Word: aloofness
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...Doing it is a dorm room lets the audience be very intimate. It's going to be a challenge because the audience will be aloof away," Achinstein said...
...acting dynasty that numbers his wife Rachel Kempson, daughters Vanessa and Lynn and son Corin; of Parkinson's disease; in Denham, England. Tall and handsome, a superb, cerebral technician with a richly expressive voice, he was less likely to play romantic leads than cool intellectuals or forbidding colonels whose aloof or aristocratic facades fail to conceal the emotions within. On the London stage, he mastered some of the great Shakespearean roles and gave definitive performances in plays by Chekhov and Ibsen. His screen credits include Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes (1938), Dead of Night (1945) and The Browning Version...
That show makes No Small Affair enjoyable at first, as Charles and his ever-present camera walk aloof from romance. His brother Leonard (Frenchette) goes through enough girlfriends to make "finance" sound like a synonym for "Miss." Struggling to become something more than a straight (wo)man for Charles's barbs, his mother sticks to her live-in "Uncle" Ken. "I hope you're planning to marry her," Charles tells mom's shaving-cream-adorned amour, "you know it's the only decent thing to do." Uncle Jake calls it Charles's attitude problem, romanties call it cynicism...
...problems of the city, and has a lot of his sense of outrage." Janeway triumphed in a two-year power struggle that divided the staff. When word circulated last year that he might be the heir apparent, some reporters protested directly to Taylor that they saw him as aloof, enigmatic and almost relentless in getting his own way. Put under orders by Winship and Taylor not to respond to attacks during what he calls "the year of gossiping dangerously," Janeway gradually won over his rivals and the staff, and at last week's announcement he was greeted with subdued...
...virtually alone after the fall of France, he can sound frankly desperate ("Mr. President, I cannot cut the food consumption here below its present level"). Roosevelt, seven years younger, is more ebullient, conscious of his greater economic and military power, yet surprisingly wary about domestic opponents in Congress markably aloof, fending off Churchill with a ghostwritten evasion or with a quick joke. One of the great virtues of Kimball's editing is that he includes many undiplomatic first drafts that were toned down by advisers before being sent...