Definition of Detached

Detached

of Detach

Separate; unconnected, or imperfectly connected; as, detached parcels.

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As, Connected, Detach, Detached, Of, Or, Separate

Detached Quotations

You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong.
Bono

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.
Mao Zedong

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
Simone Weil

Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.
Joseph Conrad

I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.
Gavin DeGraw

Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.
Camille Paglia

The detached observer's view is one window on the world.
Kenneth L. Pike

The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side.
Raymond Queneau

I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things.
Ralph Fiennes

He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.
Ralph Fiennes

What kind of man would I have been if I had not been there to help her? I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can't be detached.
Charles Bronson

I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis.
Leslie Fiedler

I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can't be detached. She needed to have someone who understood what was happening in her mind.
Charles Bronson

We have learnt through experience that when an electrical ray strikes the surface of an atom, an electron, and in some circumstances a second and even a third electron, can be detached.
Johannes Stark

I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.
Hugh Leonard

Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.
Val Kilmer

A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
Ida Tarbell

I am pretty detached from the local music crowd though.
Mark Edwards

Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult.
Prem Rawat

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Detached Translations

detached in Dutch is afstandelijk
detached in Italian is rilevato
detached in Norwegian is frittliggende, frakoplet
detached in Portuguese is destacado
detached in Spanish is aislado

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