Sentence examples for detached way from inspiring English sources

But "The Opera" is not fundamentally satire or parody, and despite its many borrowings (Benjamin Britten, Broadway tunes), it is not postmodern in the arch, detached way the term suggests.

He says he is uneasy about the source of his cash, but insists that the Pioneer Fund has never tried to influence what he does.What matters in the end, assuming that most of the people involved in this work do it in a properly detached way, is what they find out.

Yet as CIA director, he came to rely on drones, both for surveillance and attack -- a vivid symbol of the literally detached way in which we are fighting much of that war against terrorists.

He comments in a neutral, detached way.

In a very detached way.

The England team matters to Butcher but in a detached way.

The way to do it in 'shaping' is a very pragmatic, almost mechanical and certainly detached manner.

When Barnes was struggling in the 1930's to write her biography of the Baroness -- she never finished it -- a friend advised her to think of Elsa "in as detached a way as you possibly can -- not as a saint or a madwoman, but as a woman of genius, alone in the world, frantic".

The way they tell stories about the world feels increasingly thin and more and more detached from the way all of us think and feel.

The way they tell stories about the world feels increasingly thin – and more and more detached from the way all of us think and feel.

Perhaps the taste for inventiveness stems not so much from reaching back into modernism, but more from the desire to find something representative of the physically detached, digitally connected way most of us communicate, just as Joyce was compelled to find a new way to express the rapidly changing face of the early 20th century.