He admired the sort of intellectual detachment which would permit men to work on such a scale, but it was not his horse.

The intuitive mystical detachment of Russia began to define itself, and so consolidate itself, in terms of the intellectual detachment of the best thought of the West.

I admired his capacity for intellectual detachment from the accidents of his corporeal existence, in which I felt that few ancient Stoics could have rivalled him.

Mastery of Foreign Policy He was known for his intellectual detachment and purposefulness.

Their intellectual detachment is a fraud; their indifference is feigned.

But we do have to attempt to maintain some intellectual detachment'.

In such a situation, the necessary intellectual detachment often becomes difficult to sustain.

Cool even by Canadian standards, she radiates calm professionalism and intellectual detachment even when the phone lines begin to melt in the heat of panic-driven trading.

Ahmed Shah reacted with pure intellectual detachment to the deba- cle on Seventh Avenue and 42nd Street.

Such is the particular thrill that a metropolitan daily newspaper - poised between intellectual detachment and journalistic immediacy - can provide that history books rarely do.