The detached person believes that, if he asks nothing of the world, the world will ask nothing of him.
He nevertheless has, both on screen and in person, a slightly detached, regal quality, a darting, glinting intelligence, and occasionally an air of weary melancholy, all very useful papal attributes.
Incidental learning about the details of interior spaces therefore depended on the attitude of the person, engaged or detached, which fit with a room of similar affective tone, warm or cool, respectively.
"A person may be detached from himself or herself, detached from life, numb and unfeeling.
In person, she is cool, detached, fiercely intelligent – rather like some of her female heroines.
There's a face, a body, a person, while "troop" is detached, a word with no humanity.
"It keeps you from getting detached from the person you left behind.
For Christians, therefore, faith in God is not a doctrine to be detached from the person of Jesus Christ.
Too many Radio 4 comedy shows feel detached from the person hosting them: overworked scripts and elaborate setups can kill a connection with the listener.
That story, in Lewis's view, is not a given; it has to be teased out empathetically, because it's detached from a person's public identity; but in Lewis's humane utopia, it would be fused with public identity, would get expressed in the public sphere.
