"I'm too old to play with the likes of you," he says, dropping his mask of detachment and dismissing a student he was toying with for his own amusement.
Her Tiffany has a hard, unmodulated delivery, with mask-like facial detachment, but voice and mask break down when she loses her cool; she's vulnerable and mercurial, but you never doubt her resilience.
The best of the new works in the Silk Road series echoed the Russian master in dropping the mask of modernist detachment.
Likewise, new generations of musicians are dropping the mask of Olympian detachment (silent, stone-faced musician walks onstage and begins to play).
Once again Mr. Ishiguro has given us an unreliable narrator suffering from delusions of grandeur and free-floating anxiety, a self-deluding protagonist who hides his insecurities behind a mask of professional detachment.
As I remarked when reviewing Anna Mackmin's excellent Old Vic revival in 2010, it's a play about the acquisition of self-knowledge through pain: about a successful dramatist who adopts a mask of ironic detachment but who, in abandoning his wife for another woman, undergoes a sentimental education.
It also seems credible in this production that Mariah Gale's Catherine could be a genuine maths prodigy, played with an air of sphinx-like detachment, masking grief-stricken desperation and a sharp wit.
In highly myopic patients, the globe can be elongated and the resulting chemical shift artefact can lead to asymmetric thickening of the outline of the globe mimicking the presence of a tumour while, on the contrary, retinal detachment may mask small tumours.
Leven left a detachment to mask the Royalist garrison of Newcastle upon Tyne, and followed Newcastle's army with his main body.
In vitro studies have suggested that the envelope glycoprotein (GP1,2) of EBOV mediating virus entry may also directly contribute to the viral pathogenesis, as cell surface expression of GP1,2 can induce adherent cell rounding and detachment and sterically mask some cell surface molecules, such as β1-integrin (reviewed in Ning et al., 2017).
