Word: aloof
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...candidates characterized Weld as aloof and uncaring, while admitting that the administration of former Gov. Michael S. Dukakis had several faults, particularly in fiscal management...
...Weld has the conventional advantages of incumbency, name recognition and money," Barrett said. "An imaginative and daring challenge can capture the imagination of all the people who feel trod under by Bill's aloof and insensitive way of carrying himself...
Barrett gave a lengthy criticism of Weld's"aloof" and "oblivious" style, comparing thegovernor to the cartoon character Mr. Magoo...
Moreover, you learn one dull Wednesday morning that you are not just another vessel for empty information in a large undergraduate crowd shuffled off from the main thrust of a University purportedly catering to its graduate students and research-conducting professors. You are not a student conditioned to aloof professors, confusing lectures, competitive classmates, a systematic process of translation-memorization-regurgitation-evacuation. You are a human being too--not just a note and test-taking machine, capable of equal fascination with The Mechanism and potential contribution to the field...
...next phase of his career came with another fantastic, extraordinary scenario in the critically acclaimed "Rainman," in which he played the socially aloof, materially-obsessed Lamborghini dealer, Charlie Babbitt, who discovers the existence of an autistic, institutionalized brother, Ray (Dustin Hoffman). Cruise said he worked for two years with Dustin Hoffman on the creation of the Academy Award-winning film, Describing the production of "Rainman' as an "intensely personal experience," Cruise talked about his awe for Hoffman's ability to create and, after his Method training, to become Ray Babbitt. Aha, I thought, perhaps Charlie, the guy sporting the black...