For to-day the Far East is even more impersonal in its religion than are those from whom that religion originally came. India has returned again to its worship of Brahma, which, though impersonal enough, is less so than is the gospel of Gautama. For it is passively instead of actively impersonal.英文原著 · 《The Soul of the Far East》
Art is that imaginative expression of human energy, which, through technical concretion of feeling and perception, tends to reconcile the individual with the universal, by exciting in him impersonal emotion. And the greatest Art is that which excites the greatest impersonal emotion in an hypothecated perfect human being.英文原著 · 《Censorship and Art》
Had our population intelligence enough to comprehend that the choice was between order and anarchy, between the equilibrium of a government by law and the tussle of misrule by *pronunciamiento?* Could a war be maintained without the ordinary stimulus of hatred and plunder, and with the impersonal loyalty of principle? These were serious questions, and with no precedent to aid in answering them.英文原著 · 《Abraham Lincoln》
Coleman remembered the weak bewilderment of the little professor in hours that had not long passed, and it was with something of an impersonal satisfac- tion that he said to himself: " The old boy's got his war-paint on again." The professor had stepped sharply up to Coke and looked at him with eyes that seemed to throw out flame and heat. There was a moment's pause, and then the old scholar spoke, bit- ing his words as if they were each a short section of steel wire. Coke, your behaviour will end your college career abruptly and in gloom, I promise you. You have been drinking."英文原著 · 《Active Service》
Was it to be utterly wasted? There were hundreds of impersonal, sexless women, equipped for nothing else, with pens as keen if not keener than hers. That was not the talent with which she had been entrusted--for which she would have to account. It was her beauty, her power to charm, to draw after her- -to compel by the mere exercise of her will. Hitherto Beauty had been content to barter itself for mere coin of the realm--for ease and luxury and pleasure. She only asked to be allowed to spend it in service. As his wife, she could use it to fine ends. By herself she was helpless.英文原著 · 《All Roads Lead to Calvary》
The two brothers are face to face. Up to that point all is logical, all is in conformity with the possible stages of a project of this order. I arrived at the execution of it; and I continued to reason in the same way, impersonally. The rich brother proposes the blood- bargain to the poor brother. He offers him money; a hundred thousand francs, two hundred thousand, three hundred thousand. From what motive should the scoundrel hesitate to accept the offer? Moral ideas? What is the morality of a rake who has gone from libertinism to theft?英文原著 · 《Andre Cornelis》
I figured why be so impersonal as to let a few keystrokes run our life, why not reach out and touch?美剧 · 《Billions》
A focus group-tested simulacrum of cozy comfort, tasteful and personalised, but impersonal.美剧 · 《Billions》