The being of God in a personal or
impersonal form was a mental necessity to the first thinkers of modern times: from this alone all other ideas could be deduced.
Thus even love, which is the deification of persons, must become more
impersonal every day.
He found himself wondering, in an
impersonal sort of way, that these things should so little affect him.
You have a nurse who is an
impersonal creature--a shadow among shadows; a voice to speak to you, and a hand to help you, and nothing more.
Zarathustra abjures all those who would fain turn an
IMPERSONAL eye upon nature and contemplate her phenomena with that pure objectivity to which the scientific idealists of to-day would so much like to attain.
The dinner, the wine, the decoration of the table were all very good; but it was all like what Darya Alexandrovna had seen at formal dinners and balls which of late years had become quite unfamiliar to her; it all had the same
impersonal and constrained character, and so on an ordinary day and in a little circle of friends it made a disagreeable impression on her.
Perhaps their English blood made this prospect uncomfortably impersonal and hostile to them, for having once turned their faces that way they next turned them to the sea, and for the rest of the time sat looking at the sea.
As he talked of writing he had become suddenly impersonal. He might never care for any one; all that desire to know her and get at her, which she had felt pressing on her almost painfully, had completely vanished.
Al- though for years she had hated her husband, her hatred had always before been a quite
impersonal thing.
If the youth thought of his past and of those who longed for him in the distant metropolis it was in a detached and
impersonal sort of way as though that other life belonged to another creature than himself.
Thus, he denies the existence of
impersonal value and its correlate--impersonal reason.
The interaction of voice and modal verbs in Estonian is of general interest because of the way that it confirms the
impersonal nature of the basic voice opposition in Estonian and clarifies the constraints on impersonalization.
It was a welcome change from the
impersonal and indifferent service provided by some large organisations and was well worth the half hour trip to get there.
The moral dilemmas included
impersonal and personal situations.
