Word: detachedness
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Mr. Brackman's chief complaint, however, is that I "manipulated," "flirted with," was "irresistible to" the audience. I doubt it. That night I happened to be in a very detached and objective mood, being troubled by some events far away. Is it not possible that for many students the attractive...
Other factors could aid the drive for the current legislation. The unequivocal commitment of Johnson--long associated with southern and western interests--could perhaps be more influential in those areas than the commitment of the northern intellectual, Kennedy. Moreover, Johnson is less cool, less detached than Kennedy, and could possibly...
No Crooner. At 54, she looks her age, with sunburst wrinkles around her boot-button eyes. But she wears her years with indifference. And age has very little to do with her appeal. She was 21 when she started and brought the house down with I Got Rhythm. But she...
Losers, by and large, tend to be weepers. And weepers tend to be bores. But George Lisle-Spruce, the down-at-heel non-hero of British Novelist Scott's newest book, is neither. He watches himself sinking for what may be the last time with a detached compassion that...
Only the Olympian Don Fabrizio is memorable. Played with strength and restraint by Burt Lancaster, the Prince becomes more and more detached as the aristocrats pander to the now-powerful bourgeoisie and the bourgeoisie pander to the well-bred aristocrats. At the end, as he waits for death, the bewhiskered...