Word: detachedness
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The Lukases found a Teilhard curiously detached from events that surrounded him, even while he constantly urged upon his church the importance of the material world. He lived through 23 turbulent years of Chinese history, yet knew few Chinese and, the Lukases report, never learned a word of their language...
Those of you who didn't make it to hear Bob the Bagman--the twenty year veteran of Boston-area bumming--on the view from the gutter really missed something. Although, as one spectator put it, Bob's twenty years on the streets have given him a "detached mental process...
I register these thoughts to emphasize a general point of which the reader should be aware-in the perception of the thinking Israeli there intrudes an emotional dimension when he relates to the United States. He invariably finds it difficult to be absolutely detached. He does not look at the...
Television coarsens all the complexities of human relationships, brutalizes them, makes them insensitive. The point about violence is not so much that it breeds violence-though that is probably true-but that it totally desensitizes viciousness, brutality, murder, death so that we no longer actively feel the pains of the...
The Seven Percent Solution shows that you can. It proves once again that fine actors and an ingenious plot do not necessarily make a good movie. The very cleverness of the movie's conception proves its undoing. Director Herbert Ross concentrates so much on conveying subtle layers of correspondences and...