How To Use Aloof In A Sentence

Outwardly tough, aloof and cynical, she does a good deal of nail-chewing and fiddling with a cigarette as she decides whether Jack can be trusted.
When he first came into the job, he was viewed as cool, aloof and intelligent.
Richard and his friends, he reminds us constantly, are wealthy, beautiful, aloof from the slings and arrows of dowdiness and paying bills and slogging it out in monotonous jobs.
Sam's wife of 50 years, Alfreda, who managed the business side of Maloof woodworking, died in 1998. Jane Chafin: Discovering Sam Maloof
Beneath that aloof exterior, Gayle is a warm, sympathetic person.

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The two souls, deeply attached to each other, stand aloof from other members of the family.
It bore that air of uncostly refinement which is one of the most pleasing outward features of the aloof civilization to which it, though not the Callenders, belonged. Kincaid's Battery
The Sphinx, aloof from such matters of little consequence, waits patiently beyond the pool.
As a junior minister he was sometimes arrogant and aloof. Times, Sunday Times
A mate who doesn't need your help may prove aloof and solitary.
He was a cold man, aloof and distant.
It's easy to make him too perfect and aloof, but if he's too fallible then he's not Superman.
Never stand aloof from the masses.
Nature and Law compel it: whose direction now is towards grand centripetalism, where before they had ordained heterogeneity and the scattering and aloofness of peoples. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19
He stood aloof, cold, proud, not moving, showÂing no emotion as Tanis broke, as gently as he could, the news to Ilka and Caramon that their two eldest sons were dead. Dragons Of Summer Flame
Part of what students currently see as an aloofness is just running to the next obligation ... Discourse.net: Patricia D. White to Be Dean of University of Miami School of Law
Enlarged by many newly readmitted members who had held aloof from the act of regicide, it settled into a more prolonged and conservative regime than the army had ever envisaged.
We are against the irresponsible attitude of standing aloof from things on the ground that they're no concern of ours.
The intention was to convince City's players that they were now part of a winning machine but the complaints about his aloof manner have been frequent. Times, Sunday Times
Up to that point he has held himself aloof, the professor lecturing on abstractions.
But it also stemmed from his aloof and dogmatic attitude. Times, Sunday Times
Being basically a shy person, I think some players mistook my shyness for aloofness.
Most of the westerners who met him, in Germany and America, took an instant dislike to what they saw as his arrogant and aloof personality.
Reduced to teaching dance in a holiday camp, they remained aloof from the other staff. Times, Sunday Times
He was the watcher, aloof from the passions around him while others lived it.
The face that stared back at her from the small mirror was reassuringly familiar, her expression faintly aloof and withdrawn, the cleverly tailored cut of her thick glossy hair making it fall in a smooth, controlled curve. Passionate Relationship
There's a perceived elitism and something aloof about him. Times, Sunday Times
The price to be paid for the democratisation of taste is a cool ‘aloofness’, but the prize is said to be an independence of judgment that ‘guarantees hard-hitting, candid and uninfluenced commentary’.
He encouraged his writers to remain slightly aloof from the world they were covering.
His bearing made him appear aloof, as if he sat heads above everyone else.
I knew he had a reputation for being arrogant and aloof. The Sun
Briant sent word back to King Claudas that Messire Gawain and Messire Ywain began to hold them aloof from the court, and that as for most part of the other he need not trouble him a whit, for he might so deal as that in short time Lancelot should be well trounced, would they or nould they. The High History of the Holy Graal
KERRY: THE SUBSTANCEHe may have a reputation for being wooden and aloof, but Kerry is a formidable debater -- he was named class orator at Yale -- who has crushed opponents with his command of facts and his cool demeanor. At Last, The Two Shall Meet...Face To Face, Chin
I find her very aloof and unfriendly.
Whatever is happening in the office, she always remains aloof.
It's really hard to be cool and aloof here if some little pill makes you bawl about everything.
For a minute she was aloof in radiance, but as we linked arms and went out into the corridor she became more mortal, with a pout. The Return of the Soldier
He could be confiding and larky one moment, then aloof and distant the next. ARE YOU TALKING TO ME?: A Life Through the Movies
Williams can be as quiet, shy and awkward as any Valley wunderkind, but somehow he's never called snobby or aloof. TechCrunch
The Rottweiler makes a loyal and wonderful companion, but requires time and training. The Rottweiler is a basically calm, confident, and courageous dog with a self-assured aloofness.
