What is "disengaged"

Usage examples of "disengaged".

She was half asleep when, a minute or so later, he disengaged from her, got up to extinguish the candles, and then lay down at her side, pulled the bedcovers up over their damp bodies, and slid one arm beneath her head.

The belief that such monological models can explain them is the fundamental Enlightenment paradigm in all its inadequate aspects, is everything bad about the disengaged and hovering Cartesian ego.

She disengaged Daniel from the second cradleboard and handed him to Hannah.

The Errin hastily disengaged their hips and reconnected after he had cushioned her fall in his arms.

I felt the box of matches in my hand being gently disengaged, and other hands behind me plucking at my clothing.

But, now that my honour is disengaged, and my fortune rendered independent, by the last will of a worthy nobleman, whose friendship I was favoured with in France, I presume to lay myself at the feet of the adorable Monimia, as the most faithful of admirers, whose happiness or misery wholly depends upon her nod.

Mongrel, hissing with satisfaction at last, disengaged the crumpled sailship and allowed it to slide free.

Rupakaya, its embodiment or embeddedness in the entire world of Form, and these merely dissociated and disengaged aspects of Enlightenment thought have to be teased apart from its true intuitions.

The boilers were not out, but since they had been disengaged from the drive shafts, there was a sudden cessation of the steady rhythmic vibration that the engines had sent through the ship.

While the Glencoe force had struck furiously at the army of Lucas Meyer, and had afterwards by hard marching disengaged itself from the numerous dangers which threatened it, its comrades at Ladysmith had loyally co-operated in drawing off the attention of the enemy and keeping the line of retreat open.

Thus, these contemplatives, in concert with Jewish, Christian, and Hindu contemplatives, present us with the truly astonishing hypothesis that joy arises from the very nature of consciousness once it is free of the afflictions of laxity and excitation and is disengaged from all sensory and mental appearances.

Provided, of course, that it is not done as a merely academic endeavor, where a bunch of disengaged dunderheads attempt to analyze the signifiers without having a clue as to the actual referents.

In the breathless moment of arrival, before any of them inhaled or exhaled, Dylan heard the click of a passkey in a lock and then the scrape of the deadbolt being disengaged in a slow and cautious fashion meant to make as little noise as feasible.

In 1864 a party of tourists was descending Mont Blanc, and while picking their way over one of the mighty glaciers of that lofty region, roped together, as was proper, a young porter disengaged himself from the line and started across an ice-bridge which spanned a crevice.

I criticize the merely objectifying mode of the fundamental Enlightenment paradigmthe philosophy of the disengaged self or subjectit is a criticism not of objectifying but of only objectifying: of the failure to see that the subject still exists in patterns of relational exchange with similarly depthed subjects, which finally anchors not only the we but the I.