abstractedness

Traces of a lingering girlish abstractedness are the only hint that she was in any way affected by this disturbing adventure.

Abstractedness rode upon Cash's lined brow.

Though he has talked (written, shown) of his mother's abstractedness in the midst of her chafing marriage, it is the father Mr. Bergman more often despises.

One learns there the nuances of the Constitution, and phases of individual and social political life which are invaluable in checking the danger of abstractedness in mental outlook.

Yet the production tends to turn the cast members' performance signatures - Mr. Wood's befuddled abstractedness, Ms. Testa's robust zinger slinging - into something approaching shtick.

Under cover of an apparent blankness of mind and an abstractedness, gift-wrapped in silver paper, from all outward concerns, he had brought into being a whole new set of attitudes to the making of images, the making of movies and the production of a magazine that looked like no other.