The technique developed naturally from Elizabethan embroidery, in which petals or leaves, for example, were occasionally made to stand out by means of detached buttonhole stitches.
Even now, I have this habit of detaching myself".
In contrast, Hollande has made a point of detaching his E.U. policy from that of Germany.
Another issue concerns the possibility of detaching.
It is a ritual of detaching from the unborn, and beckoning in the new.
The launch proceeded normally for the first minute and a half, but at that point, when the first and second stages were meant to detach, there was an unspecified fault, possibly a failure of the first stage and its fuel tanks to detach.
For myself, who have thought pretty much of these Matters, I am of Opinion, that a whole Nation are like to be as much attached to themselves, as one Man or a few Men are like to be, who may by many Means be detached from the Interest of a Nation.
What dawned on me in Accra is that speaking in tongues might actually be a more effective way to pray than speaking in ordinary language — if by prayer one means the mental technique of detaching from the everyday world, and from everyday thought, to experience God.
Control means you are invested in events playing out a certain way and stay anxious about them; intimacy means you detach from outcomes so that you can appreciate what your spouse is experiencing in the present, regardless of what that means for the future.
I think he's defining what it means to be detached and out of touch with the American people.
