Detached

Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.

In the modern age, humans are detached.

He lived detached from all the troubles of our family.

When they experienced the French Revolution, citizens became free people, detached from their traditions and the church; they praised Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.

A large suit of old armour had become detached from its stand, and had fallen on the stone floor.

You have to remain detached.

A vulgar flaring paper adorned the walls, but it was blotched in places with mildew; and here and there great strips had become detached and hung down, exposing the yellow plaster beneath.

We have to constantly work to make sure government is not a collection of distant, detached institutions, but is connected and responsive to the everyday concerns of our people.

The images detached from every aspect of life merge into a common stream in which the unity of that life can no longer be recovered. Fragmented views of reality regroup themselves into a new unity as a separate pseudoworld that can only be looked at. The specialization of images of the world evolves into a world of autonomized images where even the deceivers are deceived. The spectacle is a concrete inversion of life, an autonomous movement of the nonliving.

Sami dreamed that his shadow detached from his feet and started chasing him.