Word: aloofness
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...speaking as one journalist to another ... as long as they [the Russians] must pretend to be more perfect than men can ever be, and must hold themselves aloof, obscure and mysterious, the timid may fear them, but the shrewd common sense of mankind and its instinct of liberty will not permit men to trust them, to like them, or to follow them...
...mill politician, wavy-haired, well-tailored Roger Slaughter has always shown a streak of independence, makes no bones about his conservatism. Princeton-bred and well-to-do, he has a successful law practice, plays dufferish golf at the Kansas City Country Club, generally remains aloof from the hurly-burly of Missouri politics. He particularly roused the President's ire by going out to Harry Truman's home territory*and making a rousing speech on behalf of the Case Bill just before the President vetoed it. Worse yet, a great many Kansas citizens seemed to like the speech...
Taking refuge in Dublin in 1571, Campion wrote a distinguished little history of Ireland. Waugh the stylist quotes with delight several sweet and thrifty Elizabethan sentences about the country which "lieth aloof in the West Ocean, in proportion like an egg. . . ." As a seminarist at Douai in Flanders, Campion decided to accept the military discipline of the new and militant Society of Jesus. In 1580, he received what amounted to a martyr's orders: to return to England as a missionary. After Pope Pius V excommunicated Queen Elizabeth, her government had made it high treason, punishable with death...
Roman Catholic aloofness toward the church unity movement, predicted Manning, "may change, as many members of that communion hope and believe it will." Manning himself was as aloof as ever toward the often-proposed merger of the Presbyterian and Episcopal Churches. Said he: "If the Episcopal Church were to abandon or compromise its catholic belief as to the church and the apostolic ministry ... to unite with one among the Protestant churches, this would not be a step toward Christian reunion but a step directly away from it. They who urge such action are not thinking of reunion in world-wide...
...first state appearance after liberation, the once regally gowned Wilhelmina turned up in an old coat and a pair of green woolen gloves. The once socially aloof Wilhelmina invited a Miss Marianne Tellegen to be head of her personal cabinet. Miss Tellegen had no social standing whatever; she had merely been a heroine of the Dutch resistance, living for four years next door to Gestapo headquarters in Utrecht...