Both Uses
detach
in
Flags of Our Fathers
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- Half a century later, Pennel told the story with detached humor: "I was semiconscious.†
Chpt 9.detached = separated OR emotionally uninvolved (separated from emotions)
- 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.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(detach) to separate something from something else (physically or emotionally)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)