Word: detachedness
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Two generations ago--two years ago, actually, given his milieu--he would have been a curiosity. Today he is something of a role model, although his attitude about this can only be called detached. "I'll walk through life and do the best I can to benefit other human beings...
The most remarkable aspect of these recordings-the constant high emotional intensity-inherently has both positive and negative attributes. The listener who is gripped immediately by a performance will be enthralled for its duration and left with a sense of awe. However, more detached listeners may wish for some of...
The trouble is that fame at the end of the 20th century--a global, multicultural and multimedia saturation--gets distributed by a sort of cultural chaos theory, detached not only from merit in many cases but also from any comprehensible framework of value and virtue. And so beneath the surface...
George Soros got the first part right. As a detached and mysterious currency speculator, he made billions by moving markets in a manner that made him a whipping boy for besieged bankers and ministers. In one famous week in 1992, he made $1 billion betting against the British pound, earning...
Usually omitted from most staged versions of the play, but included in this production, is the central scene in which Jack dreams that he is in Hell, recast as the famous Don Juan, with Ann as Dona Ana, Ramsden as the stone statue of Ana's father, and Mendoza as...