Sentence examples for i was detached from inspiring English sources

I was detached to a medical platoon at Lejeune and told I would rejoin my company when I was fit.

"When I came back after some years in the army in the far east, I was detached from everything.

In his book Decision Points, Bush wrote: "That photo of me hovering over the damage suggested I was detached from the suffering on the ground.

"Leading up to the competition, I was detached from my own music and felt a great deal of anxiety," he said.

"Emotionally and mentally, I was detached from love". Stevens was incarcerated in a Federal Bureau of Prisons facility hundreds of miles from the only city he knew because of the 1997 National Revitalization Act, which required the nation's capital — then in the throes of a prolonged budget crisis — to close its prison and transfer custody of adult prisoners to the federal government.

I was detached from society.

I claim detachment; the truth is that I am detached only about the N.B.A.; my distaste for Bruins hockey actually led me to stop drinking wine with dinner as long as the Bruins were in the final, since a couple of glasses of California pinot breaks down my inhibitions sufficiently to shout at the screen … well, things uglier than are quite appropriate for a paterfamilias to be shouting.

But I'm detached at the same time.

(I sometimes get complaints from my wife that I'm detached from her existence too).

I'm detached, staring at my colleagues' lips in cutaway close-ups, their words garbled like Charlie Brown's teacher.

"The guy whom I'm talking to, I'm detached enough from this person that I can tell him stuff, yet I can feel enough so it's not just empty words".