Sentence examples for aloofness from high-quality English sources.

• Danes have a reputation for aloofness.

• Insert adjective here – ‘coldness’, ‘aloofness’, ‘smugness’.”

• In keeping with his reputation for aloofness and heavy-handedness, Mr.

• She liked his Mitteleuropean aloofness, his rock-band past—No language, just sound, that’s all we need know—and his ambition.

• One of Miss Megawati's main failings during her presidency was her aloofness.

• Mr Mbeki was accused of centralising power in his own hands and criticised for his arrogance and aloofness.

• Most British civil service personnel were able, though their aloofness—and often disdain of Indian culture—aroused resentment.

• The new Politico report goes on to detail Mr Trump’s alleged aloofness to international relations, geography and diplomatic customs.

Use aloofness in a sentence.

• That aloofness is perhaps the reason why Streep (who has accrued a record 21 Academy Award nominations) makes everything look so easy.

• Siyu did not say these things, but there was a gentleness in Hanfeng’s eyes where before there had been only aloofness, and she knew that he understood.

• Oblonsky had more than once experienced this extreme sense of aloofness, instead of intimacy, coming on after dinner, and he knew what to do in such cases.

• The action, unusual for a president renowned for his cautious aloofness from administrative matters, seemed to reflect a determination to impose discipline.

• Many observers and colleagues point to Nixon's awkwardness and aloofness, citing that he came across in this way because he was a diffident man who was not a natural politician.

• Yet if he disenchanted many of South Africa's whites (see article), he has also signally failed, because of his aloofness and arrogance, to win the trust of South Africa's black masses.

• With his distant origins—he was born and brought up in the Iraqi shrine city of Najaf—and his aloofness from politics, many predicted that he would avoid falling into the clutches of the hardliners.

• And, in truth, the frost had long since matured into a kind of bodily aloofness, just shy of visible flinching, when they passed each other in the halls, or when they co-slept in the intimacy-free bed they’d splurged on.

aloofness sentence examples

• While an occasional critic – always easy to dismiss as a neo-Luddite – did voice concerns about their disregard for privacy or their geeky, almost autistic aloofness, public opinion was firmly on the side of technology firms.

• Now, Laura Dugan, Tom Lin and their colleagues at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, and National Taiwan University, in Taipei, have suggested something else to do with buckyballs—something which takes advantage of their chemical aloofness.

• The possibility of reviving the great tradition of religious art appealed to him, and he tried to give his figures for Northampton what he called “an austerity and a nobility, and some touch of grandeur (even hieratic aloofness) which is missing in the everyday ‘Mother and Child’ idea.”

• Among historical expressions of primitivism are the Cynics’ spurning of luxury, property, and social amenities; Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi’s “free and easy wandering” in the spontaneity of the Dao; the Greeks’ pristine Golden Age; the biblical Garden of Eden; medieval monasticism; the Anabaptists’ aloofness from bourgeois civilization; the Romantics’ idealization of the “savage”; and modern nostalgia for the “golden” years of childhood and yearning for the “simplicity” of the past.