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aloofness
1. Perhaps it was in his college years when he was developing his so-called aloofness
2. ” I saw the light of concern in her eyes that at most times showed an aloofness that was astounding then she continued saying
3. John Meredith, under all his shyness and aloofness, had the heart of a boy
4. The downside of my aloofness was that it was a very long trip
5. I slid myself out of his arms, without wanting to but knowing I had to, stepping away from him, like the aloofness would somehow ease the turmoil inside of me
6. attitude, which is that of total detachment, aloofness, standing
7. This complete aloofness, unconcern with mind and
8. There is aloofness and detachment as
9. derstanding that you are not the body, a sense of aloofness, of
10. power of alert aloofness
11. “See! See!” Youssaf’s excitement overcame his usual correct aloofness
12. I was euphoric, and with so much joy and so much water, I was not prepared to let me influenced by the aloofness of the magician
13. This failure to include James and Jude among the chosen few, together with his apparent aloofness from his mother ever since the experience at Cana, was the starting point of an ever-widening gulf between Jesus and his family
14. He did not like the coolness and aloofness of the Jewish authorities; nevertheless, he expected to be liberally rewarded for his cowardly conduct
15. The woman had lost some of the calm aloofness she had possessed earlier
16. An officer who carried himself with a superior aloofness stared at Travis for some seconds, spoke quietly in Russian with the interrogators
17. Despite her aloofness, he wouldn’t leave her alone, he’d even stalked her when she went out for lunch
18. Unfortunately, even the aloofness and self-imposed isolation of the Jews didn’t contain
19. In that, President Dewey was too happy to support her, having had like many Americans enough of the British condescendence and aloofness towards its old allies
20. It was almost as if the spectre of looming defeat had pushed Rahul into a self-imposed cocoon of aloofness where he trusted very few people
21. interpret his aloofness as rejection
22. She felt crushed by his aloofness, his indifference
23. Still perturbed about his aloofness, I close my cell phone and stuff it in the front pocket of my jeans
24. aloofness that would drive them away from asking you anything
25. I wonder that just the recollection of my red hands, knobbly and spread with work, do not make you wince into aloofness
26. Dreadfully vain down in my heart, I go about pretending a fine aloofness from such weakness, so that when nobody sees anything in me--and nobody ever does--I may at least make a show of not having expected them to
27. Part of Dolly's attractiveness is the odd impression she gives of untouchedness, of gay aloofness
28. It was enough to make any good-looking young man sulky, the mixture of mystery and aloofness about Miss Neumann-Schultz
29. A retiring of Wemyss into a hurt aloofness, for his question was only decorative, and his little Love should instinctively, he considered, like what he liked; and there outside this aloofness, after efforts to get at him with fond and anxious questions, she sat like a beggar in patient distress, waiting for him to emerge and be kind to her
30. This queer aloofness made people whisper
31. No initial attraction whatever, just curiosity at her aloofness
32. A vague answer, Brandor was still puzzled by their aloofness
33. This is the most devoid of variety, and therefore of life, and is only used when an effect of great repose and aloofness from life is wanted; and even then, never without some variety in the minor parts to give vitality
34. and then we'll see her off next Sunday,' he said with the old aloofness returned to his voice,
35. The next day there was a new aloofness about him
36. Oblonsky had more than once experienced this extreme sense of aloofness, instead of intimacy, coming on after dinner, and he knew what to
37. He walked to and fro all the length of the room, stopping sometimes to gnaw the finger-tips of his right hand with a lurid sideways glare fixed on the floor; then, with a sullen, repelling glance all round, he would resume his tramping in savage aloofness
38. across the lawn by her and Brent shouted: “Mother’s going to give us the horses! Yee- The white house reared its tall columns before her, seeming to withdraw with dignified aloofness from her
39. ‘With my brother there will be none of that aloofness there always used to be between us, there will be no disputes; with Kitty there shall never be quarrels; with the visitor, whoever he may be, I will be friendly and nice;
40. unhappiest face she was ever to see, a face from which all aloofness had fled
41. The drowsy aloofness had gone from his gray eyes and they were wide and unmasked
42. Casaubon's words had been quite reasonable, yet they had brought a vague instantaneous sense of aloofness on his part
43. languages, is capable by varied vocal inflections of expressing all states of mind from helpless dimness to exhaustive argumentative perception, from the completest self-devoting fellowship to the most neutral aloofness
44. He was conscious of an aloofness from everything earthly and a strange and joyous lightness of existence
45. Its folk had a reputation for aloofness
46. 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
47. Of course, this might have been done out of sheer wantonness, for I well knew—I had remarked it only too often—that, after listening to what I had to say, and angering me almost beyond endurance, she loved suddenly to torture me with some fresh outburst of contempt and aloofness! Yet she must have known that I could not live without her
48. All that seems so unimportant, and yet in these seemingly unimportant acts, in our aloofness from them, in our readiness to point out, according to our strength, the irrationality of what is obviously irrational,—in this does our great, invincible power consist, the power which composes that insuperable force which forms the real, actual, public opinion, which, moving itself, moves the whole of humanity
49. I was surprised at this sudden coolness, but looked upon it as infra dig, “pour un jeune homme de bonne maison” to curry favour with a mere Crown student of an Operoff, and so left him severely alone—though I confess that his aloofness hurt my feelings
50. At first a strange shyness kept her dumb; she longed to ask a thousand things, but the questions that rose to her lips seemed susceptible of misunderstanding, and Stephen’s aloofness frightened her