The apathy or passionlessness of the sage is another of his most salient features.
"A Little Book of Stoicism"
St George Stock
And Lafcadio Hearn, that learned authority on everything Japanese, who has brought into all his writings a poetical feeling which breathes the very spirit of old Japan, has observed in regard to the same statue: The gentleness, the dreamy passionlessness of those features-the immense repose of the whole figure-are full of beauty and charm.
"The Empire of the East"
H. B. Montgomery