I would advise that you receive his e-mails in an emotionally detached manner and deal with them briefly and factually.

Such an emotive issue needs addressing in a dispassionate and detached manner.

Assessing in a forensic and detached manner the details of an act of severe cruelty will not reveal to us the wrongness of the act.

Indeed, because of the difficult conditions they founddangerous weather, scarce foodthey sometimes had little time to investigate the culture in the more detached manner of earlier visitors.

Her own parties were considered dull, and her manner was somewhat eccentric: guests described her conversation as an endless flow of trivial information delivered in an odd detached manner.

This can be jarring, but it frames her as a participant in the situation, rather than a detached observer.

Sometimes he chooses the lofty aerial view of the detached observer, sometimes the claustrophobic surroundings of the trapped participant.

He was no detached observer, but was involved.

This gives you a chance to observe those changes from a detached perspective.

The board needs to accept what many with a more detached perspective have long insisted.

Pause long enough to develop a more detached perspective and you'll realise there have been hints of problems for ages.

Other themes are also present, such as prejudice, aging, failure, poverty and middle-class ennui, but these are typically seen from an ironic and detached perspective.

First, senior police find it harder to take a detached view.

But you won't necessarily have realised that this also means getting enough distance for a detached view.

The first was the observation that journalists imagine they're special and take a falsely detached view of human life.