Tall and angular, he could seem a little aloof, but he was renowned for his kindness to junior colleagues. Times, Sunday Times
She had always kept herself aloof from the boys in class.
Reduced to teaching dance in a holiday camp, they remained aloof from the other staff. Times, Sunday Times
She was reduced to the last degree of poverty; her friends held themselves aloof, disgusted at what they termed her culpable weakness; she and her children suffered from cold and hunger; and during her subsequent illness she and they must have starved and frozen but for the public charities, that would not let anyone in our midst perish from want of necessary food and fuel. Ishmael In the Depths
It might be thought that I am aloof, smug, emotionally cool or that I believe that I am better than anyone else.
The image we see is of an aloof presidency, presiding over dysfunctional government agencies.
The image we see is of an aloof presidency, presiding over dysfunctional government agencies.
He was rather aloof - and one admired him for it. Times, Sunday Times
Now she can tell us: why did she stay so aloof? Times, Sunday Times
Would-be doctors had personality defects ranging from extreme over-confidence, narcissism and aloofness to being overly empathetic.
Normally, the swamis and gurus keep aloof from the world.
Throughout the conversation he remained silent and aloof.
It was his air of aloofness that drew attention.
Majestic and aloof it soared, dwarfing all near it -- the termitary which, yesterday, had been but waist-high. The Raid on the Termites
Far from being an aloof maestro that one associates with top performers, he was a delightfully bouncy man with a tremendous sense of humour.
He remains curiously aloof and is one of the writer's greatest challenges - a man who can't be reached: unconvinced, irredeemable.
If you don't really know him, you might think he's a little distant, aloof, but he's not at all.
He urged people to revolt against the established government and turn the revolution against the king although he preferred to remain aloof from the actual events.
We cannot afford to remain aloof from the constitutional debate. CanadaToday and Tomorrow
Neither country can afford to stand aloof from the United Nations.
Wodehouse remained completely aloof from the tumult of the world, unable to comprehend the cads, schemers and plotters.
The man seemed to have grasped the essence of standing aloof from worldly anxieties and vexations.
For a man seen in some quarters as arrogant and aloof, the subject matter on the tour is bold and courageous. Times, Sunday Times
This fetishization of asexuality gives way to an imperious and isolated priesthood, an aloof caste of men whose holiness is far too greatly predicated upon the choice not to have sex. Michele Somerville: Sex and the City of God, Part 2: Celibacy and Sexuality in the Catholic Church
Even in Milton, though the great poet rejected the earlier idea of a solid firmament, we find prominence given to that of a vast hollow sphere of "circumfluous waters," which, by encircling the atmosphere, kept aloof the "fierce extremes of chaos. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
He seems to be a rather stiff and aloof character.
Barbara remains aloof behind the barrier of her menu.
Roosevelt hoped he had been of some assistance in moving our people along the line Mr. Rhodes mentioned; that is, along the line of a sane, moderate purpose to supervise the business use of wealth and to curb its excesses, while keeping as far aloof from the policy of the visionary and demagogue as from the policy of the wealthy corruptionist. Theodore Roosevelt An Intimate Biography
I shall also enjoy the Jubilee, and if I see either of these two sleazeballs out at our street party, I'll tell them to go easy on the burgers, and stop smiling aloofly.
I walk through the house alone, glass of wine in my hand, compelled by some aloofly assumed contempt to mock it all. Hollywood Savage
Initially it seemed unlikely that this stern, aloof, and unpopular general would be the person to inaugurate a democratic tradition.
The princes and capitaines entre not the battle, but standyng aloofe, crye vnto their men, and harten them on: lookinge diligently aboute on euery side what is nedefull to be done. The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
Only one particular family, who joined midway through the cruise, stayed aloof. Times, Sunday Times
Normally, the swamis and gurus keep aloof from the world.
His estranged guitarist, songwriting partner and soulmate since childhood, had succumbed to cocaine, aloof behaviour and rampant egomania.
Barry had his nose put out of joint by Lucy's aloof sophistication.
