What is "aloofness"

Usage examples of "aloofness".

But how does the soul enter into body from the aloofness of the Intellectual?

Much of the coolness was imagined or brought on by her own aloofness, Lorielle surmised, but Mandra saw none of this.

The buildings all seemed the same with a kind of self-important aloofness about them, and the streets were littered and dirty.

Her friends attributed the aloofness which they noticed in Puna to her ill health, and left earlier than they had planned, saying that Puna should take more rest and recover her health.

The aloofness displayed for each other by members of the marine coelenterate species of Gorgonaceae suggests that mechanisms for preserving individuality must have existed long before the evolution of immunity.

Together they fed the swans, till the birds went on a dyspepsia-strike, together they played billiards, together they photographed the village almshouses, and, at a respectful distance, the tame elk that browsed in solitary aloofness in the park.

She wanted to forget, and to make him forget, the months of irritable jangling and sharp discussions, the months of cold aloofness and indifference and to remember only that he was her own dear Comus as in the days of yore, before he had grown from an unmanageable pickle into a weariful problem.

All this keeping pace with the times, this immersion in the results of modern discoveries, this speeding-up of existence so that it was all surface and little root--the increasing volatility, cosmopolitanism, and even commercialism of his life, on which he rather prided himself as a man of the world--was, with a secrecy too deep for his perception, cutting at the aloofness logically demanded of one in his position.

He had impressed her, from a child, with his aloofness, and she had been proud of kissing him because he never seemed to let anybody else do so.

Excitingly near and real, she was yet somehow wrapped in that untouchable aloofness that I could not understand.

Even the Ilse Witch, for all her disdain and aloofness, was wary of him.

This is your chance for thataristeia, Achilles, since Hector’s murderous frenzy will bring him to close combat tomorrow after all these years of his aloofness behind the high walls of Ilium.

Small alliances were made among the captives, the cats' natural aloofness giving way slightly under the strain of the situation, but these comradeships were transitory, gone with the first dispute over food, or room to stretch out for a moment.

Faint, mocking amusement stole into his eyes, briefly dispelling the icy aloofness that was so much a part of him.

The older generation of dandies who sat in Olympian aloofness in the Bow window at White’.