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  • the fish eye looked as detached as the mirrors in a periscope   (source)
  • Both gangs are jitterbugging wildly with their bodies, but their faces, although they are enjoying themselves, remain cool, almost detached.   (source)
    detached = emotionally uninvolved (separated from their feelings)
  • There are no detached observers.†   (source)
    detached = separated  OR  emotionally uninvolved (separated from emotions)
  • he detached her from the company on the terrace, and they were alone together,   (source)
    detached = separated
  • When we speak our voices are quiet, detached.   (source)
    detached = emotionally uninvolved (separated from ourselves)
  • It was constant, the only eternal thing, inscrutable, detached, dispassionate.†   (source)
  • The room leaned physically toward the prosecution as though the floor tipped, and it didn't help that Kya sat rigid and detached—carved from ice.†   (source)
  • When I was really little, that was mainly because there were too many medical issues, like my trache tube needing to be cleared every hour, or reinserting my feeding tube if it got detached.†   (source)
  • Just before the entire machine exploded, the head detached and blasted away from the neck.†   (source)
  • In seconds, he had swept past Harry, Ron, and Hermione and detached Mrs. Norris from the torch bracket.†   (source)
  • He was a detached, almost fanatically organized guy who maintained detailed time-management logs and could recite endless baseball statistics.†   (source)
  • It, like the other one, was burned so badly that the skin had detached from the sole.†   (source)
  • My various possessions were floating in their own pools of shadow, detached from me, denying my ownership of them.†   (source)
  • But what astonishes them, what makes them stand with jaws agape, is this: near the peak, a dozen roofing boards have detached from the rafters and curled back in long, crazy-looking hoops that stop just short of making a circle.†   (source)
  • In reality, I'm not so detached.†   (source)
  • While I sent my message, Vince and Tony detached our harnesses, checking on our passengers and explaining what we were doing.†   (source)
  • For the first time in my life, I felt detached from Lindsay.†   (source)
  • A sound escapes my mouth, not a sob or a scream, but a croaking, scraping moan that sounds detached, like it is coming from someone else.†   (source)
  • I closed the two small taps that led to the pouch, detached it and pulled it out of the water.†   (source)
  • Looking across the table at him, all I got was a strange, detached, neutral feeling.†   (source)
  • She said she wanted to live somewhere removed, detached, where neighbors wouldn't stare at her belly, point at her, snicker, or, worse yet, assault her with insincere kindnesses.†   (source)
  • He was friendly enough but a bit detached.†   (source)
  • Stephen, Thomas thought, feeling an unexpected but detached sorrow.†   (source)
  • Usually detached and cool under pressure, Fache tonight seemed emotionally engaged, as if this were somehow a personal matter for him.†   (source)
  • Anyway, after the calls started coming, Kota decided to detach himself from the family.†   (source)
  • And with that, the stranger realized that he was being drawn, like it or not, into the conversation and, reluctantly, he stepped out of the shadows, detaching from them like a patch of darkness.†   (source)
  • Also it says in the book Sherlock Holmes had, in a very remarkable degree, the power of detaching his mind at will.†   (source)
  • When he does, he sounds oddly detached.†   (source)
  • They were fascinated, even titillated, and yet they remained detached.†   (source)
  • So after autodeploying, they detached themselves from the rovers and lined up next to each other twenty meters away?†   (source)
  • A little shadow detached itself from the larger one.†   (source)
  • "Papa Papa Papa Papa," Marie-Laure is saying, but her body seems to have detached itself from her voice, and her words make a faraway, desolate cadence.†   (source)
  • A detached numbness spread over me.†   (source)
  • The fact was, it had taken mere instants for the two of them, and Rose, too, to take possession in their own minds, and mere instants for Caroline to detach herself.†   (source)
  • Then a shadow detached itself from the rocky incline and took on the general form — if not the exact appearance — of Milligan.†   (source)
  • The detached part of her, the part she kept to herself, had begun to interest him deeply.†   (source)
  • I had to detach the former Mary Magdalene's naked white arms from the wire-mesh sockets under the dummy's shoulders.†   (source)
  • To get a helm over his head the armorer had to detach the visor.†   (source)
