According to O'Fallon, "More appears to have been a man of moderate Jeffersonian sentiments and attachments, who nonetheless joined in a Federalist defense of judicial independence".
"I am... a man of mild dispositions, of command of temper, of an open, social, and cheerful humour, capable of attachment, but little susceptible of enmity, and of great moderation in all my passions".
"I am a man of the land, a good Gascon peasant, and when a peasant is 80 or 85 he is still planting trees," he once told The New York Times in an interview, giving a glimpse of his attachment to his roots.
At times even this anglophile, expatriate Russian socialist, a man whose attachments include a love of Colman's mustard, is not magnetic enough as a character to hold together a stage epic.
O'Keeffe observes that in all his relationships with women Lewis sought to present the image of a man with no attachments or encumbrances.
His worries are those of a man who, in spite of his reputation as a radical, has had a lifelong attachment to order.
Basically, just about everything a man with lots of money and very little emotional attachment to his children could want.
"We are a group of men and women who have identified a shared problem of attachment and/or addition to a grossly irresponsible, and/or criminal and/or drug (including alcohol) lifestyle," the group's Facebook profile reads.
The device described in the first two paragraphs of the article, with which a man retrieved news of his daughter's softball game, was a Palm V with a special attachment, not a Palm Pilot.
Suffering is a result of attachment to our desires.
