"I wonder if that means the door's been disconnected somehow," Rudy said.

It pseudo-scratched and bit him, painful, slashing--all real enough impressions, but somehow disconnected because Toby knew they weren't anything more than electrical stimuli from a machine, blurred and oddly hollow.

This underlines our sense that it is a grave mistake to pursue the notion of teaching strategies as somehow disconnected from children's learning on the one hand, and from teachers' intentions and attributes on the other.

Cadderly could see the events in the room, but they were distant from him, somehow disconnected.

In order for- a car to stop without killing the engine, the wheels need to be disconnected from the engine somehow.

Now her thoughts seemed to come from somewhere beyond herself, as if her mind were somehow disconnecting from her body.

Its life, though painful and somehow disconnected... no..