(1) When Brenda reads to Tony from the morning papers, her disengaged chatter runs together nightmarish grotesqueries and social gossip.(2) I expect that trend merely to be reinforced by the final week advertising blitz and disengaged undecided voters finally focusing on the choice to be made.(3) Families that are disengaged lack closeness and/or loyalty, and are characterized by high independence.(4) Of the 40 disengaged fathers, who were not seeing their children regularly, all of the women had actively discouraged contact.(5) The skepticism offered by historicism and the sociology of knowledge is ultimately merely theoretical, the skepticism of an observer who takes the disengaged view from nowhere.(6) The remarkable thing about the youth I interviewed is that their attitudes are not those of disengaged , civically ignorant slackers, as most adults are eager to describe their generation.(7) The practice of autopsy was a practical consequence of the adoption of the Cartesian understanding of disengaged reasoning.(8) It is therefore unsurprising that the political system itself has become stultified and its population disengaged and apathetic.(9) Some women managed to complete the mandatory treatment time while maintaining a marginal role by staying disengaged and uninvolved with counselors and other clients, male as well as female.(10) The problem is the disengaged and disaffected women, especially single women, who say neither candidate speaks to their lives.(11) With careers and raises often hanging in the balance, few instructors can afford to displease the growing number of disengaged students making evaluation forms.(12) And my constituency were the disengaged voters, the disengaged , those who had really given up on our political system.(13) Unions are reinventing themselves to meet the needs of modern workers and political parties too need to reinvent themselves to meet the needs of a disengaged electorate.(14) Finally, disengaged students most frequently cited issues related to lack of support, caring, and fairness.(15) He spent the final six years of his political career as a disengaged and at times embittered figure on the parliamentary backbench, finally retiring in 1996.(16) The optimistic assumption is that a more literate nation will be more cohesive and socially inclusive: polite society need no longer fear the disengaged illiterates.
