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Meanings of detached way in English

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Usage of detached way in English
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The gunslinger thought in a detached way that light was pretty good.
The gunslinger
2
It's hard to resist Eric, Bill went on in a detached way.
Dead as a doornail
3
Even then, when I did, it was in a very detached way.
The Irish Times
4
I think about all these things calmly, in a detached way, yet sympathetically.
Level 7
5
Or the detached way that his men disposed of the body.
Sword of god
6
The Huxtables were cool parents, but not in a detached way.
The Guardian
7
But Jack Dalhousie's friend only answered, in the same detached way:
V. V.'s Eyes
8
She spoke in the most detached way of his blindness and the coming ceremony.
The Red Planet
9
He looked at it a moment in a detached way.
Andrew the Glad
10
He was silent for several moments, still looking in a curiously detached way at Somerville.
Land of marvels
11
I just stared for a few moments, noting details in a sort of detached way.
Storm front
12
In a detached way she was happy for Willow; she was not capable of anything more.
The Tangle Box
13
Ambrose, admiring her in an odd, detached way, was reminded of Bellona, the goddess of anger.
The Fur Bringers: A Story of the Canadian Northwest
14
She had always loved children in a kindly, detached way, but she had never appropriated them.
The Man Thou Gavest
15
They see things in a detached way.
Captivity
16
Mordaunt smiled in his quiet, detached way.
The Rocks of Valpré
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United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common