detached

• “The autopsy that was performed when (oh, god, to write such words and remain detached is beyond my ability) his body was recovered was inconclusive.”

  If Death Were Good | Her Bad Mother

• “Arriving at this conclusion, she put the chest and its contents back again on the shelf -- with the one exception of the label detached from the blue-glass bottle.”

  Jezebel's Daughter

• “Up next, it's our question of the hour: Should Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff lose his job after a report blasts what it calls his detached response to Hurricane Katrina?”

  CNN Transcript Feb 13, 2006

• “While her stories 'from the field' were interesting the class and subject was still horribly boring and almost totally detached from the real world.”

  Academia vs. Reality, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

• “He was a cog in a machine and his guilt cannot be detached from the whole system.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Rogue French Trader Sentenced to 3 Years

• “Defense Secretary Robert Gates said earlier this week that most Americans have grown too detached from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and see military service as "something for other people to do.”

  The Huffington Post: Torrey Shannon: Cleaning for Heroes -- A Clean Home for Every Veteran

• “When it was returned to me after the second renewal, the center two pages had become detached from the staples holding the book together when it was in the possession of the immigration office.”

  FM 3 Renwal

• “But they look increasingly detached from the reality on the ground in Afghanistan.”

  The Huffington Post: Azeem Ibrahim: Negotiations With the Taliban Point to the Need to Leave Afghanistan

• “Peel it, get the seeds out -- they are large, dark seeds, detached from the flesh, easy to get out -- and eat the bits that ensue.”

  Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway

• “Instead of being a tax-funded, congressionally micromanaged bureaucracy, the air-traffic organization should be detached from the FAA and converted into a user-funded, user-governed nonprofit entity like the highly successful Nav Canada (and similar entities in Australia, Germany, the U.K., etc.).”

  Matthew Yglesias » Nav Canada

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