"achieve" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Buddy (poor Buddy) had never been able to achieve such detachment.
- On the other hand, in the course of his long privations, he has achieved a level of worldly renunciation and spiritual detachment that has brought him the wisdom extolled by the philosophers of antiquity, Stoics, Epicureans, Skeptics, the same wisdom advocated by Schopenhauer and Buddhists.
- It is not that policemen and women fail to achieve emotional detachment, even though one policeman once remarked that at postmortems he was appalled by the way pathologists treat the body simply as a lump of meat and fail to show respect (FN 17/12/87, p. 15).
- Tries to achieve detachment.
- A medical doctor as well as an anthropologist, he manages to achieve secular detachment - he assumes human authorship of the Bible - and something simultaneously transcendent that helps him capture the protean nature of his subject.
- Since it is crucial to achieve as much independence and detachment as practically possible, much attention will have to be devoted to the creation of the right institutional conditions.
- The three main strategies that English sonneteers end up choosing from are: stopping abruptly in medias res; achieving detachment by moving into a different mode, genre, or voice; or providing a narrative resolution.
- At the moment, Nate found it hard to achieve professional detachment.
- By turns earnest and coy, tender and ironic, the book made it clear that Mr. Eggers was not simply using narrative innovations for their own sake, but that those techniques were a potent and utilitarian defense mechanism, a means of achieving detachment while alchemizing pain and loss into art.
- The assistance rendered is a form of self-sacrifice on the part of the teachers, who would presumably be able to achieve total detachment from worldly concerns, but have instead chosen to remain engaged in the material world to the degree that this is necessary to assist others in achieving such detachment.
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