Sentence examples for passionate detachment from inspiring English sources

Mr. Ozon's approach to his story -- which unfolds, until the heartbreaking final scenes, at a leisurely, ruminative pace -- might be described, somewhat paradoxically, as passionate detachment.

Gilles breaks up with his beautiful girlfriend Laure Carole Combes), who introduces him to Gregory Corso and the Beat poets; we know from her passionate detachment that she's on the way to something dangerous or glorious.

In "The Uses of the Blues," he writes about finding in the blues "something a little funny in all our disasters, if one can face the disaster … so that it's this passionate detachment, this inwardness coupled with outwardness, this ability to know, all right, it's a mess, and you can't do anything about it … so, well, you have to do something about it".

Perhaps for that reason they have an air of tact and balance, of passionate detachment, conveyed by a near-abstract play of geometric forms: the dour brick walls of the old New England mills take on the texture of ornamental filigree.

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The one moment I saw Rose lose his customary detachment and grow passionate was when he spoke of what he felt was "one of the most poignant tragedies of human existence," which is that "you spend all your life learning how to do things, learning what it all means, and then you die".

Yet Ms. Lesnick, whose previous film, "A Family Affair," demonstrated a lively sense of humor, shoots these passionate encounters with a glum, clinical detachment that drains much of the heat and spontaneity from them.

His almond-shaped blue eyes looked out at the world with wry detachment; they imposed on his passionate nature a mask of cool.

As the investigation leads to Oliver's ex-wife and his girlfriend, Marlow begins to transgress the ethical boundaries of his profession, but Kostova's precisely constructed sentences give an air of detachment to what should be passionate love stories.

Although a handful of donors were invited to the premiere state dinner Tuesday night — as well as erstwhile allies Craig and Hillary — many donors and passionate supporters are let down by Obama's detachment, puzzled at his failure to make them feel invested when he's certain to come back to tap their well soon enough.

Despite the upheaval he has remained close to his children, and Rebecca says that far from being the "reserved, enigmatic man who observed the world with philosophical detachment, as a father he is enormously passionate and rather emotional".