Word: aloofness
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...early life was thrown into turmoil when his farmer father was killed in a car accident before Rudd reached his teens. He went to university in Canberra and majored in Asian studies, becoming a sinologist and foreign affairs official. Not naturally gregarious, seen by his party pals as aloof and academic, Rudd has worked hard to raise his profile at grass-roots level...
...trouble is that she has given her writers an unnecessarily difficult task by bringing in too many peripheral figures into the center of the sexual stew. The myriad relationships dilutes their individual significance and pushes her characters farther from reality into stereotype.When Callie seeks revenge on the romantically aloof George in Mark’s bed, their spontaneous coupling seems completely out of character because from their late entrances into the show, Rhimes hasn’t explained what makes either Callie or Mark tick. I don’t know if David would say that “Seinfeld?...
...Family Research Council has been e-mailing "No Time to Be Complacent" bulletins and held a Liberty Sunday turnout rally at the base of Boston's Beacon Hill that was televised to hundreds of church-fellowship halls, evening services and small-group meetings. These leaders have calculated that remaining aloof would just diminish their power. "You only gain clout by activity," says Michael Farris, chairman of the Home School Legal Defense Association. His group plans to send hundreds of teenagers who are home schooled to 10 states in the election's closing week to make phone calls and knock...
While spitting out lists of SAT words and math tricks is easy as pi for Noah, cultivating relationships with his students is more difficult. For Dylan and Tuscany, being popular is as easy as stealing prescription drugs from their stereotypically absent and aloof mother, Dr. Thayer. “In Dylan’s case coolness is an end in itself. But in Noah’s case, coolness means financial solvency.” The better he is ranked by his students, the more Noah is paid by his agency...
...problem the Cardinals have not been able to shake is the ongoing criticism of Bill Bidwill's management style. The notoriously aloof, bow-tied Mr. B has been criticized for everything from the exorbitant premiums he charged for the sizzling-hot metal bleacher seats at Sun Devil Stadium, when the team moved to Arizona in 1988, to poor choices in coaches, free agents and draft picks. "I think he's been very misunderstood because he hasn't felt comfortable speaking up," says Michael, who describes his father as a nice...