Rowland stared, at the disconnectedness of the question.
"Roderick Hudson"
Henry James
"It's her pen-name, Amy Evans"-he couldn't have said it otherwise had he been a blue-chinned penny-a-liner; yet marking it with a disconnectedness of intelligence that kept up all the poetry of his own situation and only crashed into that of other persons.
"The Finer Grain"
Henry James
That in truth was made easy by the fact that what I have called our common disconnectedness positively projected and proclaimed a void; disconnected from business we could only be connected with the negation of it, which had as yet no affirmative, no figurative side.
"Notes of a Son and Brother"
Henry James