Synonyms
Examples for "aloofness"
Examples for "aloofness"
1
Where certainty of progress once stood, aloofness and fear have taken hold.
2
Mensforth interpreted my listless reply as either aloofness or lack of interest.
3
For all Daniel's annoying aloofness-andthere's plenty of it-theguy's clearly devoted.
4
James' initial anger and resentment had simmered down to a stubborn aloofness.
5
She knew a soft heart was behind the sarcasm and deliberate aloofness.
1
Devos once again shows an ability to work fragility in with domineering standoffishness.
2
But there was at the same time in Maud a disturbing new standoffishness.
3
I felt my reserve and standoffishness start to dissolve.
4
Becky Meyer, with her characteristic standoffishness from all classroom intrigues, continued on with her thumbtacking.
5
Even from a distance their standoffishness was plain.
1
I understood its remoteness; in my agony I was part of it.
2
The herder's stone home was comfortable for the remoteness of the region.
3
At the end of the day, the islands' remoteness helps protect them.
4
Those who knew him well said his remoteness was due to timidity.
5
Pacific Judiciary hopes technology will reduce the distances and remoteness between islands.
6
Each stroke of the oars added to the remoteness of this possibility.
7
I, at least, had thought we were closer than his remoteness suggested.
8
I soon discovered that the remoteness of St. Lucy's was no accident.
9
From the bright remoteness of her happiness she smiled down upon him.
10
It is the intimate remoteness of photographs that slightly unnerves the viewer.
11
They lent her features a sort of exotic remoteness, an alien beauty.
12
Each time she got a sense of her remoteness, of her security.
13
Here indeed seemed peace, if remoteness, if nature herself might bestow it.
14
Besides, her position and Percy Dacier's threw the fancied danger into remoteness.
15
Given its remoteness, there were known challenges to implementing surveillance and contact tracing.
16
Recently, in Scotland, disaffection with the remoteness of central-gov't control has been growing.
