His speech remains affectively heightened, but now the gestures that once persuaded us have become unglued from their sustaining logic.
As the dip back into opera plots suggests, narratives easily come unglued from attempts to ground them in broader theoretical contexts.
When autoantibodies attack desmogleins, the cells become separated from each other and the epidermis becomes unglued, a phenomenon called acantholysis.
After the crash she comes unglued, probably more than any of the kids, and it's a quick, drastic change.
The strings are first tied round a piece of wood that is glued to the soundboard, and then run over a separate floating bridge that is left unglued.