One of the nurses who witnessed the 10 August incident apparently told her boyfriend, a captain in the Seventh Army public affairs detachment.
But before making the news public, he brought a detachment of Castilian troops into the Alhambra on the night of January 1 2 for the purpose of avoiding a disturbance on the part of his vassals that might render it impossible for him to comply with the terms of the pact.
"[There was] a strain of detachment from the public, some constituencies".
The result has been a growing detachment between the public and our largest corporations.
Salle cultivates the public persona, but with the detachment of someone working in someone else's garden.
The particular hell explored in "Detachment" is a public high school (every high school, the movie implies) somewhere in the New York metropolitan area, as seen through the sorrowful eyes of Henry Barthes (Adrien Brody), a dedicated substitute teacher.
The detachments initially launched public appeals calling for volunteers "in the struggle against the Communist danger" and eventually grew to consist of 3,500 armed men.
You can live in your secluded, hillside, rented mansion, but please stop using us - the sad, more-likely emotional, hardworking public - to pay for your social detachment.
That detachment is felt by the public, too.
Greene took all this on board with a modesty, a surface casualness - almost a suburban detachment - that often amazed the public as much as his colleagues.
