Sentence examples for detached figure from inspiring English sources

In all, the composer emerged as a less brittle, detached figure — more visceral, more emotionally revealing.

He was a detached figure for me".

Hollinghurst is usually seen as an austere, detached figure.

Amid the loud tweeds and fur stoles, the 49-year-old trainer cuts an extremely elegant, almost detached, figure.

It is an interesting point thinking back to South Africa four years ago and the way Rooney cut an unhappy, detached figure.

His father remained a detached figure, and it was a kindly grandfather who was the most important male presence in his early years.

The photographer married three times (his most striking images in the 1920s are of his first wife Bibi, the daughter of the composer André Messager), yet he remained a detached figure, ignoring even the cataclysm of the first world war.

This was the first thing that was considered: How to hold the detached figure of the hook between two solid handles to manipulate it when complete.