Word: aloofness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bill himself gets most of the credit, however. It is he who drew top ratings for a State of the Union in which he acted aloof and confounded the media. And it is he who will provide the ultimate silencer ? the deafening sound of bombs on Baghdad. Shhh...
...magnates then print the material, just as the Communist Party press did in the past to a disgraced leader, a dissident or an irritating foreigner. Until recently Chubais had seemed an exception to the regime of moral relativity that reigns in Moscow. He could come across as arrogant, aloof and driven. But most people believed he was honest. This perception has been vaporized by a campaign launched last month, immediately after Chubais and his fellow Deputy Prime Minister, Boris Nemtsov, engineered Berezovsky's dismissal from his government position...
...scattered family for two maudlin days. His widow Moya (Sarah deLima) and his daughter Medbh (Eileen Nugent), coping with his sudden absence from the house, are joined in mourning by eldest daughter Catherine (Irene Daly), who files in from New York toting Tom (Ciaran Crawford), her fiance. Even aloof son Johnny (Aidan Parkinson) deigns to venture in from London to make an appearance...
...class jock. Afterwards, when Daisy reads a lustful love poem aloud in class, Ethan immediately recognizes to whom the composition is addressed. He, of course, pursues her and they soon become a couple. But when she confides to Ethan that her Nana is a Holocaust survivor, he suddenly becomes aloof. Daisy's "emotional journey" begins as she searches for a true sense of her identity...
...with professors. They typically have taken small seminars with some professors. They spend the spring of their junior year looking for a thesis adviser. They spend the fall of their senior year hitting up professors for letters of recommendation. In all these activities, I have yet to find an aloof or harsh professor. In fact, I have found only professors with the utmost interest in their students...