If the Left Wing adopts impossibilist methods of campaign, I shall stand aloof, but if they push for Confiscation, The Red Conspiracy
There will be those who say central bankers should make investors pay for their stupidity and remain aloof during periods of extreme turbulence. Times, Sunday Times
On no account is he an aloof, lofty person, but instead he eats and drinks with the Minjung, sometimes asking favours from them or vice versa, granting their requests.
There's a perceived elitism and something aloof about him. Times, Sunday Times
Barbara remained aloof behind the barrier of her menu.
The man who stood aloof (the sliest, sodden-faced creature I ever saw) came nearer â€” To the question, doctor, and to my part, if you please! â€” Am not I her father? â€” To the question, doctor, if you please! Sir Charles Grandison
They worked hard, but tended to stay aloof from the local inhabitants.
With its mixture of antiquity, regality and aloofness, it is both royal and ancient in ways no other Scottish burgh will ever be.
While seen as personally remote and aloof, Collins came across as fair and measured in meetings with unions.
Tall and angular, he could seem a little aloof, but he was renowned for his kindness to junior colleagues. Times, Sunday Times
At the moment refs are made to look arrogant or aloof through no fault of their own. The Sun
Lewis, charming and avuncular, is far easier to relate to than the aloof and distant Freud.
He can appear aloof and there's something bumbling about his character. Times, Sunday Times
Impassive he sits, aloof and aloft, ramparted by his desk, ensconced between curtains to keep out the draught -- for might not a puff of wind scatter the animated dust that he consists of? Yet Again
As a junior minister he was sometimes arrogant and aloof. Times, Sunday Times
He didn't explain how he persuaded them not to remain aloof from his experimental interventions.
Objecting to the tenderness and aloofness of humor and the vulgarism of humor, Lu Xun advocated a new concept of humor to criticize the reality, improve the work, and enliven life.
Her cool aloofness was seen as arrogance by some people.
Collins always seemed to play the game with an air of detachment, a cool aloofness in his comfortable possession of the ball and passing that was as smooth as soul music.
There's a perceived elitism and something aloof about him. Times, Sunday Times
It should keep the same attitude of aloofness in love and hate, in possession and renouncement, that is, it should be simultaneously dead, resigned and lifted up. Meister Eckhart's Sermons / first time translated into English by Claud Field
In the US, scientists have been aloof from the political process. A Public Policy Scientific Consensus?
No, you keep yourself aloof from the free designer clothes and parties with royalty of the celebrity culture.
He just protects himself by being aloof and distant. Times, Sunday Times
This has all the hallmarks of modern European architecture: aloof when not openly hostile, overscaled, cartoony, something you would see in the margins of a fever dream. Monday, Feb. 22 – The Bleat.
He is aloof, distant, perhaps slightly wary. Times, Sunday Times
But the man and woman who had come recently on the Aventine and who called the praefect of Rome their friend, knew that his rough exterior hid a heart brimming over with pity, and that his aloofness came from a mind absorbed in thoughts of "Unto Caesar"
Even now, a few feet away one of the giant soldiers stalked aloofly as if all these people were not really there at all.
She seemed rather aloof when in fact she was just shy.
Throughout the conversation he remained silent and aloof.
He was no big showoff, he wasn't aloof or arrogant. The Sun
The _khitmutgar_ watched the start with grave, inscrutable eyes and finally turned back into the bungalow with the aloofness of a dweller in another sphere. The Keeper of the Door
Every great feat has been the child of dissatisfaction, and if everyone was aloofly content, who would open the world of new possibilities?
Problem is, this pushes Mandell's vaguely tenuous, aloof vocals up front, affected twangs, warbles and all.
In essence, she's calling her an aloof, cold fish - hardly the most enthusiastic endorsement.
Britain remained formally aloof from both blocs. The British way in Warfare - 1688-2000
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He was also aloof, autocratic and lacking in managerial skills.
Neighbours said the couple occasionally had noisy rows and sometimes appeared aloof, but they were otherwise unremarkable.
Now she can tell us: why did she stay so aloof? Times, Sunday Times
The Russian nobility remained aloof from the business élite, and was held in contempt by the intelligentsia.
