Word: detachedness
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The individual portrayals are excellent. Minotis, playing his first role on the American stage, is able to present the dictator in the dual light which adds depth to his character. He is both a detached philosopher and a vital human being. We reject him on one level and accept him...
These contrasts also persist in his appearance. He is the most unmiddle-aged of men, having the gaunt features and detached air of an old man, mixed with the shyness and sudden malice of a child. It is as though a Marx brother had become an archbishop, or even more...
It is the interplay between the two characterizations that gives this film its humor. As Eric Augustine attempts to handle Hedy Lamarr with calculated detachment, Peanuts White is neither calculated nor detached. As Augustine faces danger he is hard, cold. Peanuts White is soft, he melts.
At wintry Panmunjom one day last week, a thin, precise man stepped out of a helicopter, tucked his brown briefcase under his arm and strode purposefully toward the conference tents. He was Rear Admiral Ruthven Libby, commander of U.S. Cruiser Division 3, who has been detached for temporary duty as...
In his new novel, Sybil, Author Auchincloss is still a sound guide to the skeletons in the closets of the chronically rich. As the story of a young woman fed up with a career of idleness, Sybil is both intelligent and persuasive. What makes his story lose effect is a...