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• Sir, you have a right to that kind of respect, and are arguing for yourself. I am supporting the principle, and am disinterested in doing it, as I have no such right.
• With his disinterested passion for art, he had a real desire to call the attention of the wise to a talent which was in the highest degree original; [...]
• People are better off abjuring violence, if everyone else agrees to do so, and vesting authority in a disinterested third party.
• [P]hilosophers of the time [early 20th century] were primarily concerned with epistemology and the foundations of the sciences; they often spoke as if we were separated from the real world by a screen of "representations" or "sense-data"; they tended to regard our approach to the world as one of disinterested observation.
• How dis-interested are they in all Worldly matters, since they fling their Wealth and Riches into the Sea.
• Robin took to wandering again, to intermittent travel from which she came back hours, days later, disinterested.
• Those spotted are usually taught so slowly that they grow disinterested and quit.
• 1852 Charles Dickens, Bleak House: The case [...] is in no essential altered from one of actual occurrence, made public by a disinterested person who was professionally acquainted with the whole of the monstrous wrong.