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detach
in
Long Day's Journey into Night
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Then with a strange, abrupt change to a detached, impersonal tone.†
Act 2 *

detached = separated OR emotionally uninvolved (separated from emotions)
She gives a little laugh of detached amusement-indifferently.†
Act 2
She goes on with a return of her detached air.†
Act 2
She adds quickly with a detached contrition.†
Act 2
Her eyes look brighter, and her manner is more detached.†
Act 2
MARY With detached calm.†
Act 2
MARY Defensively detached again.†
Act 2
MARY Instantly changing to a detached tone.†
Act 2
Her manner is again one of detached motherly solicitude.†
Act 2
Mary's manner at once becomes detached again.†
Act 2
MARY Kisses him with detached affection.†
Act 2
She gives a little laugh of detached, affectionate amusement.†
Act 3
She adds in a calm, detached voice.†
Act 3
MARY Smiles with detached tenderness at Edmund.†
Act 3
MARY In a detached reminiscent tone.†
Act 3
MARY With detached pity.†
Act 3
Abruptly, in a detached, matter-of-fact tone.†
Act 3
MARY With detached amusement.†
Act 3
All this talk about loving me-and you won't even listen when I try to tell you how sick— MARY With an abrupt transformation into a detached bullying motherliness.†
Act 3

Definitions:

(1) (detach)
to separate something from something else (physically or emotionally)
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)