He seems almost always to be at an emotional distance from his material.

As if the physical proximity can make up for the emotional distance.

It was necessary for everyone to have a clear head and some degree of emotional distance.

The emotional distance felt by the mother will affect all of her interactions with the child.

"It is hard to get sufficient emotional distance," he said.

It takes someone with enough emotional distance from the society to see what's wrong.

But at the same time Jack has an emotional distance to his stories.

The trick was to get inside and yet maintain emotional distance.

Others looking at her saw only cool competence and emotional distance, because it was all she allowed them to see.

Although they enjoyed their parents' company, there was an emotional distance.

They both feed her and show off their flying ability and emotional detachment.

Truly sings the counterpoint as an expression of her own, "real life" emotional detachment.

The downside of his power is that he begins to suffer emotional detachment from everything.

His remedy is to combine goal orientation with emotional detachment.

I think this negotiation needs a little emotional detachment.

He criticized himself - and, by inference, other writers - for an emotional detachment.

But while good scholarship requires emotional detachment, the same is disastrous in a memoir.

Adding to the isolation he feels is the emotional detachment of his family.

There is evidence of severe emotional detachment in both characters.

He'd made an effort to keep his distance from vulnerable young women, preferring experience and emotional detachment.