As rewards for his immense services they were meagre enough, but it was some measure of his unique reputation for highminded disinterestedness that his accepting them should provoke so much bitter disillusionment.
The proletarians are cynically sulky, no longer believing in the disinterestedness of those who appeal to them to make additional efforts and sacrifices to repair the waste of war.
In a way, the outlook of such groups is similar to that of the people of rich countries: a feeling that they alone matter and a disinterestedness in the welfare of the huge numbers who live in villages.
The cult of the disinterested amateur was part of the notion of the classically trained English gentleman, whose education and sense of moral duty purportedly created a moral superiority and disinterestedness that uniquely fitted him to rule.
The whole elaborate, boastful rigmarole of disinterestedness and disguise celebrated in Reichl's book he sees not as honest but as ignorant and provincial, common sense clouded over by fear — as though restaurants were there to scam you.
"It began to dawn on me that although fiction was undoubtedly fictitious it could also be true or false, not with the truth or falsehood of a news item but as to its disinterestedness, its intention, its integrity," he wrote later.
In memorializing their experiences, they probably held disinterestedness to be about the least of their concerns.
Impersonality and objectivity are part of the ethic of journalistic identity, just as disinterestedness and freedom of inquiry are part of the ethic of professorial identity.
The article falls short of advocacy, but it feels some distance from disinterestedness.
Right now a newspaper like the Post is a necessity to give the information collected a sense of authority and disinterestedness.
(A certain disingenuous show of disinterestedness is typical of his opinions).
