Word: aloofness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Where Jaafari had been branded as passive, aloof and high-handed by his critics, Maliki - who has taken a lead in de-Baathification efforts that have alienated many Sunnis - is deemed to be a dogged negotiator who doesn't easily change his position. U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalizad praised him as a tough-minded, independent leader who is saying all the right things. Then again, it is easy to forget that Washington was loquacious in its praise for Jaafari less than a year...
...most beautiful girl of the season, but none of them seem at all interested in proposing to her. They take one look and then go off with “some chinless little creature from Cadogan Square,” Lady Montdore laments. Polly is inexplicably cold and aloof amidst her swirl of coming-out parties...
...were laughing at him. A man of traditional views and settled habits, he is comically out of step with the new age. His children would rather watch television than heed his commands on deportment, and even the dog no longer takes him seriously. His wife, fed up with his aloof dignity, has a one-night fling with an American soldier. Determined to regain her affection, Shunsuke goes heavily into debt to build a modern, American-style house. That pile becomes a metaphor for the marriage and much else. The roof leaks. Plants die on the sunbaked veranda. And when...
...thought about this possibility further while having lunch with a few friends recently, ladies of course. One girl was relating how she had wickedly terrorized a lad on instant messenger the night before. That was only after we had figured out just exactly what her crush’s aloof demeanor in Lamont the other day really mean. It was during this conversation when I realized that even if we have real estate, dating advice, and reproduction covered, only boys can provide the drama that inspires our all too often romantic ruminations...
...happened is still a mystery. By all accounts, the tales of Hwang's dedication and personal discipline are all true. Hwang was one of the first to arrive in the lab, at 5 a.m., and rarely left before midnight. He rejected the role of aloof, inaccessible scientist to become a father-like figure for his young charges. And he introduced some genuine innovations into the science of cloning--gently squeezing the nucleus out of a donor egg rather than sucking it out violently and inserting the entire adult cell, not just its nucleus, into the hollowed-out recipient egg. Hwang...