They gave as their reasons for this aloofness the facts that delegates from the Central powers, with whom the United States was still at war, were in attendance; that the meeting was held "for the purpose of arranging socialist procedure of an international character"; and that the convention was irregularly called, for it had been announced as an interallied conference but had been surreptitiously converted into an international pacifist gathering, conniving with German and Austrian socialists. The Armies of Labor A chronicle of the organized wage-earners
But, while she stares straight ahead - aloof, resigned - he diverts his gaze momentarily from the road to engage us with a look of such vulpine knowingness that we begin to wonder just what exactly he has in mind.
He preferred to remain aloof, an invisible presence worshipped from afar.
Waiters with tables to fill are heartily welcoming instead of haughtily aloof.
It was seen as a shockingly unglamorous approach at a time when fashion, still very much about class, was shown on impossibly aloof models in carefully posed, static shots.
I am sure that they are not the aloof, unfeeling, aristos that some would have us believe.
At the beginning of the war America remained resolutely aloof. Times, Sunday Times
Michael did not suffer fools gladly and could seem aloof and distant at times, but this was his rather old-world formality.
Stay aloof, stay pure. Times, Sunday Times
Rather than appearing aloof, the Drums were engagingly enthusiastic. Times, Sunday Times
Ministers stayed aloof from the groups they had worked with in opposition.
As teenagers, Jamie was easy-going and popular while I was sharp-tongued and more aloof.
Alfreda Maloof/Maloof Foundation Maloof's furniture fused engineering and art through intuition and deathdefying technique. Comfort and Joy
No one remains aloof from the conversation. Christianity Today
The audience, though, remains unmoved, aloof - everyone is far too cool to show any excitement.
Only one particular family, who joined midway through the cruise, stayed aloof. Times, Sunday Times
Ultimately, it remains difficult to sustain the comparison between Hart's myopic, young-man-in-a-hurry and the aloof master of Avondale who declined Gladstone's version of an Irish constitution with astonishing froideur in the late 1880s.
He is very seclusive, keeping himself aloof from the other patients, as he considers himself very much their superior. Studies in Forensic Psychiatry
They stood side by side, alone, aloof in their gianthood, grand old relics of the past. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
I do not believe that scientists were aloof from the political process and find it odd that scientists should be considered policymakers. A Public Policy Scientific Consensus?
He advanced and retreated, "bluffed" and held aloof, with acuteness and daring. The Plum Tree
Thomas, of course, was cool and aloof and imperturbable.
She seemed rather aloof when in fact she was just shy.
Unions, they argued, should stay aloof or actively oppose the creation of team systems.
He just protects himself by being aloof and distant. Times, Sunday Times
She had a peculiar feeling of acquaintedness and of aloofness, intimate knowledge and a separation of sharp finality caused her to stare at him with so intent a curiosity that Mrs. Cafferty noticed it. Mary, Mary
No more can he be termed aloof or arrogant nor accused of being an athlete who kept the best for himself.
In short, to grow our intellectual capital and to ensure its steady flow to the business community, we can no longer afford to remain aloof from the economic and business environment. Business Education in Canada: A Blueprint For Change
He has no altar, and no hymns of praise; from him alone of all the daimones Persuasion stands aloof … [closes the book] ... Nowhere Town: Overture and Introduction
She seemed rather aloof when in fact she was just shy.
Encouraged by his wife, Alfreda, Maloof began his woodworking career around 1948, giving up a job in graphic design for his first furniture commission. Jane Chafin: Discovering Sam Maloof
He often keeps aloof when we chat together.
There will be those who say central bankers should make investors pay for their stupidity and remain aloof during periods of extreme turbulence. Times, Sunday Times
Soon the admirers tossed all sense of aloofness to the prevailing winds and called themselves "fans," a phrase complementing their childish enthusiasm. An East Wind Coming
They cannot stay aloof from politics or business and simultaneously be political and entrepreneurial.
Such a phenomenon is often perceived with greater clarity by those aloof from it.
They have been called aloof, spineless, uncoordinated, strung out, two-faced, and puny—and by some of the most respected scientists in the world.
Barry had his nose put out of joint by Lucy's aloof sophistication.
She was in her own world too, utterly distant and aloof. Times, Sunday Times
He was viewed by critics as being secretive, arrogant and aloof, but supporters described him as progressive and effective.
