A group of stressed out and vulnerable women, feeling intimately connected to and excited by an emotionally detached man who is dating 29 other women and will, in all likelihood, publicly dump them within the next 6 weeks.
The characters are really suitable for this purpose: Mr. Stevens is an apparently cold, detached man, completely identified with his role and job; he is very inhibited and does not allow his feelings to emerge.
The author is weakest in unlocking the character of this detached man: a dreadful father, disloyal husband and disarming user of friends.
On the death of his father, first laird of Hawthornden, in 1610, he settled down on his Hawthornden estate, leaving law for literature and devoting himself to the life of a cultured and rather detached man of means.
(Republicans, who once saw the impotence and indignity of Democrats hating Reagan, their own detached man, should know better).
Beneath its cool urban trappings, it's a story of detached men scouring the frontier to restore domestic order to a world out of balance.
There is, after all, an ancient and serious case to be made for the detached man--the leader who gets a good night's sleep before the battle, if he doesn't actually sleep right through it.
In the case of a gallant and daring act being performed by a squadron, ship's company or a detached body of men (such as marines) in which all men are deemed equally brave and deserving of the Victoria Cross then a ballot is drawn.
Now Mr. Gosling is starring in "The United States of Leland" as Leland Fitzgerald, an emotionally detached young man who has inexplicably murdered a mentally disturbed adolescent.
While it is not possible to assess whether the respondent owned the dwelling in which he/she lived at the time of the survey, of those aged 65 and over, 67% of men versus 57% of women reported living in a detached house, and 19% of men versus 30% of women reported living in an apartment.
