detachment

Example Sentences

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But when we’re experiencing it through art, because it’s art, we know it’s not real, therefore there’s a detachment from it.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

He encourages her to stop hiding behind her Stoic detachment and let more of the world in.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

Then it could be time for detachment and noncontact.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 3, 2026

“Do they really know what degradation looks like? Have they smelled what a landfill smells like? There’s such a detachment between intent and actuality,” she says.

From Slate • Jan. 26, 2026

They had their own hootch at the edge of the perimeter, fortified with sandbags and a metal fence, and except for the bare essentials they avoided contact with the medical detachment.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien