How To Use Aloofness In A Sentence
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Conservative Government came into power in 1874, drawing attention to the danger of our being satisfied with a policy of aloofness, and pointing out the necessity for coming into closer relations with the Amir of Afghanistan and the Khan of Khelat.
Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief
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In the sestet we hear his revealingly equivocal reply to the proffered charge of aloofness.
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With the possible exception of Ronald Reagan, whose fabled aloofness and privateness were probably signs of a deep introverted streak (many actors, I've read, are introverts, and many introverts, when socializing, feel like actors), introverts are not considered "naturals" in politics.
Now Please Shush!
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The ability to see for one's self is attainable, not by mixing with crowds and ascertaining how they look at things, but by a certain aloofness and self-containment.
How Books Become Immortal
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Again, not to kick up sand, but Bush has a certain aloofness to him.
Olive Stone's W Biopic - What and Who? « FirstShowing.net
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Hill is affronted by the World Cup winner's aloofness and relates an incident in which, after a match at Old Trafford, the United No9 pointedly asks him why he's drinking in the players' lounge.
Who's the sycophant in the black? | Harry Pearson
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her sudden alienating aloofness
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Nicolovius's haughty aloofness, his rigid uncommunicativeness, his grand ducal bearing and the fact that he paid eighteen dollars a week for a suite had of course made him a man of mark and mystery in the boarding-house, and in the romancings of Miss Miller he had figured as nearly everything from a fugitive crown prince to a retired counterfeiter.
Queed
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Her manner partook of an aloofness.
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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.
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Maryam claims onlooker status to distance herself from the blithering Donaldsons and to dodge the advances of Bitsy’s widowed father, but her aloofness is really ontological, an innate standoffishness familiar to Tyler’s readers.
New Fiction
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He was as devoted to secrecy as he was to power, and by intrigue and double-dealing he maintained an aura of aloofness.
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He has an apartness and an erudition that is easy to cast as aloofness.
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Rabelaisian ditty, a gross amazing jest, a chuckle of deep Satyric humour; -- and the monstrous "thickness" of Life, its friendly aplomb and nonchalance, its grotesque irreverence, its shy shrewd common-sense, its tough fibres, and portentous indifference to "distinction"; tumbles us over in the mud -- for all our "aloofness" -- and roars over us, like a romping bull-calf!
Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions
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Trethaway, who had felt the aloofness from the start, caught an opportunity with Frona while Captain Alexander and Corliss were being pleasant to Mrs. Trethaway.
CHAPTER 21
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Their recollections also emphasize his aloofness, shyness, sudden love of fun, and self-contained nature.
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You know what I'm talking about: angry outbursts, sarcasm, rudeness, aloofness, running away, or retreat.
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Kerry's invisibility was over: the flash of numberless cameras had brought him suddenly into being; his famous aloofness turned rapidly to gravity; his patrician manner seemed quickly apropos.
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His mysterious, mesmerizing aloofness suggests that all we yearn for, all that really counts for us in the end, is hopelessly out of reach.
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Yet her word-perfect, positivity-enhanced sound bites couldn't conceal a fundamental aloofness.
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The two continued to look into each other's eyes, and something, it could hardly be called inimical, rather an aloofness from the tie of blood, was visible to each in the other's steadfast gaze.
Flamsted quarries
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He was critical of Karl BARTH for what he called "bibliolatry" and for his aloofness from society.
Concise Dictionary of Religion
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The locals were neither friendly nor unfriendly; they stood staring from doorways or muttering to themselves in gloomy lanes, and their aloofness was unusual.
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Cancer and Virgo would both find it hard to cope with your aloofness, whilst Aries would quickly bore you once the superficial attraction had passed.
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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"
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Part of what students currently see as an aloofness is just running to the next obligation ...
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Being basically a shy person, I think some players mistook my shyness for aloofness.
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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’.
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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.
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Would-be doctors had personality defects ranging from extreme over-confidence, narcissism and aloofness to being overly empathetic.
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It was his air of aloofness that drew attention.
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With its mixture of antiquity, regality and aloofness, it is both royal and ancient in ways no other Scottish burgh will ever be.
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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.
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Her cool aloofness was seen as arrogance by some people.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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There is also a certain aloofness, a peculiar but understandable arrogance.
Try Anything Twice
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Too long had he cultivated reticence, aloofness, and moroseness.
The Love-Master
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Although about one in five were found to have personality defects such as extreme overconfidence, aloofness and narcissism, the same group also tended to score well on problem-solving.
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Ellis is a decent man in many ways, but he has a loftiness, an aloofness, that supporters and players find patronising.
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It is childish and hateful to manufacture petty, vindictive cliques who seem to thrive on aloofness, exclusivity and secrecy.
