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  • The impersonal operator of the machine could, by wearing a special optical helmet, gaze into the soul of the person whom he was pumping out.†   (source)
  • Faintly, from somewhere far away, the mechanical shriek of alarms rang steady and impersonal.†   (source)
  • It's Mother Nature at her finest—awesome, beautiful, impersonal, murderous.†   (source)
  • They laughed a great deal on these sled excursions around the house, but the whooping and impersonal voice of the wind, so huge and hollowly sincere, made their laughter seem tinny and forced.†   (source)
  • Instead I stood in the hallway, absorbing the same sterile, impersonal surroundings I'd noticed while visiting with my father.†   (source)
  • Mae knew the company's practice of naming each portion of the campus after a historical era; it was a way to make an enormous place less impersonal, less corporate.†   (source)
  • Betsie engaged the young woman in a discussion of winter fashions and Father pinned Karel in a corner with questions of the most international and impersonal nature.†   (source)
  • I wiped the wet hair from my forehead, starting with something important but impersonal.†   (source)
  • He would look them in the eyes, keeping his chin level, and he would issue the new SOPs in a calm, impersonal tone of voice, a lieutenant's voice, leaving no room for argument or discussion.†   (source)
  • You entered a motel room, excited by its impersonality, the functionalism and bad taste of the furnishings.†   (source)
  • Impelled by feelings that were primal yet paradoxically wholly impersonal.†   (source)
  • I coughed again and set my voice into as impersonal a tone as I could manage.†   (source)
  • No one saves an e-mail, because it's so inherently impersonal.†   (source)
  • Then life in the house became impersonal and dehumanized, and it was impossible to share in it without paying.†   (source)
  • He breathed a sigh of relief when the lift swallowed him and he could turn and face the impersonal doors.†   (source)
  • The service is excellent but impersonal.†   (source)
  • Those who thus slip into the anonymous masses will never be other than members of the impersonal flock, having fled from themselves into self-deception.†   (source)
  • Then, to be on the sale side, I wanted somebody I didn't know and wouldn't go on knowing-a kind of impersonal, priest like official, as in the tales of tribal rites.†   (source)
  • And since they had little to say to one another by phone and instant message seemed too impersonal, she decided to say it in person, outdoors, in a public place, not at his messy, musky apartment, where she trusted herself less, but when she said it, he invited her up, "for one last time," and she intended to say no but actually said yes, and the sex they had was passionate farewell sex, and it was, not unsurprisingly, surprisingly good.†   (source)
  • Reverend Moorehead, instead of asking an impersonal blessing, seized the opportunity to advise the Lord of Jem's and her misdeeds.†   (source)
  • It was also impersonal.†   (source)
  • It was as though by keeping this room impersonal, by not importing her intimate belongings but leaving them mingled with those of her husband, she lessened the offense of not sharing his quarters.†   (source)
  • Doug gives an impersonal nod.†   (source)
  • It looked scoured, there was something invincibly impersonal in it.†   (source)
  • Just getting to the island itself was difficult, and added to that were the harsh rituals of the prison, the undoubted indignities of the warders, and the impersonality of the contact.†   (source)
  • She had seen all this so many times, and yet the room seemed strangely impersonal now, as if she had never lived here at all.†   (source)
  • It struck her impersonally as if it were a judgment someone else was delivering, someone American and important, like Dr. Fanning: she was pretty.†   (source)
  • The furniture was oak, steel, and white leather—impersonal and masculine.†   (source)
  • The voice was impersonal, as if it Issued from a machine and not a person.†   (source)
  • The iron had hurt more, but she would have preferred its touch, for the hot metal was impersonal, inanimate, and predictable, all things the burrow grub was not.†   (source)
  • Hearing the footsteps, he had the hope that it was Clara, and he pictured her face in his mind, not stern and impersonal, as it often was when she was directing some work, but soft and smiling, as it might be if she were playing with Martin at the dinner table.†   (source)
  • The computer is just too impersonal:' Stop being such a moron!†   (source)
  • The clouds are the shape of our new prison walls—untouchable, impersonal, random.†   (source)
  • The lighting in the small, impersonal interrogation room was even brighter and harsher than it had looked from behind the two-way mirror.†   (source)
  • From all her talk of moving, I'd imagined a place full of boxes, something impersonal and antiseptic.†   (source)
  • The dispassionate mathematical laws of physics seem austere and impersonal, like a star or the moon.†   (source)
  • But here they all seemed impersonal; and yet when most impersonal they startled me by being polite, by begging my pardon after brushing against me in a crowd.†   (source)