  • People who suffer from PTSD often relive the experience through nightmares, have difficulty sleeping, feel detached.†   (source)
  • Just ...detached.†   (source)
  • I met a medic detached from her unit who said she knew Tramy and that he's fine.†   (source)
  • The woman from 8 who Effie calls Cecelia, who looks about thirty, has to detach herself from the three kids who run up to cling to her.†   (source)
  • She came at last to a confluence of shabby streets which she assumed from the detached quarter of her map was Stockwell.†   (source)
  • They are not like the ladies of Kweilin, who I always imagined savored their food with a certain detached delicacy.†   (source)
  • His voice is as detached as his words, and as soon as he says it, his expression drops and he knows he's just hurt my feelings.†   (source)
  • I've just about got this end detached.†   (source)
  • Definitely a stampede, I think, and for one weird, detached second feel proud of myself for correctly identifying the noise.†   (source)
  • The captain watched with detached amusement and then turned away.†   (source)
  • He worked at the dragon's neck hinges until the head was detached.†   (source)
  • It made her breasts feel like they were going to detach from her body.†   (source)
  • She directed them to the detached garage at the end of the driveway.†   (source)
  • For Ruth, for the others, it was that detached, and the chances are that's how it was for me too.†   (source)
  • And listen, listen," I said—his mouth was thin, he was shaking his head as if he'd already detached himself from what I was saying, no point in even listening—"if it's the furniture you're worried about —"†   (source)
  • Colonel Graff detached himself from the others and came to Ender.†   (source)
  • It was quite possible that Artemis would have sat like that for some time, totally detached from the situation at hand, had not the front door imploded, shaking the manor to its foundations.†   (source)
  • He felt detached, as if everything he saw were happening to someone else.†   (source)
  • "Hmm," Billy grunted, suddenly detached, spinning his chair around to face his son.†   (source)
  • The nurses work rapidly to detach the monitors and catheters and run another tube down my throat.†   (source)
  • And so what that Apollo 7 successfully detached from the Saturn rocket to practice the rendezvous they would have to perform perfectly for a moon shot?†   (source)
  • "Wasps?" she said, and for a moment she was inside herself, almost detached in her realization.†   (source)
  • He tries to peel the image from the sticky yellow backing, to show her the next time he sees her, but it clings stubbornly, refusing to detach cleanly from the past.†   (source)
  • A soft voice, cultured, more than cultured, detached, as if speaking from far away, not far away in distance but in something else.†   (source)
  • He's pretty detached for the most part, but be careful around his books.†   (source)
  • I was afraid to die-l felt afraid-but the larger part of my mind seemed almost detached.†   (source)
  • In the car, Jenny maintained a detached silence, pressing herself against the passenger door, gazing out the window.†   (source)
  • Hardy doesn't call it that, but he has great fun describing, in his ironic and detached tone, the rain lashing down on hapless wayfarers, forcing them to seek shelter where they can; hence the appearance of our three gentlemen callers.†   (source)
  • If we haven't succeeded in detaching ourselves from his gluey imagination before he arrives at Bjerkely, we are done for.†   (source)
  • I found myself almost detached from it all, thinking: "He isn't putting his arm around her shoulder.†   (source)
  • "Not everyone," the girl observed in the same detached drawl, "seems to appreciate the accommodations at the bunkers."†   (source)
  • Y.T. detaches from the Acura she's been hitched to for the last half mile, swings it over to Jason's fat Olds.†   (source)
  • He persuaded his wife to take a more detached view of the question, who is Michael Oher?†   (source)
  • My sense of dread increased, but in a detached way.†   (source)
  • Instantly, even in my detached state, my interior alarms started to flash.†   (source)
  • I was occupied so entirely by each day, I felt detached from anything so large as a month or a year.†   (source)
  • I detached from SDVT I and joined SEAL Team 5, where I was appointed leading petty officer (LPO) to Alfa Platoon.†   (source)
  • As an appellate court judge he had never had to look a defendant in the eye; he'd just reviewed the law in a detached way.†   (source)
  • Luma, though, took after her father, Hassan, a man who mixed unassailable toughness with a capacity to detach, a combination that seemed designed to keep his emotions hidden for fear of revealing weakness.†   (source)
