How To Use disinterestedness In A Sentence
- One has to establish the credibility of the evidence; and the credibility of witnesses always depends on their disinterestedness.
- It promotes disinterestedness, teaches sensitivity and fine discriminations, produces identifications with men and women of other conditions, thus promoting fellow-feeling.
- Immanuel Kant defined "disinterestedness in aesthetic appreciation" as the moment of "quality" in beauty.
- Many of the main themes, such as the concept of the sublime, the notion of disinterestedness, and the theoretical centrality of nature rather than art, culminated with Kant, who gave some of these ideas such exhaustive treatment that a kind of philosophical closure was seemingly achieved. Environmental Aesthetics
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Under the influence of Shaftsbury, other British empirical estheticians, such as Francis Hutcheson, Joseph Addison , David Hume, Edmund Burke, proposed aesthetic disinterestedness in succession.
- 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
