Therefore, it must be borne in mind that grave imbalances are produced when economic action, conceived merely as an engine for wealth creation, is detached from political action, conceived as a means for pursuing justice through redistribution".
Actresses in Shakespeare are in an exceptional position, detached from the action, yet linked to it.
Hydrogen atoms were inserted into oxide films detached under the action of light from organic molecules.
Overwhelmed by her balloonlike costume, which seems both to smother and insulate, the figure floats from scene to scene, incongruously filling space but curiously detached from the action.
He remains in a certain sense detached from the action, so that the story itself can be viewed and admired as a work of pure artifice.
At times you feel that Oates is attempting a post-feminist take on a Perrault fairytale of curious virgins and murdering noblemen, but delivered with such a lack of emotion that you feel strangely detached from the action.
Why was he so far detached from the action?
The Essay also allows that our emotions may involve "propensities," which are directions of action, detached from any notion of "good".
In her late work on political judgment, Hannah Arendt assigned the task to storytellers theorists and historians whose eye on events is retrospective, and who are sufficiently detached from the action of politics that their appraisals of it can be impartial.
The French expedition's two frigates, both only partially armed, were detached during the action and took shelter in harbour at Guadeloupe.
Interventionists tend to detach their actions from longer-term consequences.
