disconnection

1 It’s strangely uplifting, as buoyant a take on disconnection as you could possibly imagine.

2 This may be his debut, but he proves himself an old hand at dissecting the ways in which places — our connections to them, our disconnections from them — break us and remake us.

3 I can see an extended version of this play that keeps the poetry and the variety and digs deeper into its characters’ discrete responses to this sense of disconnection and grief.

4 There’s an overall aura of disconnection and loneliness in this triumvirate of office parks, although Thomas Jefferson might interpret that as peacefulness.

5 Moving fluidly between adolescents and septuagenarians, it leaves us with the sense that uncertainty, disconnection, is not a matter of chronology but rather of being alive.

6 In her sessions, she often asks questions to help clients reflect on what they’re experiencing, from a hard day at work to a disconnection in their relationship with God.

7 “For me,” he said, “the whole movie is about trying to make connection across disconnection.”

8 “Clouds” employs wisps of cumulus and duck-shaped clouds to evoke failures of communication and moments of disconnection; “Kármán,” suggesting mortality and transcendence, uses the whole sky.

9 This feeling of disconnection, of the fundamental incommunicability of our selves, transcends borders and heritage and unites us all regardless of our geography.

10 Their halting conversations and touchingly described moments of connection turn into all-out confessionals and then – perplexingly for the narrator – gaping disconnection.

11 One of the great contradictions of the Internet age is that the very technologies that allow people to connect in new ways also lead to some powerful forms of disconnection.

12 In this mode the freedom of disconnection alludes us.

在这种模式自由断流指我们。

13 The food wasn’t worth the disconnection with my child.

14 It seems temporal disconnection leads to many instances of mistaken identity.

15 They pulse white lights at one another, signifying both connection and disconnection.

16 But instead of feeling contentment, he experiences disconnection.

17 The hose and faucet had been disconnected.

18 To early humans, disconnection from or shunning by the tribe meant death; connection was life, light, warmth, hope.

19 More importantly, the design doesn’t allow Strayer and his colleagues to pinpoint what’s causing the burst in creativity: is it the interaction with nature, the disconnection from technology, or both?

20 A meditation on disconnection, memory, and maturity, it’s proof that getting older doesn’t have to mean becoming boring.

1 分开

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2 断绝关系

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3 断绝

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4 切断

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5 断线

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6 分离

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7 断开

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