  • So why, Eve thought as she watched her own words blink on the monitor, as she studied her computer's impersonal analysis, couldn't she make it play in her own head?†   (source)
  • What he wrote, she said, was always too brief, cold, and impersonal.†   (source)
  • As if by some unspoken consent, Annie had talked of her husband only rarely and even then impersonally, more of his job than of his character.†   (source)
  • Although the National Transportation Safety Board hadn't been able to settle on a probable cause, hydraulic control systems failure complicated by human error was one possible scenario—and one with which he had been able to live because it was so impersonal, as mechanical and cold as the universe itself.†   (source)
  • The laws of nature are large average effects which reign impersonally.†   (source)
  • She dressed as always in imitation of Hephestia, but it was far easier to imagine the impersonal cruelty of the Great Goddess than to see cruelty in the face of the queen of Attolia.†   (source)
  • The transactions were almost always short and impersonal.†   (source)
  • He bowed, courteously, impersonally, the movement of his body matching the distinguished formality of his clothes.†   (source)
  • When he turned, she went stone-still, the impersonal smile freezing on her face.†   (source)
  • Some simply held the impartial, impersonal belief that the plebe system was a proven and effective method of turning boys into Institute men.†   (source)
  • They're too impersonal.†   (source)
  • 'Qing, qing,' broke in an impersonal voice over the line, speaking rapidly in Chinese.†   (source)
  • As I grew more completely attuned to their daily round of family life I found it increasingly difficult to maintain an impersonal attitude toward the wolves.†   (source)
  • Less obviously, though, he had watched her too, with a certain impersonal alertness; she might have been an experiment in progress.†   (source)
  • Again, he heard the impersonal busy-beep.†   (source)
  • Even before these impersonal electric minds had arrived at their conclusions, however, the Inspector had given his own recommendations.†   (source)
  • In the McGraw-Hill atmosphere of gelid impersonality it was considered an effrontery, if not downright dirty, to express even mild interest in the private lives of others.†   (source)
  • MAN'S VOICE [IMPERSONAL]: Annie Sullivan, aged nine, virtually blind.†   (source)
  • The preacher, a tired little pinched-face man in a shabby black suit, said the service by rote and read a short, impersonal prayer.†   (source)
  • It was an impersonal attention; he didn't even wait to see if I hit.†   (source)
  • He listened to philosophic discussions, to metaphysics, to esthetics, to impersonal experience.†   (source)
  • Their individual names are now kept secret, after the manner of the gods, so that they seem as impersonal as the Great Wheel, which they claim to represent.†   (source)
  • Her Negroes were as destructive and impersonal as the nut grass.†   (source)
  • Centre was such a wonderful thing—stern, benevolent, impersonal, perpetual.†   (source)
  • The eyes of the men nearest him were interested, and kind; some of them smiled; further away, the eyes were impersonal and questioning, but now even some of these began to smile.†   (source)
  • He looked grim and tired, for his eyes were burning, there was an air of such impersonal cruelty about him that despite myself I shivered.†   (source)
  • Then with a strange, abrupt change to a detached, impersonal tone.†   (source)
  • A vast, impersonal and yet furious grimace transfigures his wet face.†   (source)
  • She liked things to happen safely one after another in a pattern, and she liked, particularly, the friendly impersonality of it.†   (source)
  • The other machine, operated by an equally impersonal fellow in nonstainable reddish-brown coveralls.†   (source)
  • But—maybe not so random and impersonal as all that, if you get me.†   (source)
  • Leper's face became guileful, his voice flat and impersonal.†   (source)
  • What had been self-conscious was now impersonal, almost abstract.†   (source)
  • Despite this gibe he was rather impersonal toward me.†   (source)
  • It doesn't seem as impersonal as I thought it would be, and it's cleaner, too.†   (source)
  • It had been perfectly pleasant but curiously impersonal.†   (source)
  • The strange young woman talked with him impersonally, without ever smiling or showing any warmth.†   (source)
  • Got to attention, Whitney thought, annoyed by the stiff and impersonal formality.†   (source)
  • But now he felt the impersonality of the uniform, the emptiness of the streets.†   (source)
  • Always she'd been careful to keep sex simple, straightforward and, yes, impersonal.†   (source)
  • She spoke with polite, impersonal precision.†   (source)
  • Each decided to bide their time before they went beyond the polite, impersonal stage.†   (source)
  • Uh, I think computers are impersonal, too.†   (source)
  • In Roarke's mind, droids and computers were convenient but impersonal.†   (source)
  • "I know," he said-and there was beauty in the impersonal gentleness of his voice.†   (source)
  • He heard her clear, impersonal voice asking for an appointment to see him.†   (source)
