Over the past couple of centuries we have become increasingly detached from our local rivers.
Technology and communications have seen products diversify, consumer tastes diverge and markets become increasingly detached from geography, as commerce and relationships move online.
As Jackson became increasingly detached from reality there were stories of excessive shopping sprees and rumours that he slept in an oxygen tent, resulting in the moniker "Wacko Jacko".
Whereas hip-hop could bring joy to the masses while retaining a sense of experimental play, perhaps indie rock had become too "refined and effete," increasingly detached from "lived, earned experience".
This feeds into faculty research cultures, which have become increasingly detached from public life and the lives of students.
When awake, he can barely concentrate, twitches with anxiety and feels emotionally detached from everything and everybody.
Or she could shop from the world of Marc Jacobs and his countless imitators and appear detached from everything but her own worked-over image of emotional absence.
I run a Canucks blog and am a Canucks fan (though when you cover a team every day you find you become increasingly detached emotionally from their performance).
Proof, if ever it were needed, that the United States needs a coherent political strategy towards the Iranian Question, liberated from the shackles of neoconservative dogma, and focused away from an increasingly detached internal debate, towards the real world.
Ranieri has cut an increasingly detached figure standing powerless on the sidelines, a far cry from the amusingly avuncular persona he projected at Leicester, and for the fans at least, defeat at Southampton on Wednesday seemed to confirm their worst fears.
Another was his increasingly detached attitude to Catholicism.
