detachedness

This does not imply a detachedness or an objectification of pain; there is still a bearing of suffering, a way in which suffering is enacted.

Archive 2007-10-01 enowning 2007

A genial aristocrat if you will, but having for me no marked power outside of a Barbizonian interest in nature with a kind of mystical detachedness.

Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets Marsden Hartley

One could not feel pity for her – there was a rigid dignity and detachedness about her as of someone living in an atmosphere different from our own.

Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences 1914

It seems like we may be retuning to our infamous detachedness and lethargy.

The Rebel Yell 2009

Carter's family problems, Sam's inability to commit, Neela's chronic ambivalence, Abby's detachedness and inferiority complex: These all play out over the course of years, and rarely is anything "resolved."

Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

The poems in this collection are spare, sinewy, and often disturbing in their sense of detachedness, both in a sense of remove as with a sense of having been, with a shocking blow, been severed from important connections, from loved ones, lovers. they are a selevtion from Tkaczyszyn-Dycki's previously-unEnglished nine books of poetry, published beteen 1990 and

SYCAMORE REVIEW 2009

Sure, all of the “educated”, “middle class” “Guardian” “readers” who pat themselves on the back because they ‘get’ Chris Morris, think that the word cunt is a non-issue and probably deal with the word in a ‘been there, done that’ detachedness.

C.U.Next Tuesday - :: gia’s blog :: 2004

She has left us this bright folio of her "lightning and fragrance in one," scintillant with stardust as perhaps no other before her, certainly not in this country, none with just her celestial attachedness, or must we call it detachedness, and withal also a sublime, impertinent playfulness which makes her images dance before one like offspring of the great round sun, fooling zealously with the universes at her feet, and just beyond her eye, with a loftiness of spirit and of exquisite trivialness seconded by none.

Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets Marsden Hartley

In addition, in 71 percent of homosexual cases, "the most important factor was the father's detachedness or nonparticipation in the son's upbringing.

Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Conservative 2010

"Most intriguing is how [Wakamatsu], despite his actual experiences supporting the group and its activities, directs the film with a cool detachedness ....

GreenCine Daily 2009