How To Use self-forgetful In A Sentence
- The author suggests that in a fruitful search for truth we must experience a self-forgetfulness that is not self-annihilation, but a form of pleasure.
- Love and a spirit of self-forgetfulness took complete possession of my heart, and thenceforward I was perfectly happy.
- The theater becomes a site of self-forgetfulness for audiences who experience a reprieve from disciplines associated with memory.
- Jane often showed that self-forgetful ecstasy when absorbed in some subject or pursuit.
- The purpose of watching a dance or looking at a painting is to experience a mood, ‘a kind of enjoyment which is self-forgetful and transporting’.
- Although the truth of his extravagant feelings is proved by his death, and though when he digs up a treasure he spurns the wealth which seems to tempt him, we yet see distinctly enough that the vanity of wishing to be singular, in both the parts that he plays, had some share in his liberal self-forgetfulness, as well as in his anchoritical seclusion. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature
- Psychologists call it transcendence, which has a suitably sacerdotal ring; and comprises traits of self-forgetfulness, connectedness to the natural world and mysticism.