impersonally
Adverb
Meaning
In an impersonal manner.
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I am deeply moved if I see one man suffering and would risk my life for him. Then I talk impersonally about the possible pulverization of our big cities, with a hundred million dead. I am unable to multiply one man's suffering by a hundred million.
It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.
when I told him about Russ I found it difficult to speak impersonally
he treated his patients impersonally
Parfit argues that reality can be fully described impersonally: there need not be a determinate answer to the question "Will I continue to exist?"
The fourth principal part is sometimes omitted for intransitive verbs, but strictly in Latin, they can be made passive if they are used impersonally, and the supine exists for such verbs.