public-mindedness

The group's vice president, Lorrie McNaught, was seized with public-mindedness and was ready to offer assistance in the form of sound bites about insurance coverage available for stars, the amount of money Hollywood producers spend on insurance, and steps taken by studios to make sure the stars show up for work.

The TV Column: Experts - lots of them - weigh in on Charlie Sheen 2011

What makes government predatory, Mr. Grassley seems to believe, is its public-mindedness.

Thomas Frank: Health Care and the 'Predator State' 2009

In most of the remaining articles, the Constitution advances a secular advocacy of Confucian principles such as the importance of the natural hierarchy informing the political realm, as well as political virtues such as loyalty, obedience, ritual decorum, impartiality, diligence, trustworthiness, moderation, and public-mindedness.

Japanese Confucian Philosophy Tucker, John 2008

Though it is unclear exactly how the NSA eavesdropping story made its way to The New York Times (last week, the Justice Department launched a formal leak investigation), the sources were probably officials disgruntled for reasons of morality and public-mindedness and possibly less-noble motivations (turf battles, score settling).

Full Speed Ahead 2007

Nor, however, should the bar's positions be taken as pure expressions of public-mindedness.

February 2006 2006

Hence this show of enthusiastic public-mindedness. '

A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2001

Is it to the penitence and confession, the public-mindedness, the identification of the fate of the individual with the fate of the whole group which is the religious impulse?

Preaching and Paganism Albert Parker Fitch

In public-mindedness, in breadth of view, in qualities of imagination, in sanity of judgment that did not sacrifice understanding of his misguided contemporaries, in power of analysis of the confronting situation, William Gregg stood head and shoulders above other Southerners of his time.

The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South 1921

Athenians, the Romans, and all other nations that grew great out of little or nothing, did so merely by the public-mindedness of particular persons; and the same courses that first raised nations and governments must support them.

Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I. 1634-1716 1823

The voice of God in it calls us to humility, to industry, to temperance, to public-mindedness, to great and generous actions, for the good both of church and state.

Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VI. 1634-1716 1823