He is frequently caricatured as a frosty pop intellectual, dry and aloof and uptight.
But instead of joining what Charmian termed the badinage, the psychoanalysts remained aloof. Fleur De Leigh’s Life of Crime
That stuck-up doll-face," was the way the girls of the neighbourhood described her; and though she earned their enmity by her beauty and aloofness, she none the less commanded their respect. Chapter 2
While women become chaste and aloof, men are emasculated, unwilling to give expression to their physical desires.
Fanshawe remained aloof from all that, quietly standing in his corner, paying no attention.
Rather than appearing aloof, the Drums were engagingly enthusiastic. Times, Sunday Times
While he may come across as disaffected and aloof off stage, he and his band are a powerhouse on stage, and have crafted several sensational albums of anthemic songs.
The doctor held himself somewhat aloof from the rest of the ship's crew.
She appears similarly self-possessed, both complicit and aloof, but always as someone else.
He fears the Goshree bridges would divest the islands of their charm of being aloof and convert them into a thoroughfare.
He's like Han Solo in Armani, ultra cool, aloof and with a sardonic put down for every occasion.
His face was reasonably happy and his standard expression seemed to be one of aloof nobility, even though he knew he wasn't noble.
Barbara remains aloof behind the barrier of her menu.
As a country, we need more than the aloof indifference that the term tolerance connotes; if we are ever going to realign our so called "American Values," of religious freedom and justice with how we view and understand Islam. Chelsea-Lyn Rudder: Disappointed, But Not Surprised: What One Downtowner Thinks About the Reaction to Cordoba House
Britain remained formally aloof from both blocs. The British way in Warfare - 1688-2000
She is not aloof and yet there seems something rather self-contained about her.
Mennonites and their cousins, the Amish, generally stayed aloof from politics.
True, I noticed a certain aloofness on the part of my general friends, but this I ascribed to the disapproval that was prevalent in my circles of my intended marriage with Ernest. Chapter 6: Adumbrations
This concept of life aloof from the world and its values is central to their faith....
At the moment refs are made to look arrogant or aloof through no fault of their own. The Sun
Dominic had held himself aloof from everyone, wounding them in the process.
His idea of a Prince of Mervo was something statuesquely aloof, something -- he could not express it exactly -- on the lines of the illustrations in the Zenda stories in the magazines -- about eight feet high and shinily magnificent, something that would give the place a tone. The Prince and Betty
There is also a certain aloofness, a peculiar but understandable arrogance. Try Anything Twice
Peabody's accent was high and aloof, crisp on the vowels and nasally through the consonants.
Stay aloof, stay pure. Times, Sunday Times
Surveys shouldn't be taken too seriously but cities can be lonely places where you find yourself staying aloof. The Sun
It is to her credit that she has managed to stay aloof from such obvious labelling.
Too long had he cultivated reticence, aloofness, and moroseness. The Love-Master
Other doctors felt him arrogant, aloof and overbearing towards those whom he considered his intellectual inferiors.
Wendigo: Wise and powerful, aloof and disdainful.
The doctor held himself somewhat aloof from the rest of the ship's crew.
But it also stemmed from his aloof and dogmatic attitude. Times, Sunday Times
There's a perceived elitism and something aloof about him. Times, Sunday Times
This concept of life aloof from the world and its values is central to their faith....
There is about them nothing incomprehensibly transcendental, nothing "unpractical," nothing aloof from the life we live -- if we live it fully -- but wholly the contrary. Platform Monologues
There's a perceived elitism and something aloof about him. Times, Sunday Times
Any woman who can drive a man they're in love with to the railway station en route to the frontline, give him a lucky teddy bear, and then turn on her heel aloofly and stomp off before a kiss thinking, Hee hee! Downton Abbey: Grace Dent's TV OD
During his presidential years, perhaps due to shyness, he was at times criticized for being aloof, cold, and unsympathetic under the stress of public duty.
She was in her own world too, utterly distant and aloof. Times, Sunday Times
No one remains aloof from the conversation. Christianity Today
He is aloof, distant, perhaps slightly wary. Times, Sunday Times
As a junior minister he was sometimes arrogant and aloof. Times, Sunday Times
CHORUS: From him alone of all the daimones Persuasion stands aloof. Archive 2006-04-01

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