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Impersonal   /ɪmpˈərsənəl/   Listen
Impersonal

adjective
1.
Not relating to or responsive to individual persons.  "An impersonal remark"
2.
Having no personal preference.  Synonym: neutral.  "A neutral observer"





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"Impersonal" Quotes from Famous Books



... Sainte-Beuve, that "what chiefly interests him in a book is the author, and in the author the very mystery of his personality." In other words, each looks upon a literary work, not as the production of certain impersonal intellectual faculties, but as a manifestation of the author in the totality of his nature. But while the point of view is thus identical, there is little similarity in the treatment. In the one case a powerful imagination ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 • Various
... In an impersonal way she described the life of a teacher in a great American school system: its routine, its spying supervision, its injustices, its mechanical ideals, its one preeminent ambition to teach as many years as it was necessary to obtain a pension. There were the superintendents, ...
— The Web of Life • Robert Herrick
... color fled from her face, and the clear eyes which met his from beneath the broad helmet distended as though at some sudden shock. In the course of their earnest but impersonal conversation she had almost forgotten what was to come. This was the end of the ride, this was the to-morrow, the inevitable to-morrow of those ...
— The Native Born - or, The Rajah's People • I. A. R. Wylie
... do not mean that they actually reasoned it out: they were the average Teutonic crowd, with an inborn respect for law and order and for traditions bequeathed to them by generations of ancestors: the reasons that made them act as they did were impersonal, instinctive, hereditary. ...
— The Loss of the SS. Titanic • Lawrence Beesley
... may be seen, Shirley was inveigling himself into the heart of the affair, in his favorite disguise as that of the "innocent bystander." His innate dramatic ability assisted him in maintaining his friendly and almost impersonal role, with a success which had in the past kept the secret of his system from even ...
— The Voice on the Wire • Eustace Hale Ball


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