Sentence examples for disinterested actions from inspiring English sources

It was, however, one of the most gallant, generous, manly and disinterested Actions of my whole Life, and one of the best Pieces of Service I ever rendered my Country".

As David McCullough recounts in his biography of Adams, the second President later recalled his role in the case as "one of the most gallant, generous, manly and disinterested actions of my whole life, and one of the best pieces of service I ever rendered my country".

But in a world that is now less ideologically divided than it was, there are plenty of issues on which the Security Council should be able to reach agreement and take disinterested action.

The central teaching of the Bhagavad-Gita, for example, is not "selfless... duty," which sounds like Protestant noblesse oblige, but the more demanding Hindu practice (yoga) of disinterested action, which requires renunciation of the fruits of any deed.

The critics' contention is sim ply that with disinterested boards, action would have been more decisive and progress faster.

The 9/11 commission demonstrated the value of a review of government actions by disinterested individuals from outside government.

Ordinarily we think of altruistic actions as disinterested, done with the interests of the recipient, rather than our own interests, in mind.

It's an achingly real family melodrama first and a comic book flick second, and thus works as a triumph even for those disinterested in the super-powered action fantasy elements.

Again, because historical figures appear at a distance, the pupil can contemplate them in a disinterested fashion, letting "pure taste" rule action in his imagination.

In 1699, Malebranche also published the Traité de l'amour de Dieu (Treatise on the Love of God) with Trois lettres à Lamy (Three Letters to Lamy), in which he rejected the claim in the Benedictine François Lamy (1636 1711) that the Traité de morale supports the "quietist" position that moral action derives from a disinterested "pure love of God".

Critics say that such actions undermine the anchors' position as disinterested conveyors of news and can intensify public opinion in a way that could help push America into a war footing.