Synonym: breakup, disengagement, insularism, insularity, insulation, separation, withdrawal. Similar words: punishment, astonishment, establishment, accomplishment, accomplishments, impoverishment, relinquishment, establishment of. Meaning: [-mənt] n. 1. avoiding emotional involvement 2. the act of releasing from an attachment or connection 3. the state of being isolated or detached 4. a small unit of troops of special composition 5. coming apart.
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(31) Affluent people tend to look upon illiteracy with comfortable detachment.
(32) The only beneficial peculiarity of environment was the sense of detachment from the outside world.
(33) Beneath the wariness and studied detachment that made for a near-impenetrable protective shell, Alvin was lonelier than ever.
(34) Elias noted that to adopt this approach in our work requires a special effort of detachment.
(35) I could step back and watch with a degree of detachment the habits and manners of Little Saigon.
(36) He wanted to pretend cool detachment, but his heart was pounding.
(37) In accord with its graphic image, the desired detachment stands half-way between a mild staccato and a legato.
(38) Should they become deeply involved in the community, and risk losing the detachment needed in such work?
(39) Her detachment from her own party as well as her nation added to her strength and sense of invincibility.
(40) He depicts his noisy, disordered, life-loving, quarrelsome, self-absorbed family with a historian's detachment.
(41) His expression was one of amused and slightly sinister detachment, which reminded Huy strangely of the young king's.
(42) When a detachment of Argyll and Sunderland Highlanders tried to restore order, twenty-four of them were killed and seventy wounded.
(43) Instead of reinforcing the detachment and alienation implied by the electronics, Bowie frequently counters those qualities with rich,(sentencedict.com) expansive melodies.
(44) The romanticisation of the physical world is a symptom of our detachment from it.
(45) It is compatible with the canon of artistic detachment, but it can cause controversy.
(46) The presence of a literacy detachment, on the other hand, may exercise an impact that will last for generations.
(47) The detachment of the two fleet carriers for patrol duty was designed only to guard against this worst eventuality.
(48) Eventually some instructional material did arrive, but not until October, by which time the whole detachment had qualified.
(49) This is work which requires an emotional coldness but which can on occasions be so demanding that detachment is difficult to maintain.
(50) I slowed, turning to peer at the site with an eerie feeling of detachment.
(51) If one can not muster a godlike detachment, a sense of impotence is the next best protection from despair.
(52) Many farmers and landowners share the sense of detachment from the village community which farm workers now increasingly tend to feel.
(53) To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness. Erich Fromm
(54) It's important that an eye surgeon should assess retinal detachment.
(55) It gave us, as observers, a curious, weightless sense of detachment.
(56) Others focus on persistent, concentrated poverty and the attendant hopelessness and detachment from the labor force.
(57) In the background, the fight for control of L Detachment was still rumbling on.
(58) Such detachment models predict that two types of passive margin will be produced by continental rupture.
(59) L Detachment at the time consisted of around one hundred men, most of whom had been through the basic training course.
(60) One of these is the notion of detachment between professionals and clients which is wholly inappropriate in teaching.
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