A disposition to be distant and unsympathetic in manner.
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Examples for "remoteness "
Examples for "remoteness "
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.
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 - and there '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.
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