We can't detach ourselves from emerging pathogens either by distance or lack of interest.
Focusing attention on the destination, we detach ourselves from the small — potentially meaningful — aspects of experience.
Jim Kings Park, NY The last thing we need is to detach ourselves from the connection to this region's economic engine -- namely, the City of New York.
As he writes, "A company can no more detach itself from 'the outside', however that is defined, than we can collectively detach ourselves from the scientific laws that make the universe work".
Pinker argues that enhanced powers of reasoning give us the ability to detach ourselves from our immediate experience and from our personal or parochial perspective, and frame our ideas in more abstract, universal terms.
In particular, there is the stoicism that teaches us to take mortality and the impermanence of all things as cues to detach ourselves from the ups and downs of life and embrace an accepting tranquility.
If there is any place to detach ourselves from the electronic network we are wired into, to take an exit from the information superhighway, it's the opera house and the concert hall.
And yet perhaps the salivating public isn't motivated by politics (indeed, the Palin family is no longer involved in political life) but because once invested in a "reality" narrative it is impossible to detach ourselves from the latest plotlines of our favourite players.
Let's detach ourselves from the specifics of the Cain case and consider a general question: If you are the victim of sexual harassment, and you agree to remain silent in exchange for a five-figure payoff, should any moral taint attach to you?
If we consider violence against women as something "other" – a distant, old-fashioned story to shiver over in delicious fear like a ghost story – we detach ourselves from the reality that on average two women per week are murdered by a current or former partner in England and Wales today.
