Word: detachedness
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And maybe Peter takes satisfaction in being a dogsbody for the sleazy Michael. In any case, until his story comes to a well-told bad end, he lives detached from himself, an observer. Though Brotherly Love is intentionally a narrower, less spacious novel than Paris Trout, its quality is just...
That's what Gov. William F. Weld '66 did last week. And this strange allusion to the world of comic-strip characters was not the only time Weld showed that his Massachusetts 2000 plan is completely detached from the real world of public education in Massachusetts.
No conventionally happy ending can come of this Madama Butterfly for the '90s. Still, renunciation has its own rewards. By the time of their parting, Sachiko has assumed a Western assertiveness, and neither she nor her marriage will ever be the same. As for Iyer, the detached observer has finally...
A case of posthurricane depression? A literal-minded reader could argue that. But Humphreys puts the ill wind to figurative and far better uses. A white piano partially sunk in the marsh, a detached spiral staircase coiled against the horizon suggest fresh ways of seeing.
These cerebral anxieties are counterbalanced by the physical turmoils of Laura, Agnes' younger sister, who has plunged into a passionate love affair with Bernard, a radio journalist eight years her junior. But after months of mutual bliss, Bernard abruptly becomes detached and preoccupied. Laura, growing frantic, assumes that she is...