Sentence examples for extraordinary detachment from inspiring English sources

Jackson's blessing and his curse -- what makes him both an effective coach and a rather enigmatic person (the qualities are related) -- is his extraordinary detachment.

He seems older, though, not only because he carries the responsibility of a patriarch (he has seven children), but also because he looks at the world with such extraordinary detachment; he's an avid amateur astronomer, who enjoys gazing at the stars and contemplating the infinite.

He examined data with extraordinary detachment, even in an atmosphere tense with preformed opinion or other excitement; this ability also made him very effective in his frequent chairing of data monitoring committees of clinical trials.

To work explicitly with the self requires extraordinary judgement, detachment and control.

Her designs are animated by energy and a rebellious spirit — she is responsible for so many of the innovations we take for granted today — but at the heart of her crisp personality was an extraordinary sense of detachment.

The desperate father's impatience is often at odds with the scientist's detachment, but "Extraordinary Measures" is ultimately about how feeling and objectivity can work together, and also about how the protocols of medical research and development can both enable and obstruct progress.

In 1942, Tuvia Bielski, the oldest brother and the leader of what became known as the Bielski Otriad (Detachment), made two extraordinary decisions.

Levi's first book, Se questo è un uomo (1947; If This Is a Man, or Survival in Auschwitz), demonstrated extraordinary qualities of humanity and detachment in its analysis of the atrocities he had witnessed.

In less sensitive hands, the film could easily have been a manipulative melodrama of children in danger, or else a too-cute appreciation of youthful resilience, but Mr. Hirokazu directs his dry-eyed young actors with an extraordinary mixture of tenderness and detachment, hovering between the children's point of view and that of a stricken, sympathetic adult.

Prokofiev, who prided himself on detachment and discipline, did commit one extraordinary gamble in his life: in 1936, he ended a comfortable Parisian exile and returned to Russia.

"Again, Mr. Scott spot-welds his extraordinary painterly application of talent to video game detachment," Elvis Mitchell wrote in The New York Times when the film opened in December 2001.