  • Her voice was pronouncing the words with impersonal precision.†   (source)
  • He said it without emphasis, in the same impersonal tone of practical calculation as the rest.†   (source)
  • He did not hold her in the impersonal manner of a man carrying a wounded woman.†   (source)
  • She studied that smile with a cold, impersonal curiosity.†   (source)
  • He said it sternly, without emotion, as an impersonal verdict upon himself.†   (source)
  • His voice was clear, impersonally cordial.†   (source)
  • He was old and tough, shrewdly and impersonally vicious.†   (source)
  • And she smiled strangely, a smile less gravely impersonal.†   (source)
  • She seemed impersonal, above the little worries.†   (source)
  • The room was impersonal--nothing to indicate that a girl had grown up in it.†   (source)
  • He had never touched her before; she shivered again, though she felt the touch was impersonal.†   (source)
  • He stared up into her eyes, which inspected him impersonally.†   (source)
  • And she did not want to think of Dick, except with that distant and impersonal pity.†   (source)
  • It amounted to assembly-line dentistry, quick and impersonal, and the young captain's main concern seemed to be the clock.†   (source)
  • She wondered how many times his hands in rubber gloves, impersonal and omnipotent, had set some child on its feet.†   (source)
  • I hear the voices, impersonal, deferential, and the window rolling electrically down and up for the passes to be shown.†   (source)
  • She, on the other hand, kept him relegated to an impersonal regime of formalities and never made the slightest gesture that might allow him to suspect that she remembered him from her unmarried days.†   (source)
  • She bottle-fed Caroline and I'm sure she bottle-fed us, in spite of the fact that farmwives never willingly take on extra work, and her demeanor during the feedings was rather impersonal as I later recalled it.†   (source)
  • They had thought it amusing to leave him alive to die by inches at the impersonal hands of his planet.†   (source)
  • One of them was Inger Stenberg, the one who had described Harriet's transformation over the past year by saying that she had become "impersonal."†   (source)
  • The drapes are the same, the heavy flowered ones that match the bedspread, orange poppies on royal blue, and the thin white ones to draw against the sun; the bureau and bedside tables, square-cornered, impersonal; the lamps; the pictures on the walls: fruit in a bowl, stylized apples, flowers in a vase, buttercups and devil's paintbrushes keyed to the drapes.†   (source)
  • Consequently, the enthusiastic welcome of my teachers soon began to wane into resignation and a sort of vague, impersonal regret.†   (source)
  • Impersonal this time.†   (source)
  • Sometimes, when a soldier Briony was looking after was in great pain, she was touched by an impersonal tenderness that detached her from the suffering, so that she was able to do her work efficiently and without horror.†   (source)
  • It was not easy to know who was more constrained, the doctor with his chaste touch or the patient in the silk chemise with her virgin's modesty, but neither one looked the other in the eye; instead, he asked questions in an impersonal voice and she responded in a tremulous voice, both of them very conscious of the man sitting in the shadows.†   (source)
  • In school she still spent time with her friends, but now she behaved in an "impersonal" manner, as one of her friends described it.†   (source)
  • There was a moment of total, impersonal panic, and then Finny's hand shot out and grabbed my arm, and with my balance restored, the panic immediately disappeared.†   (source)
  • They were stilled not by the astonishing fact of arrival, but by an awed sense of return—they were face to face in the gloom, staring into what little they could see of each other's eyes, and now it was the impersonal that dropped away.†   (source)
  • When they became daily letters, moreover, he replaced the envelopes that had mourning vignettes with long white envelopes, and this gave them the added impersonality of business letters.†   (source)
  • I sat down by her on the bed, and put it in my ear: aethereal harmonies, impersonal, piercing, like a radio signal from Paradise.†   (source)
  • Traffic roaring past to the tunnel, other boroughs, other cities, malls and parkways, vast impersonal streams of interstate commerce.†   (source)
  • Hard, but without anger, Boris cuffed me with his closed fist on the side of the head: an impersonal clout, no heat about it at all.†   (source)
  • When I looked down at my hands and saw them shaking, it struck me in a wholly impersonal way, like noticing the battery was drained on my iPod, that I hadn't eaten in a while.†   (source)
  • And though I had access to email on the computer at school, Andy wasn't much of a writer, and the messages I got in reply were frustratingly impersonal.†   (source)
  • White noise, impersonal roar.†   (source)
  • "This evening?" said the clerk when I finally got to the window: a broad, fair, middle aged woman, pillowy at the bosom and impersonally genial like a procuress in a second rate genre painting.†   (source)
