Word: aloof
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...quiet man with a hint of gray around the temples, Quraishi is somewhat aloof from the press. When asked for an interview, he sometimes demands written questions in advance. If he dislikes what he is being asked, he substitutes his own questions and pens a response...
...sounds ridiculous, but all day people have been trying to touch the damn thing. There is something going on here. A lot of people are here and a lot are embarrassed. Some are curious, and some of us are disdainfully amused and aloof. That pose doesn't last long, though. A couple drove up in their pickup truck from Tennessee, six hours away. It's not surprising. It's a Friday night, and there probably isn't a whole hell of a lot going on in Knoxville for the weekend. The couple is in their forties...
...aloof and enigmatic Mitterrand has long admired Mauroy's practical political skills and seemingly infinite patience. Indeed, Mitterrand has confided to friends on several occasions that "some day Mauroy will end up President of the Republic." Maybe so, but the man who once declared that "socialists cannot in 100 days change the ideology and culture of 100 years of capitalism" has plenty of work to do for his comrade-in-arms right...
...those movies managed to hold that line--exuding innocence without necessarily being shallow (though Star Wars, arguably, was not so successful at this). Spielberg and Lucas, along with Coppola, are the epitome of the new breed of film-school film-makers--they are technical whizzes, well-practiced, aloof from the slow strangulation that was the studio system...
Harvard's relations with the city during the last few years have featured many such scenes, Viewed by its neighbors as terminally aloof, the University has managed to arouse ire and indignation at every turn, and virtually every move has precipitated a battle with city politicians. Harvard has won almost every one of those battles; since its founding, the University has been protected by statute and tradition from city regulation, and while it has occasionally had to outwait angry residents, it has rarely bent to their demands...