All 4 Uses of
detach
in
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
- Also it says in the book Sherlock Holmes had, in a very remarkable degree, the power of detaching his mind at will.†
Chpt 107 *detaching = separating
- And this is why I am very good at playing chess, because I detach my mind at will and concentrate on the board and after a while the person I am playing will stop concentrating and start scratching their nose, or staring out of the window, and then they will make a mistake and I will win.†
Chpt 107
- And then I thought that I had to be like Sherlock Holmes and I had to detach my mind at will to a remarkable degree so that I did not notice how much it was hurting inside my head.†
Chpt 179
- And one of the good things was that Mother bought me a wooden puzzle which looked like this.... And you had to detach the top part of the puzzle from the bottom part, and it was really difficult.†
Chpt 233
Definition:
to separate something from something else (physically or emotionally)