abstractedness

Both Dessners have been at pains to explain the non-linear abstractedness of the work in recent interviews.

The Long Count – review 2012

What I do begrudge is the abstractedness from human vulnerability of Bush's so-called warrior intellectuals, who have conceptualized a first strike

Facing nuclear war 2007

Your abstractedness, child, (affectation of abstractedness, some call it,) savours, let me tell you, of greater particularity, than we aim to carry.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

Holding the glass in one hand, he walked around the little apartment, checking everything with a sort of automatic abstractedness.

Anything You Can Do ... Randall Garrett 1957

Martha and insisted on the duty of heavenly abstractedness, how much of his own leisure for spiritual contemplation was due to the Martha-like talents of his hostess.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 Various

Raymond looked at these objects of interest -- and at several others -- with some degree of abstractedness.

On the Stairs Henry B. Fuller

-- Alonzo was, in some degree, aroused from his abstractedness; -- the manners of the stranger pleased him.

Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father Daniel Jackson

But Mrs. Fisher's very abstractedness – and she seemed to be absorbed chiefly in the interesting people she used to know and in their memorial photographs, and quite a good part of the interview was taken up by reminiscent anecdote of Carlyle, Meredith, Matthew Arnold, Tennyson, and a host of others – her very abstractedness was a recommendation.

The Enchanted April 1922

They entered this state of abstractedness unconsciously.

The Silence: What It Is and How To Use It David V. Bush 1920

This evening Vautrin had noticed Eugène’s abstractedness, and stayed in the room, though he had seemed to be in a hurry to finish his dinner and go.

Paras. 800–899 1917