When we let go of our attachment to the outcome of a conversation, what the other person thinks, and our erroneous obsession with always having to be right, we give ourselves the opportunity to get real.
"Our experience with colonialism rekindled even more forcefully our attachment to independence of judgment and autonomy of action," Mr. Vajpayee said.
Part of our attachment to baseball has been its reflection of our society over its long history.
A more critical period never presented itself, nor had we ever a fairer opportunity of shewing our attachment to the illustrious house of Hanover, than the present, as his Majesty's deluded subjects in America are in open rebellion, and like unnatural children, wound their ever indulgent parent, forgetting the torrents of blood spilt, and heap of treasure expended for their preservation.
If we equate achievement with determination and character, and that, after all, has always been part of our attachment to sport -- to celebrate the physical expression of the human spirit -- how do we recalibrate our thinking about sport when laboratories are partners in athletic success?
While letting go of our attachment to favorite expressions can be daunting, the art of writing invites us to be courageous and "Kill our darlings" (as Mr. Faulkner suggests in the opening quote) for the sake of a better overall piece of writing.
According to this approach, our attachment to a work of art depends on our understanding of its artistic and historical background, which offsets any difficulty we may have perceiving it.
Our attachment to the medium, of course, is obscured by the splintering of our attention across so many cable offerings, in addition to the major networks.
The reason, Ms. Gustafson concluded, was that artists understand "the fetishistic nature of our attachment to dolls and more recently robots".
A decision like this focuses the mind and, in my case anyway, raises an awareness of our attachment to clutter.