  • "I saw as a— vampire," said —the vampire, his voice now slightly detached.†   (source)
  • Detaching himself, he came over to Clary.†   (source)
  • Despite my grief over Jennifer and the days it took for me to throw it off, I don't believe in remaining emotionally detached from patients.†   (source)
  • "Get to work, lazybones," Signora Luciano hissed, and her three dirty children detached themselves from her skirt and rushed to the table.†   (source)
  • They lit an electric green glow in the dark-310, 400, 460, 500, until it finally stopped on— My hand clenched into a fist as I started to detach from both Greg and his silky swarm of memories, but Chubs was already there.†   (source)
  • The cheap binding, with its dry glue, was beginning to detach from the pages.†   (source)
  • Presently he straightened, peeled off and detached the suit, handed it carefully into the crowd.†   (source)
  • "Come on, Frankie," the man said to one of his friends in the group, and a short, scrunty fellow detached himself and came into the bar with us.†   (source)
  • Em detaches from her other group of friends and walks over to us, graceful.†   (source)
  • I spent it sitting next to Rosa's tomb, speaking with her, accompanying her on the first part of her journey to the Hereafter, which is when it's hardest to detach yourself from earth and you need the love of those who have remained behind, so you can leave with at least the consolation of having planted something in someone else's heart.†   (source)
  • After months of tension and worry, I felt grateful to be detached from Coalwood and all its problems.†   (source)
  • I'll enter a room and she'll stir, detaching herself from the cracking plaster walls, from the stained cabinets, and fright will pass through me like a wire.†   (source)
  • He would look off into the middle distance, not angry or bored or evasive—just detached, free of the connectedness of events, it seemed.†   (source)
  • She watched him with a face at once troubled and detached, calm, and, at the same time, frightened.†   (source)
  • They pulled into the driveway, bouncing a little over the uneven edge where it met the street, and stopped in front of the detached garage.†   (source)
  • The connective tissue in his face is dissolving, and his face appears to hang from the underlying bone, as if the face is detaching itself from the skull.†   (source)
  • Los Angeles soon became unlike any other city the world had ever seen, sprawling and horizontal, a thoroughly suburban metropolis of detached homes — a glimpse of the future, molded by the automobile.†   (source)
  • It had become detached from me like a wheel fallen off a car.†   (source)
  • She is detached and analytical, but still quietly furious when she explains what happened next: The gang of men opposed to her efforts raped her.†   (source)
  • It made me feel funny, detached.†   (source)
  • The moment the drop-ship detached from the ship, Glass's heart would start to break.†   (source)
  • Nothing affects me much just now except rather detachedly.†   (source)
  • For a second I was afraid he'd detached my retina.†   (source)
  • Cullivan could scarcely credit so detached an attitude; Perry was confused, mistaken, it was not possible for any man to be that devoid of conscience or compassion.†   (source)
  • He himself was so sure of being killed that he felt rather detached from what was happening, and invested only faint hope in Janey's chances of saving him.†   (source)
  • Fear has me retreating inside myself, detached from everything, as useless as the scorched East Wing upstairs.†   (source)
  • He seemed detached, almost bored, but perfectly friendly.†   (source)
  • For a while I could almost detach myself from the place and its history and take pleasure in it purely as an archaeological site.†   (source)
  • Shooting was detached, clinical.†   (source)
  • He was instantly apologetic for the word; but Johnnie detached the flower from her dress and held it toward him.†   (source)
  • Keenan is nowhere to be seen, but a woman draped in rags detaches herself from a wall and approaches me.†   (source)
  • Ever cognizant of his distinguished credentials, he carried himself with the detached air of someone who knows himself to be a superior person.†   (source)
  • In front of the mirror I detachedly examined my body.†   (source)
  • Fortunately she did not have to find out, because Captain Roberts ended the mutiny by detaching one of the Sweet Judy's swivel guns and aiming it at the mutineers.†   (source)
  • "Right here should do," he said, sounding oddly detached.†   (source)
  • No matter how detached any reporter was—and I had learned to be pretty detached by now, at least detached enough to keep my sanity—the evidence shocked and sickened.†   (source)
