All 10 Uses of

detach

in

A Prayer for Owen Meany

Owen raised his hand over her, to bless her; in a most detached manner, he lightly touched her hair—then his hand hovered above her head, as if he meant to shield her eyes from the intensity of the "pillar of light."†
p. 176..4

He had a gloomy, detached quality that Dan had imagined would be perfect for the grim, final phantom—but when Mr. Morrison discovered that he had no lines, that the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come never speaks, he became contemptuous of the part; he threatened to quit, but then remained in the role with a vengeance, sneering and scoffing at poor Scrooge's questions, and leering at the audience, attempting to seize their attention from Mr. Fish (as if to accuse Dan, and Dickens, of…†
p. 181..4

Even my grandmother—so detached, so superior—drew her fur closer around her shoulders and shivered: an apparent draft had touched the necks of my fellow townspeople; the shiver that passed through my grandmother appeared to pass through them all.†
p. 246..9

Dan let the new headmaster maul the fingers of his right hand; Dan looked into the pretty-blonde blandness of Sam's vacant, detached smile.†
p. 325..4

There was no door on the cubicle bathroom, in which the bathtub appeared to be hastily, even comically placed; it was detached from the plumbing and full of the elbow joints of pipes and their fittings—a plumbing project was clearly in progress there; and progressing at no great pace.†
p. 357..7

Owen watched the whole movie; during the commercials, he turned his detached attention to the window that overlooked the rose garden, where Hester's . pale figure could be discerned in the ghostly glow of the moonlight against the snow.†
p. 364..5

By the simple act of removing the first two joints of my right index finger, Owen Meany had enabled me to feel completely detached from my generation.†
p. 541..9

The Rev. Lewis Merrill was so intellectually detached from his faith, he had so long removed himself from the necessary amount of winging it that is required of belief, that he could not accept a small but firm miracle when it happened not only in his presence but was even spoken by his own lips and enacted with his own hand—which had, with a force not his own, ripped the third drawer on the right-hand side completely out of his desk.†
p. 553..3

I suppose that his "love" of my mother was as intellectually detached from feeling and action' as his "belief' was also subject to his immense capacity for remote and unrealistic interpretation.†
p. 555..7

I had to detach the former Mary Magdalene's naked white arms from the wire-mesh sockets under the dummy's shoulders.†
p. 563..4 *

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