aloofness

How To Use aloofness In A Sentence

• Nature and Law compel it: whose direction now is towards grand centripetalism, where before they had ordained heterogeneity and the scattering and aloofness of peoples. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19
• Part of what students currently see as an aloofness is just running to the next obligation ... Discourse.net: Patricia D. White to Be Dean of University of Miami School of Law
• Being basically a shy person, I think some players mistook my shyness for aloofness.
• The price to be paid for the democratisation of taste is a cool ‘aloofness’, but the prize is said to be an independence of judgment that ‘guarantees hard-hitting, candid and uninfluenced commentary’.
• The Rottweiler makes a loyal and wonderful companion, but requires time and training. The Rottweiler is a basically calm, confident, and courageous dog with a self-assured aloofness.
• Would-be doctors had personality defects ranging from extreme over-confidence, narcissism and aloofness to being overly empathetic.
• It was his air of aloofness that drew attention.
• With its mixture of antiquity, regality and aloofness, it is both royal and ancient in ways no other Scottish burgh will ever be.
• Objecting to the tenderness and aloofness of humor and the vulgarism of humor, Lu Xun advocated a new concept of humor to criticize the reality, improve the work, and enliven life.
• Her cool aloofness was seen as arrogance by some people.