Word: detachedness
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Cool and detached on the surface, framed by imperfect reminiscences by the gloriously withered contemporaries of John Reed '10 and Louise Bryant, Reds is a soft sell. It gets by with the hoariest cliches of Hollywood romances by understating them, and by distracting the audience with small matters like a...
Reagan himself is not quite the detached Chairman of the Board of popular myth, or so his aides assert. They insist that he studies briefing papers longer and in more detail than the public ever suspects. The President can be fiercely decisive on matters that involve his ideological principles. The...
Artists have many opportunities to air their grievances to the assessors and the council, but Sir Roy maintains that to give them a formal vote in policy-shaping would be impossible: "They are very interested parties, "he says, "and cannot be expected to be objective and detached about their own...
Not the dynamic victor of Austerlitz, or the epic exile, but a man with a vision of the Universal Republic, schooled in politics by the French Revolution, in military art by genius. Studying the Corsican Eagle from military school to the first Italian campaign, Gance places the man opposite a...
White's device is nothing new. Find a detail, use it to say something. It is careful writing, and even when the subject is the author, the viewpoint is detached. If it succeeds, it does so quietly, but if it fails it sounds trite and silly. There is one notable...