Sentence examples for detached posture from inspiring English sources
It was a move that stunned many and seemed to threaten a complete unravelling and a blood bath, with the demonstrators noisily hatching plans to march on the presidential palace in the morning, a move which would force the Army, thus far maintaining a politically detached posture, into choosing sides.
(Parental anxiety is virulently contagious!) Even if you don't feel it, adopt a low-key, detached posture of "you're OK, you've got plenty of resources inside and around you to draw on".
When grunge died (most say this corresponded with the death of Kurt Cobain), what emerged was a generation of musicians -- and eventually, filmmakers, writers and artists -- who shared grunge's disgust for flashy image-laden rock, but they also eschewed the overly ironic and detached posture of their grunge forbearers.
Donald Trump and Ben Carson, the only Republicans polling in double digits, daily clear their throats with that ritual preface of modern self-satisfaction — "I am not politically correct" — and then unleash statements, positions, and postures so willfully detached from fact that they embarrass the political culture that harbors them.
He simultaneously confirms and undermines this posturing when he says things like, "I'm trying to remain as academically detached as I possibly can, but what you're saying is so absolutely disgustingly outrageous".
It seems detached, wrong.
I felt completely detached.
