Both Uses of
detach
in
To Kill a Mockingbird
- Through the weeks he had cultivated an expression of polite and detached interest, which he would present to her in answer to her most blood-curdling inventions.
p. 126.4detached = emotionally uninvolved
- Atticus's voice had lost its comfortableness; he was speaking in his arid, detached professional voice.
p. 210.6 *
Definition:
to separate something from something else (physically or emotionally)