  • She had Mr. Barbour's long fine nose and his bright, almost goofy clarity of gaze —much the same as when she was a straggle-haired nine year old in school uniform, flushed and struggling with her backpack—only now, when she looked at me, I went blank to see how coldly, impersonally beautiful she'd grown.†   (source)
  • Though he did not know the soldier's name, this did not matter much, for the soldiers whose names he did not know he simply called Soldier or Trooper, whichever came to him first, and there was nothing impersonal or degrading about either word.†   (source)
  • Though this wasn't the first time they'd had the chance to "visit," as Brenda put it, their conversations had usually been relatively short and impersonal: where supplies were stored, whom she needed to talk to to get a couple of new desks, things like that.†   (source)
  • And to the gunslinger, in that final and vital moment of un-coupling from a moral principle, he ceased to be Jake and became only the boy, an impersonality to be moved and used.†   (source)
  • He stripped the silver shop until all that were left were impersonal objects, he gave his clothes away to the orderlies, and he buried his weapons in the courtyard with the same feeling of penance with which his father had buried the spear that had killed Prudencio Aguilar.†   (source)
  • When I leaned forward to kiss her, she turned away with an expert shrug, minimal, impersonal, that managed to place me on the outer brow of the perceivable.†   (source)
  • Up her legs, across her buttocks, impersonal, businesslike, the impersonality somehow more threatening and scarier than if his hands lingered, caressed, acknowledged that this; was a woman's body he was searching.†   (source)
  • If the lowest of the workers start grumbling, claim that the power of the state stands above society, regulating it, moderating it, keeping it within the bounds of order--an impersonal and higher authority of justice.†   (source)
  • GENTLEMAN gives out flowers—sexual? extremely violent and dangerous takes beautiful young women of all types extremely organized not artistic in terms of his killing doctor cold and impersonal as a killer…a butcher craves recognition and fame— possibly wealthy—penthouse apartment graduated Duke Medical School, 1986 raised in North Carolina I thought some more about the connection between Rudolph and Casanova as Kate and I twiddled our thumbs outside the apartment.†   (source)
  • It had been mailed in Barcelona, but the envelope was addressed in conventional blue ink by an official hand and it had the innocent and impersonal look of hostile messages.†   (source)
  • Sometimes Caroline enclosed a new post office box number—always in different places, vast impersonal cities—and whenever she did this David sent money.†   (source)
  • The crime was a psychological accident, virtually an impersonal act; the victims might as well have been killed by lightning.†   (source)
  • I'm sorry and you must dismiss it, like one of those annoying personal questions you find so often nowadays on supposedly impersonal forms.†   (source)
  • Most things printed in the newspaper are impersonal-straightforward reporting, facts and figures, and the like.†   (source)
  • Mami's voice was high and hesitant and slightly apologetic-a small, accented woman's voice among the booming, impersonal American male voices that interrogated her.†   (source)
  • When the system was impersonal and inclusive, I could bear it; but as soon as they specified me, I came apart at the seams.†   (source)
  • Perhaps now you can see why I stress the importance of viewing obligations as a relationship between people, not between one person and some impersonal idea or principle.†   (source)
  • I wanted at one and the same time to run from the room, to sink through the floor, or go to her and cover her from my eyes and the eyes of the others with my body; to feel the soft thighs, to caress her and destroy her, to love her and murder her, to hide from her, and yet to stroke where below the small American flag tattooed upon her belly her thighs formed a capital V. I had a notion that of all in the room she saw only me with her impersonal eyes.†   (source)
  • Of rending and tearing there can never be any end, and God save the people for whom passion becomes impersonal!†   (source)
  • Your sister substantiates this failing for as her letter progresses her judgment gives way to temper — her thoughts are good, lucid the products of intelligence, but it is not now an unbiased, impersonal intelligence.†   (source)
  • Up her legs, across her buttocks, impersonal, businesslike, the impersonality somehow more threatening and scarier than if his hands lingered, caressed, acknowledged that this; was a woman's body he was searching.†   (source)
  • "During the many months it has taken us to reach this table"—but it is not her voice, it is the voice of translation, a man's voice, precise and unaccented and impersonal—"we have traveled some eight thousand six hundred American miles.†   (source)
  • "We're keeping it strictly impersonal.†   (source)
  • For the most part, he preferred the impersonal aspects of people rushing to their own places, in their own time.†   (source)
