Sentence examples for Detachment from inspiring English sources

When Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova arrive in their colony they will be taken immediately into a quarantine block to be assessed to determine which otryad, or detachment, they will join for the duration of their sentence.

Isn't there anywhere I can be alone?" When not in the detachment block, prisoners are at work.

They travelled for 10 days until they reached a detachment of Free Syrian Army soldiers some 20 miles from Damascus.

It adds a note of almost ironic detachment to whatever situation is causing me stress.

They will have to earn the right within the detachment to "move down".

Cultural and social activities are also organised on a detachment basis, including the annual beauty contest (variously called "Miss Colony", "Miss Spring", "Miss Personality").

But I think there must be a certain element of empathy".She had originally thought there would be a coldness, a detachment to their work, but found the opposite.

Russia has long used the principle of "prisoner self-organisation" to get jobs done around the detachment blocks and to organise prisoners' daily lives.

He may have been fairly moderate in the realm of food and drink, but he also owned a great deal of stuff, and he writes in a way that certainly does not suggest emotional detachment from the details of material possessions.

Malkovich eyed my misery (much as he did the whole Nessun Dorma brouhaha) with laconic detachment, but underneath that seen-it-all exterior he could tell a fellow actor was suffering and he had decided to help.

Had a good line: why does ambassador in Paris has a marine detachment and ambassador in Libya does not?