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Значения термина standoffishness на английском

A disposition to be distant and unsympathetic in manner.

        Синонимы
        Examples for "remoteness"
        Examples for "remoteness"
        1
        I understood its remoteness; in my agony I was part of it.
        Montlivet
        2
        The herder's stone home was comfortable for the remoteness of the region.
        The Guardian
        3
        At the end of the day, the islands' remoteness helps protect them.
        Independent.ie
        4
        Those who knew him well said his remoteness was due to timidity.
        The white war: life and death on the italian front 1915-1919
        5
        Pacific Judiciary hopes technology will reduce the distances and remoteness between islands.
        Radio NZ
        1
        Where certainty of progress once stood, aloofness and fear have taken hold.
        Jamaica Observer
        2
        Mensforth interpreted my listless reply as either aloofness or lack of interest.
        Bones of the Lost
        3
        For all Daniel's annoying aloofness-andthere's plenty of it-theguy's clearly devoted.
        Torment
        4
        James' initial anger and resentment had simmered down to a stubborn aloofness.
        James Potter and the Hall of Elders' Crossing
        5
        She knew a soft heart was behind the sarcasm and deliberate aloofness.
        Solomon's oak: a novel
        Использование термина standoffishness на английском
        1
        Devos once again shows an ability to work fragility in with domineering standoffishness.
        The Irish Times
        2
        But there was at the same time in Maud a disturbing new standoffishness.
        Unfinished desires: a novel
        3
        I felt my reserve and standoffishness start to dissolve.
        The Memoirs of Cleopatra
        4
        Becky Meyer, with her characteristic standoffishness from all classroom intrigues, continued on with her thumbtacking.
        Unfinished desires: a novel
        5
        Even from a distance their standoffishness was plain.
        Wheel of Time [08]: The Path of Daggers
        6
        Your standoffishness isn't helping you or her.
        Number9Dream
        7
        He was such a nice, open-hearted fellow; he came to see us without any standoffishness, sat down and chatted.
        Creatures That Once Were Men
        8
        She simply, newly, had the imperial standoffishness that I realized only then I had always associated with the dead.
        The new yorker
        9
        Time's the thing, of course, but it won't do to wait until the girls begin to resent her standoffishness.
        Phyllis: A Twin
        10
        Spiegel has historically taken a blase attitude to investors' concerns, but that standoffishness does not appear to be paying off.
        Wired
        11
        Devos once again shows an ability to work fragility in with domineering standoffishness.
        The Irish Times
        12
        But there was at the same time in Maud a disturbing new standoffishness.
        Unfinished desires: a novel
        13
        I felt my reserve and standoffishness start to dissolve.
        The Memoirs of Cleopatra
        14
        Becky Meyer, with her characteristic standoffishness from all classroom intrigues, continued on with her thumbtacking.
        Unfinished desires: a novel
        15
        Even from a distance their standoffishness was plain.
        Wheel of Time [08]: The Path of Daggers
        16
        Your standoffishness isn't helping you or her.
        Number9Dream
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