Sentence examples for certain detachment from inspiring English sources

I have a certain detachment.

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.

But there should be a certain detachment from the writer's own passions.

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.

The music tickles the brain with a certain quizzical detachment.

Although she writes effectively from each of their points of view, communicating their hopes and fears and dreams, they emerge as rather selfish, unsympathetic individuals, who have all cultivated a certain emotional detachment in the service of their art.

But where Kieslow ski's profoundly humanistic films debated the existence of God and Mr. Egoyan's movies intuit a mysterious, often tragic element of fate at work in human affairs, Mr. Tykwer's coolly crafted films bespeak a certain icy detachment.

Through innate talent, wide reading, a certain wry detachment and, above all, an ability to listen to how people talk, he has become a very good, extremely complicated playwright.

There's a certain clinical detachment that's necessary when you're writing, a kind of cold, analytical picking-apart of every emotion you describe, to try to be sure it feels true and real, without being pedestrian or stereotypical.