Still, they say, they manage to overcome any intellectual disconnect between the more or less orderly laws of physics and the sausage-making aspects of legislation.
I didn't make that intellectual disconnect," Mr. Chambers said as a fire alarm suddenly blared in the Capitol and a passer-by joked, "Is this the 'Ernie's back' alarm?" Mr. Chambers said he was drawn to return in part because he felt that the Legislature was yielding too easily to Gov. Dave Heineman's demands.
In today's world of overly specialized foreign-policy knowledge, in which military men, politicians and academics inhabit disconnected intellectual universes, we need more generalists like Fermor.
'Ivory Tower' as a term is generally used to depict intellectuals that are disconnected from everyday life and reality.
There was something beatnik, intellectual, European about being disconnected from the car culture: the rest of America might deliquesce into one big strip mall, but New York City would remain a little outpost of humane civilization, an enclave of ancient modes of transportation — the subway, the bus, the taxi, the bicycle, the foot.
There was something beatnik, intellectual, European about being disconnected from the car culture: the rest of America might deliquesce into one big strip mall, but New York City would remain a little outpost of humane civilization, an enclave of ancient modes of transportation the subway, the bus, the taxi, the bicycle, the foot.
Our female fury is seen as threatening, not radical ― as disconnected from reason, devoid of any intellectual underpinnings.
Like many intellectuals, Nehru had, as Tharoor says, a "lifelong tendency to affirm principles disconnected from practical consequences".
Lose yourself in the intellectual areas that make you happy and help you feel connected to the world, even if it means you seem disconnected by the "depth" and "displacement" involved in your internalizing a singular passion.
"I feel completely disconnected".
