self-forgetting
Example Sentences
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For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.
From MSNBC • Oct. 15, 2014
Her generous faith, though to an undeserving object, communicates to the ineffective results of her life an ideal value; by a supreme self-forgetting, she rendered herself worthy to be always remembered.
From Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature by McLaughlin, Edward Tompkins
To see my work successful, to see Bride and Bridegroom at length resting in one another with undisturbed, self-forgetting confidence, this is my joy.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I by Dods, Marcus
We thank Thee for all those who by patient toil and self-forgetting effort have made life as sweet and precious to us as it is.
From The Optimist's Good Morning by Perin, Florence Hobart
No fierce and irascible Achilles disturbs the sympathy of the reader with the conquerors; no self-forgetting, but country-devoted Hector enlists our sympathies on the side of the vanquished.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various
