By the time anyone realized that he had detached a retina, it was too late to do anything about it.
I realized I had already detached, distanced myself from the people we had counted, returning to thoughts of my own comfort during our two hours on the streets.
The train suddenly jolted, and Joe realized that the car had become detached from the rest of the train.
An antiwar activist with his wife, the painter Nancy Spero, he realized that his work was too loftily detached from real events.
By the mid-1890s, however, the more militant anarchists in France began to realize that an excess of individualism had detached them from the workers they sought to liberate.
"He can appear to some folks as, perhaps, in a moment, detached," Mr. Yoakam said, "but I realized he's actually taking all of it in on a variety of levels".
Nearly twenty years ago, in her groundbreaking book "No Logo," Naomi Klein referred to a type of engagement with popular culture that she called "ironic consumption," wherein people, realizing their inability to detach from the often idiotic, occasionally poisonous products of capitalism, partake instead of these products' pleasures while keeping a sense of agency and humor about it.
Cradock realized the uselessness of Otranto in the line of battle and detached her.
At this point, Craddock realized the uselessness of Otranto in the line of battle, and so detached her.
I realized that my kids did have minds and could think if they simply detached themselves from their screen sucking devices that reduced them to rats.
While you can never fully separate religion from the region, the "Holy" must be detached from the actual "Land" if peace is ever to be realized.
