Sentence examples for detached life from inspiring English sources

Through an ensemble of characters, a morality tale plays out as drug dealer White Mike finds his predatory, detached life disassembling after his cousin is murdered by his supplier, his best friend is arrested for the crime and various mates or loves spiral down into one life-shattering hell of a party.

This is not easy, because the author and actor lived a somewhat detached life: a respected tithe-owning country gentleman in Stratford, perhaps, but a rather rootless artist in London.

We of Consciousness IV must be an infuriating bunch, even to an abstraction so detached as Life, with our apparently limitless ability to roll with a cruel joke and come back shrugging.

Though increasingly detached from life around him, the poet of L'Année terrible (1872), in which he recounted the siege of Paris during the "terrible year" of 1870, had become a national hero and a living symbol of republicanism in France.

"We found space to be a great setting for Ryan in that she's so detached from life that she literally lives inside her own bubble — the space suit.

"My inspiration comes from memory," says Feng of his second collaboration with the firm, who also notes "it's not the case that art only belongs in the museum and that design is very detached from life".

Mrs. Gladden was turning inward, detaching from life, but although she could no longer speak, she could still hear.

The only way to control the passions flowing from religion to politics, and back again, was to detach political life from them completely.

When we don't grieve our losses, we may close and detach from life.

The first patient was detached from his life support systems and attached to a portable monitor.

But the city, he said, feels somewhat detached from the life cycle.