Word: detachedness
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My education has detached itself from physical moorings, set adrift in disembodied lecturing voices and reams of silent pages. I miss construction paper and scissors; science fair projects and fieldtrips. Those things kept my senses alive; involved my body in the invisible struggle of 11-year-old neurons.
In the white-hot center of the controversy, it is as if inflation had not been bested, the interest-rate genie not stuffed back into the bottle. The exuberant entrepreneurship that created 630,000 new businesses and 11 million new jobs is forgotten, as if the thought had never darkened...
The Tower Commission merely confirmed and documented what all of us knew and too many preferred to dismiss for some time: that Mr. Reagan is a mental absentee; more than detached, he is disconnected from reality and the Administration he inhabits.
During the 1984 campaign, Hart was pricked by questions about discrepancies in accounts of his age (he was born in 1936, not 1937 as one official resume said) and the shortening of his name from Hartpence. The points grew in significance when Hart faltered in explaining them. His aides recently...
He was a curious and very gentle lover, very gentle with the woman, trembling uncontrollably, and yet at the same time detached, aware, aware of every sound outside.