All 8 Uses
impersonal
in
The Grass is Singing
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- And his chief emotion, which was an impersonal pity for Mary and Dick and the native, a pity that was also rage against circumstances, made it difficult for him to know where to begin.†
p. 17.3impersonal = lacking warmth or personal connection
- She liked things to happen safely one after another in a pattern, and she liked, particularly, the friendly impersonality of it.†
p. 32.1 *
- She seemed impersonal, above the little worries.†
p. 34.6impersonal = lacking warmth or personal connection
- She could not exist without that impersonal, casual friendship from other people; and now it seemed to her there was pity in the way they looked at her, and a little impatience, too, as if she were really rather a futile woman after all.†
p. 42.6
- She was as impersonal as she knew how to be; so impersonal that her voice was free, for a while even of the usual undertone of irritation.†
p. 161.6
- She was as impersonal as she knew how to be; so impersonal that her voice was free, for a while even of the usual undertone of irritation.†
p. 161.6
- He was sorry for Dick Turner, whom he knew to be unhappy; but even this tragedy seemed to him romantic; he saw it, impersonally, as a symptom of the growing capitalization of farming all over the world, of the way small farmers would inevitably be swallowed by the big ones.†
p. 209.3
- And she did not want to think of Dick, except with that distant and impersonal pity.†
p. 219.7impersonal = lacking warmth or personal connection
Definitions:
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(1)
(impersonal) not influenced by personal feelings -- often indicating a lack of warmth of personal connection
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)