Word: aloofness
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...ebbs, however, leaving illness and betrayal in its wake. Against the new background noise of blaring radios and L.A. street life, Enrique and Rosa slowly catch on to the different, yet equally ruthless, code of lower-class life in "El Norte." The city's glamorous women look tired and aloof throughout the film, but Rosa only begins to notice this towards the end. On her deathbed, after listening to her brother's cheery forecasts for their future, she finally breaks down and sobs, "Life here is very hard. We're not free...
...deeply conservative U.S. President and a Socialist French leader with four Communists in his Cabinet to have anything good to say about each other is remarkable enough. The amiable, easygoing Reagan and the aloof, intellectual Mitterrand, moreover, could hardly be more different. Yet the Franco-American alliance is at its rosiest since Charles de Gaulle returned to power in 1958. "We have never seen relations so good," says a top State Department official...
...didn't make many friends that way, acting aloof and punchy when at work, and telling the toddler to be quiet when page 1yChildren came on. But all the same I made It through the first four weeks of the summer, lacking only a tan. Then the family packed up and went to France for a month trading houses with a Parisian family with three children. Before I met the family, I pictured myself juggling three little kids instead of two at once, and they wouldn't even know English...
...with the Times in the 1964 case: "The press has been partly irresponsible." The keynote speaker, U.S. Appeals Court Judge Irving Kaufman, contended that the results in libel cases may be distorted by jurors' distaste for journalism. Said Kaufman: "Broadcast and print media are perceived by some as aloof, arrogant and insensitive." News organizations eventually prevail in more than 90% of libel cases, according to the Libel Defense Resource Center, but in the past three years journalists have lost 83% of initial jury trials, and in 22 cases the damage award was more than $1 million. Even when awards...
Hart can come across as chilly and passionless, but he turns angry-passionately so-when news stories describe him as "cool and aloof." He has a reputation for humorlessness-and jokes about it. "I do have a sense of humor," he says. "But if you have to tell someone you have a sense of humor, I guess you're in trouble...