To Lydgate it seemed that he had been spending month after month in sacrificing more than half of his best intent and best power to his tenderness for Rosamond; bearing her little claims and interruptions without impatience, and, above all, bearing without betrayal of bitterness to look through less and less of interfering illusion at the blank unreflecting surface her mind presented to his ardor for the more impersonal ends of his profession and his scientific study, an ardor which he had fanci
"If you are speaking on my behalf, I can assure you that no question can be more indifferent and impersonal to me than second marriage.
Lydgate, naturally, never thought of staying long with her, yet it seemed that the brief impersonal conversations they had together were creating that peculiar intimacy which consists in shyness.
He vehemently contended for her innocence, and the remote impersonal passion for her beauty which he had felt before, had passed now into personal devotion, and tender thought of her lot.
"I hope the impersonal pronoun is correctly used.
He did it with such a detached, impersonal, Jove-like air, as if it did not matter in the least to him what supernal joys or shattering horrors might be in those letters for the people to whom they were addressed.
" They knew the compliment was impersonal, and the motive was plain–the flyer asked them to shop at the store.
Hope which is to be unconquerable must be large and impersonal.
The census will cover about 30 million impersonal entities and industrial activity units, as well as about 60 million self-employed entrepreneurs.
"Rational-legal authority" is impersonal, based on rules and hierarchical relations that limit personal discretion.
However, by hiding your flaws, what you do succeed in is appearing cold and impersonal.
The rooms were now impersonal; their cold stillness could not respond when he fell to the floor and sobbed.
——Kay Bradbury Scientific knowledge aims at being wholly impersonal.
It turns out that the middle-class society we used to have didn't evolve as a result of impersonal market forces — it was created by political action, and in a brief period of time.
There are many teachers in schools and colleges who seem duller than the dullest of their pupils; they go through the motions of teaching, but they are as impersonal as a telephone.
James, adding that it's a sign of "impersonal hostility among passengers," an atmosphere "created by the airlines by the way they manage the passengers.
I believe in a Supreme Power, unknowable and impersonal, whose handiwork the soul-enlarging firmament declares.
—Kay Bradbury Scientific knowledge aims at being wholly impersonal.
An air kiss, without contact, may seem rude or impersonal, so very slight contact is best but no sound effects are needed.
And some in the South believe it's too impersonal, so couples there may have to work extra hard to overcome an anticash sentiment.
