It was like we created this out of nothing, out of nowhere and it's difficult to detach from something that you have created because it has a lot of you in there.
Unlike the gangster rappers, whose unhappiness takes more traditional form in machismo and homophobia, there is something passive about Manson's anger, something detached.
You'd rather have things detached, but when something like that happens, it really just brings it home".
It's a "disorder" -- and by being labeled as one, it becomes something detached from your own true self and easier for a patient to emotionally confront and for a doctor to treat.
With the 1997 Globe these transitions are somewhat raucous and abrupt; with the playhouse this is done by wrapping it with a neutral corridor such that the interior becomes a bubble, detached and secluded, something like entering a cinema in an unusually high-quality multiscreen complex.
This idea of death persistent, looming, everywhere seems more accurate, especially when the physical event of death can feel so detached, sanitized, rehearsed: something that as a species and individuals we now tend to do to ourselves, whether with cigarettes, food, or despair.
This idea of death – persistent, looming, everywhere – seems more accurate, especially when the physical event of death can feel so detached, sanitised, rehearsed: something that as a species and individuals we now tend to do to ourselves, whether with cigarettes, food or despair.
It was seen as something detached from current experience both in time and quality.
It was to be both immersed in something and detached at once, devoted and apathetic, something I guess we'll call qualified hyperbole—"this guacamole is sort of the best thing ever"; "I kind of think Thoreau is bullshit".
This echoes the experience of Proust's narrator, who before recounting his Combray childhood feels a surge of abstract intensity: "An exquisite pleasure had invaded my senses, something isolated, detached, with no suggestion of its origin".
