Sentence examples for intellectual detachment from inspiring English sources
"intellectual detachment" is a correct phrase and can be used in written English
It refers to the ability to approach a topic or situation with objectivity, analytical thinking, and without emotion or bias. Example: In order to make an unbiased decision, it is important to maintain intellectual detachment and consider all available evidence.
Julien Benda's plea for intellectual detachment, La Trahison des clercs (1927; The Great Betrayal), caused a stir but sharpened divisions.
You can see how a smoothie of intellectual detachment, earnestness, straight-talking and irony is a struggle to digest for some.
Such is the particular thrill that a metropolitan daily newspaper -- poised between intellectual detachment and journalistic immediacy -- can provide that history books rarely do.
Shakespeare fulfills the genre's requirement for violence, but in a new way; irony becomes the antidote to histrionics, enforcing an intellectual detachment that echoes Hamlet's lecture to the travelling players.
Recommended by Tom (deputy director): "What begins as a romp through seamy Paris nightclubs quickly becomes an exacting portrait of a passionate affair, and Garreta's exploration of both milieus with a deft mixture of immediacy and intellectual detachment is mesmerizing.
Sharing Sorley's intellectual detachment, and also his sense of duty, he was referring as early as March 2 1915 to "this filthy and disastrous war" as a "sordid commercial squabble" and by May 1915 his poetry reveals him "tormented, / Obsessed,... /With a vision of ruins, / Of walls crumbling into clay".
Later in life, when asked why he did it, he would describe it as being like a game of cowboys and indians, suggesting a high degree of intellectual and emotional detachment from the moral consequences of his actions.
I suspect their underlying charge … is that the Guardian shows the bias of a metropolitan elite which has an intellectual or emotional detachment from large swaths of the country … " That's certainly a strong view conveyed in many of the responses.
Both of them had wanted to be writers, and both possessed qualities of coolness and detachment, of intellectual reserve and ironic cruelty - common in literary or artistic figures but exceedingly rare in the folksy, glad-handing, philistine arena of American political life.
We must summon such detachment and intellectual integrity that this trial will commend itself to posterity as fulfilling humanity's aspirations to do justice".
This is what I take to be Arendt's ultimate target in "Eichmann in Jerusalem,": she shoots through Eichmann in order to strike at contemporary Western society and at modern technocracy, with its presumptive detachment from its intellectual, humanistic, or philosophical roots.
