Sentence examples for detached reflection from inspiring English sources

There is widespread sympathy for the idea that, as Oliver Wendell Holmes put it in 1921, "Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife".Still, the bill flew through the legislature with broad support.

One symptom of the change was that mass society substitutes detached reflection for engaged passionate commitment.

Furthermore, it does this from a standpoint of first-personal reflection: the stance of theoretical reasoning in this sense is the committed stance of the believer, not the stance of detached contemplation of one's beliefs themselves (Moran 2001).

September 3 , 1923Plzeň, Czechoslovakia July 14 , 1998Prague, Czech Republic Miroslav Holub, (born Sept. 3, 1923, Plzeň, Czech. died July 14 , 1998 Prague) Czech poet noted for his detached, lyrical reflections on humanist and scientific subjects.

In this book, they are outgunned by sociologists and other detached observers whose sober reflections on a bombastic chapter in American history are sufficient to drive a frustrated reader to drink.

The problematic is addressed with thinking that is detached and technical, while the mysterious is encountered in reflection that is involved, participatory and decidedly non-technical.

Wave reflection and diffraction due to the presence of a detached breakwater are studied with the aid of directional wave fields.

Economists remain detached.