Word: aloof
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...theory, inclined to speak - when he speaks at all - in riddles and codes. As a South African, he lived in a society in which other writers were always issuing polemics and producing grimly realistic novels about our perpetual crisis. Not Coetzee. His writing is veiled, oblique; his personal style aloof and monastic. He declines to take sides, join causes or reveal anything interesting about his private life. He is reputed to enjoy rugby, practice vegetarianism, and to live in a house with formidable electronic defenses, but the truth is anyone's guess; in accordance with postmodern tradition, all personal questions...
When U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan addressed heads of state from around the globe at the U.N. General Assembly’s annual summit last week, one prominent figure was not in attendance: the president of the United States. Bush arrived afterward and delivered an aloof and defensive speech in which he asked for the support of the U.N. in the rebuilding of Iraq. Playing hooky during the Secretary General’s speech was strikingly emblematic of Bush’s overall policy toward the U.N.: to show up late and half-heartedly...
...Mazza says that he is neither the quintessential football player nor the aloof model type. At home, he enjoys reading and participating in his youth group, and (weather permitting) launching water balloons at unsuspecting golfers at a nearby golf course. Additionally, he is active in the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program. He plans to continue modeling in New York and Los Angeles whenever he can manage. Football, however, will take priority over flashbulbs for the time being. “I prefer football ten to one,” he says...
...second act doesn’t continue, but rather plays with, the action of the first half. Fairfield takes this dialogue between past and present and throws it onto the stage in beautifully conceived moments. When the grown Eddy struggles with his aloof partner, for example, onstage flashbacks are brilliantly executed with overlapping dialogue and synchronized movements that seamlessly connect actors into a single, complex unit...
...sense of aloofness has always been a Kerry problem--"You shouldn't hold John's looks against him," former Senator Bob Kerrey once told me--and Dean's chesty informality has only exacerbated Kerry's air of dour Brahmin solemnity. In truth, he isn't so much aloof as he is courtly, in a formal, afternoon-tea sort of way. The shoutathon of modern politics discomforts him. He is a serious, experienced, thoughtful man; his policy speeches have been among the best of any Democrat's. But he is also a cautious man who has surrounded himself with an overstuffed...