  • To add to the terrors, the animals, burnt and infuriated by the cinders, darted through the streets regardless of all human obstacles....The flames from the houses on the west side reached in a diagonal arch quite across the street, and occasionally the wind would lift the great body of flame, detach it entirely from the burning buildings, and hurl it with terrific force far ahead.†   (source)
  • He felt he could detach a thousand troops this way, Washington informed Congress, because he had concluded, from intelligence gathered from spies and British deserters, that the enemy in Boston had no intention of launching an attack until they were reinforced.†   (source)
  • The hobbits rode on up a gentle slope, passing a few detached houses, and drew up outside the inn.†   (source)
  • Then three of the stars detached themselves from the heavens and drifted down to welcome the village of Korphe's visitors.†   (source)
  • Detached—liberated—even from the merely factual circumstances that produced it, The Photograph had become a receptacle for America's emotions; it stood for everything good that Americans wanted it to stand for; it had begun to act as a great crystal prism, drawing the light of all America's values into its facets, and giving off a brilliant rainbow of feeling and thoughts.†   (source)
  • They felt entirely detached from the real world.†   (source)
  • She sounded detached, but I knew she wanted in her file as much as I wanted in mine.†   (source)
  • Amidst the chaos, I felt in need of a friend instead of a sister, someone detached from alone, The "woman's role" theory I would soon be a woman, and I knew I could never perform as I was tired of my mom's to her religion, to her husband's sick quest for an heir, I was sick of my dad, of him as he fell farther away from us and into the arms of my world.†   (source)
  • Magnificent seven-bedroom detached house with staff annex and mature garden.†   (source)
  • "You married out," Mama said, in a way that seemed oddly detached.†   (source)
  • I must detach myself!†   (source)
  • Cold, sharp outlines, everything around me: distinct, detached as dead men.†   (source)
  • Detached, somehow.†   (source)
  • In the doorway stands Dee-Dum, looking professional and detached even though he can't miss seeing all of us in one glance.†   (source)
  • As the dancer flung herself about with a detached expression on her face, the men began reaching out to touch her.†   (source)
  • Her voice was cool and detached, as he hadn't heard it for days.†   (source)
  • Or rather, they had something to do with it, but their own selves were outside of it, detached, removed.†   (source)
  • A finger-width segment of the smoke detached itself and traveled upward to the ceiling.†   (source)
  • He carefully closed the door, limped back to the bed, and detached his prosthesis.†   (source)
  • Far ahead, she saw the figures of men standing by the engine-and above them, hanging detached in the sky, the red light of a signal.†   (source)
  • Calm again, detached, she looked at Roarke.†   (source)
  • Wyoming was in it because she hated Authority for a personal reason, Prof because he despised all authority in a detached intellectual fashion, Mike because he was a bored and lonely machine and was for him "only game in town."†   (source)
  • The only way to live is to detach oneself from the sadness of the past and to be unafraid of the variables of the future.†   (source)
  • Webb studied the scene below, as a man under a horrible strain and as one consumed by an eerily detached curiosity.†   (source)
  • Here his rifle rested, a round in the chamber, sights elevated for two hundred meters, the bayonet detached and leaning against the wall.†   (source)
  • The studio apartment consisted of one large room with a kitchenette, a closet, and a cramped bathroom, all over a two-car detached garage in upper Laurel Canyon.†   (source)
  • A lizard's tail will detach from the body, literally leaving behind a part of itself in order to survive.†   (source)
  • My mother looked in in the morning, but she was detached and disapproving.†   (source)
  • But after a few moments Pickett detached himself from the group and came to Longstreet.†   (source)
  • This detached, divided situation will expose them to less heat and turmoil than if they were all to be convened at one time in one place.†   (source)
  • The handpiece lay detached from its catch, waiting for Franny.†   (source)
  • I felt as if my lungs and heart were detaching, moving outward to the skin, and that this was all too obvious to everyone I dealt with.†   (source)
  • Halfway through the meal, Denny asked, in a tone of detached curiosity, "Stem, did it ever occur to you that you may have married your mother?"†   (source)
