Sentence examples for if detached from inspiring English sources

In Toobin's telling, Bush is a calm, if detached, executive who knows how to delegate and is determined in pursuit of his goal.

The figures in his pictures appear almost stenciled, flat and crisp, as if detached from their backgrounds, their features sharp and waxen, with large, dead eyes.

For instance, certain of these objects are fairly rooted, and in several cases perish if detached.

However, for us, the early-to-mid 60s were this glorified and groovy picture show that we witnessed from a distance because we were still largely shielded from its excesses by the vestiges of mindful, if detached, parenting, and because we were not yet of draft age.

Throughout, Stein has a certain idea of France as clear as General de Gaulle's, if more detached.

A Jangada de Pedra (The Stone Raft, 1986) questions what would happen if Iberia detached from the Pyrenees and floated off across the Atlantic, shuddering to a halt somewhere between the former Portuguese colonies of Brazil and Angola.

@larry_friese: What would major national security concerns be if Australia detached itself from the US and UK and went neutral?

Cerebellar slices are much more successful if not detached from the brainstem (Fig. 1B), possibly related to both the maintained connectivity of Purkinje cells and the higher concentration of OPCs in brainstem than cerebellum.

The perception that Britain has become a semi-detached member, and perhaps fully detached if Mr Cameron's gamble of holding an in-or-out referendum in 2017 goes wrong, is hard to argue with.

They said if the tube became detached or if someone knocked it and it fell out I could die within minutes".

He walked as if it were detached at the hip.