Word: detachedness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Jeff and Andrew Lopez, 22 and 20, and countless other young folk believe Ralph Nader would be king of the world if not for corporate-media perpetuation of nihilistic consumerism and a corrupt two-party political system. This hurts for many reasons, one being that they may be right. But...
The octogenarian is as matter-of-fact as a fried egg as he tells how he led the secret 1,800-man team that was responsible for delivering the first atom bomb to its target. Tibbets' tone can seem unnervingly detached from the immensity of his deed. "The seat slapped...
It's unusual for any family members to acknowledge that the new baby has no resemblance at all to Shirley Temple, and sometimes decades have to pass before that acknowledgment can be spoken out loud. When my grandfather was a very old man, he told me, apropos of nothing, about...
The story is in many ways similar to The English Patient. The title's Anil, like Hana in the earlier novel, is someone who chooses her path very carefully-even down to naming herself. She is faced with a country that is no longer hers. By the end of the...
And yet, as intense an action film as it may be, Gladiator fails as a full-fledged epic. Scott has never been particularly adept at the human aspect of his stories (it's no coincidence that Blade Runner is his best film) and here the human relationships are often severely...