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The phrase "a certain detachment" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a specific level of emotional distance or objectivity in a situation or relationship.
Example: "In her analysis of the events, she maintained a certain detachment, allowing her to see the facts without bias."
Alternatives: "a degree of detachment" or "some emotional distance".
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I have a certain detachment.
But there should be a certain detachment from the writer's own passions.
If Ms. Hellman managed a certain detachment from the Fourth, others are slightly more tickled.
Coogan displays a certain detachment when he's not performing, a kind of polite vagueness.
Turrell seems ambivalent about fame and publicity, acknowledging a certain detachment from the art world.
So, the "illuminations" are great, but inevitably I view them with a certain detachment.
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The music tickles the brain with a certain quizzical detachment.
I try to maintain a certain emotional detachment from my beat.
Though Isaacson is clearly fond of these unconventional souls, his description of their world suffers from a certain anthropological detachment.
He was admired for his professionalism but treated with a certain brusque detachment by the officer class running the army and civilian prisons.
That society was apartheid-era South Africa, which he chronicled with meticulous patience and a certain formal detachment, his acutely observational gaze illuminating the lives of ordinary people living under a system that separated and controlled them according to skin colour.
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