Word: detachedness
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Safire is too light-footed to write like that. On his fifth anniversary as a columnist last April, he wrote that he avoids "evenhanded analyses, sage soul searchings or detached observations. I am in the business of writing informed polemics ... with a satisfying zap, so as to affect people in...
Most of the 6,500 registered guests were affluent, to say the least, and 75% of them came with their wives: prime targets for the jewel thieves who prowl the better hotels. Security had to be beefed up; in addition to the Hilton's regular complement of 70 guards...
The Naked Truth. "Backstage with Esquire" is one of those columns about the magazine's contributors that seek to prove what trendy spotters its trend spotters are. Esquire carries the practice too far in its current issue, in trumpeting its cover story, "The Year of the Lusty Woman-It...
The confessional splurge works against the kind of detached, highly wrought structure that art needs. There have been exceptions, of course.
I had known that the two men would die when I left them. In so many words I told them so. Now I knew they were dead. I had felt removed from them when I talked to them. At the same time their fate scared me, my mind couldn't...