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In her new documentary, “Meat the Future,” the director Liz Marshall detachedly depicts Upside’s rise, starting in 2016.

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2022

That's part of the director Lynch's professional mien, too; a naïf detachedly exploring, with open eyes, these unaccountably dark images that pop into his head.

From Slate • Nov. 8, 2011

A modern Prince Otto without the Presbyterian implications, this tale of an imaginary European country is so detachedly and lightly told that even its theatrically tragic end brings only smiles of applause.

From Time Magazine Archive

Cornell's L 'Egypte de Mile, Cl�o de M�rode, 1940, is not the Egypt seen by Flaubert, detachedly noting the gleam of his white socks at midnight on the Nile.

From Time Magazine Archive

We were free to sit in the library at the back of the building or look in quite detachedly, naturally, on the measures being taken for our event.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou