Interesting Times: A Twentieth Century Life by Eric Hobsbawm 464pp, Allen Lane, £20 The reputation of Eric Hobsbawm as the leading Marxist historian is so formidable that it has become removed from flesh and blood.
These children lack role models and, therefore, undergo a socialization process that has become removed from the cultural norms and values of traditional Rwanda.
On the contrary, zero tolerance is a decisive sign that no matter how difficult the shortage of priests has become, removing these priests is clearly the only just course of action.
As a result, the British Socialist Party (as the SDF had become) removed him in 1915.
By the end of the Tokugawa regime, the daimyo had become removed from the actualities of government and basically served as aristocratic figureheads in their domains.
Too many of us who work in organised bits of civil society – including myself - have become removed from the forces that drive deep social change; from the causes that first inspired us.
But Mr. Rajoy has become so removed from the public that Juan José Millás, a columnist, wrote a scathing critique of the prime minister in May that compared him to his sculpture in Madrid's wax museum.
And, as recent developments have increased the level of abstraction of scientific thought, it has become further removed from its anthropomorphic origins.
Or do you agree with Jeremy Paxman that their work has become too far removed from the general public?
It is no accident, probably, that, as baseball salaries get bigger, a good deal of baseball writing has become more decorously removed from actual baseball into the numbers world (although Bill James, who started it all, has moved at last into management).
Now to two brain-stuffers: "The Artful Nuance," by Rod Evans (Perigee paperback, $14), is synonymy delivered with a hairsplitter's delight: "A naked person is totally bare, wearing nothing; a nude person has become nude by removing clothes".
