self-forgetful

Psychoanalysis should reignite people's interest in the world outside of themselves and help them become more self-forgetful.

Before that I had seen only the world and things in it, had sought them self-forgetful of all but my impulse.

You know how generous and self-forgetful Helen is.

And the absence of any communal structures in which self-forgetful enjoyment is possible for the two of them.

It has a nice self-forgetful look.

It wasn't cushioned, however, and he always bruised his hands in his self-forgetful earnestness.

Christians are free from anxious self-concern and free for self-forgetful service of their fellow-sufferers.

The first stage in the education of the true worker is self-conscious; the final stage is self-forgetful.

She is never self-forgetful, and self-forgetfulness is the quality that for George Eliot excuses everything.

The patient, finicky, self-forgetful absorption was almost pleasurable.

Obviously Barnabas had a self-forgetful heart.

He becomes totally self-forgetful.

Phebe's cry was answered, her self-forgetful task accomplished, and her long vigil rewarded with a happy dawn.

In dialectics, a totality transforms itself; it is self-related, then self-forgetful, relieving the original tension.

Self-forgetful vs. self-conscious experience.

They write: To be self-affirming yet self-forgetful, positive yet realistic, grace-filled and unpretentious—that is the Christian vision of abundant life.

It seems a reasonable contention, at least, the more so since poets are practically unanimous in describing inspiration as lifting them out of themselves, into self-forgetful ecstasy.

Self-forgetful (ST1)

Service and humility: Ignatius emphasized the active expression of God's love in life and the need to be self-forgetful in humility.

Without some nuanced, self-forgetful moments to interrupt and deepen the novel's historical enactments, it is hard to see that Gebler has done any imaginative work at all.

But the really great man grows so self-forgetful that he cares not for the self-reward of his acts of 'merit', and gladly 'turns it over* to the good of all.

Gilead has resonance for me as a repository of a certain history, and as the kind of commonplace, self-forgetful little town you might find anywhere and not even bother to wonder about.

He took his share in these diversions, not so much like a man in high spirits, but like one of an approved good- nature, habitually self-forgetful, accustomed to please and to follow others.

Love is frequently a mere blend of appetite and preference; it may be almost pure greed; it may have scarcely any devotion nor be a whit self-forgetful nor generous.