Social workers often encounter children who emotionally distance themselves from a parent before death, to ease the pain of separation later.

Clarett emotionally distanced himself from the university on Monday.

Most important, we should not emotionally distance ourselves from the sick.

The man seemed to be emotionally distancing himself from the tragedy.

Miss Muller has had the imagination to add this emotionally distancing dimension and yet she creates only an enigma - which is precisely what keeps the viewer from feeling involved.

Darling, after an assignment to the bullpen that left him emotionally distanced from his teammates and bracing himself for a possible trade, returned to the rotation and certainly didn't look out of place.

And that brings me to the point of this column: While we may be emotionally distancing ourselves from the world, the world is getting more integrated.

The effect is emotionally distancing.

It has taken several weeks, but America has begun to emotionally distance itself from Magic Johnson.

And all business, Mr. Lauren emotionally distanced himself, with none of the heart-wrenching longing his collections often reveal.