  • Otto studied Tradd with a rather detached and thoughtful curiosity as though he had never had to dispose of such a thin and fragile attacker.†   (source)
  • The wild pulsation of his brain sUddenly increased, the room was dancing; he heard voices around him and the sound of footsteps; spectral shapes passed and repassed, detached from sound and gravity; —someone was shouting, but not at him; the door was open, he was sure someone had opened the door.†   (source)
  • Reaching a hand beneath my dress, I detached the knife from my inner thigh and placed it down on a wooden table.†   (source)
  • They say when you're in a state of shock, your brain has a way of detaching you from the world and everything going on around you.†   (source)
  • She tried to force her will on him, and she saw that he was detached and free.†   (source)
  • The kitchen was a small detached building in the rear, known as the cookhouse.†   (source)
  • GUIL has remained detached.†   (source)
  • A strange sweetish odor detached from him.†   (source)
  • Maybe they gave me a few extra seconds, also, along with the detached feeling I had been building up.†   (source)
  • She plainly meant action, and when I recovered my wits I replied, in that laconic, detached, Virginia gentlemanly voice with which I was aware (or was vain enough to conceive) I had taken her captive from the outset, "Well, honeybun, since you put it that way, I do suppose I could give you a right warm snuggle between the sheets."†   (source)
  • He managed to detach her from the hotel after her second drink, and they walked to the station in the evening light.†   (source)
  • So from an early age I developed the habit of looking, detaching myself from a familiar scene and trying to consider it as from a distance.†   (source)
  • It might be, too, that he was beginning to identify himself with the Overlords, and thus become detached from humanity.†   (source)
  • His arms felt wooden, and detached, and his head too heavy for his neck.†   (source)
  • Mr. Head was trying to detach Nelson's fingers from the flesh in the back of his legs.†   (source)
  • Then with a strange, abrupt change to a detached, impersonal tone.†   (source)
  • You must learn to be more detached, and try and see the funny side of things.†   (source)
  • He was surprised at Nikolai Nikolaievich's calm, at his light and detached tone in speaking of politics.†   (source)
  • In the corner, not quite possible to detach from the darkness, a creature increased, which watched him.†   (source)
  • They were now both far away, remote from each other, detached.†   (source)
  • But sufficient time has passed since 1946 to enable something of a detached view of Senator Taft's act of courage in that year.†   (source)
  • He seemed detached; but kept glancing curiously, with an undercurrent of uneasiness, at Dick, whose face was obstinately set and miserable.†   (source)
  • The red fearless eyes still looked at him, impersonal and unafraid and detached.   (source)
    detached = emotionally uninvolved (separated from emotions)
  • until he fell in love with Brett, I never heard him make one remark that would, in any way, detach him from other people.   (source)
    detach = separate
  • Completely as he had detached himself from her, he could not yet regard her merely as a social instance;   (source)
    detached = separated
  • And in a detached academic corner of his mind he found an explanation for that, a reason why—†   (source)
    detached = separated  OR  emotionally uninvolved (separated from emotions)
  • Lying on his back on the hillside, he began to feel strangely relaxed, detached from himself.†   (source)
  • His arms felt as if they were slowly detaching themselves from their sockets.†   (source)
  • Then, before anyone could react, it detached from the ceiling and fell away.†   (source)
  • "Died" was just a fact to me then, detached from emotion.†   (source)
  • Edward spoke again in the same detached voice, speaking Sam's words.†   (source)
  • I detached myself from Aspen and moved to join them.†   (source)
  • His fingers find my jacket zipper and pull it down in one slow swipe until the zipper detaches.†   (source)
  • Detached placenta—I knew what that meant.†   (source)
  • Well, how can you do that if you're detached?†   (source)
  • Time had erased the memories ....detached them from their past.†   (source)
  • It detached, lifted away to fly in a parking circle low overhead.†   (source)
  • "Do you think that angels are detached?" asked the vampire.†   (source)
  • His expression was calm, almost detached.†   (source)
  • Her face was moving in circles, seemingly detached from her neck.†   (source)
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