Sentence examples for him detached from inspiring English sources

Opponents have questioned Mr. Zuma's style of governing and his authority, calling him detached, while the unrest has underscored the politically hazardous penalties of the global economic downturn.

He attributes to Orwell, the middle child of Anglo-Indian parents, an "acute intelligence" that "made him detached, and critical" of his conventional family.

In the book, he describes Yates looking down at him, detached and distant, as though he was "a wounded animal which could not be helped".

He also describes him as "detached from reality".

That has its benefits but also hurts the mayor with many voters who still see him as detached from the realities of their lives.

When he looks through the book at the Taj, he is still a happy-go-lucky tourist, rolling with the punches that Varanasi has to give him, emotionally detached from the cremations on the Ganges.

Mr. Perry faced criticism during the campaign last year that his entourage of aides and security officers made him seem detached from the traditional retail-style politics of a place like Iowa.

Ma'a Nonu, "a unit" in most company, looked positively elfin beside him but, detached from the All Blacks, as ordinary as southern imports can in the drearier European game.

His own words — challenging a rival to a $10,000 bet, citing friendships with Nascar owners, casually mentioning his ownership of "a couple of Cadillacs" and asserting that "corporations are people" — have given Democrats ample fodder to portray him as detached from the anxieties of middle-class life.

In a behind-the-scenes commentary, Steve Sandvoss explains that he did not want to play his character as a gay character, and Wes Ramsey emphasizes that the love story aspect of the film to him was detached from the character's gender.

The drug did not give Baudelaire visions or hallucinations, even if he had wished for them; instead, it threw him into a profound meditation which detached him from the world and made him understand it more clearly.