Sentence examples for state of detachment from inspiring English sources

Sifton's version is closer to disdain, but just as often he finds himself in a disturbing state of detachment.

On the day I met Bashir, or, rather, observed him — for he was in a trancelike state of detachment — his leg irons had been removed.

This illusory state of detachment can become addictive as we isolate ourselves a safe distance from the cruelty of our fleshly lives, where we are flawed, powerless and inconsequential.

My personality now rooted in that infinite source of timeless, formless being, I tend to experience an easy state of detachment a lot of the time.

(What, then, is the meaning of desk chairs onstage?) The dance, set to Bach, Chopin and Scriabin, performed with fervor by the pianist Melody Fader, focuses on three couples who find themselves in various states of detachment and passion.

"I think what kept me in a state of some detachment toward it all was the fact that the world I grew up in, in New Orleans, nobody was particularly measured by what they did for a living.

A Buddhist practitioner, it forgivingly suggests, may not, sad to say, be someone who sits above it all in a state of perfect detachment; it is, more typically, someone who sees the stuff that consumes him, sees the person he could be and doesn't know quite how to get from there to here.

For me, blazing is a part of daily life, and being high no longer puts me in a state of complete detachment from reality.

It may guide future research enquiry about more detailed neuropsychological processes (such as different attentional processes) that are required in order to enable the state of intimate detachment.

How can this enhance our understanding of how patients could achieve the experiential emotional regulatory state of intimate detachment or decentering?

To explore the emotional regulatory mechanism unique and therefore specific to mindfulness, recent experimental investigations have examined the relative contribution of cognitive reappraisal mechanisms versus the mindful state of intimate detachment in achieving emotional regulation during mindfulness meditation.