Word: aloofness
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...country's central problem: the Middle East conflict is bringing terrible pressure on the political compromise that Lebanon's Christian and Moslem communities have lived by for more than 30 years. Until recently, the Lebanese have prided themselves, perhaps complacently, on their ability to remain somewhat aloof from the Arab-Israeli struggle. Frightened and disillusioned by this year's internal fighting, many Lebanese are now wondering how much longer the situation can last...
...relations who, she is sure, are out to get her money. Sir Edward Denham, one of these poor relations, recites poetry, inaccurately and inappropriately, trying to turn the head of every young lady around. There is an officious and hypochondriacal set of Parker relatives; there is the beautiful and aloof Clara Brereton: there is the morose and mysterious young man. There are the requisite and indistinguishable Miss Beauforts, "just such young ladies as may be met with in at least one family out of three throughout the kingdom" interested only in captivating a man with a fortune...
Their action is made easier by the fact that the traditional doctor-patient relationship has deteriorated badly. Patients rarely sue their family physicians, who often make up in compassion and concern for what they lack in technical skills. But few feel reluctant to sue an aloof and unfamiliar specialist who seems to take their respect for granted and often submits a sizable bill as well...
...PAUL and Adriana leave the restaurant and reach the engineer's flashy red sportscar, the waitress, until now aloof, looks her suitor in the eye and says in a low, seductive voice. "And now I want to show you the real middle of the world." The scene cuts to her bedroom, where the two quickly doff their inhibitions and their clothes and slip under the sheets, quickly reaching the first of the many climaxes that shape their deepening affair...
...Buckley, professor of English Literature, agree that students take less initiative than they could in their relations with senior faculty. "Almost everyone I know is waiting to see students, but they just don't come. Students could put more initiative into it. They are really the ones staying aloof." Others, such as Heimert and Michael L. Walzer, chairman of the Social Studies Department, say that when students do come to their office hours it is often to haggle over grades and other matters concerning what Heimert terms "calculation...