Noun : a divorce between thought and action. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : The judge divorced the couple. ,She divorced her husband. ,Life and art cannot be divorced. From Dictionary.com.
Marriage probably should be divorced from the state. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Wake Me From This Nightmare] Reference
This issue is not at all divorced from the AGW debate. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Would the Public Support “Cap and Refund”?] Reference
The one cannot, so to speak, be divorced from the other. From Wordnik.com. [Theodore Roosevelt - Acceptance Speech] Reference
What about the fact of HOW McCain divorced his first wife?. From Wordnik.com. [Rove: McCain's too private] Reference
It reflected how totally divorced from the street they are. From Wordnik.com. [Is That Legal?: In Real Life, Very Few People Are Turned On When Strangers Grope Them.] Reference
Husband, should they get divorced from the wrong person first?. From Wordnik.com. [Things I like about California: Wine, equality. « A Bird’s Nest] Reference
Many of them grew up in divorced familes and want no part of it. From Wordnik.com. [A Look at the Past] Reference
The fascination cannot, ultimately, be divorced from the importance. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of George Orwell (reviews)] Reference
I had forgotten that he divorced is wife and was treated for alcoholism in 2006. From Wordnik.com. [Repeats of ‘We Are One’ Event Will Include Bishop, HBO Says - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
He quotes two lines later in the review, both divorced from the “doggerel” shot. From Wordnik.com. [Passing Marks–Getting Beyond Critics in a One-Daily Town « The Blog at 16th and Q] Reference
The art itself, divorced from the method of its making, is just kinda "eh, whatever.". From Wordnik.com. [Supporting Our Artists - Anil Dash] Reference
Thus this group was divorced from the single most important historical reality of the era. From Wordnik.com. [Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity] Reference
Only a moron discusses investment and the economy divorced from the political environment. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Stock Prices And Future Growth Prospects] Reference
As well, governmental figures in this field were equally divorced from the other two groups. From Wordnik.com. [Mini Shareholders and Dummy Directors] Reference
Two totally different scenarios we are looking at, the word divorced and wives is a big clue. From Wordnik.com. [Army Rumour Service] Reference
But that didn't happen on screen, so we are a little divorced from the negative connotations. From Wordnik.com. [THIS JUST IN: I STILL TEST PONY-POSITIVE] Reference
McCain divorced his first wife when she was sick (cancer) so he could marry his current trophy. From Wordnik.com. [Obama picks up two superdelegates, gap narrowed to seven] Reference
But teaching to a test only becomes a problem when tests are divorced from the desired outcomes. From Wordnik.com. [John Brown – the author’s official site » 2010 » February » 10] Reference
Eula, struck with consternation at the stern emphasis on the word divorced, turned of ashy paleness. From Wordnik.com. [The Planter's Northern Bride] Reference
"Legitimacy" fast became divorced from the Gothic's mechanistic reproduction of ghosts in the 1790s. From Wordnik.com. [Haunted Britain in the 1970s] Reference
However, when that fiction is divorced from the life of Lovecraft, how does one propagate the Mythos. From Wordnik.com. [Author of "HPL and His Legacy" : The Lovecraft News Network] Reference
It used to be that signalling was divorced from the analog voice, and the signalling was quite simple. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Orrin Hatch: Loose Lips On Surveillance] Reference
This is not conception within the marital act and is totally divorced from the unitive act of marriage. From Wordnik.com. [The difficult issue of embryonic adoption] Reference
Bad intent is a concept that makes no sense divorced from a view of what we want to prohibit: intent to do what?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference
No one mentions how John McCain divorced his first wife even after she waited for him to come home from Vietnam. From Wordnik.com. [Cindy McCain releases 2006 tax returns] Reference
We cannot have a credible justice system in Canada if "the law in books" becomes divorced from the "law in action". From Wordnik.com. [Principles and Approaches] Reference
The only reason we have not divorced is that we can't be bothered with the trans-European rigmarole it would involve. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference
Maybe these hayseed rightwing populist are correct, the DC elite are divorced from the USA, even if they went to Harvard. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Another State Bites the Dust] Reference
The way I look at it, every time a couple says, "I do," the possibility that they will get divorced is entirely up to them. From Wordnik.com. [Steve Lake: When the Vows Break: Will Certain Jobs Wreck Your Marriage?] Reference
And then he has no way of knowing when the name divorced from its first thing is carrying on a misalliance with some other thing. From Wordnik.com. [Public Opinion] Reference
The satire was somewhat lost on me, and this part of the story seemed divorced from the main plot, indeed almost irrelevant to it. From Wordnik.com. [An editor's prerogative ...] Reference
What's being ignored are the real science, and real solutions to the problem because the politics cannot be divorced from the problem. From Wordnik.com. [Rent-Seeking and Global Warming, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
The word "performs" its magic only divorced from a structure of intention or responsibility that would authorize it to perform anything. From Wordnik.com. [Tragedy and the War of the Aesthetic] Reference
I don't think we've yet reached a level of visual literacy (or ever will?) where images like this can be divorced from the textual context. From Wordnik.com. [What the New Yorker teaches us about visual literacy] Reference
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