Sentence examples for divorced from the performance from inspiring English sources

It's neither here nor there, in short, and although it's true that the majority of Mustangs were always more about show than go, the current car has become so divorced from the performance category it once defended that one of its biggest buyer groups is college-age young women.

When you see the tape you can never be divorced from the performance, because on some level you're still witnessing a performance, but it's also witnessing that is equally important as being at the performance – neither is better nor worse.

The pay packages are justified as "pay for performance," but like we've seen with the AIG bonuses paid out after the failing company was nationalized, or Wall Street bankers adjusting to lower profits by increasing the percentage they take in bonuses, the pay is too often divorced from the performance.

But during 1999 and early this year, the market, especially the Nasdaq, increasingly became a kind of casino, a speculative frenzy in which the performance of many stocks seemed almost entirely divorced from the reality of the companies behind them.

The performance specialist, championing previous generations of canonized composers, was a 20th-century phenomenon, embodied by such keyboard luminaries as Vladimir Horowitz, Rudolf Serkin and Sviatoslav Richter: recreative interpreters divorced from the creative act.

He was divorced from the actor Sheila Allen.

The students on campus were completely divorced from the military.

Maggie is divorced from the children's father.

These flourishes, though, often seem divorced from the material.

Multiple, partial identities emerge distributed across cyberspace divorced from the physical person.

You can't make software totally divorced from the hardware.