Impersonal

Impersonality may refer to:

  • Impersonal passive voice, a verb voice that decreases the valency of an intransitive verb to zero
  • Impersonal verb, a verb that cannot take a true subject

Famous quotes containing the word impersonal:

    “An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating.”
    —Marie Carmichael Stopes (1880–1958)

    “My image is a statement of the symbols of the harsh, impersonal products and brash materialistic objects on which America is built today. It is a projection of everything that can be bought and sold, the practical but impermanent symbols that sustain us.”
    —Andy Warhol (1928–1987)

    “The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.”
    —Alfred Jarry (1873–1907)