Flattened is an etimologic synonym for 'understood

I intended no offense of course. Your callous exterior is something to be admired. One is apt to forget it hosts an actual human being.

It is funny, when a producer looks at you, he sizes you up by relishing in your most prominent attributes, regardless of polarity.

I remember having the impression that my university mentor saw me as a brain on a stick that produces research papers, rather than a complex human with worries and dreams.