Amid an analysis of the distinction between matter and form, she disassembles instruments mid-performance, detaching the body of the flute from the head piece and removing the rim of a drum; the ensemble goes on making music from the remnants.
There was no chance of Dean Blunt's performance being detached.
In many ways this was an exemplary performance, slightly detached, never attempting to impose any spurious programme or to squeeze out more emotional juice from the music than it can comfortably offer.
And the littling down process hasn't been helped, particularly, by the film's star, Hugh Grant, who gave a cheerfully detached performance on television with Jonathan Ross, indicating that he wasn't exactly pinning Oscar hopes on it.
And though some may prefer more warmth in Debussy's Ibéria triptych and more humour in Ravel's Alborada del Gracioso than Roth brings to his slightly detached performances, the clarity with which he and his orchestra illuminate the textures in both is beguiling enough in itself.
Cumming came up with the idea that the Eternals would not blink and cast actors who she believed could provide detached performances.
In his now infamous first debate performance, Obama appeared too detached, and went from appearing Presidential to looking like Romney's equal or lesser.
Yet in the Marx group and in Strauss's "Ruhe, Meine Seele" and "Schlechtes Wetter," her performance seemed cool and detached.
For reasons I don't quite understand, the dead-seriousness of Mr. Hoffman's efforts don't add heft to "Rain Man". In much the way that Raymond stays detached, the performance seems to exist outside the film but, instead of illuminating "Rain Man," it upstages the work of everyone else involved.
This paper presents the set-up, the validation and the application of a two-phase incompressible three-dimensional Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) model for an extensive parameter study on the performance of a fixed, detached Oscillating Water Column (OWC) wave energy converter.
