One requires a certain, shall we say, philosophical detachment to appreciate - but there I go again.

His signature can be read precisely there, in that slow, magisterial withdrawal from the immediate physical details of a story into a kind of eerie philosophical detachment.

Anderson, who was always accompanied by an umbrella and a bag bulging with papers and letters, gave an impression of philosophical detachment.

Something of an intellectual among surfers, Lynch has a weekly column in a Sydney newspaper and an air of philosophical detachment.

Perhaps I lack your philosophical detachment about such isolation, Mr. Spock.

"Alternately composed in prose and verse, the Consolation teaches acceptance of hardship in a spirit of philosophical detachment from misfortune".

But Lorimer confronts it all with philosophical detachment: "I do not mind contradictions, paradoxes, puzzles and ambiguities.

Vanai looked for such philosophical detachment inside herself.

He had seen her handling the intrusion of Richie Burke into her household and her life with philosophical detachment, with stoic patience.

Mr. Guenther appeared to accept Mr. Muti's decision with an almost philosophical detachment.