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Discover LudwigThe phrase "detached face" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to describe a person's expression when they're feeling emotionally disconnected or removed. For example, "The woman in the corner had a detached face as she watched the others enjoy the party."
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Its practitioners tend to lock themselves in a box of absolute concentration and present a rather detached face to the public.
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There are memories of fishing out body parts, of finding a face detached from a head.
The face, detached from the body, has lost the tip of its nose, but enough remains to make it a contender, if not the outright winner, for greatest piece of stonework carved by human hands.
Macular OCT using a Zeiss Cirrus HD-OCT 5000 demonstrated generalized macular thickening greater than the 99th percentile, with preserved foveal anatomy and a very visible posterior hyaloid face, detached above the foveal depression (Fig. 8).
Tomjanovich was in no condition to fight despite his aggressiveness; besides having the bone structure of his face detached from his skull and suffering a cerebral concussion and broken jaw and nose, he was leaking blood and spinal fluid into his skull capsule.
The photographer took this photo right after a huge slab of ice detached from the glacier face in front of us.
Mushrooms can look very different at the various stages of their life cycle, and often the only conclusive way to identify a mushroom is to take it home and perform a spore print (a process that usually involves leaving a mushroom cap, detached from its stem, face down on a piece of white paper for several hours).
After formation of a giga-Ω seal, the cell was carefully detached from the luminal face of the vessel.
The post-industrial educated class that now dominates Washington appears, if not scornful, profoundly detached from the problems facing productive industry.
Which is why the figures in Salonen's paintings often have red, swollen noses, which occasionally detach from the face like Mr. Potato Head.
There's Jonah Hill's all-over-do, which I'm pretty sure would have a Reddit account if it could detach from his face, sentiently tweeting about Cambridge Analytica.
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