Word: detachedness
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The author, it seems, has made the same mistakes of her central character--she has detached the novel from any kind of explicit emotion so much that the drama is buried, and the reader feels her character is almost irrelevant.
PROFILE: The detached views of a great writer
But students have characterized the dean as inaccessible and detached from student life, concerned with promoting the B-School and leaving much of its actual management to other administrators.
From dawn to dusk these days, Bush has taken the dewy path along the Rose Garden and wondered about his fate. Not in despondency -- that is not his nature -- but in a detached, curious and wary way. Once he looked up after long hours of deliberation and said, "The decisions...
That Sunday night there was a public party in Mather House, to which I had invited a few friends from home. One of my friends, in fact, had been hired to dee-jay the party. As a result, for much of the evening, he and most of my other friends...