out of touch

Example Sentences

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Asked half-jokingly if he ever misses the days when Grammy nominations regularly inspired outrage over how out of touch the Recording Academy was, Mason says, “I don’t miss people being upset. But I also don’t discount that it’s going to happen again. It’s very hard to get 95 categories right and not have somebody be offended or feel left out.”

From Los Angeles Times

“These tactics — if you call them that — are far and away out of touch with contemporary policing standards.”

From Los Angeles Times

Duckett looked horribly out of touch, swishing and swiping.

From BBC

At one point, she told him that Doyle was out of touch while on assignment in Africa.

From The Wall Street Journal

For as out of touch with the common person as she can arguably be, Paltrow always seems to be in on the joke.

From Salon