  • We must accept-even when those were absent, and the men who made the railroads and ships and towers of stone, were before our eyes, in the flesh, their voices different, unweighted with recognizable danger and their delight in our songs more sincere seeming, their regard for our welfare marked by an almost benign and impersonal indifference.†   (source)
  • The dream teetered on the edge of nightmare: how old was this rite, this act of love, how deep? in impersonal time, in the actors?†   (source)
  • She laid her clothes on the bench provided and tried not to think about the techs watching her on their monitors or the machines with the nastily silent glide and their impersonal blinking lights.†   (source)
  • And he stared at Eric, who said nothing, whose face gleamed in the yellow light, as mysteriously impersonal and as fearfully moving as might have been a death mask of Eric as a boy.†   (source)
  • But he was thinking of some nights in bed with Jane, when she had become drunk enough to be insatiable; he was thinking of her breath and her slippery body, and the eerie impersonality of her cries.†   (source)
  • He had risen and stood courteously, smiling down at her; it was a cold smile, impersonal and unrevealing.†   (source)
  • The candlelight moved over his motionless face as over a portrait; the portrait bore an expression of impersonal courtesy.†   (source)
  • It was as if a shutter were slammed down, and what remained was a face without expression, impersonal, indifferent and empty.†   (source)
  • I've never tried to hide that I came from the slums," she said in the simple, impersonal tone of a factual correction.†   (source)
  • He said it with impersonal deference.†   (source)
  • "Not many," she answered simply, neither as boast nor flattery, but as an impersonal tribute to the exacting values involved.†   (source)
  • Among the many things that Lillian resented, the impersonal politeness of Dagny's face was the one she resented most.†   (source)
  • It had remained blank while Dagny explained to him, in the clear, impersonal tone of a business interview, the formation and purpose of her own railroad company.†   (source)
  • Her voice was impersonal and hard.†   (source)
  • There was none, except that his look of attentive interest seemed intensified; he listened as if he were held by some impersonal, scientific curiosity.†   (source)
  • He had added, in the monotone of reciting some impersonal, statistical report, "The newspapers are yelling that coal is now the most crucial commodity in the country.†   (source)
  • Then, regaining the manner of impersonal detachment, she asked, "Suppose I were to tell you that my decision is final and that I am never to join you?"†   (source)
  • A flicker of astonishment rose and died in her eyes; she answered without change in the impersonal tone of her voice, "I am building a branch line with rails of Rearden Metal, which-"†   (source)
  • The sense of numbness seemed impersonal, as if its root were neither in him nor in her; as if it were the act of sex that now belonged to a realm which he had left.†   (source)
  • He glanced at her and added slowly, a slight emphasis as sole change in the impersonal tone of his voice, "No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.†   (source)
  • She looked at close range into the gun-metal eyes that seemed cold and intense at once, the eyes that looked at her directly with a polite, impersonal curiosity.†   (source)
  • Yet there had always been an odd sense of distance between them, the sense of a closed door; there was an impersonal quality in his manner, something within him that could not be reached.†   (source)
  • Rearden leaned back in his chair, his eyes attentive, but fixed on space, as if looking at a not too distant distance, then he asked, with an odd note of quietly impersonal amusement, "Will you tell me just one thing, boys: what is it you're counting on?†   (source)
  • She turned to look at him and he saw the light of an inner smile, while her face remained solemnly grave; it was the most eloquently personal glance he had ever seen directed at himself, while she answered in a quiet, impersonal voice, "Mr.†   (source)
  • It was an impersonal feeling, she did not look at him as at a man, but as at an animated work of art-and it seemed to be a stressed indignity of the outer world that a perfection such as his should be subjected to the shocks, the strains, the scars reserved for any man who loved his work.†   (source)
  • She studied Galt's face intently, but she could find no clue, only a closed, impersonal look, either of determination or of control, that tightened the skin of his cheekbones and the line of his mouth.†   (source)
  • …sufficient degree of malice to cause a new gopher trap to be brought into the world, that he, too, was only the pawn of a silent machine-a machine that had no center, no leader, no direction, a machine that had not been set in motion by Dr. Ferris or Wesley Mouch, or any of the cowed creatures in the grandstands, or any of the creatures behind the scenes-an impersonal, unthinking, unembodied machine, of which none was the driver and all were the pawns, each to the degree of his evil.†   (source)
  • She looked at the faces of the four men in the soft twilight of Mulligan's living room: Galt, whose face had the serene, impersonal attentiveness of a scientist-Francisco, whose face was made expressionless by the hint of a smile, the kind of smile that would fit either answerHugh Akston who looked compassionately gentle-Midas Mulligan, who had asked the question with no touch of rancor in his voice.†   (source)
  • The confident skill of his movements, his manner of firing, with no time wasted to take aim, but with the kind of casual abruptness that never misses a target, made him look like a hero of Western legend-and Rearden watched him with detached, impersonal pleasure, as if the battle of the mills were not his any longer, but he could still enjoy the sight of the competence and certainty with which men of that distant age had once combatted evil.†   (source)
  • The voice slowed down and added in an impersonal, reflective manner, as if the words were not addressed to anyone, "Of course, I'd have the problem of maintaining a certain social position …. it's not my fault if I'll be embarrassed by a family name associated with a millionaire…… I would need enough money for a year or two …. to establish myself in a manner suitable to my-"†   (source)
  • "If you will hire me," she said, her face severely polite, her tone harshly clear, impersonal and businesslike, "I shall cook your meals, clean your house, do your laundry and perform such other duties as are required of a servant-in exchange for my room, board and such money as I will need for some items of clothing.†   (source)
  • A shudder of pity ran through her body and ended in the movement of shaking her head: she did not know for which of the two men the pity was intended, but it made her unable to speak and she shook her head over and over again, as if trying desperately to negate some vast, impersonal suffering that had made them all its victims.†   (source)
  • What are you laughing at?" he asked, seeing the look of relief, of silent laughter that did not seem to be directed at his words-and then, before she answered, he smiled suddenly, as if he had guessed the answer, she saw some particular, intensely personal quality in his smile, which was almost a quality of insolent intimacy-in contrast to the calmly impersonal, casual manner with which he went on.†   (source)
  • It was an impersonal glance, not intended to invite conversation; but she felt certain that he had long since noted her New York suit, her high-heeled pumps, her air of being a woman who did not waste her time; his cold, observant eyes seemed to tell her that he knew she did not belong here and that he was waiting to discover her purpose.†   (source)
  • …in the crowd, they could not see him, they could not tell to whom he was selling his secret or whether he had enough of his cunning left to make it a trade with those who held favors-but they saw the wake of his passage spreading through the room, the sudden cuts splitting the crowd, like the first few cracks, then like the accelerating branching that runs through a wall about to crumble, the streaks of emptiness slashed, not by a human touch, but by the impersonal breath of terror.†   (source)
  • Now he was contemplating, impersonally and for the first time, the real heart of terror: being delivered to destruction with one's hands tied behind one's back.†   (source)
  • Calmly and impersonally, she, who would have hesitated to fire at an animal, pulled the trigger and fired straight at the heart of a man who had wanted to exist without the responsibility of consciousness.†   (source)
  • He told her the whole story, quietly, impersonally, pronouncing no verdict, expressing no opinion, never encroaching on her emotions by any sign of concern for them, speaking with the shining austerity and the awesome power of facts.†   (source)
  • I had to call on you, because it is a matter that involves someone's mind, a very great mind, and"-she spoke impersonally, in the manner of rendering exact justice-"and you are the only great mind left in this field."†   (source)
  • When she faced him at the table, when she saw the earnest, questioning directness of his eyes and the severely literal simplicity of his words, she dropped all attempts at casual prodding, she told him what she wanted to know and why, briefly, impersonally, not appealing for help or for pity, only for truth.†   (source)
  • The weak, unsteady light placed shadows under her mouth and in the sockets of her eyes, making the face impersonal with majesty, like the face of a prophetess, or like a mask.†   (source)
  • Jay had realized his curiosity, and respected his silence, at the first, and so, although the question slightly altered this respect, he answered, somehow pleased to be able to communicate it to an agent at once so near his sympathies, and so impersonal: "My Paw.†   (source)
  • She murmurs gently but impersonally.†   (source)
  • There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships and missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes so widespread, so unselective, that the war is over because that nation or planet has ceased to exist.†   (source)
  • She gave him a thorough, efficient massage, but she seemed as impersonal about it as though he were someone who had just walked in off the street.†   (source)
  • The tall buildings threw angular shadows over the pavement, dignified and impersonal, as was fitting.†   (source)
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