts.
Writers in Hollywood, 1915-51
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What we call disinterested, however, super-cats might call aimless.
This Simian World
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Hence the birth of the celebrated criterion of "disinterestedness" for aesthetic enjoyment. 2
Tastes and Pleasures
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Judgment requires, above all, what Kant called disinterestedness and what Arendt called enlarged mentality, seeing the question from another's point of view.
Democracy Journal
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I've played lots of crumby gigs to a mostly disinterested audience.
20 Questions with SciFi Songster John Anealio
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His action was not altogether disinterested.
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That you'll ask some intelligent and disinterested person to look at the two scripts.
Writers in Hollywood, 1915-51
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His professions had an air of extraordinary generosity and disinterestedness, which, together with his fawning arts in lavishing civilities on all, made him a popular favorite.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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An accountant at the ministry of culture in Paris, Michel is by turns passive, aggressive, affected, hormonal and simply disinterested.
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As a family friend with no further ambitions, he was able to offer disinterested advice to the inexperienced future president.
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Dusty seemed as exhausted and disinterested as an 11-month-old thinking of din-din.
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A disinterested electorate is easily led hither or yon
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For people absolutely disinterested in managing their own finances, annuities offered a simple menu.
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Also thank those disinterested limb offering as a tribute of no reputation!
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Then you outsiders - you impartial, disinterested observers - you come in and split the difference.
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The disinterested passions compel me to see from other viewpoints, but also blind me to the equality of viewpoints.
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I am disinterested in their games, parties, loves and hates - and frequently distressed by their corruptions of the language.
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Completely disinterested in it.
Times, Sunday Times
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By exploring thoughts, disciplinary sacrifices, supernal prayers, holy toils of disinterestedness, he fledges his soul's pinions, lays up treasures in heaven, and at last migrates to the attracting clime.
The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
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For people absolutely disinterested in managing their own finances, annuities offered a simple menu.
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There were three disinterested people at the other end of the platform, waiting for a train.
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Managers who did encounter hostile, judgmental, or disinterested reactions from their bosses rarely initiated such interactions again.
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As a rule, the indwellers in nature are autonomous and disinterested in man.
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Counsel asked to adjourn to the next day as the witness seemed like she was disinterested and unresponsive to questions.
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The current sole superpower is far from being a disinterested observer.
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Visual sensibility is a prerequisite of art appreciation, and a genuine aesthetic experience is both self-sufficient and disinterested.
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The abstract philosophy of the One might seem indeed to have been translated into the terms of a human will in the rigid, disinterested, renunciant career of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, its mortal coldness.
Plato and Platonism
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Under the influence of Shaftsbury, other British empirical estheticians, such as Francis Hutcheson, Joseph Addison , David Hume, Edmund Burke, proposed aesthetic disinterestedness in succession.
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The giant palms lining the road inspected me disinterestedly as I coasted along trying to find the Alcade Apartments.
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This ensures that trustees and fiduciaries are financially disinterested in carrying out their duties.
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The key to success is the impartial, disinterested approach.
Times, Sunday Times
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A few women, however, began disinterested and grew more interested in the program over time.
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Nor is the ‘freedom to search’ as disinterested and neutral an injunction as it appears.
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The transaction is subject to approval by a panel of disinterested directors.
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Dusty seemed as exhausted and disinterested as an 11-month-old thinking of din-din.
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He cautioned against the dangers of power with this corollary: "We ought neither to believe that a nation is capable of perfect disinterestedness in its exercise, nor become complacent about particular degrees of interest and passion which corrupt the justice whereby the exercise of power is legitimatized.
Eliot Spitzer: The Need for Both Passion and Humility in Politics
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As an outside observer drawn into the Statementing process by the professionals involved, I had a neutral but not disinterested role.
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Boyd had looked away, his expression disinterested.
The Will
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Find a financial consultant who can offer completely independent and disinterested advice.
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At the signing, Williams stood alone, the people were absent, distant and disinterested.
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If a poll could be confined to those who are both informed and financially disinterested in the issue, the figure would be nudging zero.
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These defects are interesting, because they represent the nature of Milton as it was then, noble and disinterested to the height of imagination, but self-assertive, unmellowed, angular.
Life of John Milton
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The fact is she is not a dispassionate or disinterested witness in this case.
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If you make too little eye contact you may seem disinterested.
Banish Anxiety - how to stop worrying and take charge of your life
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Erudition, when it is humane, and even when it is merely academic, has, at any rate, always that disinterestedness which is essential alike to science and art.
Personality in Literature
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Others milled there, as fortuneless and disinterested as I.
Shaman's Crossing
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English Clay had never considered the matter in this view before; but now it was pointed out, he confessed it struck him as _very fair -- very fair_: and his pride, of which he had a comfortable portion, being now touched, he asserted both his disinterestedness and his right to judge and choose in this business entirely for himself.
Tales and Novels — Volume 07
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By the term disinterested I mean detached from ulterior objects.
The Unity of Civilization
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A solicitor can give you disinterested advice. However, in speech it is sometimes used instead of uninterested, although this is thought to be incorrect.
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Her equity acknowledged that Clermont had every right of choice: but while her candour induced her to even applaud his disinterestedness in relinquishing the Cleves estate, her capacity pointed out how terrible must be the personal defects, that so speedily, without one word of conversation, one trial of any sort how their tastes, tempers, or characters might accord, stimulated him to so decisive a rejection.
Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
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{136} Although no specific reference is made outside the twenty 'dedicatory' sonnets to the youth as a literary patron, and the clues to his identity are elsewhere vaguer, there is good ground for the conclusion that the sonnets of disinterested love or friendship also have Southampton for their subject.
A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles
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Congress has shown itself to be serially disinterested is such matters.
Matthew Yglesias » In the Long Run