She looked on, with peculiar detachment.

He felt a peculiar detachment as he reached back over his shoulder and drew his sword.

The name reminded me of that, but the peculiar detachment of shock prevented the reminder from disturbing me in the slightest.

He felt a peculiar detachment as he stared across the street at the pair of church soldiers standing guard at the cathedral door.

Possibly may be said to have view of society which holds human struggle to be series of games; peculiar quasiscientific detachment found also in certain technological circles.

Stern, who had accepted his daughter's caution to say nothing, sat back with peculiar detachment.

"Dead men," she said with peculiar detachment.

It was inevitable, he realized with a peculiar detachment.

Marine infantry units have traditionally been nonpolitical, to the point of stubbornly embracing a peculiar detachment from policy currents at home.

Derricotte studies the peculiar detachment of certain black elders who sing viciousness into children's ears, possibly in a spirit of perverse, angry protectiveness.